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Publication Date:  May 2, 2017 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fantasy Romance, YA  Narrators:  Amanda Leigh Cobb Publisher:  Recorded Books Length:  25 hours 9 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst...

Publication Date:  June 28, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA AA fiction  Narrators:  Ariel Blake Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  8 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her fr...

  Publication Date:  August 28 2018 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA, LGBTQ, Publisher:  Scholastic Length:  352  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis In the companion to  Openly Straight , Ben confronts pressure at school, repression at home, and his passion for two very different people in figuring out what it takes to be  Honestly Ben . Ben Carver is back to normal. He's working steadily in his classes at the Natick School. He just got elected captain of the baseball team. He's even won a full scholarship to college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg the past semester is in the past.Except...There's Hannah, the gorgeous girl from the neighboring school, who attracts him and ...

Publication Date:  May 31, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir  Narrators:  Colton Haynes Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio Length:  6 hours 22 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Four years ago, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He’d had two seizures, lost the sight in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary psychiatry hold. Not yet thirty, he knew he had to take stock of his life and make some serious changes if he wanted to see his next birthday. As he worked towards sobriety, Haynes allowed himself to become vulnerable for the first time in years and with that, discovered profound self-awareness. He had millions of social media followers who constantly told him they lov...

Publication Date:  June 30, 2022 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Sports Romance Publisher:  Self Published Length:  212  pages Buy:    Kindle Synopsis I’m a survivor. A fighter down to my blood. I need the release that comes when I step in that octagon, I crave it. I spent too long being beat down and broken in every sense of the word, and I almost didn’t make it. Fighting saved me though and then I saved myself. When I am offered a full ride scholarship to a college in the middle of nowhere Alabama over 2000 miles away, I grab the chance with both hands and run like hell. What I didn’t expect to find when I got there was a local underground brawler that has more likeness to a local celebrity than the arrogant broody bastard who seems to be everywhere I tur...

Publication Date:  May 28 2013 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA, LGBTQ, Publisher:  Scholastic Length:  339  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Rafe is a normal teenager from Boulder, Colorado. He plays soccer. He's won skiing prizes. He likes to write.And, oh yeah, he's gay. He's been out since 8th grade, and he isn't teased, and he goes to other high schools and talks about tolerance and stuff. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to just be a regular guy. Not that GAY guy. To have it be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time.So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret -- not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean sla...

Publication Date:  May 3, 2016 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fantasy Romance, Narrators:  Jennifer Ikeda Publisher:  Recorded Books Length:  23 hours 16 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.  As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. Whi...

Publication Date:  September 7, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Thriller Narrators:  Brittany Pressley Publisher:  Harlequin Audio Length:  11 hours 48 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice? It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre…. She’s a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.  Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths - students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend ...

Publication Date:  2021 - BV - 2022 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Mafia Romance Publisher:  Self-published Length:  356 -402  pages Buy:    Kindle Synopsis Ruthless Creatures:   Five years ago, my fiancé disappeared. He left me with a wedding dress I’d never wear. Left me with the kind of scars that can’t be healed. The man I built my future on vanished like a ghost. All that remained were my broken heart and a million unanswered questions.  Until a mysterious stranger arrives in town.  Tall, dark, and dangerous, Kage is as full of secrets as he is sex appeal. Though I know he’s hiding something, I’m drawn to him like a moth to flame.  Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, helpless to res...

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