School’s out! The sun is shining! Summer is here! Here are June’s top audiobook releases to accompany you on those summer adventures!

My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free

Written by Laura Carney

Performed by Laura Carney

Published by Recorded Books

Killed in a car crash when Laura was twenty-five, her father seemed lost forever. My Father’s List is the story of how one woman—with the help of family, friends, and even strangers—found the courage to go after her own dreams after realizing those of a beloved yet mysterious man.

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The Making of Yolanda la Bruja

Written by Lorraine Avila

Performed by Lorraine Avila

Published by Recorded Books

The Making of Yolanda la Bruja is the book this country, struggling with the plague of gun violence, so desperately needs, but which few could write. Here Lorraine Avila brings a story born from the intersection of race, justice, education, and spirituality that will capture readers everywhere.

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Anger Bang

Written by Avery Flynn

Performed by Kirsten Leigh and Lance Greenfield

Published by Recorded Books

Shy paleontologist Thea Pope just wants to get through her sister’s ’80s-themed monstrosity of a TV reality-show wedding so she can get to her summer field work. The only problem? Her sister has turned into the ultimate bridezilla – as in pink parasols, organza hats, forcing people to shave and dye their hair levels of over-the-top, it’s-my-day antics – all while on location in a place literally called hell that reeks of sulfur and lost hopes.

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The Secret Summer Promise

Written by Keah Brown

Performed by Tamika Katon-Donegal

Published by Recorded Books

Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don’t tell them that), she’s going to live it up.

There’s just one thing that could ruin it: Her best friend, Hailee, finding out Andrea’s true feelings. So Andrea WILL fall out of love with Hailee – even if it means dating the cute boy George who keeps showing up everywhere with a smile.

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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

Written by Jane Smiley

Performed by Jane Smiley

Published by Recorded Books

One of California’s leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005’s best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel.

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Off Limits: A Bedlam Butchers MC Romance

Written by Ruby Dixon

Performed by Hollie Jackson

Published by Tantor Audio

A must-listen biker romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ruby Dixon. Lucky . . . isn’t. In fact, she’s considered ‘off limits’ to the Bedlam Butchers because she’s caused them nothing but bad luck in the past. As a bonus? She’s also the president’s kid sister. Single and lonely? That’s Lucky’s way of life. Now, the Eighty-Eight Henchmen are harassing her and they’re out for blood.

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Mountains Made of Glass

Written by Scarlett St. Clair

Performed by Javi Wilder and Lulu Russell

Published by Tantor Audio

All Gesela’s life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn’t a single curse—it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences. When Elk’s well goes dry, it is Gesela’s turn to save her town by killing the toad that lives at the bottom. Except . . . the toad is not a toad at all. He is an Elven prince under a curse of his own, and upon his death, his brothers come for Gesela, seeking retribution.

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