When Alma Johansson learns she’s dying, she takes the news surprisingly well – much better than her two grown daughters, Louisa and Michelle. And when Alma starts hinting at a long-kept secret, they are even more caught off guard. Their mother’s life was an open book, so what could she possibly have kept from them?…
When Mollie awakens to find herself in a cage, she doesn’t remember how she or her sister got there, but she also discovers they are not alone in their nightmare. After their captors take her sister, Mollie vows to do whatever it takes to rescue Aida. The only problem is, she has no idea how…
What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets…
This audiobook is for listeners in search of a contemporary feminist manifesto that can lead to empowerment as well as laughs. The Betches are three millennial woman whose lifestyle and political commentary have become a digital phenomenon. Narrator Tavia Gilbert has the right amount of sass to embody the spunkiness laced throughout this call to…
In the first of a new spin-off of Frost’s Night Huntress series, Tavia Gilbert’s narration magically transports the listener to a modern-day world filled with vampires, demons, and other supernatural beings. Master vampire Ian teams up with an ancient vampire called the Law Guardian Veritas to break the demon Dagon’s claim on his soul. Ian…
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray’s latest Christmas novel in her Amish of Hart County series. It’s set to be a white Christmas in Hart County, and Grace King is pet-sitting in a beautiful home with only a difficult dachshund for company. Just as she starts to miss the…
Challenging the central place that “practices” have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries. Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses…
Welcome back to Hope River in New York Times best-selling author Patricia Harman’s newest novel as midwife Patience Hester, along with her family and friends, faces the challenges of the home front during World War II. The women of Hope River trust midwife Patience Hester, whose skill in delivering babies is known for miles…
Listeners become guests at the Merry Ghost Inn through the narration of Tavia Gilbert. Melanie and her grandmother, Liza Harris, team up to run this B&B, which has its own laughing ghost, voiced convincingly by Gilbert. When a local developer tries to build an arcade in the coastal Oregon town of Sully’s Landing, he is…
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America’s jails and prisons have a psychiatric…