LibraryAware September 2023

Fiction Audiobooks

Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus

Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, and Pandora Sykes

In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.

Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano

Narrated by: Maura Tierney

Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home, which was silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household.

Tides of Fire
by James Rollins

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

When the Titan Project, an international research station off the coast of Australia, is attacked, setting in motion a large-scale geological disaster, Sigma Force races against time to stop the world from burning, uncovering something that will shake the very foundations of humanity.

Palazzo
by Danielle Steel

Narrated by: James Babson

The head of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand, Cosima Saverio, partnering with France's most successful handbag company, must make an impossible choice when her brother loses a hefty sum at the casino and his debt must be repaid with money or his life.

Good Bad Girl
by Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Katherine Press and Stephanie Racine

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. In the style of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors, Good Bad Girl is a thriller in which nobody can be trusted and the twists come fast and furious.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters- living on the margins of white, Christian America- closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.

The Missus
by E. L. James

Narrated by: Dominic Thorburn, Jessica O'Hara-Baker

The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mister. A passionate and thrilling love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies.

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
by David Von Drehle

Narrated by: David Von Drehle

One of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door. When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship- and a profound lesson in the meaning of life.

Citadel
by C. M. Alongi

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

In this luminous sci-fi debut, a nonverbal autistic woman refuses to crumble as she stands against a dogmatic society clinging to a centuries-long conflict built on lies. Citadel is the only human city on the alien planet Edalide, ruled by the biweekly tides that bring both deadly danger and much-needed resources. But the drowning waters, constant threat of starvation, and eternal cold aren't the most dangerous challenge. For the Flooded Forest is ruled by demons: monsters from Hell sent by their vengeful god as penance for their ancestors' rebellion. To save their souls and return to their former glory, Citadel must kill every single one. Or so they believe.

eAudiobooks

Normal Rules Don't Apply
by Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Paterson Joseph

Startling, funny and imaginative, eleven interconnected stories, in which nothing is what it seems, are sharp observations on human nature and pack an emotional- and satisfying- punch.

Holly
by Stephen King

Narrated by: Justine Lupe and Stephen King

Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.

Not Forever, but for Now
by Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Two brothers in a family of professional killers, Otto and Cecil find it hard to continue the family legacy due to a series of escaped convicts showing up at their door, a lecherous new tutor with disturbing hobbies, their mother's burgeoning opioid addiction and the disappearance of their father.

Lady Tan's Circle of Women
by Lisa See

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim and Justin Chien

Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.

Enchanted to Meet You
by Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve and Tim Paige

A witchy rom-com from New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up with a handsome stranger to help protect her village from an otherworldly force- but will she be able to protect her heart?