It isn’t Summer without a slew of new hit movies and tv shows to dive into. Before you turn your living room into a theater, take a listen to the audiobooks that inspired some of this Summer’s most anticipated flicks.
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks!
The mission of Commander George Krause is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. They will deliver desperately needed supplies if they can make it through the German submarines that await and outnumber them. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars’ worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men.
Fans of the beloved movie rejoice!
When her thirteenth birthday arrives, Kiki is eager to follow a witch’s tradition of choosing a new town to call home for a year, and flies to the seaside village of Koriko. With her wise-cracking cat Jiji, Kiki forges new friendships and builds her inner strength, ultimately realizing that magic can be found in even the most ordinary places. Blending fantasy with the charm of everyday life, this enchanting new translation, read by the fabulous Kim Mai Guest, will delight new listeners and dedicated fans.
Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth’s natural beauty.
Now a major motion picture starring Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart!
Henry Page fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but the can’t-eat-can’t-sleep kind of love that he’s been hoping for just hasn’t been in the cards for him. Then Grace Town walks into his first period class on the third Tuesday of senior year. Grace isn’t who Henry pictured as his dream girl—she walks with a cane, wears oversized boys’ clothes, and rarely seems to shower. But when Grace and Henry are both chosen to edit the school paper, he quickly finds himself falling for her.
Adam is a regular teen, except he’s navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good to the bad to the just plain weird. An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. When Adam meets fiercely intelligent Maya, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is. But as the miracle drug begins to fail, how long can he keep this secret from the girl of his dreams?
Now wielding the Midnight Blade, Jack Sullivan and the gang are furiously searching for the villainous Thrull and his skeleton army. Equipped with a crucial clue discovered by June on her Wild Flight, the group does the once-unthinkable: they leave Wakefield behind and embark on an…EPIC ROAD TRIP! That means music blasting, kitschy roadside attractions, snacks snacks snacks, dangerous detours, and a slew of skeletons and monsters at every turn.
The sizzling sequel to The Kissing Booth. Now a Netflix film!
Elle Evans’s bad-boy boyfriend Noah is 3,000 miles away at Harvard, which means they’re officially a long-distance couple—and it’s tough. When Elle sees a post which suggests Noah’s getting friendly with someone else, she’s devastated. But then gentle, sweet, cute Levi comes along…and Elle realizes Noah may not be the only one moving on…
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