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Publisher:  Penguin Audio Format:  Audio Genre:  Romance/ BDSM Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  The Submissive:   It started with a hidden desire.  Millionaire CEO Nathaniel West has always played by his own strict set of rules, ones he expects everyone to follow - especially the women he's dominated in his bedroom. But his newest lover is breaking down all his boundaries and rewriting his rule book. Abby King never imagined that she would capture the heart of Nathaniel West, one of New York City's most eligible bachelors - and its most desirable dominant. What began as a weekend arrangement of pleasure has become a passionate romance with a man who knows every inch of her body and her soul - yet remains an enigmatic lover. Though he is tender and caring, his painful past remains a wall between them. Abby knows the only way to truly earn his trust is to submit to him fully and let go of all of her lingering inhibitions. Bec...

Release Date:  June 16, 2015 Publisher:  Speak Format:  Paperback Pages:  432  pages Genre:   YA, Fiction, Depression Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis:  It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t. First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading  The Crucible  for extra credit—co...

Release Date:  February 6, 2007 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3 minutes Narrator:  Stephen Lang Genre:  Horror, Thriller, Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts: of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-sha...

Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Narrator:  Iggy Toma Genre:  Romance/ LGBT Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Takeover:  Michael Sebastian thought that Curacao would be the perfect place to have a little fun in the sun - and between the sheets. So far no one has struck his interest - until Sam Anderson walks into the bar. With one look at his tense body and expensive suit, Michael knows that this is a man in need of release. And Michael is more than willing to lend a hand. Shattered by the most intense sex he's ever had, Sam has to face the facts - one night with a handsome, dominating stranger is all he gets before returning to the closet he's been suffocating in for years. But when Sam starts his new job as the CEO of a failing technology company, he discovers that Michael is one of his new employees. While Michael is desperate for another night with Sam, he knows he shouldn't get involved with his boss, let al...

Release Date:  September 9, 2014 Publisher:  Hatchette Audio Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 52 minutes Narrator:  Charlie Thurston Genre:  Law/Crime/ YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Jazz Dent has been shot and left to die in New York City. His girlfriend Connie is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy. And his best friend Howie is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod. Somehow, these three must rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy. But then Jazz crosses a line he's never crossed before, and soon the entire country is wondering: "Like father, like son?" Who is the true monster? The chase is on, and beyond Billy there lurks something much, much worse. Prepare to meet...the Crow King. Review: Just when I though this series couldn't surprise me or get better, it did. Whoa.  The Crow King is not who...

Release Date:  April 16, 2013 Publisher:  Hatchette Audio Format:  Audio Length:  13 hours 28 minutes Narrator:  Charlie Thurston Genre:  Law/Crime/ YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:   Hunt Killers  introduced the world to Jasper (Jazz) Dent, the son of the world's most infamous serial killer. When a desperate New York City detective comes knocking on Jazz's door asking for help with a new case, Jazz can't say no. The Hat-Dog Killer has the Big Apple - and its police force running scared with no leads. So Jazz and his girlfriend, Connie, hop on a plane to the big city and get swept up in a killer's murderous game. Meanwhile, Jazz's dad, Billy, is watching... and waiting. Review: Jazz survived the impressionist, and now a NY city detective is banging on his door asking for his help in tracking down the Hat-Dog Killer. Although Jazz has been consumed with his father, Billly's escape from prison, Jazz agrees ...

Release Date:  April 3, 2012 Publisher:  Hatchette Audio Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 32 minutes Narrator:  Charlie Thurston Genre:  Law/Crime/ YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer, some might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, "Take Your Son to Work Day" was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could--from the criminals' point of view. And now, even though Dad has been in jail for years, bodies are piling up in the sleepy town of Lobo's Nod. Again. In an effort to prove murder doesn't run in the family, Jazz joins the police in the hunt for this new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret--could he be more like his father than anyone knows? From acclaimed author Barry Lyga comes a riveting thriller about a...

Release Date:  June 26, 2018 Publisher:  Beacon Press Format:  Paperback Pages:  126  pages Genre:   Race, Racism, Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis:  In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. Review: This bo...

Release Date:  December 5, 2018 Publisher:  Atlantic Monthly Press Format:  ebook Pages:  432 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Hardcover  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Pirie is called in to unravel a case where nothing is quite as it seems. And as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that not everyone shares her desire for justice. Or even the idea of what justice is. Review: DCI Karen Pirie heads up the historical case unit in Scotland. Karen is still suffering from the loss of her significant other and seems to be having a hard time trusting anyone around her. Karen is out chasing leads on a series of historical rapes when she is asked to di...

Release Date:  July 14, 2017 Publisher:  Blackstone Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 12 minutes Narrator:  Teddy Hamilton, Dake Bliss Genre:  Romance/ LGBT Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  When they were only teenagers, Axel and Caxton were caught making out in the woods at church camp. And afterward, Cax had disappeared from all the youth group activities. Six years later Axel is astonished to spot his first love's face in the crowd of a college basketball game he's watching on television - at a school that has just offered him a job. It's a thousand miles away, in a tiny rural town. But suddenly he can't wait to get there. Cax can't believe his eyes when Axel appears in the same Massachusetts town where he now lives. And he's still just as drawn to him as ever. But he can't let himself go there again, because loving Axel will mean giving up everything else he holds dear. Both men have so much to los...

Release Date:  May 9, 2017 Publisher:  Blackstone Audio Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 1 minutes Narrator:  Teddy Hamilton, Dake Bliss Genre:  Romance/ LGBT Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Most people called it a cult. But for 20 years, Josh and Caleb called it home. In Paradise, there is no television. No fast food. Just long hours of farmwork and prayer on a dusty Wyoming ranch and nights in a crowded bunkhouse. The boys of the Compound are kept far from the sinners' world. But Joshua doesn't need temptation to sin. His whole life he's wanted his best friend, Caleb. By day they work side by side. Only when Josh closes his eyes at night can they be together the way he craves. It can never be. And his survival depends on keeping his terrible desires secret. Caleb has always protected Josh against the worst of the bullying at the Compound. But he has secrets of his own and a plan to get away - until it all backfire...

Release Date:  December 29, 2013 Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 9 minutes Narrator:  George Newbern Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local res...