Bookseller picks

The Legend of the Christmas Witch

By: Aubrey Plaza & Dan Murphy

Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza and creative partner Dan Murphy comes the long lost tale of the Christmas Witch, Santa Claus's much misunderstood twin sister. The perfect gift for the holiday season and beyond!

Gather ‘round the fire to hear a Christmas legend that has never been told before...until now. Each year a mysterious figure... Read more

Vanishing Edge

By: Claire Kells

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The rugged landscape of Sequoia National Park is a challenge on the best of days—but when a park ranger discovers an abandoned exclusive campsite with an empty tent and high-end technical gear scattered on the shores of an alpine lake, the wilderness takes on a sinister new hue. Thirty-two-year-old Felicity Harland—a former FBI agent who left... Read more

All of Us Villains

By: Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick...

You Fell In Love With The Victors of The Hunger Games.
Now Prepare To Meet The Villains of The Blood Veil.

After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the remote city of Ilvernath is thrust into worldwide... Read more

O Beautiful

By: Jung Yun

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically-acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America.

Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her... Read more

Grave Reservations

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Ulka Simone Mohanty

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author)—perfect for fans of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files and Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan series.

Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic.... Read more

Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Richard Higgins

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities

In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed... Read more

Little Thieves

By: Margaret Owen

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series.

The little thief steals gold, but the great one steals kingdoms;
And only one goes to the gallows…

Vanja Schmidt knows no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love. Abandoned to Death and Fortune as a child,... Read more

Mango, Mambo, and Murder

By: Raquel V. Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert... Read more

Vespertine

By: Margaret Rogerson

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling, “dark coming-of-age adventure” (Culturess) about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead.

The spirits of the dead do not rest.

Artemisia is training... Read more

The Death of Jane Lawrence

By: Caitlin Starling

Narrated by: Mandy Weston

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021

From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.

"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the... Read more

When Ghosts Come Home

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the SIBA Southern Book Prize for Fiction“I loved it and devoured it with fury, straight to its blazing end.” —Lily King, author of Writers & LoversFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, a tender and haunting story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory.When the roar of a... Read more

Black Nerd Problems

By: William Evans & Omar Holmon

Narrated by: William Evans & Omar Holmon

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays—on everything from Mario Kart to issues of representation—that “will fill you with joy and give you hope for the future of geek culture” (Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

When... Read more

Mordew

By: Alex Pheby

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Oppressively dark and deliciously Gothic" - The BiblioSanctum

Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy.

God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.

In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking... Read more

Revelator

By: Daryl Gregory

Narrated by: Reagan Boggs

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god—from the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders.
 
“Gods and moonshine in the Great Depression, written with a ... Read more

The Museum of Rain

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Jeff Daniels

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California’s Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to all.... Read more

Lightning Strike

By: William Kent Krueger

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O’Connor series—a book about fathers and sons, long-smoldering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events
that echo through youth and shape our lives forever.

Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the... Read more

Songbirds

By: Christy Lefteri

Narrated by: George Georgiou, Indira Varma, Art Malik & Loli...

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes... Read more

Down Range

By: Taylor Moore

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“A riveting thriller with a family in crisis at the core. It's my kind of book.” —Brad Taylor, bestselling author of American TraitorIn this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after his familyFrom a... Read more

If the Shoe Fits

By: Julie Murphy

Narrated by: Jen Ponton

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"If the Shoe Fits encompasses everything I love about rom-coms. I laughed, I swooned, I smiled. Another hit for Julie Murphy!" —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Hopeless If the shoe doesn’t fit, maybe it’s time to design your own. Cindy loves shoes. A well-placed bow or a chic stacked heel is her form of self-expression.... Read more

Where the Truth Lies

By: Anna Bailey

Narrated by: Natalie Simpson

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenaged girl’s disappearance brings her community’s most devastating secrets to light in this “compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets” (Paula Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author) that is perfect for fans of Megan Miranda and Celeste Ng.

The town of Whistling Ridge guards... Read more

We Are the Brennans

By: Tracey Lange

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.

When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles... Read more

Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

Narrated by: Jason Sean

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME *... Read more

A Good Day for Chardonnay

By: Darynda Jones

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"An action-packed audiobook sure to delight."—AudioFile Magazine

From the New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones comes the second novel in her laugh-out-loud Sunshine Vicram mystery series, A Good Day for Chardonnay.

Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time... Read more

Godspeed

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Jon Orsini

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
 
In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline.

Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three... Read more