New eAudibooks

Bright young things [electronic resource] / Anna Godbersen.

In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.

Early to death, early to rise [electronic resource] / Kim Harrison.

Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven's dark angels--all itching to kill someone. Madison Avery's dreams of ever fitting in at her new school died when she did. Especially since she was able to maintain the illusion of a body, deal with a pesky guardian angel, and oh yeah, bring the reaper who killed her to his untimely end. Not exactly in-crowd material. It's amazing that her crush, Josh, doesn't think she's totally nuts ...

Confessions. English

None can argue that Rousseau's ideas are among the most influential in all of world history. It was Rousseau, the Father of the Romantic Movement, who was responsible for introducing at least two modern-day thoughts that pervade academia: (1) Free expression of the creative spirit is more important than strict adhesion to formal rules and traditional procedures, and (2) Man is innately good but is corrupted by society and civilization. The Confessions is Rousseau's landmark autobiography ...

The mysterious Benedict Society and the prisoner's dilemma [electronic resource] / by Trenton Lee Stewart.

When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, Benedict Society members Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance follow clues on an adventure that threatens to separate them from their families, friends, and even one another.

Heartfire [electronic resource] / Orson Scott Card.

Peggy Guester is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. Her power is so great that she can follow the paths of each person's future and know their most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvi's birth, when Unmaker first strove to kill him, he has been protected by her. Now they are married, and Peggy is part of Alvin's heart as well as his life. But the achievement of Alvin's destiny and the building of the Cristal City he has foreseen, have take Alvin and Peggy on separate journeys. He has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft and their use is punished with death. Peggy has been drawn south to the British Crown Colonies and the Court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. She has seen a terrible future bloom in the heart fires of every person in America, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on the path to peace.

Falling together [electronic resource] : a novel / Marisa De los Santos.

Pen, Will, and Cat met at college and struck up a remarkable friendship that sustained and shaped them for years, until it ended abruptly, and they went their separate ways. Now, six years later, Pen is a single mother of a five-year-old girl, living with her older brother in Philadelphia and trying to make peace with the sudden death of her father. She decides to accept Cat's invitation to go to their college reunion. What happens there sends them on a journey that changes everything.

A dark and lonely place [electronic resource] / Edna Buchanan.

In Miami, Police Detective Sgt. John Ashley hunts a woman linked to a murdered millionaire and finds she is the girl who's haunted his dreams since childhood. A century ago on America's southern frontier, John Ashley's ancestor was wrongly accused of murder and went on the run with his sweetheart. The lovers became the most colorful, compelling, and heartbreaking figures in Florida's violent outlaw history. Can the present-day couple break the tragic cycle imprinted on their DNA?

Always running [electronic resource] : la vida loca, gang days in L. A. / Luis J. Rodriguez ; with a new introduction by the author.

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more, until his son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in this vivid memoir.

The Astral [electronic resource] : [a novel] / Kate Christensen.

Kicked out of the crumbling Brooklyn home that he thought was a happy one, poet Harry Quirk struggles to make sense of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures while trying to get back into his estranged wife's good graces.

The wishing tree [electronic resource] / Catherine Snodgrass.

Jake Tanner goes to collect on a debt and comes back with a bride he doesn't want and can't keep his hands off of. Grace Marshall is determined to honor her marriage vows, but one step forward with Jake always leads to two steps back. When Jake's past shows up on the doorstep in the form of the wife he thought was dead, Grace has had enough. Can Jake save his marriage to the wife he loves before the other one puts him in his grave?

Vampiropolis [electronic resource] / Selena Illyria.

Welcome to Vampiropolis, where visitors take a break to brush up against the things that go bump in the night. Nevada comes to Vampiropolis looking for fun and relaxation and gets more than she bargained for in the form of sexy vampire Lucian Sandros. When her trip comes to end does that mean the passion they found has to stop? When Xavier Hideo drops back into Lida Sandros' life, he brings danger with him. Will he leave her again just as they find the love that Lida thought was lost? Magda had to make a choice between her obligations and her love for Renato. Years later their worlds collide and she's faced with yet another choice between family, and the man she loves. A collection of three novellas.

Uprooted [electronic resource] / Jasmine Aherne.

Landscape designer Marianne Dawson thinks she's hit her head pretty hard when she wakes up in hospital to the handsome face of Dr. Noah Campbell and she's delighted when Noah turns out to be the blind date she agreed to as a favor for a friend. But Mari is still finding herself and she's in no hurry to settle down with an instant family...

Two hot [electronic resource] / Riley Ashford.

Slayer Damon Phillips is dying of cancer. He figures if he's going to kick the bucket, then he's gonna do something really stupid: Seduce gorgeous vampire Belle DeLuc. Belle has no problem spending a passionate night with Damon, even if he's notorious for staking bloodsuckers. He excites her in a way no other man has for two centuries, and she wants him to stick around. Forever...

Fiction ruined my family [electronic resource] / Jeanne Darst.

Introducing a deeply funny, charismatic new voice: an entertaining memoir of a family haunted by its own myths and its obsessive idolization of the literary life. Jeanne Darst was born the youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated family long past its glory days. For the early part of her life, the family survived on the memory of past generations' grandeur, and the romantic belief that Darst's father would restore that greatness with his destined career as a novelist...

Dawn's awakening [electronic resource] / Lora Leigh.

The runt of the lab she was created in, Dawn Daniels endured years of torture by her pride brother and the council soldiers. Finally freed from her torment, she's now a Breed Enforcer, in control of her own life. Until she's assigned to protect the one man destined to be her mate- and realizes it's far too easy to lose total control. An erotic thrill ride about genetically altered Breeds with feline DNA, and the humans who arouse their lust.

Heart of steel [electronic resource] / Meljean Brook.

"Return to the gritty, alluring world of steampunk with the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke. Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is to her ship and her crew-until one man comes along and changes everything ... Treasurehunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in the Lady Corsair-just the captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. When it attracts a dangerous amount of attention, Yasmeen and Archimedes journey to Horde-occupied Morocco- and straight into enemy hands."-- Provided by publisher.

Coyote's mate [electronic resource] / Lora Leigh.

For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato, the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost, to free a group of coyote women kept in her father's lab. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close ... but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her animalistic desire for the one who betrayed her.

Bengal's heart [electronic resource] / Lora Leigh.

Reporter Cassa Hawkins has always supported Breed rights--especially in light of a specimen like Cabal St. Laurents, the epitome of the male animal. But when the Breeds are incriminated in a series of violent murders, it's left to Cassa and Cabal to discover the truth before they become prey.

Vortex [electronic resource] / Robert Charles Wilson.

Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.

To the nines [electronic resource] / Janet Evanovich.

Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she's pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way ... and she always gets her man. In "To The Nines", her cousin Vinnie (who's her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant. When the elusive, Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word "hunter" ...

The thirteen hallows [electronic resource] / Michael Scott and Colette Freedman.

The Hallows have been used time and again in the battle with the Demonkind who once ruled this earth. The last time The Thirteen Hallows were gathered together was in the time of Arthur, when they were used to drive the Demonkind from this world and seal the entrance between this and the Otherworld. The battle cost Arthur his life, and with his death the age of the knights passed and the Hallows were dispersed into the safekeeping of the Guardians. Now someone is gathering them together.

Trespasser [electronic resource] / Paul Doiron.

While on patrol one evening, Bowditch receives a call for help: a woman has struck a deer on a secluded road. When he arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road, but both the driver and the deer have vanished. The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar as seven years earlier, lobsterman Erland Jefferts was convicted of rape and murder, but his supposed victim was later found alive in what was possibly an elaborate frame up. For Bowditch, doing nothing is not an option.

Those in peril [electronic resource] / Wilbur Smith.

An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter by Somali pirates for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.

Stand on Zanzibar [electronic resource] / John Brunner.

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically--it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him...

Something blue [electronic resource] : a novel / Emily Giffin.

Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl," steals her fiancé, while Darcy finds herself completely alone for the first time in her life--with a baby on the way.