Summer Listens
July 17, 2024
Looking for the perfect audiobook to accompany you while you you relax at the beach or the pool? Whether you’re looking for a thriller or romance or something in between, we have just the recommendation for you!
Written by Melissa de la Cruz
Performed by Amielynn Abellera
Published by Recorded Books
Evan Saatchi can’t keep his eyes off his new co-worker, Dalisay Ramos. Newly arrived from Manila to lead their travel app’s Asia division, nothing matters more to Dalisay than tradition and family. When Evan asks her out, she soundly rejects him for his cheek. Evan learns from his Filipino friends that Dalisay expects more from potential suitors. If he wants a chance with her, he’s going to have to go through the Five Stages: the courtship ritual that lovers in the Philippines have performed for generations.
Written by Alexandra Rowland
Performed by Casey Jones
Published by Recorded Books
A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024
For fans of Our Flag Means Death, discover low fantasy on the high seas in Alexandra Rowland’s Running Close to the Wind. Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world—and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on again, off-again ex, the pirate captain Teveri az-Haffar.
Written by B.P. Sweany
Performed by Tami Stronach
Published by Recorded Books
“Terrifically entertaining! …a whirlpool of teenage hormones, high-school life and Arthurian magic. Hilarious and engaging!” — Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
Action-packed and funny, but also serious and insightful, The Sword and the Sophomore goes beyond usual YA fantasy tropes to confront real-life teenage issues of social cliques, relationships, sexual agency, and profound personal loss. For fans of Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn Cycle.
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Written by Morgan Talty
Performed by Darrell Dennis
Published by Recorded Books
A Best Book of June at The New York Times and Chicago Review of Books
From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.
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Written by E.K. Sathue
Performed by Suzy Jackson
Published by Recorded Books
Glittering with ominous flashes of Sophia’s coming-of-rage story, former beauty editor E.K. Sathue’s horror debut is as incisive as it is stomach-churning in its portrayal of all-consuming female friendship and the beauty industry’s short attention span.
Written by Mai Corland
Performed by Jaine Ye, Greg Chun, Sophie Oda, Donald Chang, Roger Yeh, and Zion Jang
Published by Recorded Books
It’s the season for treason … The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the god king Joon. He has it coming.
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Written by Charlie Donlea
Performed by Vivienne Leheny
Published by Recorded Books
The instant New York Times bestseller
In this engrossing, masterfully twisting new thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling author, a forensics trainee learns through a DNA test that she mysteriously disappeared as a baby thirty years ago—and her life is still in danger.
Written by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan
Performed by Daniel York Loh
Published by Recorded Books
Blending traditional gong’an crime fiction with the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dee and Lao’s first adventure is as thrilling and visual as an action film, as imaginative and transportive as a timeless classic.
Praise for The Murder of Mr. Ma
Written by Tracy Wolff
Performed by Andrew B. Wehrlen and Suzy Jackson
Published by Tantor Media
The instant New York Times bestseller
The scariest school on earth is about to experience real fear . . .
Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.
Written by Stuart Turton
Performed by James Cameron Stewart
Published by Tantor Media
Solve the murder to save what’s left of the world.
Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. If the murder isn’t solved within ninety-two hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.
Written by Mailan Doquang
Performed by Cindy Kay
Published by Highbridge Audio
Seven days are all it takes for Rune Sarasin’s life to completely derail. It starts with a routine heist: lifting a pouch of rubies from the Bangkok hotel room of wealthy smuggler Charles Lemaire. Rune nearly gets caught when Lemaire’s goons give chase, but she manages to escape with her boyfriend Kit.
Written by Danny Tamberelli and Kate Tamberelli
Performed by Mara Wilson and Danny Tamberelli
Published by Highbridge Audio
Up-and-coming screenwriter Beatrix Noel’s dream project is finally a reality—her 90s-era script is in production. Less dreamy is the A-list actor in the starring role—none other than Rocco Riziero, who jilted Beatrix on New Year’s Eve back in 1999. Without his celebrity status, the project would likely still be withering on her hard drive, but that doesn’t mean Beatrix won’t shame him at every opportunity on-set—especially when it becomes painfully obvious he doesn’t even remember her.