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| Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam; narrated by Marin IrelandWhat happens: A white family staying in a rented Hamptons home finds their idyllic vacation cut short by the arrival of the owners, an older Black couple hoping to take refuge from a blackout in New York City.
Narration: In this AudioFile Earphones Award-winning recording, narrator Marin Ireland's nuanced reading captures the tensions between the two families as they try to understand the cause of the blackout. |
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| The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick and Henry Finder (editors); narrated by Kaleo Griffith, Gabra Zackman, and Cat Gould What it is: an anthology of The New Yorker's climate change reporting.
Narration: A trio of narrators imbue this AudioFile Earphones Award-winning recording with a calm yet persuasive sense of urgency. |
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| The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab; narrated by Julia WhelanWhat it's about: Three centuries after she makes a Faustian bargain to live forever but to be unremembered, adventurous young French woman Addie Larue discovers that one person, New York bookstore owner Henry, may be the exception.
Narration: Award-winning narrator Julia Whelan wields an impressive array of character accents (including French and New York) in her leisurely-paced reading of this sweeping fantasy. |
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Piece of My Heart
by Mary Higgins Clark
What it's about: This high-suspense follow-up to the best-selling You Don't Own Me finds the nuptials of television producer Laurie Moran and investigative host Alex Buckley nightmarishly upended by the sudden disappearance of Alex's seven-year-old nephew.
Narration: This sixth book is the series is voiced by the same narrator as the last installment, January LaVoy, who's read other audiobooks by big name and hot authors such as James Patterson, Nora Roberts, and Alix E. Harrow.
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Walk the Wire
by David Baldacci
What happens: Amos Decker and Alex Jamison are called to the fracking town of London, North Dakota, where a young woman has been murdered and autopsied by her killer, and as the murders continue, their investigation leads them deep into the town's seamy underbelly.
Narration: This sixth installment in the Memory Man series has two narrators, Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy, to voice the FBI partners Decker and Jamison.
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A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
What it is: In the highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Narration: Obama voices his own memoir, giving a stirring and personal performance that will make you feel as if telling his story directly to you.
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