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Publication Date:  June 17, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Suspense Thriller Narrators:  David Ledoux Publisher:  Harper Audio  Length:  2 hours 59 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him.  From number-one  New York Times  best-selling author Greg Iles comes an original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from his new novel,  Natchez Burning .  When a heart attack sends Penn's father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, T...

Publication Date:  October 5, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir Narrators:  Dave Grohl Publisher:  Harper Audio  Length:  10 hours 35 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to tell these stories just as I have always done, in my own voice. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the ...

  Publication Date:  January 11, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   True Crime, Adventurer Narrators:  Harley Rustad Publisher:  Harper Audio  Length:  10 hours 41 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis For centuries, India has enthralled westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker. In his early thirties Justin Alexander Shetler, quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey: across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal, in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters, while also documenting his travels on I...

Publication Date:  June 2, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller/Suspense Narrators:  Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens Rich Keeble Publisher:  Harper Audio         Length:  10 hours 22 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner  – The bridesmaid – The body On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote lo...

  Publication Date:  February 23, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Race, racism, race studies Narrator:  Georgina Lawton Publisher:  Harper Audio          Length:  8 hours 7 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were White; her friends were White; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to Black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was. It was only after her father’s death that ...

Publication Date:  March 2, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Women's Fiction Narrator:  Lorna Bennett, Lauren Anthony, Lauren Irwin Publisher:  Harper Audio          Length:  10 hours 18 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary… Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo thr...