The Brightest Embers

Tavia Gilbert narrates as the last of Frost’s Broken Destiny trilogy spirals towards its end. Gilbert modulates Ivy’s strong character in a firm yet feminine voice, while her love, Adrian, has a raw, smoky timbre suggesting a dark yet immensely sexy counterpoint. Gilbert ensures that the listener hears and feels the sparks between these two…

The Gift

The Schwartz family is happy to be spending Christmas on their new farm in Hart County. But when Susanna Schwartz hears gunshots that cause her buggy to overturn, and then her little sister falls through a wooden bridge into an icy creek, it becomes clear from these dangerous “accidents” that someone wants the family gone.…

Catalina

Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends (childhood…

Second Hand Curses

Hayes’s delightfully reimagined fairy tales get a theatrical presentation that makes this audiobook most entertaining. Fairies are renowned for granting mortals’ dearest wishes—but the price is usually painfully high. Enter the Bastard Champions, a trio of scoundrels portrayed by Scott Aiello, Marc Vietor, and Tavia Gilbert. They will perform any task as long as their…

A Soldier of Shadows

The vision Benjamin had of himself as an infant could hold the answers he desperately seeks. Answers about his past. Answers that are key to solving his dilemma in the present. But perhaps he should stop to consider that not all answers are welcome.

Twinkle and Chubbins

Twinkle and Chubbins is a collection of short children’s stories written by L. Frank Baum, but published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The stories included in the collection are: “Mr. Woodchuck”, “Bandit Jim Crow”, “Prairie-Dog Town”, “Prince Mud-Turtle”, “Twinkle’s Enchantment”, and “Sugar-Loaf Mountain”.   “Mr. Woodchuck” involves Twinkle discovering the cruelty of animal traps,…

Thirsty

On what should be a romantic trip to California wine country, Babe realizes there’s something off with her new lust-at-first-sight lover, Jack – something she can’t get past, even with all his inherited wealth. So she decides to take matters into her own hands and toss him to the curb to enjoy the rest of…

A Stranger in the House

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can’t account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart.   You’re home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second.   The phone rings – it’s…

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the 20th-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When…

On Revolution

Political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s exploration of the modern meaning and development of the concept of revolution shows the theorist at her most incisive. Tavia Gilbert’s fast-paced narration of this study goes far to support the listener, who should put aside any secondary activity to give full attention this work. Arendt’s intricate discussion is made in…