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  Publication Date:  March 27, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:  Romantic Suspense Narrators:  Rapunzaroo, Daniel Zbel, Isabele Salazar, Lisa Graham, Pippa Ryder Publisher:  David Abel & Liza Snow Length:   14 hours 26 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When a new beautiful new student enters his circus, will it tempt this acrobat to cross the line?      Cassandra Growing up, I was mesmerized by a man soaring the skies.  The greatest silk aerialist in the world, Chandler Moreau. He was once my lifeline, the dream I clung to after my parents died. I’ve always believed he was my destiny. To join him at the Dreamers Academy. To perform for him. To soar with him.  He’s more than I ever imagined. Far more than a m

Publication Date:  April 25, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   LGBTQ+ Fantasy  Narrators:  Daniel Henning  Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   15 hours 22 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and

Publication Date:  April 11, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Murder thrillers Narrators:  Eunice Wong Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   11 hours 38 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle, she takes a new job in Seaside, Washington, determined to make a fresh start for herself and her family. The small beach town, best known for its popular amusement park, Wonderland, seems like the perfect place to raise her young son and teenage daughter.  But it's not that easy starting over, especially as the town's new Deputy Chief of Police. When a dead body turns up at the park her first day on the job, and then a teenage Wonder Worker goes missing, Vanessa's investigation is

Publication Date:  May 2, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Dystopian Sci Fi  Publisher:  Ballantine Books  Length:   530 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh.  Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisf

Publication Date:  February 1, 2010 Format:  Audio Genre:   Private Eye  Narrators:  Dan John Miller Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Length:   7 hours 56 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When first published,  A Cold Day in Paradise  won both the Edgar and Shamus awards for Best First Novel, launching Steve Hamilton into the top ranks of today's crime writers. Now, see for yourself why this extraordinary novel has galvanized the literary and mystery community as no other book before it.... Other than the bullet lodged near his heart, former Detroit cop Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, the man convicted of the crimes has been locked away for years. But in the small

Publication Date:  February 7, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Coming of Age/ Indigenous Voices Narrators:  DeLanna Studi Publisher:  Harper Audio Length:   6 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Kit Crockett lives on a farm with her grief-stricken, widowed father, tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day, Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road.  Kit and the newcomer, Bella, become friends, and the lonely Kit draws comfort from her. But when a malicious neighbor finds out, Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of a tragic, fatal crime and becomes a ward of the court. Her Cherokee family wants to raise her, but the righteous

Publication Date:  May 10, 2010 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Thriller  Narrators:  David Chandler Publisher:  Recorded Books  Length:   10 hours 52 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Drawing strong comparisons to the work of James Lee Burke and Tony Hillerman, William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mysteries never fail to please fans. The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloh - a country-western singer at the height of her fame - has disappeared. Her father arrives in Aurora, Minnesota, to hire former sheriff Cork O'Connor to find his daughter, an

Publication Date:  March 28 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Historical Fiction Publisher:  Scribner Length:   364 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more li

Publication Date:  April 4 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Southern Fiction Narrators:  Jeannette Illidge Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   10 hours 41 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Magnolia Brown is nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, her predatory landlord, and the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia’s luck around with a lucrative “modeling” job at his family’s funeral home. She accepts. But despite things looking up, Magnolia’s problems fatten along with her wallet. When Cotton’s requests become increasingly weird, Magnolia discovers ther