Tavia Gilbert gives an expert reading of Katherine Paterson’s moving account of a family of Albanian Muslims during the Kosovo War. As the Serbs begin their brutal ethnic cleansing, Meli Lleshi and her family flee their home, enduring Serbian atrocities and the terror of being hunted like animals. They face the ravages of hunger and…
Tavia Gilbert gives a haunting portrayal of Madison Stanton, a 17-year-old girl who has just discovered she’s dead. Madison is able to travel back to her life through her memories of the objects she has lost. The chapters alternate between these memories and Madison’s musings while trapped in “Is,” the name she has given her…
It’s 1860, and 11-year-old Becky Thatcher has just moved to St. Petersburg, Missouri. She’s looking for big-time adventure in this small town, and once she meets Sid Sawyer, it doesn’t take her long to find it. Pretty soon, she’s sneaking out after dark, stealing graveyard dirt at midnight, and keeping an eye out for dead…
The climactic third novel in New York Times best-selling author Jeaniene Frost’s Night Prince series finds Vlad and his newly turned bride, Leila, at odds with each other – and vulnerable to the one vampire powerful enough to end the Dark Prince’s reign… Play with fire, pay the price Leila’s years on the…
Tavia Gilbert is an ideal narrator for Frost’s steamy, engrossing stories, and she brings her usual wit and emotion to this second Night Prince novel. Though they’ve survived hell together, Leila can feel her vampire lover, Vlad, growing more distant by the day, and her psychic powers seem to be fading as well. Striking out…
Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father—the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership. In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train…
Coco Chanel was more than an iconic designer and an immensely wealthy, successful businesswoman. Her cultural influence transformed women’s clothing, and, as Europe changed with two world wars, she became a major international figure, with friends and lovers throughout the political spectrum, some overtly so and others so covert as to be spies—as Coco herself…
Author Lynsey Addario uses her camera to capture images of beauty and light as well as despair, horror, and every other human emotion under the sun. Narrator Tavia Gilbert does the same with her voice, giving an authentic and thoughtful performance of this audiobook. As Addario recounts her experience of being held hostage, along with…
Kristen Kimball makes it clear that a family farm, especially an unsubsidized organic one in a northern climate, is unending hard work. And yet, this is a love story—a double romance of Kimball meeting her husband, Mark, and learning to be a farmer. Tavia Gilbert’s performance raises the memoir a notch. She translates Kimball’s wonder…
The many original concepts in this latest Old Man’s War title put the audiobook far above much of the science fiction found in books and movies today. Tavia Gilbert and William Dufris are disarmingly genial as they trade off narrating chapters. Gilbert, in particular, manages to convey a bird-like alien perfectly in her section, and…