Audiobooks
July 2023
Please note: This is the final issue of Audiobooks.
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Recent Releases
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
by Rupert Holmes; narrated by Neil Patrick Harris and Simon Vance

Welcome to... The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to educating desperate people planning to kill those who richly deserve it.

Narration: Actor Neil Patrick Harris and award-winning narrator Simon Vance trade narrative duties in this engrossing production.
The White Lady
by Jacqueline Winspear; narrated by Orlagh Cassidy

What it's about: Reclusive Elinor White lives in 1947 Kent, England, but she was once a spy, beginning as a child in World War I-era Belgium. After she makes friends with a neighbor girl, Elinor takes on a powerful crime family and reaches into her past for help, but surprises await. 

Narration: AudioFile Earphones Award winner Orlagh Cassidy expertly juggles multiple character accents in this standalone Jacqueline Winspear novel. 
Zero days : a novel
by Ruth Ware

When a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, resulting in her husband's murder, penetration specialist Jack, now the #1 suspect, goes on the run, deciding who she can trust as she races against time to clear her name and find the real killer. Simultaneous.
The wind knows my name
by Isabel Allende

Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children—5-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and 7-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S. where she's separated from her mother. Simultaneous.
Crow Mary : a novel
by Kathleen Grissom

Married to a white fur trader in 1872, a Crow Native woman has her journey to Saskatchewan interrupted when she steals two guns and saves five Nakota women who were kidnapped by drunken whiskey traders, setting off a culture war. Simultaneous.
The levee : an audio novella
by William Kent Krueger

"It's 1927, and the most devastating flood in American history has swelled the Mississippi River to a width of eighty miles. In an attempt to save a family trapped by the rising water, four men in a tiny rowboat battle the treacherous flow: three are convicts, on loan from the local prison and pressed into service; the fourth, the leader of the team, is driven by his own hidden motives. But to their surprise upon arrival at Ballymore, an ancestral home protected by a high, circular levee, not everyone inthe family feels the need to be saved. Pride, greed, loyalty, and even love create their own complex currents behind the massive wall. As the threat from the flood increases and time ticks away, the crew and the family must decide on a course of action, and a desperate plan is hatched to save the weakening levee and all it was built to protect"
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