LibraryAware March 2025

Featured Audiobooks

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber, and Sara Morsey

Four teenage girls trapped in a secretive maternity home for unwed mothers in 1960 St. Augustine, Florida, find an unexpected source of power through witchcraft.

Citizen: My Life After the White House
by Bill Clinton

Narrated by: Steven Weber and Bill Clinton

The former president chronicles his post-presidential journey with personal insights, details his humanitarian work, reflects on major twenty-first-century events and highlights his enduring commitment to public service, family and democracy.

The Secret War of Julia Child
by Diana R. Chambers

Narrated by: Candace Joice

Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II, a journey that will delight both historical fiction fans and lovers of America's most beloved chef, revealing how the war made her into the icon we know now. Single, six foot two, and thirty years old, Julia McWilliams took a job working for America's first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture. The Secret War of Julia Child traces Julia's transformation from ambitious Pasadena blue blood to Washington, DC file clerk, to head of General "Wild Bill" Donovan's secret File Registry as part of the Office of Strategic Services. The wartime journey takes her to South Asia's remote front lines of then-Ceylon, India, and China, where she finds purpose, adventure, self-knowledge-and love with mapmaker Paul Child. The spotlight has rarely shone on this fascinating period of time in the life of ("I'm not a spy") Julia Child, and this lyrical story allows us to explore the unlikely world of a woman in a World War II spy station who has no idea of the impact she'll eventually impart.

Shock Induction
by Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future. In a high school only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine, students must choose between the risk of following their dreams or the security of money and a lifetime of servitude to the world’s wealthiest and most elite- but how much of a choice do they truly have?

City of Night Birds
by Juhea Kim

Narrated by: Amy Landon

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice- to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever- in this incandescent novel of redemption and love. Painting a vivid portrait of the Russian ballet world, where cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics, and sublime artistry collide, City of Night Birds unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope. Mysterious and alluring, passionate and virtuosic, Juhea Kim’s second novel is an affecting meditation on love, forgiveness, and the making of an artist in a turbulent world.

Precipice
by Harris, Robert

Narrated by: Samuel West

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.
In London, twenty-six-year-old Venetia Stanley- aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless- is part of a fast group of upper-crust bohemians and socialites known as "The Coterie." She's also engaged in a clandestine love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer with Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a leak of top-secret documents. Suddenly, what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that could topple the British government- and will alter the course of political history.

The Mirror
by Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.
Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past- and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again- a centuries-old curse that must be broken- and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse.

Identity Unknown
by Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil.

Shanghailanders
by Juli Min

Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod

Starting in 2040 and going backwards to 2014, this brilliantly constructed exploration of marriage, relationships and the layered experience of time, follows the Yangs, a cosmopolitan Shanghai family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter and through the eyes of those closest to them