The library has added more than 40 new audiobooks to our collection of Always Available titles. We’ve highlighted some below, but be sure to check out the latest additions to the collection!
Nonfiction.
In 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think, Brianna Wiest presents short but provocative essays that guide readers towards seeking wisdom in the everyday in all aspects of life. Readers looking for philosophical insight mixed with self-care rituals will be as inspired as Wiest’s legion of fans. If you are stuck inside your own head and obsessively ruminate with negative thoughts, then Can’t Stop Thinking by Nancy Colier will help you break the loop and start living.
For history buffs, check out Nicole Eustace’s Covered with Night, where she explores an attack by two white fur traders against an Indigenous hunter in 1722 that, while practically forgotten today, set the stage for what was considered justice in colonial America. In The Bookseller of Florence, Ross King tells the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, whose books chronicled a thousand years of ancient knowledge and helped set the stage for the Enlightenment.
The kidnapping of 9-year-old George Weyerhauser in 1935 led to the biggest manhunt in Northwest history; check out Deep in the Woods by Bryan Johnston for a riveting account that reads like fiction but is anything but. For a look at 21st century Seattle, Josephine Ensign’s Skid Road explores the tension and polarization around homelessness in Seattle and asks how a progressive city like ours has responded to the health needs of a marginalized population.
Want to change the world? Look no further than We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariama Kaba, who challenges us to seek justice through social transformation and abolitionist organizing. And Dean Spade empowers us to engage in survival work when our government and institutions fail us in Mutual Aid.
Fiction.
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo follows 46-year-old Anna Bain as she discovers details about her father which prompt her to travel to the country in West Africa where her father has become president, in search of connection and her own roots. Continuing the family focus, Nancy Mitford’s 1945 comedy of manners The Pursuit of Love gets a fresh recording, as cousin Fanny witnesses the amorous antics of the aristocratic Radlett daughters, modeled on Mitford’s own unconventional sisters.
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor follows two individuals that killed in self-defense – the technologically augmented AO and a herdsman called DNA – as they go on the run through the deserts of Northern Nigeria, pursued by the all-powerful Ultimate Corp. Body and Soul Food is the first in a new cozy mystery series by Abby Collette, in which two orphans separated at a young age reconnect by opening up a joint bookstore/café. When one of their foster brothers is found murdered, the two collaborate on an investigation.
Romance fans should check out Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler, in which Hollywood starlet River Lane arrives in small Moose Springs, Alaska looking to film a documentary that will save her career, and instead finds a mountain to climb and helpful mountaineer Easton Lockett. And school may be out for winter break, but the lessons of love are just getting started in Teach Me by Olivia Dade.
Finally, fiction readers looking for a little bit of everything – fantasy, mystery, romance, action, humor – should check out Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher, in which the paladin of a dead god teams up with a nun to track down a supernatural killer.
~ posted by Frank B. and Andrea G.
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