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May 2020

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Yes No Maybe So
by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed; narrated by Tiya Sircar and Michael Crouch 
 
Available as an eAudiobook

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. 
Love Her or Lose Her
by Tessa Bailey; narrated by Charlotte North
 
Available as an eAudiobook

Introducing: 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. 
Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
by Max Hastings; narrated by Max Hastings and Peter Noble
 
Available as an eAudiobook

May 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.
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
by Ken Liu; narrated by Ramón de Ocampo, Cindy Kay, Michael Kramer, Nancy Wu, and Emily Woo Zeller
 
Available as an eAudiobook

What 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. 
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride; narrated by Dominic Hoffman 
 
Available as an eAudiobook

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.
88 Names
by Matt Ruff; narrated by Ewan Chung
 
Available as an eAudiobook

On the internet, nobody knows you're a...dictator? At least, that's what Sherpa, Inc. founder John Chu is starting to suspect about his newest client, who's paying John a LOT of money to guide him through a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Narration: Ewan Chung's assured monotone underscores the suspense lurking in this twisty cyber-thriller. 
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