“Although this novel is a light read, it alludes to deeper issues of confidence, loss, independence, and trust that give it some unexpected heft. [A] satisfying twin-swap tale with a sweet love story at its center.” —Kirkus Reviews
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- The Duplicate Bride
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By Ginny Baird
Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 9/29/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Fans of Debbie Macomber and Susan Mallery will fall in love with NYT bestselling author Ginny Baird’s hilarious and unique take on weddings.
Hotel magnate Brent Albright is poised to marry a woman he’s not totally wild about purely for business reasons. His betrothed, busy wedding planner Jackie Webb, has an equally impersonal agenda. But when the wedding week arrives, Brent’s surprised to learn that his brassy bride-to-be has an addictively warm, soft, and funny side. She not only charms his family, his fiancée captures his heart in a way he never thought possible. Suddenly marriage sounds a whole lot better…
Hope Webb has spent her entire life getting her twin sister Jackie out of fixes, and now Jackie’s in the biggest fix of all. She can’t eke out enough time to attend her own pre-wedding parties in beautiful Blue Hill, Maine. What starts out as a favor to impersonate the bride-to-be for one event turns into an all-week affair…and saying “I do.” Hope has helplessly fallen for the groom, and he’s fallen for her, but when the ruse inevitably unravels, she’ll lose the marriage—and the man—she’s always wanted.- The Duplicate Bride
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By Ginny Baird
Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 9/29/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Home for Wounded Hearts
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Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 1/15/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Faith Neilson, survivor of an abusive marriage, has finally discovered her life’s passion. She’s established a shelter for women in crisis—not only for homeless women, but also for those who are suffering from abuse, dealing with addiction, or coping with grief over the loss of a loved one. Faith’s mission, when she opens her doors, is to help the residents mend their broken hearts. In the midst of that challenge, she struggles to find additional funding to keep her program afloat while balancing the demands of career and home.
This stand-alone spin-off of the bestselling Sweeney Sisters series presents a cast of memorable characters: Tilda, who is convinced she has Alzheimer’s; Molly, a street-smart homeless woman who has an endearing childlike quality; Caroline, whose gardening hobby has become an obsession since the death of her son; and Jenny, a young woman whose anger at her husband for having an affair with her best friend has spiraled out of control.
Join these women in their day-to-day lives as they endeavor to move from uncertainty toward independence. When the actions of a young resident’s abusive stepfather threaten the residents’ lives as well as the future of the shelter, tension mounts and bonds of friendship are tested in a dramatic conclusion.
- Home for Wounded Hearts
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Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 1/15/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Lonesome Bodybuilder
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Translated by Asa Yoneda
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 11/06/18
Formats: Digital Audy
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique―which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon―until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room―and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her husband’s features are beginning to slide around his face―to match her own.
In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien―and, through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers.
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder
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Translated by Asa Yoneda
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 11/06/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- We, the Jury
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/30/18
Formats: Digital Audy
“We, the Jury has what most legal thrillers lack—total authenticity, which is spellbinding.” —James Patterson
On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife’s skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder—or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense.
Told from the perspective of over a dozen participants in a murder trial, We, the Jury examines how public perception can mask the ghastliest nightmares. As the jurors stagger toward a verdict, they must sift through contradictory testimony from the Sullingers’ children, who disagree on which parent was Satan; sort out conflicting allegations of severe physical abuse, adultery, and incest; and overcome personal animosities and biases that threaten a fair and just verdict. Ultimately, the central figures in We, the Jury must navigate the blurred boundaries between bias and objectivity, fiction and truth.
- We, the Jury
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/30/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Silver Screen Kisses
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By Janette Rallison, Heather Tullis, Rachelle J. Christensen, Cami Checketts, and Lucy McConnell
Read by Ann Richardson, Tanya Eby, Christine Williams, Erica Sullivan, and Caroline Shaffer
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Release Date: 3/20/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Silver Screen Kisses is a collection of stories inspired by movies that are on every favorite-movie list. Written by award-winning and bestselling authors, these contemporary romances take the reader back to Echo Ridge in the spring, when the promise of new love is budding just like the tulips around the Emerald Inn Bed & Breakfast.
In “My Fair Lacey” by Janette Rallison, we hear the story of Lacey, who has dreamed of opening a restaurant for years—but first she needs a loan. When Garrett Halifax, her roommate’s Harvard-educated brother, offers to help her clean up her appearance and manner to impress the bank manager, she jumps at the chance—but will she be able to keep up appearances without falling for the sexy Garrett?
“The Princess Bride of Riodan” by Rachelle J. Christensen is the story of Elise, who accepts the help of a good-looking stranger in redecorating her old bed & breakfast. When she finds out who he is, she doesn’t know whether to curtsy or run and hide—but her heart is already tangled up with the handsome prince. Will she chase the fairy-tale ending or choose her high school sweetheart and stay grounded in reality?
The anthology also includes “You’ve Got Email” by Heather Tullis, a story of sexy mistaken identity and online romance; “My Best Man’s Wedding” by Cami Checketts, in which a fake fiancé becomes a real lover; and “While You Were Skiing” by Lucy McConnell, the tale of a handsome skier with a head injury who thinks the beautiful hostess of the ski lodge is his fiancée—so of course, she plays along.
- Silver Screen Kisses
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By Janette Rallison, Heather Tullis, Rachelle J. Christensen, Cami Checketts, and Lucy McConnell
Read by Ann Richardson, Tanya Eby, Christine Williams, Erica Sullivan, and Caroline Shaffer
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Release Date: 3/20/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dead in the Water
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Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 1/30/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Featuring the beloved Scumble River setting and characters, Dead in the Water is a gripping mystery that won’t let you go until you’ve turned the last page.
A twister, a kidnapping, and a murder―oh my! Scumble River may never be the same.
For school psychologist Skye Denison, there’s certainly no place like home. When a violent tornado devastates her small hometown of Scumble River, she can’t see how the community will ever recover―especially since town councilman Zeke Lyons appears to have perished in the twister.
But things get even worse for Skye when her police chief husband, Wally, disappears in the midst of investigating Zeke’s death, and evidence arises pointing to foul play. Did Zeke really die in the storm, or was he murdered? And could Wally be next on the criminal’s hit list?
- Dead in the Water
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Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 1/30/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Greasy Grass
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 1/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Johnny D. Boggs turns the battlefield itself into a character in this historical retelling of Custer’s Last Stand, when George Custer led most of his command to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana in 1876.
More than forty first-person narratives are used—Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women—to paint a panorama of the battle itself.
Boggs brings the events and personalities of the Battle of the Little Bighorn to life in a series of first-hand accounts.
- Greasy Grass
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 1/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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When Mona Lisa Cicciarelli is left at the altar by Joey and his overbearing mother, Alice, Mona Lisa wonders what will be worse—the pitying stares from her friends and family or her parents’ renewed obsession with the age of her ovaries and impending spinsterhood. Her father, Chick, tries to fix her up the day after she is jilted with the handsome, Italian-Catholic Dante Coletti, and it’s then that Mona Lisa realizes her sanity is at risk. She needs to make a big change, and when she’s offered a job opportunity in Atlanta, she consults Noni, her eccentric grandmother—and closest confidante—who gives her the push she needs.
Despite Chick’s protests that she is abandoning the family, Mona Lisa escapes to the south where she moves in with overly compassionate southern belle roommate Brightleigh and sarcastic, New York transplant Amy. She enjoys the south, but her social life is a series of disasters and Mona Lisa wonders if she will ever live happily married after.
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- When Tides Turn
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By Sarah Sundin
Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 3/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
When fun-loving glamour girl Quintessa Beaumont learns that the Navy has established the WAVES program for women, she enlists, determined to throw off her frivolous ways and contribute to the war effort.
No-nonsense Lieutenant Dan Avery, hoping to make admiral, has been using his skills to fight German U-boats. The last thing he wants to see on his radar is a girl like Tess.
For her part, Tess works hard to prove her worth in the Antisubmarine Warfare Unit in Boston—both to her commanding officers and to the man with whom she is smitten.
When Dan is assigned to a new escort carrier at the peak of the Battle of the Atlantic, he is torn between his lifelong career goals and his desire to help Tess root out a possible spy on shore. The Germans put up quite a fight, but he wages a deeper battle within his heart. Could Tess be the one for him?
Sarah Sundin carries listeners through the rough waters of love in a time when every action might have unforeseen world-changing consequences.
- When Tides Turn
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By Sarah Sundin
Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 3/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Violated
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/07/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards—a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field—and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display. The Violated is no exception.
In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has no easy solution.
Pronzini cleverly unfolds the case through alternating perspectives—Martin Torrey’s wife, caught between her grief and the fear her husband was guilty; the outraged husbands of the women violated; the enterprising editor of the local paper; the mayor concerned most with his own ratings; the detectives, often spinning in circles—until a surprising break leads to a completely unexpected conclusion. The Violated is Bill Pronzini at the height of his storytelling powers.
- The Violated
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/07/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Blue Hour
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 2/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways.
The housecleaner rediscovering her sexual appetite, the farrier who must take in his traumatized niece, the grocer and her daughter, the therapist and the teacher, reaching out to the world in new and surprising ways, and the ragged couple trapped in a cycle of addiction and violence. They will all rise and converge upon the blue hour—the l’heure bleu—the hour of twilight, a time of desire, lust, honesty. The strong, spirited people of Blue Moon Mountain must learn to navigate the line between violence and sex, tenderness and the hard edge of yearning, and the often confusing paths of mourning and lust.
Writing with passion for rural lives and the natural world, Laura Pritchett, who has been called “one of the most accomplished writers of the American West,” graces the land of desire in vivid prose, exploring the lengths these moving, deeply felt characters—some of whom we’ve met in Pritchett’s previous work—will traverse to protect their own.
- The Blue Hour
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 2/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Kisses between the Lines
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By Rachelle J. Christensen, Lucy McConnell, Cami Checketts, Heather Tullis, and Connie E. Sokol
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Release Date: 8/09/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Welcome to Echo Ridge, New York, where romance finds its way into the lives of the people who walk the streets of the close-knit community. In these five novellas, listeners will experience the power a book has to change a life, make dreams come true, and bring two hearts together.
The Kiss Thief by Rachelle J. Christensen
The old Echo Ridge library is in desperate need of a renovation. Librarian Britta Klein’s heart refuses to be swayed by musician Milo Geissler and his irresistible dimpled smile. But when he helps her find a key classic book, Britta wonders if there is more to life than books and order.
The Lion, the Witch & the Library by Lucy McConnell
Jennifer Solomon’s birthday wish is to have the one person she’s been too shy to go after: Kirke Staples, her best friend. Friend, as in don’t fall in love with the man. But it’s too late. In her efforts to win Kirke’s heart, Jennifer is forced to decide what type of woman she wants to be.
The Last of the Gentlemen by Cami Checketts
Working nights and struggling through life, Emma Turner doesn’t leave much time for romance. But when her son’s good-looking lacrosse coach takes an interest in her children, Emma has to fight off desire and banish her daydreams. If only she could tell that to her heart.
Much Ado about a Kiss by Heather Tullis
The one thing Fay doesn’t need right now is a guy in her life—especially her brother’s irritating best friend from high school, whose kiss made her heart flutter. Why does he have to upset her just-fine world? Not this time. Not if she can help it. But can she?
Pride & Persuasion by Connie E. Sokol
Lindy Marchant is roped into the Echo Ridge library fundraiser to become an assistant for Armand D. Beaumont, a bestselling detective writer. While Armand inadvertently assists Lindy with the shop, she uncovers his painful truth and an inconvenient growing attraction.
- Kisses between the Lines
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By Rachelle J. Christensen, Lucy McConnell, Cami Checketts, Heather Tullis, and Connie E. Sokol
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Release Date: 8/09/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Christmas Kisses
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By Lucy McConnell, Cami Checketts, Rachelle J. Christensen, Connie E. Sokol, and Heather Tullis
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Release Date: 7/28/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Christmas Kisses is a collection from five bestselling and award-winning authors. Set in the snowy town of Echo Ridge in upstate New York, these inspirational romances are sure to delight while you sip cocoa by the fire and listen to Christmas carols.
The Candy Counter Heiress by Lucy McConnell
Someday Reese Gates will own the Candy Counter at Kenworth’s. Unfortunately for Reese, even the best laid plans can melt like chocolate.
Christmas Makeover by Cami Checketts
When Chelsea Jamison realizes she’s fallen for her best friend, she wonders if there is any hope of a relationship with Drew or if she’s stuck in buddy status for life.
Hope for Christmas by Rachelle J. Christensen
Just as Anika Fletcher’s fragile soul begins to feel hope again, an ill-timed act of charity changes everything and Anika isn’t sure who she can trust or if hope is worth nurturing.
Soda Fountain Christmas by Connie E. Sokol
Keira Kenworth has one focus this holiday season: to save her father’s old-time department store from bankruptcy—not to dwell on Tayton Wells, the tall, dark, and genius marketing guru hired to make it happen.
One Winter Night by Heather Tullis
Jonah Owens needs to sell his grandmother’s house—which would be easier if his neighbor didn’t have all those farm animals. Kaya Fiedler’s family has owned their land for nearly a hundred years—and there’s no way she’s giving up the animal therapy business she’s been struggling to make profitable.
- Christmas Kisses
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By Lucy McConnell, Cami Checketts, Rachelle J. Christensen, Connie E. Sokol, and Heather Tullis
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Release Date: 7/28/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Erotica Book Club for Nice Ladies
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Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 1/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Lily, a librarian with a bookmobile, arrives in the small California town of Nolan to help start a book club. Across the ocean in an Alsatian chateau, the ancient Book of Cures is stolen and surreptitiously travels to a California coast library, then on to Nolan. Suspicion swirls around the three lonely club members. Unaware of the theft, they secretly pursue their curiosity about classical erotica while sipping a strange tea infused with herbs grown in a gypsy garden. Mysterious events collide in a whirlwind of intrigue. A crime wave and a murder shake up the town, and the women fall deeper and deeper into a baffling puzzle of danger and death.
- The Erotica Book Club for Nice Ladies
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Read by Tanya Eby
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Release Date: 1/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy