Audiobooks
May 2017
"That there were flat places in the world she’d known, but the enormity of it
scared her even more than crossing the mountains."
~ from Carol Birch's Orphans of the Carnival
 
Recent Releases
The Fix
by David Baldacci

A latest thriller featuring football player-turned-detective Amos Decker finds him using his eidetic memory to solve a high-stakes case. By the best-selling author of Memory Man and The Last Mile.
The Stars Are Fire
by Anita Shreve

A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters.
A superior man
by Paul Yee

Railway worker Yang Hok's plans to return to China are waylaid when his efforts to return his son to the boy's Chinook mother immerse him in ethnic conflicts, forcing him to reconsider what is best for the boy.
Two from the Heart
by James Patterson

Two heartwarming tales follow Anne McWilliams, who, after losing everything, travels cross-country asking long-lost friends and strangers a simple question, and Tyler Bron, who has it all, but has no life, which leads him to write a love story beyond his wildest imagination.
Fallout
by Sara Paretsky

Savvy investigator Vic leaves her comfort zone in Chicago to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star in Kansas, where a university town, the remnants of the Cold War and long-simmering racial tensions are stirred into violence by mysteries and murders.
The Sleeping Beauty killer
by Mary Higgins Clark

Living under suspicion after wrongly serving time for her fiancT's murder, Casey attracts the attention of newswoman Laurie, who pledges to exonerate her in spite of the machinations of an attention-stealing former prosecutor.
Sweet tomorrows
by Debbie Macomber

A much-anticipated conclusion to the best-selling series finds innkeeper Jo Marie Rose starting over after Mark's departure and taking in heartbroken boarder Emily, who would pursue adoption and give up on marriage only to be urged to take a chance on a new relationship. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Cedar Cove series.
Commonwealth : a novel
by Ann Patchett

A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond.
Turbo twenty-three
by Janet Evanovich

A latest entry in the best-selling series starring intrepid bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds her receiving support from prostitute-turned-bounty hunter Lula, gun-toting Grandma Mazur, on-again-off-again paramour Officer Hottie and mentor Ranger. Simultaneous.
The Whole Town's Talking: A Novel
by Fannie Flagg; narrated by Kimberly Farr

Adult Fiction. Author Fannie Flagg traces the saga of Elmwood Springs, Missouri from its founding in 1889 by Swedish immigrant Lordor Nordstrom to its end in 2022. Filled with generations of interesting characters, the novel seems to portray ordinary doings in a farming community -- until it's revealed that the residents buried in the town's cemetery wake up and resume their interactions with each other, making death a continuation of life. In addition to cameo appearances by Bonnie and Clyde and by Harry Truman, the plot includes a murder mystery. Kimberly Farr narrates the story with distinct character voicing while highlighting Flagg's humor and sympathetically relating sad events.
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