Narrator Tavia Gilbert takes listeners on a difficult journey in the voice of Roshen, a 16-year-old Muslim Uyghur from rural China who is forced to leave her family to work in a factory thousands of miles away. Roshen’s fear and horror at her new life are skillfully conveyed by Gilbert; her tone and characterization perfectly…
Gilbert’s superb audio adaptation of Davis’s debut mystery, set in N.Y.C., at the renowned Barbizon Hotel, formerly a women-only residence to famous luminaries, is a highly skilled performance of this suspenseful love story, whose characters inhabit two timelines. Present-day journalist Rose hits a crisis when her boyfriend, whom she lives with at the Barbizon, now…
In this compulsively listenable historical novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Two Sisters comes the story of two young women – one in America’s Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day California – whose lives are linked by a single tragic afternoon in history. 1888 Elizabeth Haberlin, of the Pittsburgh Haberlins, spends every…
Narrator Tavia Gilbert sets a quick pace in this quirky story of a mystery that spans two time periods. When Annie buys an old book in San Francisco and leaves it in her backyard in 1995, she apparently opens a gateway to the 1890s and to Elsbeth, a retired teacher, whose Kansas cabin is now…
When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it’s a foreshadowing of things to come. Soon after the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers…
Lorraine Kindred’s most cherished memories are of the Surf Ballroom, the place where youth lost themselves to the brassy sounds and magnetic energy of the big band swing, where boys spent their last nights before shipping off to war – and where Lorraine herself was swept away by a star-crossed romance. Returning to the…
The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite’s hands in the final installment of the Firebird trilogy by New York Times best-selling author Claudia Gray. Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents’ invention, to cross through alternate dimensions, Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud. Now she has learned that…
Ten thousand worlds. Ten thousand enemies. One love. Marguerite Caine has done the impossible, traveling to alternate dimensions with the Firebird – the brilliant invention of her parents; her boyfriend, Paul; and their friend, Theo. But she has also caught the attention of enemies willing to kidnap, blackmail, and even kill to use the…
Heidi Julavits kept a diary for two years, but this memoir is not chronological, and its organization keeps the listener slightly off balance. As each day starts with “Today I . . . ,” narrator Tavia Gilbert subtly matches her tone to the author’s daily mood. As Julavits irreverently describes her love for “The Bachelorette”…
Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence: Patients A-G”. What she found inside weren’t dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family’s prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from Valy-Valerie…