Narrator Tavia Gilbert’s earnest, forceful alto voice captures the warring emotions and heightened stakes in Alvie Fitz’s daily life. Between uncomfortable interactions with people who don’t understand her, rewarding encounters with animals in her work, and a budding friendship with a promising stranger, Alvie’s journey is complex, painful, and intense. Steiger blends first-person narration and…
Elegantly written and profoundly moving, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast’s reputation as a “new young American voice for the ages” (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake, even…
In 1918, the Bright family moves to Philadelphia to take over the family funeral business. As they settle in, the great Spanish flu epidemic strikes, and death is everywhere. The story is told through the points of view of the women in the family. Tavia Gilbert as Pauline, the mother, is quietly accepting of the…
It’s fitting that an audiobook about five girls is delivered by five diverse narrators. Tavia Gilbert, Soneela Nankani, Sophie Amoss, Nicol Zanzarella, and Emily Woo tell the story of Nita, Kayla, Isabel, Dina, and Siobhan, who become stranded on an island with no adults while attending Camp Forevermore. While the tragedy that happens there is…
The war is over. But the scars remain. Emily’s New Learning has been good for Beneficence. In the years since she arrived on the Nameless World, the city has been at the forefront of technological advancement and social development. Thousands of newcomers are moving to the city, railways span the gorge and drive into…
New York Times best-selling author Laura Griffin “delivers the goods” (Publishers Weekly) again with this gripping, “spellbinding” (Fresh Fiction) thriller full of twists and turns – the 12th in her best-selling Tracers series. When crime scene investigator Brooke Porter arrives at the home of a murdered woman, the only thing more shocking than the…
The story of the “Lentil Underground” begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America’s Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to “get big or get out.” But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to…
Their past is not what they think it is . . . Thrown back in time after the spells binding Whitehall School together nearly collapsed, Emily finds herself in the days of Lord Whitehall. But everything she knows about the past is a lie. The Whitehall Commune is in hiding from a great and…
In this latest short story collection by the celebrated 79-year-old author Joyce Carol Oates, all three narrators read with tempered voices. Their no-frills deliveries capture the tension and hard realities of these modern tales of infidelity, deception, and broken dreams. Oates has never been easy on her characters or her audiences. She has always searched…
What’s the audiobook equivalent of a page-turner? That’s what narrator Tavia Gilbert delivers in this mystery, in which two girls disappear from a strip mall parking lot. The desperate search for them brings together Max Caplan, a former police detective, now a P.I, and prickly Alice Vega, a bounty hunter who has earned a reputation…