Read by John Lee From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original. Read the full description. “The eight short stories and one novella in Newbery Medalist Barnhill’s collection are haunting and beautifully […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway—November 2017—Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
November 1st, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
Read by Peter Berkrot, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, and Piper Goodeve Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2017 — A Sick Life
September 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most effervescent and soulful girl group anyone has seen since the Supremes,” five-time Grammy Award winning supergroup TLC has seen phenomenal fame and success. But backstage, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins has lived a dual life. Read the full description. Watkins is the lead singer of the bestselling female group TLC, […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – August 2017 — The Lauras
August 1st, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways
From the exceptionally gifted, Baileys Prize–nominated author Sara Taylor comes a dazzling new novel about youth, identity, and family secrets. Read the full description. “Elegiac and beautifully observed. . . . It is such acute observations of her imaginary world that saw Taylor’s debut novel, The Shore, long listed for the Bailey’s prize, and it […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – June 2017 — Stephen Florida
June 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
“I’m pinned to the mat by this one.” —The Quivering Pen Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Read the full description. “Finely rendered, dark, and funny . . […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – May 2017 — The Radium Girls
May 1st, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways
Ordinary women in 1920s America. All they wanted was the chance to shine . . . Be careful what you wish for. 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, paintingwatches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – April 2017 — Sympathy
April 3rd, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original—a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age. Read the full description. “The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing […]
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Featured Audio Giveaway – March 2017 — The Whole Art of Detection
March 7th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways
Lyndsay Faye’s best Sherlock Holmes tales, including two new works, are brought together in The Whole Art of Detection, a stunning collection that spans Holmes’s career, from self-taught young upstart to publicly lauded detective, both before and after his faked death over a Swiss waterfall in 1894. Read the full description. “There are mysteries here and […]
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