Category Archives: From the Calendar

Poetry Month Audiobooks

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Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.

Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both.

Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.

With contemplative poetry woven throughout, Everything Is a Story offers a hope-filled framework for reshaping our lives by reclaiming stories of courage, wholeness, and deep-rooted compassion.

This audiobook includes exclusive poetry with commentary by the author.

This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems curated by Pádraig Ó Tuama, the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound podcast.

N. Scott Momaday passionately explores themes of loneliness, sacredness, and aggression through his depiction of Bear, the one animal that has both inspired and haunted him throughout his lifetime.

This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us but will leave you feeling hopeful about your future.

Happy Women’s History Month!

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Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this fascinating history explores the lives and achievements of great women in science across the globe.

An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories.

A rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology to our current moment.

You wont be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in this book, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries, different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds, from the poverty stricken to royalty.

An engaging work of cultural history that reveals the stories behind one of the world’s most coveted and beloved ceramic.

Love is in the air . . . and our headphones!

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This fun, flirty YA contemporary romance novella, takes place over four Valentine’s Days. It follows the ups and downs of friendship, family, and falling in love.

A must-listen Valentine’s Day novella by Milena McKay.

No-strings-attached sex is the perfect arrangement for both of them. But what happens when they develop feelings for each other? Jackie Lau presents Book 4 in the Holidays with the Wongs series

Can Lowenna get over her pain and heartache and spend Valentine’s with the single dad, or will she let yesterday haunt her today, ruining any chance of a beautiful tomorrow?

In this collection are updated stories from some of your favorite Valentines.

Jacques is determined to show Patrice that Valentine’s Day can bring gifts more precious than anything money can buy.

Celebrate MLK Day in Audio

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From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma–Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize.

Performed by JD Jackson

The classic story of nonviolent resistance in America—the Montgomery bus boycott—written by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Living the Dream tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the battle over King’s legacy that continued through the decades that followed.

Kathryn Johnson’s personal account of this period of history is a singular addition to the story of the Civil Rights movement.

Barnes & Noble Best Books of 2025

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Mystery & Thriller

From resident lexicographer Susie Dent comes a linguistic mystery that will both delight and shock listeners.

eBook series

Shelly Laurenston presents Book 6 in the Honey Badger Chronicles.

A magical office comedy with grumpy bosses, snarky frogs, and definitely-not-feelings.

History

A magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilization.

Science & Technology

A deeply-reported and wide-ranging look at the people and technology providing vital weather forecasts, in a world where preparation and prevention is a life-and-death issue.

Young Readers

The Letter for the King meets The Incredible Journey in this story of one dog’s quest to save the human he loves.

Native American Heritage Month: Indigenous Fiction

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An epic quest fantasy debut that is the Tlingit indigenous response to The Lord of the Rings.

A novel that that moves between past and present, the Native and the non-Native, history and myth, and tradition and survival.

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation.

A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history.

In this must-listen thriller, Dawn recons with trauma and violence, loss and reclamation in an unsettling world where spirit realms entwine with the living—and where it is humans who carry out the truly monstrous acts.

Press Play on these Ghost Stories . . . If You Dare

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Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.

But they soon come to realize it isn’t Brackenby House that’s haunted. They are. And the ghosts will stop at nothing to continue The Suffering . . . 

Inspired by true events and informed by historical accounts, this modern Gothic tale evokes the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials and the terror of the events in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, in 1951.

A must-listen ghost story.

A must-listen debut novel about how we forever haunt the places we love and how they haunt us in return.

Marjorie Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.

Anne feels sure her prayers have been heard. Until the terrifying night she stumbles upon a tortured spirit roaming the dark halls of Northfield, a spirit that only she can see. 

Horror Audiobooks that Will Haunt Your Headphones

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Las Posadas is V. Castro’s first Christmas horror novelette set in Texas.

A brutal murder. A seaside village drenched in fog. A vile history . . .

In an effort to escape some local bullies, best friends, Ashley and Jude, decide to brave Devil’s Ditch, a place deep in the woods that everyone says is haunted. There’s a naked woman chained up inside. Her name is Rose, and there’s something not quite right about her.

A terrifying horror novel set in a melting Arctic landscape. Something deadly has lain dormant for thousands of years, but now the permafrost is giving up its secrets . . .

Soon the hotel will find itself under siege by something much worse than the storm.

The shadow of all Evil is about to eclipse the world. Just one person stands in its way . . .

Read a Romance Month!

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Sapphic Audiobooks

This is an Age Gap, Enemies to Lovers, Ice Queen, Opposites Attract Lesbian/Sapphic Romance. It is a steamy, yet loving, always with a Happy Ever After.

How far would you go to live the life of your dreams? Would you fake-date your total opposite while trapped on a road trip together? A charming, fake-relationship lesbian romance about being bold and taking chances.

Outdrawn is a slow-burn, rivals-to-lovers sapphic romance. 

Meeting Millie is a sapphic romance about the nature of friendship, how two people change over the years, and how they see themselves and each other.

Those Who Wait, Midnight Rain provides the opportunity to fall in love with Sutton and Charlotte all over again in a parallel universe.

Elisa Benitez is proud of who she is. If someone doesn’t like her, that’s their problem, and Elisa couldn’t care less. Particularly if that person is Darcy Fitzgerald, a snobby, socially awkward heiress. 

Read a Romance Month!

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But neither of them expected the deep connection they felt, or how that connection could grow so fast. Something deep and pure and life-changing . . . something as fragile as glass, that they both know will shatter in the end no matter how hard they try to hold on to it.

Mirroring each other’s grief turns into soothing each other’s hearts for Siyanna and Drue. Yet will the nature of their bond ruin their chances at love? Or will they become one another’s saving grace?

Marrying a sexy, outrageous billionaire in Vegas was a wager on my future. His arrival in my small town two weeks later? Not in the prenup.

He was supposed to be the one guy she could never—would never—like, much less love. Famous last words.