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New eAudiobooks April 2021
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New eAudiobooks from OverDrive/Libby
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Waiting to be chosen by a customer, an Artificial Friend programmed with high perception observes the activities of shoppers while exploring fundamental questions about what it means to love.
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The Hill We Climb
by Amanda Gorman
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe.
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Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia
The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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Every Vow You Break
by Peter Swanson
A bride’s dream honeymoon with her beloved millionaire groom is upended by the appearance of an obsessive one-night stand who would claim her for himself.
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Laundry Love
by Patric Richardson
A fashion pro, textile expert and founder of Laundry Camp at the Mall of America shares his tips, tricks and hacks to change your relationship with doing laundry while saving time, money and the planet.
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Sparks Like Stars
by Nadia Hashimi
Adopted from Afghanistan 40 years earlier by an American diplomat in the aftermath of a coup and assassination, Aryana has a chance encounter with the soldier who saved her life and killed her family.
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Everything Will Be Okay
by Dana Perino
The Fox News co-host draws on her personal boundary-breaking experiences to counsel readers on how to find inspiration and motivation in today’s world.
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We Begin at the End
by Chris Whitaker
A guilt-ridden police chief and a tough-as-nails woman who was forced to support her family as a girl work together to protect loved ones when the latter’s father is released after 30 years in prison.
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Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogatá.
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The Affair
by Danielle Steel
A fashion magazine executive navigates a scandal involving her son-in-law’s affair with a Hollywood actress, while her daughters support each other through infidelity, commitment issues and personal secrets.
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New eAudiobooks from Hoopla
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The Jigsaw Man
by Nadine Matheson
Serial Crimes Unit DI Anjelica Henley races to stop a copycat killer and prevent her own death before the ruthless murderer who is being imitated takes matters into his own hands.
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Float Plan
by Trish Doller
Hiring a sailor to navigate the boat trip she planned before her fiancé’s death, Anna begins healing from a broken heart in the wake of an unexpected romance.
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The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner
Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
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Her Dark Lies
by J. T. Ellison
Disregarding messages from an anonymous texter who claims her fiancé is not the man he pretends to be, Claire travels to Italy for her destination wedding before harrowing discoveries and accidents expose ominous family secrets.
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Women in White Coats
by Olivia Campbell
Documents the true stories of three pioneering women who defied Victorian-era boundaries to become the first women doctors, discussing how they banded together to support each other and advocate for women’s health in a male-dominated field.
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The Little French Bridal Shop
by Jennifer Dupee
Renovating an inherited colonial property in her Massachusetts hometown to manage painful losses, Larissa buys a wedding gown as a private joke, only to have word of her impending nuptials spread throughout the community.
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A Game of Cones
by Abby Collette
The owner of an ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio investigates after a developer from the big city, looking to build a mall, is found murdered in the second novel of the series following A Deadly Inside Scoop.
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Gathering Dark
by Candice Fox
Risking her freedom and custody of her son to help a former cellmate find her missing daughter, a once-respected surgeon requests the assistance of the detective who arrested her for murder a decade earlier.
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Just Work
by Kim Scott
The author of the best-selling Radical Candor reveals a practical framework for respecting workers’ individuality, removing gender injustice from business, making sure all voices are heard and collaborating effectively to meet organizations’ goals.
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A Matter of Life and Death
by Phillip Margolin
Rising attorney Robin Lockwood takes the death-penalty case of a homeless father who has been set up for the murder of a prominent judge’s wife.
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New eAudiobooks from eReadIllinois/Axis 360
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The Dating Plan
by Sara Desai
A characteristically obedient Indian-American software engineer, determined to avoid a loveless arranged marriage by her traditional parents, enlists a childhood crush, required to marry in order to secure his inheritance, to be her decoy fiancé.
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The Code Breaker
by Walter Isaacson
A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson’s The Double Helix on her career and how her team’s invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease.
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The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy’s dangerous agenda against a backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
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Act Your Age, Eve Brown
by Talia Hibbert
When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.
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Later
by Stephen King
Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
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Wild Sign
by Patricia Briggs
Tapped by the FBI to investigate the disappearance of an entire small community, mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham become dangerously compelled by a mysterious force in the nearby California mountains.
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Meant to Be
by Jude Deveraux
The award-winning author of A Knight in Shining Armor presents a latest historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community.
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Fast Ice
by Clive Cussler
Investigating the disappearance of a NUMA colleague on the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are confronted by a radical environmentalist who would use a Nazi-era weapon to usher in a new Ice Age.
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What's Mine and Yours
by Naima Coster
Integrated into a predominantly white high school, an anxious young Black student and a half-Latina whose mother would have her pass as white join a bridge-building school play that shapes the trajectory of their adult lives.
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I'm So Effing Tired
by Amy Shah
Inspired by the author’s personal wellness journey, a guide for women struggling with burnout explains how to understand the complex relationship between the gut, immune system and hormones to reduce stress and promote energy.
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