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| Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed; narrated by Tiya Sircar and Michael Crouch What happens: After their moms volunteer them to go door-to-door campaigning for a local Senate candidate, Jamie and Maya’s reluctant friendship turns into something deeper and a lot more complicated.
Narration: In alternating chapters, narrators Tiya Sircar and Michael Crouch convey the shifting dynamic between outgoing Maya and shy Jamie. |
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| Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey; narrated by Charlotte NorthIntroducing: Rosie and Dominic Vega, high school sweethearts who married young -- and have since drifted apart.
Narration: Charlotte North's emotional reading raises the stakes in this 2nd Hot & Hammered romance. |
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Big lies in a small town : a novel
by Diane Chamberlain
Imprisoned for a crime she did not commit, an artist is offered a chance to reduce her sentence by restoring a post office mural in a sleepy Southern town where another artist confronted violent prejudice decades earlier
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American dirt : a novel
by Jeanine Cummins
When her journalist husband writes a tell-all profile about an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, bookstore manager Lucia is forced to flee Mexico and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America
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| Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox; narrated by Euan Morton What it's about: When a young boy goes missing without a trace while on vacation, the boy's mother specifically requests the help of private investigators ex-cop Ted Conkaffey and ex-con Amanda Pharrell (to the dismay of the local police force).
Narration: Adopting a gruff Australian accent, Amanda Pharrell series narrator Euan Morton returns for this gritty 3rd entry. |
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| Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II by Max Hastings; narrated by Max Hastings and Peter NobleMay 17, 1943: Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) blew up two dams in Germany's Ruhr valley, an effort that shook German confidence and killed more than 1,500 civilians, many of them forced laborers.
Narration: Author Max Hastings narrates the introduction with a clipped tone evoking the newsreels of the era, while narrator Peter Noble's well-paced, British-accented reading grounds this dramatic history. |
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| The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu; narrated by Ramón de Ocampo, Cindy Kay, Michael Kramer, Nancy Wu, and Emily Woo ZellerWhat it is: a collection of 19 short stories by Ken Liu (The Paper Menagerie) in an impressive range of styles and subject matter.
Narration: A full cast of diverse, award-winning narrators gives voice to this collection of new and previously published pieces. |
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| Deacon King Kong by James McBride; narrated by Dominic Hoffman What it's about: It's 1969, right after the Moon Landing, and Brooklyn-based Baptist deacon Cuffy Lambkin (called "Deacon King Kong" after his favorite kind of moonshine) shoots his former protégé (and current drug dealer) Deems Clemens in broad daylight.
Narration: Dominic Hoffman engrossingly portrays the large cast of quirky characters with a variety of accents and tones. |
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Contact your librarian for more great audiobooks! |
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New Hanover County Library
201 Chestnut Street Wilmington, North Carolina 28401 910-798-6301 www.nhclibrary.org |
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