“The Ocean in Winter is my absolute favorite kind of novel: wise, beautiful, moving, sad, rich. This magical tapestry woven from the lives of three sisters trying to reconnect to each other and themselves in the wake of their mother’s death does what the best fiction should: it makes you feel less alone on the trying, miraculous journey of being alive. I cried for the last forty pages—from joy and gratitude.” —Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family
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- The Ocean in Winter
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Read by Emily Lawrence, Rebecca Gibel, and Gabra Zackman
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Release Date: 7/06/21
Formats: Digital Audy
An unforgettable story about grief, love, and what it means to be haunted, The Ocean in Winter marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in fiction.
The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. After their mother’s suicide, the girls’ father shut down emotionally, leaving Alex responsible for caring for Colleen and little Riley. Now the girls are grown and navigating different directions. Decades may have passed, but the unresolved trauma of their mother’s death still looms over them, creating distance between the sisters.
Then, on a March night, a storm rages near the coast of northeastern Massachusetts. Alex sits alone in an old farmhouse she inherited. The lights are out because of the storm; then, an unexpected knock at the door. When Alex opens it, her beautiful younger sister stands before her. Riley has long been estranged from their family, prompting Colleen to hire the private investigator from whom they’d been awaiting news.
After her mysterious visitation, Alex and Colleen are determined to reconcile with Riley and to face their painful past.
- The Ocean in Winter
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Read by Emily Lawrence, Rebecca Gibel, and Gabra Zackman
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Release Date: 7/06/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Elysium Girls
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 4/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
From a lush, dazzlingly original new voice in YA fantasy comes an epic clash of witches, gods, and demons as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl—until the day the Dust Soldiers arrive—until the people of Elysium learn it’s all a lie. You see, there isn’t only one god. There are two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time and space and human lives.
Elysium is to become the play board in a ruthless game between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years’ time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain.
Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkerson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium’s gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and the frightened townspeople flock to this side. Sal tries to prove herself the best witch to lead Elysium, only to trigger a terrible accident that gets both her and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel.
There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile—a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, seven girls and one demon will use their gifts to create a cavalry of magic-powered scrap-metal horses to ride to Elysium’s aid. But they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium’s favor. Only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game.
- Elysium Girls
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 4/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Judd’s Vow
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 2/07/19
Formats: Digital Audy
His heart has been grounded for so long. But she’s about to give it wings.
Captain Judd Harlow is happiest in the air. It’s only when he’s flying that he can leave his childhood memories behind. But when he and his brothers find themselves the guardians of their twelve-year-old half-sister, he knows moving back to the small Montana town where he grew up is the right thing.
When Savannah Casteele learns that a local pilot has agreed to fly her and her little boy to Chicago for a long-awaited surgery, she’s overcome with gratitude. A young, single mother, her first priority has always been raising her son the best way she knows how. But when she sees Judd for the first time, she’s unprepared for the affect he has on her heart: he’s stoic, guarded, and a little out of reach, reminding her that she’s not the only one who’s trying to put aside a broken past.
As they begin falling for one another, brought together by the children in their lives, they start seeing family not just as something you’re given but something you create. And that the heart, no matter how scarred, is always capable of a tender, new beginning. But are they both willing to take a leap of faith to get there?
- Judd’s Vow
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 2/07/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Luke’s Gift
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 11/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
After serving in the army, Luke Harlow returns home in time for the holidays to help his brothers raise their twelve-year-old half sister. With his new job as Marietta’s police officer, Luke finds himself in the middle of a festive mystery that the entire town will want solved before Christmas morning.
Mary Best is Marietta Courier’s most promising young reporter. When she starts spending time with sexy Luke Harlow to write an article about his heroic military service, she begins to suspect there’s more to this new police recruit than meets the eye. He’s kind, generous, and very mysterious. When anonymous gifts start appearing around town for people in need, Mary knows there’s a story there. A magical one. It doesn’t take long for the breadcrumbs to lead right back to Luke.
As the gifts pile up, so does everyone’s urge to unmask Marietta’s secret Santa. Luke is deeply private, and Mary is deeply curious—opposites who’ll find themselves tumbling toward each other amidst the snowy backdrop of a town fully embraced in the spirit of Christmas. But when Mary uncovers Luke’s secret, will she be able to bury her reporter’s instincts for the sake of love? And will Luke finally be able to trust someone with his heart?
- Luke’s Gift
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 11/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Tanner’s Promise
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 8/02/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Tanner Harlow is a talented landscape designer, quietly building a name and a solid future when he finds himself needing to be the temporary guardian to his eleven-year-old half-sister. Tanner loves her, but he can’t see himself as a father figure or imagine how he’s going to build his business during his busiest season with a child in tow. But his newest client—his high school crush who still makes his heart pound—has a proposition that will help them both, as long as Tanner can resist the tempting lure of the girl next door.
Elementary school teacher Francie Tate moved back to Marietta to be close to her ailing father. She plans to settle in and fix up her little bungalow before the school year starts, but she definitely needs help with the neglected yard. She’s shocked when the landscaper she hired turns out to be a classmate. Tanner used to be shy in school, but he isn’t the same kid anymore—he’s tall, sexy, and has the most striking brown eyes she’s ever seen. When Francie learns of Tanner’s need for child care, she impulsively offers to watch his half-sister for the summer in return for some landscaping and renovations around the house.
It seems like a win-win, but Francie didn’t bargain on falling in love.
- Tanner’s Promise
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 8/02/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Darkness Lane
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By Thomas Kies
A Poisoned Pen Press mystery
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 6/19/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Random Road introduced Geneva Chase—“a reporter with a compelling voice, a damaged woman who recounts her own bittersweet story as she hunts down clues,” says Library Journal—to murders straight out of a nightmare—six bodies found naked and cut to ribbons in a posh Connecticut home.
Having survived this and a personal tragedy, Geneva’s story still includes alcoholism and career challenges compounded by the rocky finances of her newspaper employer. But she’s working. She’s fighting the urge to reconnect with a magnetic yet married lover. And she’s raising a rebellious young lady who is not her daughter but a cherished legacy.
Nevertheless the newshound in Geneva spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old-girl at her ward’s high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Is this same-old, same-old, or something more? And then there’s the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters—and thus, out of the news.
Out on the crime beat, Geneva works to unravel the connection, if any, between these two disparate stories while her newspaper is put up for sale, a high-flying Hollywood production lights up the town, and her personal battles accelerate. Jarring twists and turns include charming movie stars, treacherous diamond merchants, adultery, sex traffickers, and murder. While the clock ticks and Geneva works desperately to find the missing student, she comes to the horrible realization that she’s in over her head.
Darkness Lane, the second novel in the Geneva Chase Mystery Series, hurtles along at a breakneck speed where nothing is what it seems, and where art and reality collide in a terrifying climax.
- Darkness Lane
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By Thomas Kies
A Poisoned Pen Press mystery
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 6/19/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- What Matters in Mayhew
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/18/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Every town has at least one beloved, if misunderstood, eccentric, and Beanie Bradsher belongs to Mayhew Junction. Some, LouWanda Crump, for example, would call Beanie a spectacle, but Beanie just marches—and dresses—to the beat of a different drum.
Not much has changed over the years in this town. On any given morning, you’ll find the same people at the same table at the same café, and none of them have changed one iota in the past twenty years. But now Beanie Bradsher has won the lottery, and might be dating Sweet Lee Atwater’s husband. And the hometown basketball star Vesuvius Jones just got a face full of Red Velvet cake at the Trunk-or-Treat.
The gossip has never been juicier, which might just be a good thing. Lord knows this town could use a good shaking up.
- What Matters in Mayhew
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/18/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Random Road
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By Thomas Kies
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 7/11/17
Formats: Digital Audy
It’s a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless that it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase, whose career may be dying alongside that of her small-town newspaper.
The Sheffield Post headline shouts, “Cops Call Murder Scene ‘Slaughterhouse.’” On the scene, Genie spurs the deputy police chief to tell her quietly, “Six bodies … all nude … hacked to pieces.” Even tough Geneva shivers. How could such a slaughter happen on Connecticut’s moneyed Gold Coast, to privileged couples inside a historic 1898 Queen Anne mansion on the shoreline of Long Island Sound? Where is the protection afforded by the gated community and the security technology in place?
For Geneva, battling alcoholism and bad choices, writing this story is the last chance to redeem herself. She’s lost every other major news job she’s had. Working at her hometown newspaper is the end of the line—there will be nowhere else to go.
But ink still flows thick in her veins. Her story on Sheffield’s unlikely killing field is the Post’s lead, soon picked up by metro papers, and she keeps it, exposing the turbulence beneath the secrets of the rich and entitled and their ability to buy off embarrassments. She is also tracking community connections, watching a hit-and-run case disappear through a large donation, interviewing dangerous suspects, visiting a swingers club, joining cops for a burglary bust, and taking a guided tour to spot history’s underwater ghost.
All this is despite the distractions of the married man she can’t quite ditch and the sweet, shaky love affair she starts with an old high-school sweetheart. Can she keep her drinking under control and do her job well enough to keep from getting fired, finish the story, not further screw up her life—and not get killed?
Thomas Kies’ gripping first novel with its corkscrew of a plot asks, “Do things happen for a reason, or is everything random?”
- Random Road
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By Thomas Kies
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 7/11/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Spree of ’83
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By Freddy Powers and Catherine Powers, with Jake Brown
Exclusive commentary from Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/01/17
Formats: Digital Audy
The Los Angeles Times affectionately referred to Freddy Powers as the “Ol’ Blue Eyes of Country Music,” and wrote that if you were to “ask country superstars Willie Nelson, George Jones, or Merle Haggard (they’ll) … tell you that he’s one of country music’s best-kept secrets.”
The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame inductee has been to the top of the charts as both a producer for Willie Nelson’s Grammy-winning LP Over the Rainbow, and as a songwriter for many of country music legend Merle Haggard’s number one hits.
Now, for the first time, Freddy recounts the entertaining and emotional stories behind his decades-long roller coaster ride through the music business; his voyage to the top of the charts, and his inspiring battle against Parkinson’s disease. Helping Freddy tell his story are exclusive interviews from fellow country music legends Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, John Rich, Tanya Tucker, The Voice finalist and Powers’ protégé Mary Sarah, along with a host of other Nashville luminaries.
- The Spree of ’83
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By Freddy Powers and Catherine Powers, with Jake Brown
Exclusive commentary from Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 7/01/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Sisters Chase
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By Sarah Healy
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 6/27/17
Formats: Digital Audy
This is a gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother’s death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge.
The hardscrabble Chase women—Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane—have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations, inviting trouble into their lives for just as long. Eighteen-year-old Mary Chase is a force of nature: passionate, beautiful, and free-spirited. Her much younger sister, Hannah, whom Mary affectionately calls “Bunny,” is imaginative, her head full of the stories of princesses and adventures that Mary tells to give her a safe emotional place in the middle of their troubled world.
But when Diane dies in a car accident, Mary discovers the motel is worth less than the back taxes they owe. With few options, Mary’s finely tuned instincts for survival kick in. As the sisters begin a cross-country journey in search of a better life, she will stop at nothing to protect Hannah. But Mary wants to protect herself, too, for the secrets she promised she would never tell—but now may be forced to reveal—hold the weight of unbearable loss. Vivid and suspenseful, The Sisters Chase is a whirlwind page-turner about the extreme lengths one family will go to find—and hold onto—love.
- The Sisters Chase
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By Sarah Healy
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 6/27/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- No Apparent Distress
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/09/17
Formats: Digital Audy
A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk
In medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America’s medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor—and the poor suffer from their mistakes.
Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains haunted by the suicide of a close friend, experiences firsthand the heartbreak of her own errors in a patient’s care, and witnesses the ruinous effects of a hurricane on a Texas town’s medical system.
In No Apparent Distress, she chronicles her experiences and the raging disparities in a system that favors the rich and the white. This is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctor’s coming-of-age.
- No Apparent Distress
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/09/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Mississippi Noir
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Edited by Tom Franklin
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/02/16
Formats: Digital Audy
In Mississippi Noir, literary crime fiction master Tom Franklin has assembled a phenomenal short-story collection that highlights a mesmerizing and diverse set of styles and subject matter. Urban, suburban, and rural settings alike unveil new shades of darkness that fall upon Mississippi’s past and present.
Mississippi Noir features brand-new stories by Ace Atkins, William Boyle, Megan Abbott, Jack Pendarvis, Dominiqua Dickey, Michael Kardos, Jamie Paige, Jimmy Cajoleas, Chris Offutt, Michael Farris Smith, Andrew Paul, Lee Durkee, Robert Busby, John M. Floyd, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, and Mary Miller.
- Mississippi Noir
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Edited by Tom Franklin
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/02/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- St. Louis Noir
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Edited by Scott Phillips
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/02/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Edited by the bestselling author of The Ice Harvest, St. Louis Noir thickens the Midwest quotient for the Akashic Noir series.
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
In the wake of Chicago Noir, Twin Cities Noir, and Kansas City Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest Midwest installment, St. Louis Noir. Masterfully curated by Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest (adapted for film, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton), this volume will chill the listener with heartland menace.
Featuring brand new stories by Calvin Wilson, LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn, John Lutz, Paul D. Marks, Colleen J. McElroy, Jason Makansi, S. L. Coney, Michael Castro, Laura Benedict, Jedidiah Ayres, Umar Lee, Chris Barsanti, L. J. Smith, and Scott Phillips.
- St. Louis Noir
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Edited by Scott Phillips
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/02/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Silence
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Read by Rebecca Gibel and Charlie Thurston
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Release Date: 1/12/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Stella was born to sing. Someday Broadway. But everything changes when a tragic accident renders her deaf; she cannot hear, much less sing. Trapped in a strange new world of total silence, she must face not only the loss of her friends, her hopes, and her voice but also the loss of her identity and her life’s purpose. Who is she if she’s not a singer?
Hayden is a quiet loner, an outcast, and the only person Stella can communicate with; his profound stutter makes him speak so slowly, she is able to easily read his lips. As they find new ways to communicate despite their disabilities, their friendship grows into an unexpected—but welcome—romance. But is it a romance that can last if Stella regains her hearing and resumes her former life?
Alternating between Stella’s and Hayden’s points of view, Silence is a lyrical story of self-discovery, romance, and resilience, of two souls learning how to find their voices and break through the silence.
- Silence
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Read by Rebecca Gibel and Charlie Thurston
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Release Date: 1/12/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Untamed
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 12/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Alyssa Gardner went down the rabbit hole and took control of her destiny. She survived the battle for Wonderland and the battle for her heart. In this collection of three novellas, join Alyssa and her family as they look back at their memories of Wonderland. In Six Impossible Things, Alyssa recalls the most precious moments of her life after Ensnared, and the role magic plays in preserving the happiness of those she loves. In The Boy in the Web, Alyssa’s mother reminisces about her own time in Wonderland and giving up the crown to rescue the man who would become her husband. And in The Moth in the Mirror, Morpheus delves into Jeb’s memories of the events of Splintered.
- Untamed
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 12/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dead to the Last Drop
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By Cleo Coyle
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 12/01/15
Formats: Digital Audy
From the New York Times bestselling author of Once upon a Grind comes an exciting new installment in the Coffeehouse Mystery series.
Clare’s visit to the nation’s capital is off to a graceful start. Her octogenarian employer is bunking with her in a charming Georgetown mansion, and a Smithsonian curator invites her to work on its culinary salute to coffee in America.
Clare’s new Village Blend, DC is struggling to earn a profit—until it attracts a high-profile fan, the college-age daughter of the president. Clare’s stock rises as the first lady befriends her, but she soon learns a stark lesson: Washington can be murder.
First she finds a dead body in a back booth. Then the president’s daughter goes missing. Is she a runaway bride or is something more sinister in play? After another deadly twist, Clare is on the run with her NYPD detective boyfriend. Branded an enemy of the state, she must piece together clues and uncover the truth before her life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness come to a bitter end.
- Dead to the Last Drop
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By Cleo Coyle
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 12/01/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Grave Matters
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 7/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Uncovering the family tree spells trouble for Jennie McGrady.
Jennie McGrady is on the vacation of a lifetime—an extended trip to Ireland with Gram. And when the opportunity to stay in a castle arises, Jennie is ecstatic. For some reason, though, Gram doesn’t share Jennie’s enthusiasm. Then, just before their plane lands, Jennie discovers a threatening note: If you value your life, stay out of Ireland.
Helen Bradley is returning to Ireland to settle the estate of her mother—a task she’s still not ready for. An old friend offers a welcome distraction, asking Helen to look into the suspicious death of his father fifty-five years ago. But Jennie can’t help wondering if Gram’s investigation will only stir up trouble.
Mary O’Donnell, Jennie’s great-grandmother, left a houseful of history and memories when she died three years ago. As Jennie begins to explore the family records, she uncovers some facts that don’t match up with what she’s been told. What eventually comes to the surface could change their lives forever.
- Grave Matters
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 7/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Stranded
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 6/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
Has Jennie stumbled into something she’ll never escape?
Jennie McGrady is thrilled to be taking another flying lesson from Gram. But when menacing clouds roll in, Gram must take over the controls for a crash landing—and loses consciousness upon impact. Ignoring her survival instincts, Jennie leaves the plane in search of help. She ends up at a commune that appears wholesome and serene, but Jennie soon suspects something sinister.
Eric, a member of the Desert Colony, knows the ins and outs of the compound and helps Jennie search for Gram. When they return to the site of the crash, the plane—along with Gram—is missing! But when Jennie suspects someone at the colony, Eric insists there’s nothing going on. Is he really so trusting, or is he hiding something?
Donovan is the Desert Colony’s leader and claims that he’s doing everything he can to contact her family. As the days pass, however, Jennie doubts Donovan’s motives and begins to think the colony is a front for something illegal. Could he be involved in Gram’s disappearance?
- Stranded
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 6/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Forgotten
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
In many ways, Jennie McGrady is just your average high schooler—but she has a peculiar knack for stumbling upon trouble. As a result, her detective skills are first-rate.
In her latest adventure, Jennie manages to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. After witnessing a bank robbery, she is abducted by the thieves and left for dead. She wants more than anything to identify her captors for police, but she can't remember them. What's worse, remembering could prove deadly.
- Forgotten
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/15/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Abandoned
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 4/14/15
Formats: Digital Audy
A long-hidden secret comes to light …
Sixteen-year-old Jennie McGrady is a mischievous, impulsive, determined detective who sees a case in every situation. Faced with true-to-life family struggles and school concerns in addition to her perilous adventures, she will win you over with this and her numerous other adventures.
In Abandoned, a dangerous mystery shows up in the most unlikely of places: the front page of the school newspaper. When a mysterious article claims that a baby was found in a dumpster sixteen years ago, Gavin Winslow, a reporter for the school, enlists Jennie to solve the mystery. The story immediately takes a strange turn when they find out the baby found so long ago is a classmate, Annie Phillips. As Jennie begins to uncover facts, the unanswered questions about the past grow more and more confusing. Jennie can't trust anyone, and she fears that whoever is orchestrating these events might go to any lengths to keep a secret safe.
- Abandoned
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 4/14/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ensnared
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 1/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves, even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles … and even if the only way to Wonderland, now that the rabbit hole is closed, is through the looking-glass world—a parallel dimension filled with mutated and violent netherling outcasts.
In the final installment of the wildly popular Splintered trilogy, Alyssa and her dad journey into the heart of magic and mayhem in search of her mom and to set right all that's gone wrong. Together with Jeb and Morpheus, they must salvage Wonderland from the decay and destruction that has ensnared it. But if they succeed and come out alive, can everyone truly have their happily ever after?
- Ensnared
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 1/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Of Neptune
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By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/13/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Emma and Galen's kingdom—and their love—is threatened by long-lost Syrena in the brilliant conclusion to Anna Banks' bestselling trilogy.
Emma, half human and half Syrena, and her Syrena love, Galen, need time together—alone. Away from the kingdoms of Poseidon and Triton. Emma's grandfather, the Poseidon king, suggests the two visit a small town called Neptune.
Neptune is home to both Syrena and Half-Breeds alike. But Emma and Galen didn't sign up to be peacemakers between the ocean and the land-dwelling, freshwater Syrena. They didn't bargain for meeting a charming Half-Breed named Reed, who can barely disguise his feelings for Emma. And they especially didn't expect to find themselves in the middle of a power struggle that threatens not only their love but their ocean kingdoms.
In this stunning conclusion to her bestselling Syrena Legacy, Anna Banks thrills fans with more action and romance than ever.
- Of Neptune
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By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/13/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Unhinged
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 1/07/14
Formats: Digital Audy
Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to do is graduate high school.
That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn't show up at school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs.
Could she leave Jeb and her parents behind again, for the sake of a man she knows has manipulated her before? Will her mother and Jeb trust her to do what's right? Listeners will swoon over the satisfying return to Howard's bold, sensual reimagining of Carroll's classic.
- Unhinged
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 1/07/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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- What We Lost in the Dark
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 12/17/13
Formats: Digital Audy
Allie Kim's deathly allergy to sunlight, XP, still confines her to the night. Now that she's lost her best friend Juliet to an apparent suicide, the night has never felt darker—even with Rob at her side.
Allie knows why Juliet killed herself: to escape the clutches of Garrett Tabor, whom the trio saw committing an unspeakable crime. Garrett is untouchable; the Tabors founded the world-famous XP clinic that keeps Allie and Rob alive and their small Minnesota town on the map. Allie can't rest until Garrett is brought to justice, but her obsession jeopardizes everything she holds dear. Not even training for Parkour can distract her; nothing reminds her more that Juliet is gone. So, when Rob introduces Allie to the wildly dangerous sport of nighttime deep diving, Allie assumes he's only trying to derail her investigation—until they uncover the terrible secret Garrett Tabor has hidden under Lake Superior.
- What We Lost in the Dark
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 12/17/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Of Triton
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By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/28/13
Formats: Digital Audy
Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess and now struggles with an identity crisis. As a half-breed, she's a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm. Syrena law states that all half-breeds should be put to death.
As if that's not bad enough, her mother's reappearance in the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms—Poseidon and Triton—against one another. That leaves Emma with a decision to make: Should she comply with Galen's request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? Or should she risk it all and reveal herself—and her gift—to save a people she's never known?
Once again, Anna Banks infuses Emma and Galen's points of view with humor, intrigue, and waves of romance.
- Of Triton
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By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/28/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- City of Fading Light
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By Jon Cleary
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/20/13
Formats: Digital Audy
The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe. Cathleen O'Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. But that is not the real purpose of her visit. She is in Berlin to trace her missing mother. As Europe plunges towards war, we become enthrallingly involved in Cathleen's story—and the story of Admiral Canaris, as he agonizes over a secret he has uncovered; of an English aristocrat who was once one of Hitler's favorites, and now tries to battle against her disillusion; of General von Albern as he plans to assassinate Hitler; of the General's son Helmut and his war-threatened romance with an English actress, Melissa Hayes. All this we see through the eyes of Sean Carmody, the boy from the Australian bush who has lost his innocence amidst the politics and ambitions of Nazi Germany.
- City of Fading Light
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By Jon Cleary
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/20/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Splintered
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/14/13
Formats: Digital Audy
This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of Underland, as well as a girl's pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.
When her mother's mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice's tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice's mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.
- Splintered
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By A. G. Howard
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/14/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Strangelets
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 4/09/13
Formats: Digital Audy
Six smarter-than-most teens wake up in the same hospital after having experienced a traumatic event that they can't quite remember … other than being forcibly sucked into an abyss at the moment of their deaths. With individual clocks ticking—and with each guarding an individual secret—they band together and conspire to piece together the whole of what happened.
- Strangelets
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 4/09/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Abduction!
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By Peg Kehret
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 2/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use the bathroom—and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed with fear, Bonnie discovers that her dog is gone, too. Was Pookie used as a lure for Matt? Bonnie makes one big mistake in her attempt to find her brother. In a chilling climax on a Washington State ferry, Bonnie and Matt must outsmart their abductor or pay with their lives.- Abduction!
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By Peg Kehret
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 2/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Who Done It?
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By Jon Scieszka
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 2/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
When the world's most horrible editor turns up dead, investigator Jon Scieszka has his work cut out for him. The suspect list is long. Very long. Think eighty-three-famous-YA-authors long, including Libba Bray, David Levithan, John Green, Lemony Snicket, Lauren Myracle—you get the picture. They've all got alibis, collected in this very anthology. But the question is … Who done it?- Who Done It?
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By Jon Scieszka
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 2/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- What We Saw at Night
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 1/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP, an allergy to sunlight, with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid sports, and forbidden love. Allie, who can never see the light of day, discovers she’s the lone key to stopping a human monster.
- What We Saw at Night
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 1/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Things I Want to Punch in the Face
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 10/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
Jennifer Worick had a bad day. And then a bad week. She channeled her aggravation into creating the blog Things I Want to Punch in the Face, which became a sensation. Although her bad week passed, she has continued to take note of the little irritations that torment us all daily, from old guys with ponytails to twenty-minute coffee prep, bizspeak to vanity plates, celebrity baby names to emoticons. Now, just in time for the holiday season, the book showcases more than one hundred of Worick's most punch-worthy aggravations, rated on a scale of one to five fists. She rants, she vents, and she amuses with little factoids about the things that annoy the crap out of us. In short, she has created a hilarious gift book that has something for everyone to hate, from the last swig of beer, to mashups, to Ed Hardy clothing, to packing tape.- Things I Want to Punch in the Face
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Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 10/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Of Poseidon
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By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
Emma and her friend Chloe are spending their vacation in Florida. When Emma literally runs into a hot guy named Galen on the beach, little does she know he's a prince of the Syrena. Galen and Emma both feel something strange—is it attraction?—and Galen suspects that Emma might well be the girl he's heard of—a human who can communicate with fish. What follows is a deadly scene with a shark in which Galen witnesses Emma's gifts. He must know more about her, and follows her back to New Jersey, and high school, to find out for sure if she's the key to saving his kingdom. Soon, Emma can't deny her feelings for him, but she can't explain them either—and both she and Galen must learn more about where she comes from and what her powers are before they can trust one another and their feelings.
Told from both Emma and Galen's points of view, here is a fish-out-of-water story that sparkles with intrigue, humor, and waves of romance.
- Of Poseidon
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By Anna Banks
Read by Rebecca Gibel
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Release Date: 5/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy