National Library Lover’s Month

The Book Charmer

By: Karen Hawkins
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Amanda Ronconi & Sebastian York
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Prepare to fall under the spell of “this sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing story” (Shelf Awareness) following two fiercely independent women and their truly magical friendship in a sleepy Southern town, from New York Times bestselling author of Karen Hawkins.

Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books live, breathe,... Read more

Death Overdue

A Haunted Library Mystery

The Haunted Library Mysteries: Book #1

By: Allison Brook
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

For fans of Miranda James and Jenn McKinlay comes an enthralling series debut featuring a librarian who solves mysteries with the help of a ghost in the stacks.Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut, until she is offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own... Read more

Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library―by starting her own illegal locker libraryIt all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favorite book in the whole world, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, from the school library. That’s when Mrs.... Read more

The Book Woman's Daughter

A Novel

By: Kim Michele Richardson
Narrated by: Katie Schorr
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“Rooted in her Appalachian upbringing, sixteen-year-old Honey Lovett's fierce and wilful spirit is nearly crushed when the loving adults in her life are taken from her. I raged at the misogyny, bigotry, racism, and ignorance that worked against her, and celebrated her remarkable resilience as she struggled mightily to maintain her independence. Read more

Dewey Decimated

Haunted Library Mystery Series: Book #6

By: Allison Brook
Narrated by: Mia Gaskin
Length: 9 hours

Carrie Singleton is just off a hot string of murder cases centered around the spooky local library in Clover Ridge, Connecticut. She could really use a break—but no such luck, as she; Smoky Joe, the resident cat; and Evelyn, the library’s ghost, are drawn into another tantalizing whodunit. First, a dead body is found in the basement of the... Read more

Murder at the College Library

42nd Street Library Mystery: Book #5

By: Con Lehane
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator—Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy—tells him he plans to fight the... Read more

The Stranger in the Library

A Lighthouse Library Mystery: Book #11

By: Eva Gates
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone... Read more

Sword and Pen

Great Library: Book #5

By: Rachel Caine
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

With the future of the Great Library in doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone must decide if it’s worth saving in this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.

The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside... Read more

Smoke and Iron

Great Library: Book #4

By: Rachel Caine
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.

The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a... Read more

Dark Archives

A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By: Megan Rosenbloom
Narrated by: Justis Bolding
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the... Read more

The Book on the Bookshelf

By: Henry Petroski
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn’t. As a result, readers... Read more

The Great Library of Tomorrow

The Book of Wisdom Trilogy: Book #1

By: Rosalia Aguilar Solace
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

AFTERWORD BY DJ STEVE AOKIFueled by the same collaborative heart and boundless imagination that dazzle millions of devoted Tomorrowland followers and festivalgoers every year, The Great Library of Tomorrow is a stunningly original epic fantasy about a band of heroes who must defeat a malevolent enemy bent on destroying the openness, love, and... Read more

The Legend of the Last Library

By: Frank L. Cole
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

In a world where paper is extremely scarce and books are priceless, Juni undertakes a dangerous quest to find a legendary lost treasure—the last library. Juni lives in a world without books. The Blight killed off all the trees, and since then, paper is worth more than just about anything else. Juni’s parents were killed in an archeological dig... Read more

The Library at the Edge of the World

A Novel

Finfarran Peninsula: Book #1

By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Narrated by: Marcella Riordan
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

“Heart-warming . . . reminiscent of Maeve Binchy and Roisin Meaney.” —Irish ExaminerIn the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-McCoy’s U.S. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community and her own life in this touching, enchanting novel set on Ireland’s stunning West Coast.As... Read more

The Library at the Edge of the World

Finfarran Peninsula

By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Narrated by: Emma Lowe
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

As she drives her mobile-library van between the villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the... Read more

The Night of Many Endings

A Novel

By: Melissa Payne
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Janet Metzger & Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of Memories in the Drift, comes an emotionally rich, feel-good novel about hope, second chances, and seeing the world through someone else’s eyes.Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother’s decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the... Read more