Health & Family Audiobooks

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

IF YOU FAIL, ALL IS LOST. Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before.

Trenton Lee Stewart (Author), Del Roy (Narrator)

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Swagger

High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line. Levi was simple, like a child. It was the best thing about him, and it was the worst, too. When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a slow drumbeat as readers start to smell a rat in Ryan Hartwell, a charismatic basketball coach and sexual predator. When Levi reluctantly tells Jonas that Hartwell abused him, Jonas has to decide whether he should risk his future career to report the coach. Pitch-perfect basketball plays, well-developed characters, and fine storytelling make this heartbreaking psychological sports novel a slam dunk. “The novel includes descriptions of many basketball plays and strategies, which should make this book particularly appealing to fans of the game…Once Jonas (and readers) figure out what’s going on with Coach Hartwell, the pace quickens, and Jonas’s struggle to do the right thing intensifies.”—Publishers Weekly

Carl Deuker (Author), Charlie Thurston (Narrator)

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Middle School: Ultimate Showdown

Readers get a chance to participate in James Patterson's wildly successful Middle School series in this interactive book featuring more than 80 hilarious anecdotes from dueling siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian--plus dozens of fun-filled activities! The Khatchadorian kids are an opinionated duo, and as readers of the Middle School stories know, they don't exactly see eye to eye. But when wild-card Rafe and mostly-straight-laced Georgia go at it, the only thing more fun than their ranting is getting to join in! Their back-and-forth banter on a range of topics--from bullying to cafeteria food to school dress codes--introduces more than 40 writing and drawing prompts and other games, along with plenty of room for readers to share their own points of view. (Includes over 200 illustrations.)

James Patterson (Author), Julia Bergen (Narrator)

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The One Safe Place

Devin doesn't remember life before the world got hot; he has grown up farming the scorched earth with his grandfather in their remote valley. When his grandfather dies, Devin heads for the city. Once there, among the stark glass buildings, he finds scores of children, just like him, living alone on the streets. They tell him rumors of a place for abandoned children, with unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family. But only the luckiest get there. An act of kindness earns Devin an invitation to the home, but it's soon clear that it's no paradise. As Devin investigates the intimidating administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children, he discovers the home's horrific true mission. The only real hope is escape, but the place is as secure as a fortress. Fans of dystopian fiction and spine-chilling adventure will devour The One Safe Place; its haunting themes will resonate long after readers have turned the final page.

Tania Unsworth (Author), Mark Turetsky (Narrator)

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Welcome to Dog Beach

Eleven-year-old Remy loves Seagate, the island where her grandmother had a house and where her family spends every summer vacation. But this year’s different. Remy misses her dog, Danish, who recently passed away, and her two best friends seem busy with other people. Too busy for their usual Seagate summer traditions. Things are changing, and Remy feels adrift. She takes comfort in the company of the dogs who spend their days on the island’s Dog Beach. When you’re sad, no one’s better company than a dog. It’s on Dog Beach where she hatches a plan to bring her friends closer together, start some new traditions—and recapture the Seagate magic!

Lisa Greenwald (Author), Kate Reinders (Narrator)

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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book Three: Best Friends and Drama Queens

Allie is excited when a new girl joins her class, until the new girl starts telling everyone, including Allie and her best friends, what to do.

Meg Cabot (Author), Tara Sands (Narrator)

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Black Ice

Britt Phieffer is not that adventurous. She has followed the leads of others her whole life; her brother, her best friend, her boyfriend. But when her boyfriend, Cal, breaks up with her, Britt is through with playing it safe. For spring break, she convinces her best friend, Korbie, to hike the Grand Tetons with her, something she has never even considered. But Cal is an expert hiker and if there is one thing that will impress him, it's this. She'll train and plan the perfect trip and show everyone how strong she can be. When a freak storm strands the girls in the woods and she is certain she has made the dumbest decision of her life, they come across a cabin and two knights in shining armor, Shaun and Mason. But soon they find out that Shaun and Mason are on the mountain for very different reasons than hiking. They have done something terrible and they need to get off the mountain. Fast. They need Britt's knowledge of the area to guide them and won't take no for an answer so they set out on a harrowing journey through the cold. Britt realizes the only way to get out of this alive is to pretend she is on their side. So she plays nice with the (admittedly sexy) Mason and becomes so entangled she can't keep track of who is actually in control. It is only a matter of time before things turn deadly and Britt truly has no one to rely on but herself.

Becca Fitzpatrick (Author), Jenna Lamia (Narrator)

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The Glass Sentence

ANew York TimesBestsellerAn Indiebound BestsellerA Kids' Next Top Ten BookA Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection A Junior Library Guild SelectionOne ofPublishers Weekly 's Best Summer Reads Not since Philip Pullman'sThe Golden Compasshave I seen such an original and compelling world built inside a book. Megan Whalen Turner,New York Timesbest-selling author ofA Conspiracy of KingsShe has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous.Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on an urgent mission. They never returned. Life with her brilliant, absent-minded, adored uncle has taught Sophia to take care of herself.Then Shadrack is kidnapped. And Sophia, who has rarely been outside of Boston, is the only one who can search for him. Together with Theo, a refugee from the West, she travels over rough terrain and uncharted ocean, encounters pirates and traders, and relies on a combination of Shadrack 's maps, common sense, and her own slantwise powers of observation. But even as Sophia and Theo try to save Shadrack 's life, they are in danger of losing their own.The Glass Sentenceplunges listeners into a time and place they will not want to leave, and introduces them to a heroine and hero they will take to their hearts. It is a remarkable debut.This audiobook includes a PDF of maps from the book. I thinkThe Glass Sentence is absolutely marvelous. It 's the best book I 've read in a long time. The world-building is so convincing, the plot so fast-moving and often surprising, and the ideas behind the novel so completely original. I love this book. Nancy Farmer, National Book Award-winning author ofThe House of the Scorpion I loved it! So imaginative! Nancy Pearl An exuberantly imagined cascade of unexplored worlds, inscribed in prose and detail as exquisite as the ... maps young Sophia uses to navigate such unpredictable landscapes. A book like a pirate's treasure hoard for map lovers like me.' Elizabeth Wein,New York Timesbest-selling author ofCode Name Verity Brilliant in concept, breathtaking in scale and stellar in its worldbuilding; this is a world never before seen in fiction . . . Wholly original and marvelous beyond compare. Kirkus Reviews, starred review A thrilling, time-bending debut . . . It 's a cracking adventure, and Grove bolsters the action with commentary on xenophobia and government for hire, as well as a fascinating system of map magic. Publishers Weekly, starred review

S. E. Grove (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)

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The Haymeadow

Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one dog's feet get cut. Through it all he must rely on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and talents to survive this summer in the haymeadow.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Gary Paulsen (Author), Richard Thomas (Narrator)

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Manners & Mutiny

If one must flirt...flirt with danger. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia's sweet sootie Soap nearby. She would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored, and now she's not sure whom to trust. What does the brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale plot is under way, and when it comes to fruition, Sophronia must be ready to save her friends, her school, and all of London from disaster--in decidedly dramatic fashion, of course.What will become of our proper young heroine when she puts her years of training to the test? Find out in this highly anticipated and thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Finishing School series!

Gail Carriger (Author), Moira Quirk (Narrator)

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Change Up

In the third book in the New York Times bestselling middle grade series inspired by the life of iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter, Derek's father keeps his promise to coach his son's youth baseball team. Derek is sure this will be the best season yet! He has it all planned-his dad will have him start at shortstop, and the team will cruise to a championship. But sometimes life doesn't go according to plan. Change Up focuses on a key life lesson of Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation-Deal with Growing Pains-in the series companion to Hit & Miss and The Contract, about which The Wall Street Journal said, "the play by play action is exciting and the lessons many."

Derek Jeter, Paul Mantell (Author), Chris Jackson (Narrator)

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We Are the Ants

From the "author to watch" (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving. Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn't sure he wants to. After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer's. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend's suicide last year. Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him. But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it...or let the world-and his pain-be destroyed forever.

Shaun David Hutchinson (Author), Gibson Frazier (Narrator)

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