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Just Breathe
by Cammie McGovern; narrated by Caitlin Kelly and Josh Hurley
Starring: popular, outgoing David, who tries to downplay his cystic fibrosis while waiting for a lung transplant; and quiet, depressed outsider Jamie, who strikes up an intense friendship with David while volunteering at the hospital.
Narration: Caitlin Kelly and Josh Hurley trade narrative duties in this YA romance told from both characters' perspectives.
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| Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey; narrated by Charlotte NorthIntroducing: Rosie and Dominic Vega, high school sweethearts who married young -- and have since drifted apart.
Narration: Charlotte North's emotional reading raises the stakes in this 2nd Hot & Hammered romance. |
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| Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox; narrated by Euan Morton What it's about: When a young boy goes missing without a trace while on vacation, the boy's mother specifically requests the help of private investigators ex-cop Ted Conkaffey and ex-con Amanda Pharrell (to the dismay of the local police force).
Narration: Adopting a gruff Australian accent, Amanda Pharrell series narrator Euan Morton returns for this gritty 3rd entry. |
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Untamed
by Glennon Doyle; narrated by Glennon Doyle
What it's about: An activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost.
Reviewers say: "A bracing jolt of honesty from someone who knows what she wants to say and isn’t afraid to say it" (Booklist).
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| Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II by Max Hastings; narrated by Max Hastings and Peter NobleMay 17, 1943: Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) blew up two dams in Germany's Ruhr valley, an effort that shook German confidence and killed more than 1,500 civilians, many of them forced laborers.
Narration: Author Max Hastings narrates the introduction with a clipped tone evoking the newsreels of the era, while narrator Peter Noble's well-paced, British-accented reading grounds this dramatic history. |
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Creatures
by Crissy Van Meter; narrated by Piper Goodeve
What it's about: A bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother.
Reviewers say: "This is a moving, graceful novel of how people change and are changed by natures within and without" (Booklist).
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| Deacon King Kong by James McBride; narrated by Dominic Hoffman What it's about: It's 1969, right after the Moon Landing, and Brooklyn-based Baptist deacon Cuffy Lambkin (called "Deacon King Kong" after his favorite kind of moonshine) shoots his former protégé (and current drug dealer) Deems Clemens in broad daylight.
Narration: Dominic Hoffman engrossingly portrays the large cast of quirky characters with a variety of accents and tones. |
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Stop at Nothing
by Michael Ledwidge; narrated by Neil Hellegers
What it's about: When a Gulf Stream jet goes down in the Bahamas carrying a fortune in cash and ill-gotten diamonds, expat diving instructor Michael Gannon is the only person on the scene. Assuming himself the beneficiary of a drug deal gone bad, Gannon thinks he’s home free with the sudden windfall until he realizes he forgot to ask one simple question. Who were the six dead men on the plane?
Narration: "Listeners will be on the edge of their seats, desperate to hear what happens next" with Neil Hellegers' narration (AudioFile).
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