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Aru Shah and the End of Time
by Roshani Chokshi; narrated by Soneela Nankani
While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them.
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Bravelands: Code of Honor
by Erin Hunter; narrated by James Fouhey
The code of the wild has been broken. The elephant leader known as Great Mother has been murdered. And Bravelands is on the edge of chaos. Now a young baboon, elephant, and lion must come together to discover the truth, before the fragile balance of Bravelands is destroyed forever.
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 2 Fuzzy, 2 Furious
by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale; narrated by Tara Sands and Abigail Revasch
After foiling the nefarious plot of an amateur supervillain, Squirrel Girl is finally finding her groove, and group texting with the Avengers. Doreen, on the other hand, is still trying to navigate friendships, evil teachers, and all the pitfalls that come with middle school. An announcement goes out that sends waves of excitement through the community. Is there something sinister at work in Shady Oaks?
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Treasure Hunters: Quest for the City of Gold
by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein; narrated by Bryan Kennedy
The thrill-seeking Kidds search for a missing city in South America made entirely of gold! When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi. But treasure hunting is never easy, and when the map is stolen, the Kidds must rely on Storm's picture-perfect memory to navigate the dangerous Amazon jungle. Watch out for that nest of poisonous snakes!
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Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi; narrated by Bahni Turpin
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
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Tempests and Slaughter
by Tamora Pierce; narrated by Ariadne Meyers
Arram Draper is on the path to becoming one of the realm's most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness, and for attracting danger. At his side are his two best friends: Varice, a clever girl with an often-overlooked talent, and Ozorne, the 'leftover prince' with secret ambitions. Together, these three friends forge a bond that will one day shape kingdoms. And as Ozorne gets closer to the throne and Varice gets closer to Arram's heart, Arram realizes that one day he will have to decide where his loyalties truly lie.
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Tess of the Road
by Rachel Hartman; narrated by Katharine McEwan
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons get to be whomever they want. Tess, stubbornly, is a troublemaker. As her family plans to send her to a nunnery, Tess yanks on her boots and sets out on a journey across the Southlands, alone and pretending to be a boy.
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Restore Me
by Tahereh Mafi; narrated by Kate Simses and James Fouhey
Juliette Ferrars thought she'd won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander of North America, and now has Warner by her side. But when tragedy strikes, she must confront the darkness that dwells both around and inside her.
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The Hazel Wood
by Melissa Albert; narrated by Rebecca Soler
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels, But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark faity tales, dies alone on her estate, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away, by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is a message her mother left behind.
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The Shape of Water
by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus; narrated by Jenna Lamia
The Occam Aerospace Research Center in Baltimore has recently received its most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man captured in the Amazon. What unfolds is a stirring romance between the asset and one of the janitors on staff, a mute woman who uses sign language to communicate with the creature.
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The Third Victim
by Phillip Margolin; narrated by Therese Plummer
A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregon, tortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky one. Two other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead.
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As You Wish
by Jude Deveraux; narrated by Susan Bennett
Three women of different generations gather at a house in Summer Hill, Virginia to discuss their marriages and look at how they'd do things differently if they could do it all over again.
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The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
by Alan Bradley; narrated by Jayne Entwistle
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body.
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Burn Bright
by Patricia Briggs; narrated by Holter Graham
Charles Cornick is the son of the leader of the North American werewolves, and his father's enforcer. Anna Latham, a rare Omega wolf with a calming presence, is his mate. They go where they are needed, handling problems in werewolf packs throughout the country. This time, the danger is closer to home, as an enemy armed with witchcraft threatens Charles and Anna's own pack.
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The Tuscan Child
by Rhys Bowen; narrated by Jonathan Keeble and Katy Sobey
In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.
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Night Moves
by Jonathan Kellerman; narrated by John Rubinstein
An affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner only to find the murdered and brutalized corpse of a total stranger in their house. This baffling, twisted tale tests Alex and Milo to their intellectual and emotional limits.
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Fifty Fifty
by James Patterson and Candice Fox; narrated by Federay Holmes
Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment to the outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines a shocking plan: the massacre of the entire town. And the first killing, shortly after Harry's arrival, suggests the clock is already ticking. Meanwhile, back in Sydney, a young woman holds the key to crack Sam's case wide open, if only she could escape the madman holding her hostage.
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Dark in Death
by J. D. Robb; narrated by Susan Ericksen
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel's best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel's blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional. Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime, from the pages of her own book.
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Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover; narrated by Julia Whelan
A searing, unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho and forbidden to go to school, defies her family and earns a PhD from Cambridge University.
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Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?
by Mark Hyman
Dr. Hyman looks at every food group and explains what people have gotten wrong, revealing which foods nurture health and which pose a threat. He also explains food's crucial role in functional medicine, and how food systems and policies affect environmental and personal health.
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