April showers bring May flowers…and new audiobooks! Here are our top titles that released this month. 

Outlander

Written by Diana Gabaldon
Performed by Kristin Atherton
Published by Recorded Books

New audiobook edition of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander with narration by Kristin Atherton

Basis for the Starz original TV series

Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages.

 

 

Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend

Written by Jason Bailey
Performed by Edoardo Ballerini
Published by Recorded Books

Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by the AV Club

A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini from a prominent critic and film historian. Based on extensive research and original reporting, including interviews with friends and collaborators, Gandolfini is a detailed and nuanced appraisal of an enduring artist.

 

 

 

Slow Down, Busy Bee

Written by Trevor James
Performed by Jane Wing
Published by Recorded Books

Audiobook includes sound effects and music

Set in calm and cozy Honeybee Meadow, Slow Down, Busy Bee is a series of six, interconnected short stories thoughtfully designed to introduce the concepts of mindfulness and mental wellness to kids, families, and classrooms.

 

 

 

 

The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles

Written by Aimee Boorman with Steve Cooper
Performed by Aimee Boorman
Published by Recorded Books

“The Balance will be a must-read for any gymnastics fan.” ―Nancy Armour, USA Today Sports

From Paris Olympics star and legendary gymnast Simone Biles’s longtime coach, an insider’s look at the making of a champion. With a Foreword by Simone Biles.

 

 

 

 

100 Years of Grand Ole Opry

Written by The Members of the Grand Ole Opry and Craig Shelburne
Performed by Matt Godfrey and Terri Clark
Published by Recorded Books

Audiobook includes music and interview clips with Opry stars!

The official book celebrating 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry—an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the American institution and world-renowned stage for country music.

 

 

 

 

I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During, and After the Ramones

Written by Richie Ramone with Peter Aaron
Performed by Richie Ramone
Published by Recorded Books

It’s 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral. Following a run of inconsistent albums and deep in the throes of internal tensions, the legendary quartet is about to crash and burn. Enter Richie Ramone. With the Ramones, he performs over five hundred shows at venues all around the world and records three storming studio albums—before abruptly quitting the band and going deep underground. To most fans, this crucial figure in the band’s history has remained a mystery, his tale untold. Until now. 

 

 

 

Futbolista

Written by Jonny Garza Villa
Performed by Robb Moreira
Published by Recorded Books

A classmates-to-friends-to-lovers romance that’s equal parts raunchy, heartfelt, queer, and Mexican-American, centered on college futbol (the REAL football)!  A sports romance for those who keep rewatching Bend It Like Beckham and rereading Red, White & Royal Blue and the incredible collection of queer soc—football romances out there, Futbolista follows the first semester of one guy’s freshman year of college, navigating who he is, who he’s allowed to be, and who he wants to be.

 

 

 

My Return to the Walter Boys

Written by Ali Novak
Performed by Renée Chambliss
Published by Tantor

The highly anticipated sequel to My Life with the Walter Boys, the internationally bestselling novel that inspired the Netflix series!

Jackie Howard returns to the Walter ranch after a summer in New York. She needed space―and got it. But she doesn’t know where things stand with her and Cole Walter after that goodbye kiss. Over the summer, she stopped texting him. She never stopped thinking about him.

 

 

 

The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World

Written by Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Performed by Samantha Desz
Published by Tantor

“A substantial and engaging biography that contributes significantly to the history of jazz in the United States.” ― Library Journal

In The Master of Drums, biographer Elizabeth J. Rosenthal crafts a celebratory, honest, and exhaustively researched portrait of a twentieth-century music legend. When he died, Gene Krupa may have left behind a world of grieving friends, colleagues, fans, students, and progeny, but as The Master of Drums proves, his dynamic musical and cultural influences live on.

 

 

 

 

A Town with Half the Lights On

Written by Page Getz
Performed by Hillary Huber
Published by Tantor

Told through diary entries, emails, school notes, and an anonymous town paper of the Lady Whistledown variety, A Town with Half the Lights On is a tender testament to the notions that home isn’t just the place you live, family isn’t just your relatives, and it’s almost never easy to find the courage to do what’s right.

 

 

 

 

Glitter in the Dark

Written by Olesya Lyuzna
Performed by Amber Dekkers
Published by Highbridge

“Quick-paced and action-packed.” ― Booklist

Ambitious advice columnist Ginny Dugan knows she’s capable of more than solving other people’s beauty problems, but her boss at Photoplay magazine thinks she’s only fit for fluff pieces. When she witnesses the kidnapping of a famous singer at Harlem’s hottest speakeasy, nobody takes her seriously, but Ginny knows what she saw—and what she saw haunts her.

 

 

 

 

The Sea Gives Up the Dead

Written by Molly Olguín
Performed by Heather Kay Ling
Published by Highbridge

Indies Introduce Selection

A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son’s grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.

 

 

 

The Sundowner’s Dance

Written by Todd Keisling
Performed by Malcolm Hillgartner
Published by Highbridge

In The Sundowner’s Dance, an elderly widower relocates to a retirement community and discovers his new neighbors are worshipping a meteorite.

 

 

 

 

Holy Hurt

Written by Hillary L. McBride, PhD
Performed by Hillary L. McBride, PhD
Published by Christian Audio

Too often the institutions and communities that are meant to be the most holy in our lives end up deeply hurting us. In Holy Hurt, clinical psychologist Hillary L. McBride sends a sincere and profound message: spiritual trauma is real and impacts us all. She also reassures us that we can remake ourselves and heal in its aftermath.

 

 

 

 

Nailing It

Written by Nicole Massie Martin
Performed by Nicole Massie Martin
Published by Christian Audio

In this transformative resource for leaders of all ages, Nicole Massie Martin inspires us to crucify our ministry idols and nail our outdated leadership practices to the cross. Sharing leadership principles and case studies wrapped in biblical precepts and pastoral wisdom, she leads us through seven areas of traditional leadership that need to be reframed: Power, Ego, Speed, Performance, Perfection, Loyalty, and Scale.

 

 

 

To Save and to Destroy

Written by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Performed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Published by Dreamscape

“An essential addition for collections about the process and theory of writing.” ― Library Journal, starred review

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

 

 

 

Sweet Obsession: (Dark Olympus, Book 8)

Written by Katee Robert
Performed by Will Watt and Alex Moorcock
Published by Dreamscape

He was mine to protect. Mine to adore. Mine to lose forever.

A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Poseidon and Icarus.

 

 

 

 

The Arrogant One

Written by Marni Mann
Performed by Aiden Snow and Vanessa Edwin
Published by Dreamscape Select

A sizzling one-night-stand, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …

I’m the arrogant one. She’s the woman who could tame me. What I don’t expect is to fall in love.

 

 

 

 

House of Flame and Shadow, Part 2 of 2 (Crescent City, Book 3)

Written by Sarah J. Maas
Performed by a full cast
Published by GraphicAudio

In this sexy, breathtaking sequel to the #1 bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas’s Crescent City series reaches new heights as Bryce and Hunt’s world is brought to the brink of collapse-with its future resting on their shoulders.

 

 

 

 

Scenes From An Unholy War (Vampire Hunter D, Volume 20)

Written by Yoshitaka Amano and Hideyuki Kikuchi
Performed by a full cast
Published by GraphicAudio

In a village on the edge of the Frontier, D is among the warriors and mercenaries hired to defend the village from the Black Death, a notorious bandit gang. But the bandits don’t arrive, and the village mayor dismisses the mercenaries. As D leaves the scene, he’s struck by “sunlight syndrome”—the deadly ailment unique to dhampirs!