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New and Featured eAudiobooks November 2026 |
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Under the Orchard's Spell
by Ann Adams
Ali Reid has luck so bad she might actually be cursed. The pear orchard she inherited from her late uncle is drowning in debt, her fiance and best friend have left her, and now, with picking season looming, she has no way to harvest all her fruit before it rots on the branch. Desperate, Ali turns to Logan Wright--the town's stoic carpenter, her first kiss, and the one she left behind. Now, fourteen years later, Logan agrees to move into her farmhouse to help, wearing plaid and a steady gaze, even though the land holds memories he's not keen to revisit. As they work side by side, Ali's feelings for Logan come rushing back, and the orchard's troubles turn increasingly bizarre. Unnatural storms rage overhead. Jewel-toned rabbits take shelter in the barn. And, worst of all, the pears are crystallizing on their branches, like some kind of fairytale gone wrong. The deeper they dig into these mysteries, the more long-buried family secrets they uncover--and the more they begin to suspect the land itself carries a curse, one that touches any visitor who lingers too long. With the magic stirring once again, Ali must uncover the orchard's secrets before she loses the one she loves all over again.
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Dive Bar at the End of the Road
by Kelley Armstrong
A forested road at night, slick from the pounding rain and eerily illuminated by flashes of lightning. Just before midnight, a car swerves to avoid something--or someone--mysteriously standing in the road, only to slam into a fallen tree instead. In the pitch black, four more cars follow in a pileup no one can seem to avoid. Stumbling out of the wreckage, soaked from the rain and nursing various injuries, five strangers find themselves in a backwoods dive bar, waiting for daybreak and hoping for cell service. But as tensions rise and the storm rages on outside, the occupants of the dive bar start to notice that not everything is as it seems. Time is moving differently, and they quickly learn that going outside--whether to assist another accident victim or to hike for help--is a very bad idea. There's something in the woods, something that isn't natural. Could the figure in the road have been a warning? Or something more sinister? None of this is normal, and they'll need to work together to figure out what's happening if they have any hope of surviving the night.
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Sitcom: A Memoir
by Chuck Lorre
Ever wonder what it's like to spend decades making millions of strangers laugh -- while trying not to lose your mind in the process? As the creator of The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Young Sheldon, Bookie, Dharma & Greg, Mom, and more, Lorre has racked up almost two thousand half-hours of comedy. But his own story is just as outrageous, awkward, and surprisingly touching as the shows he built. In this memoir on his life and career in comedy, Lorre trades punchlines for real talk: the messy, very human truth behind Hollywood's glossy facade, addiction, his own and that of his famous colleagues, his failed marriages, disastrous life choices, and chronic illness--all of which somehow became the ingredients for comedy. One chapter may leave you doubled over, the next might sneak in a lump in your throat -- but that's Chuck. That's sitcoms. That's also real life. If you've ever binged The Big Bang Theory, argued over your favorite Two and a Half Men character, or wondered how TV comedy gets made, this is your all-access pass. Spoiler: it involves failure, low-self-esteem, and an unshakable love for laughter.
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As You Wake, Break the Shell
by Becky Chambers
Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it's home. For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant shop, often bending the rules to help those the system leaves behind. Her life is filled with the green of her store, the warmth of her one elderly friend, and the quiet determination to help others without putting herself in danger. Cora is a rorqual pilot, one of the few with the unique ability to navigate the massive, living ships that connect the scattered settlements of their solar system. Her bond with her rorqual, Colibri, is profound--a connection that is both her greatest gift and a threat to her career. It is that threat--the "mindbleed", a dangerous side effect of her piloting--that brings her to Signy's shop, and her appearance puts Signy in the danger she so fears. But it's soon apparent it's not just about losing her license--this delicate balance between risk and trust has the potential to change everything for them.
Told in an alternating timeline of their initial coming together and a not-so-distant future where they have found domestic bliss, this is a story harrowing and haunting, heartfelt and hopeful.
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Peck & Peck
by Bonnie Garmus
It's 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants--an ear for poetry--is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he's folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time. But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers--twins and enemies--as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest. And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, good isn't good enough, interesting doesn't cut it, plagiarists aren't tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God.
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The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford
by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
We find ourselves in 1920s Oklahoma, just far enough out of Tulsa, just long enough after the Race Massacre of 1921. For as long as anyone can remember, the Milfords have led plentiful lives on the backs of the townspeople of Newville. Now, on the ominous brink of the Great Depression and at the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford was an infamous moonshiner and womanizer who, it seems, finally crossed the wrong person at the wrong time. He's dead and buried with only his women to mourn him, but a question remains: Who killed him, and why? Top suspects are his four wives, Lally, Sophronia, Georgette, and Vivianne. But as their stories burst to light, the very idea of a true story comes apart before our eyes.
In her uniquely powerful, humorous manner, Thompson-Spires takes on the interdependent clash of the traditional and the newfangled in this gobsmackingly excellent novel.
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The Memory of Borrowed Books
by Meg Anderson
In the coastal town of Foxhollow Bay, librarian Claire Ashford keeps her life as meticulously ordered as the centuries-old library she calls home. But when the town announces plans to shut it down, her sanctuary, and the life she's built within its walls, begins to crumble. One night, while wandering the stacks after hours, Claire discovers a door that shouldn't exist. And behind it lies a secret room filled with books no one else can see. Each book pulls her into the memories of those who have passed through the library's doors--moments half-lived and stories left unfinished. Buried within these pages is a message the library has been trying to share, urging Claire to uncover the path to saving it. With the demolition looming and time running out, Claire must piece together what the library is trying to show her. But one book keeps calling her back, and in its pages is a memory that could change everything. One that reveals the key to saving the library may be tangled in her own memories more than she ever could have imagined. An ode to the power of community and hope, The Memory of Borrowed Books is a sweeping story about what's at stake when the places we love--and the memories they hold--are threatened. A reminder that what we fight to preserve just might be the very thing that saves us in return.
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The Christmas Yes List
by Melissa Ferguson
Chronic people-pleaser Chloe Hollis is determined to finally learn how to get over her fear of rejection. Her unconventional solution? She must collect ten 'no's before Christmas Day by asking strangers for the most ridiculous favors she can dream up. But her plan goes hilariously off-track when she meets James Dutton.
James, a rule-following workaholic, has decided to do the exact opposite of Chloe: he's saying yes to every opportunity that comes his way in hopes of finally embracing life--and maybe a little Christmas spirit. As they continue to get tangled up in each other's wild experiment, Chloe and James find themselves in a whirlwind of festive, awkward, and delightful situations. But no one is more surprised than they are to realize they're falling in love. With sparkling humor and swoon-worthy heart, this delightful Christmas rom-com is a feel-good story about facing fear head-on, choosing growth over comfort, and finding the courage to say yes to the things--and the people--that truly matter.
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The French Illusion
by John Grisham
After Paul and Chelsea Tanner's fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.
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Falling Back to You
by Kasha Thompson
In a small town, every road leads back to the one person you can never forget. Dial Birch has never needed saving. She's built her life with her own two hands. In Hume, Tennessee everyone knows Dial: the woman who can propagate a dying orchid back to life, who'll throw a right hook as quick as a sharp word, and who has spent the past few years perfecting the art of living in the same small town as Ozzie Palmer, her ex and the father of her child, without feeling a thing. She's made peace with the hard parts. It's just that Hume isn't big enough to keep her heart from remembering what it felt like before it was broken.
Ozzie Palmer has never needed much, just the familiar streets of Hume, his daughter Maple, and Dial, the woman who has always held his heart. Their relationship may be in an off season, but Ozzie isn't worried. He's a patient man, and some loves are worth waiting for.
But when his father, and boss, starts pulling strings that could uproot everything Ozzie holds dear, he's forced to fight for the only life he's ever wanted. Because walking away from Hume means walking away from Dial, and that's something Ozzie Palmer will never be ready to do. Dial and Ozzie have been a part of each other's story for so long that neither one knows how to write a version of themselves without the other in it. But wanting someone back and being ready for them are two different things. The lives they envisioned has fallen apart, but it's getting harder to ignore what's always been there, the heat, the history, the pull that never really went away. Second chances don't come with guarantees. And this one is running out of time.
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The Librarian's Secret
by Neil Alexander
1938. Shy nineteen-year-old, Nora O'Brien, leaves behind her life in rural Ireland and boards a ship bound for Australia - carrying little more than a valise and a secret. On board she meets glamorous and unconventional Flo, and begins a thrilling but dangerous journey of self-discovery.
2004. Helen cannot forget her mother's dying words - 'find Verity'. Starting at the library where Nora worked, she begins to trace a faint trail that leads her to embark on a voyage of her own. But is she ready for the truth behind her mother's instruction?
As Helen draws closer to Verity, might she glimpse the chance of a braver future of her own?
Moving between Nora's ocean crossing, and Helen's search for a woman she has never heard of, The Librarian's Secret is a sweeping, emotional mystery about the power of the past, the perils of love, and the stories women are forced to hide.
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Ordinary Wife: The True Story of America's Forgotten Serial Killer
by Gregg Olsen
On a hot August afternoon in 1920 at Blue Lakes Ranch in Idaho, a new bride set out three saucers of flypaper on the boarding house porch. By nightfall, her husband was on the floor of their canvas tent, clutching his stomach in agony. Within days he was dead. Lyda Trueblood was everything a wife should be: beautiful, charming, an excellent cook. Men fell for her easily. They also died easily around her too--poisoned by arsenic. One husband, then another, then two more. Her brother-in-law. And, then there was her two-year-old daughter--whose death no one could ever fully explain. Six deaths in five years, and a 1921 trial that made Lyda Trueblood a national sensation. But what turned a Missouri farmer's daughter into a methodical killer--and how did she elude justice for so long? Drawing on court transcripts, prison records, and Lyda's own unflinching statements, the Olsens go beyond the lurid headlines to reveal the woman herself--calculating, charismatic, and chilling to the last.
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The Temple Keep
by Michael S. Holtzman
The most terrifying secret in human history lies beneath Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. When Noah Greaves arrives at the College of William & Mary on scholarship, he believes he is stepping into the world of Thomas Jefferson and the great ideas that shaped modern civilization. Instead he finds himself pulled into a centuries-old conspiracy involving secret societies, occultism, Shakespeare, the CIA, and a mysterious vault. Blending real history, hidden codes, and incredible revelations, The Temple Keep is a thriller where every discovery leads to an impossible conclusion.
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Dark Horse
by C. R. Jane
After her messy divorce, Sienna Blake is done with men. She's trading her wreckage for a sun-drenched future in California until a violent Montana storm sends her car skidding off the road and straight into Blackwood. A town with more cows than people, a thriving fascination with its serial-killer history, and one dangerously attractive rancher who looks at her like she's already his.
Sterling Hayes didn't build his empire by letting go of what he wants. And the moment Sienna steps into his town, something inside him wakes up. He knows she doesn't belong here. He also knows he's not letting her leave. So he does what any reasonable, wildly unhinged man would do. He steals a few critical car parts and buys himself time. One month to convince her that Blackwood is exactly where she belongs―preferably wrapped up in his sheets, wearing nothing but his flannel.
Sienna refuses to be easy prey. She's stubborn, sharp-tongued, and far too smart for his dirty cowboy games. Between a mortifying wardrobe malfunction, a drunken bet involving a mechanical bull, and a series of ranch disasters that leave her bruised and furious, she's determined to prove she won't fall for him or this town.
But Blackwood has secrets that run deeper than flirtation and far darker than small-town charm. Women have been disappearing in the Montana wilderness, and everyone knows the land remembers blood. When the killer's attention turns toward Sienna, Sterling's careful restraint fractures. Because monsters recognize monsters. And the man watching her isn't just a rancher willing to steal car parts.
He's the kind of man who knows how to hunt.
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The Gentleman's Dilemma
by Jane Dunn
A penniless orphan, London's most colourful dandy and a scandalous surprise that changes everything.
Ferdinand Shilton, the dandiest, most eligible bachelor of the ton, has decided it is time to abandon his carefree youth. Determined to resist the unruliness of romance however, he prepares to embark on a highly proper betrothal, trading his flamboyant fashions for a sensible, if passionless, life.
Orphan Madeleine Rose survives on the reluctant charity of her aunt, while escaping her dreary reality by secretly penning a romantic novel. But when Madeleine discovers a mysterious foundling on Ferdinand Shilton's doorstep, real life suddenly takes on the excitement of her fiction. When an astonishing twist transforms her from a poor relation into a woman of consequence, and with her fate now unexpectedly thrown together with Ferdy's, everything Madeleine has accepted as her future is upended. Torn between duty, honour and an undeniable attraction, can Ferdy and Madeleine summon the courage to rewrite their own destinies?
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The Foreign Correspondent's Wife
by Jenna Helwig
Paris, 1949. It's been five years since the war ended. The City of Light is only just beginning to rediscover its joie de vivre. Americans are arriving in droves, including the fiercely independent former reporter Kat Kelly and her husband--a hotshot foreign correspondent. Forced out of journalism by the old boys' club, the tenacious Kat has moved on to pursue her love for French cuisine. But this new chapter turns deadly when she finds the bloody body of an American classmate, Toby. After giving her statement to the police and breaking the news to Toby's girlfriend, Kat quickly suspects that Toby's life--and death--were more complicated than she imagined. The more Kat learns, the more certain she is that the police are only scratching the surface of the case. When another body turns up, Kat and her husband, Charlie, find themselves embroiled in the investigation. With the killer on the loose and time running out, Kat races to solve the case and save her marriage--and her life. In a glittering city desperate to forget the devastation of war, some secrets refuse to remain buried. But when agonizing truths are forced into the light, no one is safe.
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How to Troll a Guy in Ten Days
by Pippa Grant
If Tennessee Rhodes and I were the last two people on earth, sorry, humanity would be doomed.
He's obnoxious. He pretends he's funny. He takes great pains to get under my skin. And since his sister is my best friend, one of the women my great-aunt and I invited to live with us after she went viral, he's around far more than I'd like.
Now, Ten's telling me he's gone viral and needs me to hide him too. The worst part? With those big puppy dog eyes and his panty-melting smile that he uses to his advantage, he's convinced my great-aunt he needs to stay as her personal assistant.
Which means it's up to me to convince him to leave on his own and keep him from causing trouble. Easier said than done when I find out the rest of his story though.
You'd think the experience of being my unpredictable great-aunt's caretaker the past five years would've prepared me for Tennessee's antics. Or that the time I've spent fighting internet trolls for sport the past five years would've made me smart enough to not fall for his charms.
But I apparently don't know myself as well as I think I do. Nor is Tennessee the man I think he is either. And that's bad. Worse than bad. Because when I find out his secret—the real reason he needs to lay low here—my heart will be at just as much risk as the winery's reopening.
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