Summer Solstice New Audiobook Releases!

After reading Book Lovers by Emily Henry, I knew I wanted more love stories about people in the book industry. As a huge history of publishing nerd, there’s just something about people who love books falling in love that hits the white hot center of my wheelhouse. (I’m sure that it has nothing to do with the fact that I married a guy in my creative writing program in college.)

Izzy feels stuck in her job as an editor’s assistant. As one of the only Black people in her office, she often feels tokenized for the benefit of her white coworkers. So when an opportunity occurs to prove herself and get promoted, she jumps at the chance. That’s how she finds herself on the front steps of the house of Beau Towers, one of the most difficult authors from her publishing house. Beau’s memoir is way overdue, but if Izzy can get him to turn in his pages, she feels she just might finally get noticed by her boss.

I loved this Beauty and the Beast retelling that centers around books. Jasmine Guillory is already one of my favorite romance authors, and her love for her characters shines through Izzy and Beau’s story. Guillory’s characters are full of life, encompassing all its complications and messiness. The two lovebirds have to each work through their own issues before they can finally create a life together.

Sarah Hollis does a brilliant job of narrating the audiobook edition, embodying Izzy’s narrative voice perfectly. I love when a narrator can get me completely engrossed in the story.

A  world of goblins lives beneath the city of York. May comes from a family of witches. But when she falls for a goblin girl, her entire world is turned upside down. Years later, Lou, May’s niece, has no idea about her family’s history. When one of her family members is abducted by goblins, Lou must uncover her family’s past to save her loved one.

The bestselling thriller writer Riley Sager is back with The House Across the Lake, a suspenseful story about an actress who finds herself wrapped up in her neighbors’ lives. Casey flees the paparazzi and hides out in her family’s vacation house in Vermont. She spends her days watching her neighbors, a husband and wife who seem to have a perfect life. But as she views their life through her binoculars, she realizes their relationship might not be as perfect as it appears.

The first in a trilogy, The Final Strife follows three young women whose friendship threatens to bring down the empire as they know it. Sylah and Anoor come from very different parts of society, but their love knows no bounds. Hassa is used to being invisible to the privileged, but the thing she hated most about herself becomes a priceless skill.

Ghanaian American Angela Appiah has tried to be the perfect daughter. She has a great career, an amazing boyfriend, and suitable friends. But when her boyfriend dumps her and her friends pull away, Angie feels like her life is out of control. Plus, she never planned for Ricky Gutierrez to come into her life. And she certainly didn’t plan to fall in love with him.

Ed Yong, the author of We Contain Multitudes, is back with another book about the fascinating living world around us. This time, Yong shares how animals experience the world around them, and how animal senses are often very different from our own. This book is perfect for any animal lover or science enthusiast.

Lucie Yi’s plans for a family with her boyfriend implode after their breakup. Deciding that she isn’t going to wait any longer, she decides to become a parent with a platonic co-parent. When she begins looking for a co-parent, she finds Collin, a man who checks all of her boxes. While she hoped that they could start a family together, she never expected to fall in love.