MPIBA 2021 Holiday Gift Guide

A Carnival of Snackery

Diaries (2003-2020)

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris & Tracey Ullman
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Finalist for the Audie Award in Humor

There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it.
 
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight... Read more

A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“This book truly transported me to another world. I was swept away by world building and so charmed by each of the characters. Nina and Oli both having their own talents and struggles with translation was such a wonderful way to tie these characters together until they met. A Snake Falls to Earth was a breath of fresh air, wholly original, and a... Read more

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

Aristotle and Dante

By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST AUDIOBOOK, NARRATION, AND STORYTELLING RECORDING
2022 BEST MALE NARRATOR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

A #1 New York Times bestseller
Four starred reviews!
“Messily human and sincerely insightful.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning novel Aristotle... Read more

Barakah Beats

By: Maleeha Siddiqui
Narrated by: Salena Qureshi
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

“I loved this group of dreamers and all the different ways they approached their beliefs. I wish Barakah Beats was a real band... Read more

Being Texan

Essays, Recipes, and Advice for the Lone Star Way of Life

By: Editors of Texas Monthly
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Luis Selgas, Coleen Marlo, Michael Crouch, Karissa Vacker, Megan Tusing, Charlie Kevin, Ramon de Ocampo, Janina Edwards & Soneela Nankani
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations from their renowned list of contributors.Big hats, big trucks, big oil fortunes—Texas clichés all. And while those elements do flourish throughout Texas, they alone hardly define the place. The Lone Star... Read more

Bewilderment

A Novel

By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

“An homage to the heartbreaking Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, this intimate story of a grieving father and his troubled son is an intelligent and touching story of tragedy and hope. Read more

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book #16

By: Jeff Kinney
Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Greg Heffley and sports just don’t mix.

After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he’s officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball.

Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won’t make the cut. But he... Read more

Black Birds in the Sky

The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By: Brandy Colbert
Narrated by: Brandy Colbert & Kristyl Dawn Tift
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa,... Read more

Blind Tiger

By: Sandra Brown
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

From a New York Times bestselling author, a war-weary soldier jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble–and lands in more than he bargained for.

On the day Thatcher Hutton arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher becomes the prime suspect. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff,... Read more

Cloud Cuckoo Land

A Novel

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Simon Jones
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

“This book is the best thing I’ve read - and the most complex and sophisticated - since Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Three story lines tied together by the mythical quest of a man named Aethon: 1400’s Constantinople, present day Idaho, and a futuristic voyage of a ship called The Argos! Suspense and adventure! With all the beautiful... Read more

Dear Highlights

What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids

By: Christine French Cully
Narrated by: Christine French Cully, Amy Dickinson, Jamie K. Brown, Carla Corvo, Shaan Dasani, Em Grosland, Greta Jung, Yuuki Luna, Cassandra Morris, Angel Pean, Julie Shields, Allison Strong & Hemi Yeroham
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

A unique, inside look at American childhood through the conversations between Highlights magazine and its young readers and a call to grown-ups to make time to actively listen to the children in their lives.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they... Read more

Dream Street

By: Tricia Elam Walker
Narrated by: Justin Nicholas-Elam Ruff
Length: 12 minutes

Caldecott Honor, three time Coretta Scott King Award winner, and New York Times bestselling illustrator and her author cousin pay gorgeous homage to the street they grew up on and the loving community that made their childhood special.

Welcome to Dream Street--the best street in the world! It's where love between generations rules, everyone is... Read more

E.R. Nurses

True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes

By: James Patterson & Matt Eversmann
Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Will Collyer, Betsy Foldes Meiman, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee, Tracey Leigh, Roxana Ortega, Sterling Sulieman, Kiff VandenHeuvel & Rick Zieff
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories.  The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.

“The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.”
–Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical... Read more

Going There (read by Katie Couric)

By: Katie Couric
Narrated by: Katie Couric
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.

​For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the... Read more

If the Shoe Fits

A Meant to be Novel

Meant to Be

By: Julie Murphy
Narrated by: Jen Ponton
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“There simply aren’t enough words in my vocabulary to explain how beautifully Julie Murphy is able to craft such sweet stories. If the Shoe Fits is the Cinderella twist readers have been waiting decades for. Read more

Infamous

Rebels of the Ton: Book #3

By: Minerva Spencer
Narrated by: Heather Wilds
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

A mean girl reformed . . .



Once the reigning beauty of her social set, Celia—whom the newspapers dubbed Lady Infamous—has fallen on hard times and is practically destitute, her reputation in shreds. When Celia is forced to attend a society wedding as a companion to an elderly guest, she must confront the clique she once commanded; the gentleman... Read more

Kaleidoscope

By: Brian Selznick
Length: 3 hours 1 minute

An astounding new feat of storytelling from Brian Selznick, the award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabretand Wonderstruck.A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound toeach other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their... Read more

Out of My Heart

The Out of My Mind Series

By: Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

A New York Times bestseller!

Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind.

Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even... Read more

Pony

By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Perfection.” –The Wall Street Journal

The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.... Read more

Powder Days

Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow

By: Heather Hansman
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

*An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick*

"A sparkling account."—Wall Street Journal

An electrifying adventure into the rich history of skiing and the modern heart of ski-bum culture, from one of America's most preeminent ski journalists

The story of skiing is, in many ways, the story of America itself. Blossoming from the Tenth Mountain Division... Read more