While we all ache and yearn to return to the dusty stacks where we find so much enjoyment, enlightenment, and entertainment, here are a selection of available eAudiobooks featuring Libraries and Bookstores that are always open!
Midnight at Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan, read by Madeleine Maby
This dark and suspenseful thriller starts with a suicide in the Bright Ideas Bookstore. When clerk Lydia Smith discovers the body of one of her favorite patrons inside the bookstore, she begins to unravel the puzzle behind the young man’s suicide and finds that he is somehow linked to her own disturbing and violent past- much of which has remained unsolved.
[Thriller]
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, read by Ari Fliakos
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore is not at all what it seems. From the outside what merely appears to be an old used bookstore is in reality a repository for centuries old secrets. New clerk Clay Jannon is determined to decipher the clues found in the books within to finally bring these ancient secrets to light. An ode to the love of books and bookstores, Robin Sloan blends old knowledge and technology to craft a wondrous adventure spanning the invention of the printing press to the present day.
[Fiction]
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein, read by Jesse Bernstein
Welcome to the Luigi Lemoncello’s Library, a place of pure imagination! Within you will find not only books, but technological marvels beyond the cutting edge! How better to stage a grand opening than to invite the local school children to a lock-in, escape room style game? A fun, fantastical adventure through a Willy Wonka-styled library awaits! Can you escape?
[Children’s Fantasy]
Additional Audiobooks set in Libraries and Bookstores near you:
The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler, read by Cassandra Morris
The Forbidden Library kicks off a brand new classic fantasy series perfect for fans of Coraline, Inkheart, and The Books of Elsewhere
Alice always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That—along with everything else—changed the day she met her first fairy.
[Children’s Fantasy]
The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland, read by Imogen Church
The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending audiobook from author Stephanie Butland
Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you.
[Romance]
The Strange Library by Haruki Marukami, read by Kirby Heyborne
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.
The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written.
[Fantasy]
~ posted by Darren N.
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