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Audiobooks Narrated by Liz Pearce
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"Tonight, we will deal swift justice.
And by “we,” we mean you.
One week before All Hallows' Eve, in the tiny mountain town of Nevermore, an unexpected party invitation is issued to an eccentric group of townspeople.
Among them is an heiress, a spy, and an alchemist.
There is also a thief, an impostor, and a hypnotist.
There is a child, too—perhaps like you—who keeps his eyes and ears wide open at all times.
Each of them has a story.
Each of them knows a secret.
But which of them is responsible for the curious vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby?
Fans of The Westing Game and “Clue” will savor every plot twist and turn in this witty tale of a murder mystery party that’s deadly serious!"
"Gaia Gill was last seen at a house party on Bluff Point, Moon Mountain Resort, New Hampshire, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Her family is very concerned about her and is seeking any information on her whereabouts.
Gaia Gill is missing. Gaia is beautiful and smart and has everything to look forward to. But on the night of her going-away party at the winter resort she’d been working at, she disappears without a trace.
Her younger sister, Esme, is supposed to be flying back to England with her family after their vacation with Gaia. But how can they leave when Gaia is gone?
Especially because nobody remembers Gaia leaving the party. Or if they do, they’re not saying. Everyone has their own secrets: the little rich girl, the exboyfriend, the ski instructor, the failed reality star.
Esme’s out of her depth searching the dark, dangerous forests and icy slopes of Moon Mountain, until she teams up with a local boy who promises to help. But the clock is ticking. The longer Gaia is missing, the less likely it is she’ll make it back … alive. And it’s up to Esme to
piece together the clues of her final hours before it’s too late."
"Princess Aster and Princess Ursula are the only children of the Bear Major, high
king and head of the royal House of the Hemoth Bear. Rivals, both girls dream of
becoming queen someday, although neither really deserve to—brilliant, spoiled,
and difficult, they have little to recommend them.
But everything changes when fire and murder come to their castle, and the crown
is stolen from their family.
Overnight, the girls are forced onto the run, along with the half-grown grizzly
Alcor, the symbol of their house, and the lowly bearkeeper Dev. As a bitter
struggle for the throne consumes the kingdom in civil war, dragging every family
from the House of Hounds to the House of the Ox into chaos, the sisters must rely
on Dev, Alcor, and each other to survive—and find wells of courage, cunning, and
skill they never knew they had.
From celebrated fantasist Meaghan McIsaac comes The Bear House, the first entry
in a new middle-grade fantasy series set in a gritty medieval world where the
ruling houses are based on the constellations—and the stakes are sky-high."
"Stories from the world of The Hero and the Crown and other magical places by a New York Times–bestselling Newbery Medal winner.
Robin McKinley returns to the mythical setting of The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword in this “thrilling, satisfying, and thought-provoking collection” featuring two stories set in the world of Damar, plus three other fantasy tales featuring adventurous, pragmatic, and heroic young women (Publishers Weekly).
There’s mute Lily, in “The Healer,” who has the power to help others, and receives a startling opportunity to find her voice when a mysterious mage stumbles into town. And Queen Ruen, who is at the mercy of a power-hungry uncle until she encounters a shape-changer in “The Stagman.” In “Touk’s House,” a maiden who has grown up with a witch and a troll has a chance to become a princess, but she must decide whether she would really live happily ever after. When a curse follows Coral to her new husband’s farm in “Buttercups,” the pair has a choice: Succumb to defeat or find a way to turn a disastrous enchantment into a fruitful new venture.
Finally, travel to upstate New York with Annabelle. In the title story, her family moves shortly after her sixteenth birthday, and just as she starts to adjust to her new life in a small town, a plan to build a superhighway threatens her new home.
But a strange box hidden in a secret attic in the new house may be the answer.
This is a delightful assortment of tales from an author with “a remarkable talent for melding the real and the magical into a single, believable whole” (Booklist)."
"Pirouette Leiter, the Puppetmaster’s Apprentice, is given the most important and dangerous job of her life: to build a wooden assassin for the tyrant of Tavia.
The Margrave of Tavia hasn’t emerged from Wolfspire Hall in over a decade. His palace has been a silent citadel on the hill overlooking the village, until a peculiar commission reaches the
puppetmaster and his daughter—they must make one hundred wooden soldiers for him as quickly as possible, or the puppetmaster will be imprisoned in the dungeons of Wolfspire Keep.
Pirouette has no choice but to obey the young ruler’s strange whims to save her father, all while hiding a dangerous secret of her own—she was once a puppet, brought to life by the light of the blue
moon. When the Margrave requires that Pirouette craft him a puppet the likes of which the world has never seen—an intricately carved, life-sized assassin—he doesn’t stop there. He demands she
bring her ultimate creation to life.
Fighting against dark magic and racing against the rise of the next blue moon, she can’t help but wonder, is she making a masterpiece … or a monster?"
"From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes this fast-paced YA fantasy, where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed
Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.
Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts.
Emilie and Annette swap lives—Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrolls to be a physician's assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives.
But when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late.
Belle Révolte is 'a welcome twist on the tropes of sword and sorcery novels' (School Library Journal), perfect for readers looking for:
• tween and teen LGBTQ+ books
• high fantasy with asexual and aromantic representation
• lesbian and gay fairy tales
• books with trans and non-binary characters
'A bursting-at-the-seams stand-alone empowerment story.'—Kirkus Reviews"
"From Kate Milford, the bestselling author of National Book Award nominee Greenglass House, comes another magical, middle-grade adventure, The Left-Handed Fate. Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on a mission: find the three pieces of a strange and arcane engine. They're not exactly sure what this machine does, but they have it on good authority that it will stop the war that's raging between their home country of England and Napoleon Bonaparte's France. Despite being followed by mysterious men dressed all in black, they're well on their way to finding everything they need when their ship, the famous Left-Handed Fate, is taken by the Americans. And not just any Americans. The Fate (and with it, Lucy and Max) are put under the command of Oliver Dexter, who's only just turned twelve. But Lucy and Max aren't the only ones trying to put the engine together, and if the pieces fall into the wrong hands, it could prove disastrous. Oliver is faced with a choice: help Lucy and Max and become a traitor to his country? Or follow orders and risk endangering that same country and many others at the same time?not to mention his friends?"
"The task is simple: Don a disguise. Survive the labyrinth. Best the boys. In a thrilling new fantasy from the bestselling author of the Storm Siren Trilogy, one girl makes a stand against society and enters a world made exclusively for boys. Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port have received a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. The poorer residents look to see if their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father's microscope. In the province of Caldon, where women train in wifely duties and men pursue collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands-through the annual all-male scholarship competition. With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm's labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone is ready for a girl who doesn't know her place. And not everyone survives the deadly maze. Welcome to the labyrinth."
"Return to the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, where smugglers, magic, and pyrotechnics mix, in a new adventure from a New York Times best-selling, National Book Award-nominated, and Edgar Award-winning author. Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all Lucy's fighting instincts to keep her family together. Set in the magical Greenglass House world, this action-packed tale of the house's first inhabitants reveals the origins of some of its many secrets."
"Publisher Marketing: Ophelia Castellan will never be just another girl at Elsinore Academy. Seeing ghosts is not a skill prized in future society wives. Even when she takes her pills, the bean sidhe beckon, reminding her of a promise to her dead mother. Now, in the wake of the Headmaster's sudden death, the whole academy is in turmoil, and Ophelia can no longer ignore the fae. Especially once she starts seeing the Headmaster's ghosts two of them on the school grounds. Her only confidante is Dane, the Headmaster's grieving son. Yet even as she gives more of herself to him, Dane spirals toward a tragic fate dragging Ophelia, and the rest of Elsinore, with him. You know how this story ends. Yet even in the face of certain death, Ophelia has a choice to make and a promise to keep."
