MPIBA Holiday Gift Guide

Party Hearty Kitty-Corn

Kitty-Corn

By: Shannon Hale
Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix, Nikki Thomas, Vikas Adam, Sara Young & Pat Grimes
Length: 9 minutes

Kitty has a grand idea: “Let’s throw a kitty-corn party!” But when newcomer Puppy messes up Kitty’s perfectly laid plans and steals Unicorn’s attention and affection, Kitty is NOT pleased. When jealousy takes hold, can Unicorn help Kitty see that nothing will ever threaten a friendship as strong as theirs? Reassuring kids that true friends never... Read more

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book #18

By: Jeff Kinney
Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Up until now, middle school hasn’t exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he’s not too broken up about it.
But when Greg realizes this means he’s going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their... Read more

The Sun Sets in Singapore

A Novel

By: Kehinde Fadipe
Narrated by: Dami Olukoya
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until a mysterious (not to mention handsome) new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything: "Wanderlust-inducing" (Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author).

 A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

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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

Love Comes First

By: Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush
Narrated by: Jenna Bush Hager & Barbara Pierce Bush
Length: 8 minutes

A joyful celebration of growing families by former first daughters and #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush.
 
As two sisters watch their friends’ families grow, they wish on a star for a sibling of their own…and a younger brother and a baby cousin arrive! The new family members aren’t exactly what the... Read more

Not That Fancy

Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots

By: Reba McEntire
Narrated by: Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, Carly Pearce, Vince Gill, Ronnie Dunn, Carrie Underwood, Kix Brooks & Full Cast
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER | USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe perfect Christmas gift for anyone who loves down-home recipes, the western lifestyle, heartwarming stories, and a good laugh from the Queen of Country!READ BY THE AUTHORThe best things in life are really not that fancy. This audiobook featuring all-things-Reba... Read more

Ghosts of Honolulu

A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon
Narrated by: Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRead by the author."A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by... Read more

A Council of Dolls

A Novel

By: Mona Susan Power
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the... Read more

Old-Fashioned on Purpose

Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

By: Jill Winger
Narrated by: Jill Winger & Andrew Eiden
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purpose gives you the roadmap to rediscovering what really matters." —Hal Elrod, bestselling author of The Miracle Morning 

With a foreword from singer, songwriter, and New York Times bestselling author Rory Feek

Creator of The Prairie Homestead blog and... Read more

Chenneville

A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance

By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more

An American Beauty

By: Shana Abe
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbinding new book perfect for fans of HBO's The Gilded Age and readers of Marie Benedict, Karen Harper, and Fiona Davis. This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella Huntington—a woman whose great beauty was... Read more

The Queen of the Valley

By: Lorena Hughes
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Johnny Rey Diaz & Gisela Chípe
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Amid Colombia’s unparalleled beauty, and the devastation of the 1925 Cali earthquake, the owner of a legendary hacienda vanishes, plunging three very different strangers into the dangerous secrets he left behind.
Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cacao plantation in Valle del Cauca. But on the... Read more

Breakneck

Arliss Cutter: Book #5

By: Marc Cameron
Narrated by: David Chandler
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

A train ride into the Alaskan wilderness turns into a harrowing fight for survival for Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter and a mother and daughter marked for death …
Off the northeast coast of Russia, the captain and crew of a small crabbing vessel are brutally murdered by members of Bratva, the Russian mafia—their bodies stuffed into crab pots... Read more

Breakneck

By: Erica Spindler
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Breakneck marks the return of Detectives Mary Catherine (MC) Riggio and Kitt Lundgren, partners in the police department's Violent Crimes Bureau in industrial, blue-collar Rockford, Illinois. The two detectives are faced with tracking down a monster unlike any they have encountered before. The clean, seemingly emotionless kills leave MC and Kitt... Read more

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

By: Daniel Nayeri
Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

“Action and adventure filled. Frightening and funny. It grabs you from the first sentence and takes you on a wild ride! For ages 10+. Read more

Vengeance of the Pirate Queen

Daughter of the Pirate King: Book #3

By: Tricia Levenseller
Narrated by: Krissi Bohn
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Pirates of the Caribbean meets The Mummy in Vengeance of the Pirate Queen, a new standalone YA fantasy romance, set in the world of Tricia Levenseller's Daughter of the Pirate King.

As an assassin working for the pirate queen, 18-year-old Sorinda is surprised when Alosa’s next task for her is not to kill a new target, but to captain a... Read more

Juniper’s Christmas

By: Eoin Colfer
Narrated by: Eoin Colfer & Olivia Forrest
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

“Santa is missing and the world feels his absence. However, in a series of high jinks involving a rogue reindeer, a missing mom, and a touch of magic, Juniper has found him helping out her local homeless community and just might be on her way to becoming Santa herself. This is a perfect holiday read-a-loud with its humorous and sarcastic narrator... Read more

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

By: Carole Lindstrom
Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom
Length: 14 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From New York Times bestselling author Carole Lindstrom comes Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, an inspiring biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier.

The seventh generation is creating
A sea of change.

It was a soft voice, at first.
Like a ripple.
But with practice it... Read more

Witch King

The Rising World

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Eric Mok
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

“This is true high fantasy complete with a diverse character list, explanations of magics used, descriptions of the world and the different factions operating to bring about events...The narrator speaking with Kai's POV was fantastic. His voice was perfect and conveyed real feeling through the words. I feel I liked this one so much because I... Read more

City of Bones

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Khat, a member of a humanoid race created by the Ancients to survive in the Waste, and Sagai, his human partner, are relic dealers working on the edge of society, trying to stay one step ahead of the Trade Inspectors and to support Sagai's family. When Khat is hired to find relics believed to be part of one of the Ancients' arcane engines, they... Read more