MIBA SpringCon 2023 Authors

The Puttermans Are in the House

By: Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Michael Crouch & Hope Newhouse
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

A heartfelt and hopeful middle grade novel from Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, author of the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Wishing Upon the Same Stars, about family, joy, and growing up in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Perfect for fans of Nic Stone’s Fast Pitch and Erin Entrada Kelly’s We Dream of Space.Seventh graders Sammy and... Read more

Do Hard Things

Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

By: Steve Magness
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER""In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and anyone else looking to prepare for life's biggest challenges.""—Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History... Read more

Harvest House

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Charley Flyte
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thrilling cross-genre follow-up to the acclaimed Hearts Unbroken.

Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner... Read more

Holler, Child

Stories

By: LaToya Watkins
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson, Lisa Renee Pitts, De'Onna Prince & Kacie Rogers
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

“I loved these beautiful, powerful, sometimes heartbreaking stories set in West Texas. Everyday regular people facing critical moments in their lives due to challenging circumstances or having made poor choices, and their sometimes flawed but very human responses. This is everything a short story collection should be! Read more

Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters

By: Wendelin Van Draanen
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Mr. Whiskers is a paw-some new dog detective from an Edgar Award winning author. He's on the trail of a kidnapped dad, pirate treasure, and a place to call home...

Mr. Whiskers is a street-wise stray dog with a nose for trouble and a fondness for two girls he calls the Shenanigan Sisters. So when Misty and Zelda’s professor father is kidnapped,... Read more

Family Meal

A Novel

By: Bryan Washington
Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

The Night Flowers

By: Sara Herchenroether
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

People tend to think of us as shadows. Blurred black mist. Often, it’s “out of the corner of my eye.” People sense the cold. I’ve heard of ghost hunters who use a tape measure, laying it on the ground to mark our boundaries. I don’t want to be measured.


In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two... Read more

Ander & Santi Were Here

A Novel

By: Jonny Garza Villa
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

“Meticulously crafted, Ander & Santi Were Here left me without words but with so much to say. You will fall in love with these characters as they fall for each other, and you'll laugh with them, fear for them, and hope for them to find a way through a situation that is all too real. As always, Avi Roque's narration enhances the reading... Read more

The Spite House

A Novel

By: Johnny Compton
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“Sometimes when I read a book, I don't want a happy ending with rainbows and unicorns. Sometimes, I want to feel an overwhelming sense of dread and gloom. I want to bask in the feeling of horror and melancholy. That is what The Spite House gave me. The house was built for spite. A reminder of a man's bitterness and hate that was so great, it fed... Read more

The Vanishing Hour

By: Seraphina Nova Glass
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

"Glass weaves a taut web of suspicion, murder and revenge in this chilling tale."—Liv Constantine, internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish, on Someone's Listening

From the Edgar Award–nominated author of On a Quiet Street comes a shocking thriller about secrets…and the lengths some people will go to keep them.

Grace Holloway... Read more

A Crown of Ivy and Glass

The Middlemist Trilogy: Book #1

By: Claire Legrand
Narrated by: Evelyn Rose
Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed by the gods, blessed with incredible abilities. But underneath her glittering façade, Gemma is deeply sad. Years ago, her sister Mara was taken to the Middlemist to guard against treacherous magic. Her mother abandoned the family. Her father and... Read more

The Madstone

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Crook
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.

Texas, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach... Read more

The Maid of Ballymacool

By: Jennifer Deibel
Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Brianna Kelly was abandoned at Ballymacool House and Boarding School as an infant. She has worked there since she was a wee girl and will likely die there. Despite a sense that she was made for something more, Brianna feels powerless to change her situation, so she consoles herself by exploring the Ballymacool grounds, looking for hidden... Read more

The Long March Home

A World War II Novel of the Pacific

By: Marcus Brotherton & Tosca Lee
Narrated by: Nick Walther
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Inspired by true stories, The Long March Home is a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unrelenting hope.

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire.

Life in the Philippines seems like... Read more

How to Say Babylon

A Memoir

By: Safiya Sinclair
Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

“The author's own voice, a poets voice, illuminates this memoir by animating the members of her Rastafarian family and by amplifying the patriarchy and isolation she endured before persistence allowed her to express her art. Read more

Searching for Savanna

The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

By: Mona Gable
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

A gripping and illuminating investigation “that is far overdue” (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government... Read more

The First Magnificent Summer

By: R.L. Toalson
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Judy Blume meets Barbara Dee in this tender and empowering middle grade novel told in journal entries and poetry about a young writer on the verge of becoming a woman whose summer with her estranged father doesn’t turn out the way she’d hoped.

Twelve-year-old Victoria Reeves is all set for her “First Magnificent Summer with Dad,” even though it’s... Read more