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Celebrating Excellence in Children’s Audiobooks: Perfectly Parvin and Emmanuel’s Dream Receive Odyssey Honors January 24, 2022

The American Library Association’s Odyssey Award committee has named two Listening Library titles as Odyssey Honor audiobooks: Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi, produced by Sarah Jaffe and narrated by Mitra Jouhari, and Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson, produced by Aaron Blank and narrated by Adjoa Andoh. READ MORE

Tags: Adjoa Andoh, awards, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, Emmanuel's Dream, Family Listening, Laurie Ann Thompson, Mitra Jouhari, Odyssey Award, Odyssey Honor, Olivia Abtahi, Perfectly Parvin

Beyond Bridgerton: Lady Danbury by Day, Audiobook Narrator by Mic January 8, 2021

If you’re watching the steamy and scandal-laced layer cake that is Bridgerton (now streaming on Netflix), then we simply must inform you of delightful news that would titillate even the likes of Lady Whistledown: Lady Danbury has a secret life. Another life. A life as…an audiobook narrator. READ MORE

Tags: Adjoa Andoh, book club, Bridgerton, cook, crafter, Netflix

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Staff Round-Up: Celebrating Underrated Women of Literature March 11, 2020

It’s Women’s History Month, and your friendly neighborhood blog team wanted to know which literature ladies our staff considers completely underrated. Who is well overdue for some props? Which unsung hero should indeed be sung about?! Join us in a round of appreciative applause for these fictional women. READ MORE

Tags: Adjoa Andoh, Alexander McCall Smith, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale, Katherine Arden, Kathleen Gati, Natalie Babbitt, Peter Thomas, The Bear and the Nightingale, The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First, Tuck Everlasting

The Wait is Over for February Debuts February 11, 2020

We’re only a month and change into 2020, but it feels like we’ve been anticipating these titles for ages. From love stories to self-love stories, February has the audiobooks you’ve been pining for. READ MORE

Tags: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Abi Daré, Adjoa Andoh, Anthony Mark Barrow, Ash Ambirge, Bailey Carr, Birdie and Me, Brandon Taylor, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, Christian Coulson, Firewatching, Holly Jackson, J. M. M. Nuanez, jorjeana marie, Kevin R. Free, Love Unscripted, Michael Crouch, Mozhan Marno, No True Believers, Owen Nicholls, Peter Kispert, Phil Stamper, Rabiah York Lumbard, Real Life, Russ Thomas, Tara Schuster, The Girl with the Louding Voice, The Gravity of Us, The Middle Finger Project

Find Debut Fiction to Listen to at Any Age April 15, 2019

“April showers bring May flowers” is a saying that really is based on truth (we keep an umbrella at home, at the office, and in our bags). Instead of bemoaning the rain keeping us indoors for a little while longer, we’re rejoicing that we have an excuse to stay in and listen to an audiobook. READ MORE

Tags: 500 Words or Less, A Good Enough Mother, Adjoa Andoh, Annie Q, Ayse Eldek, Aysegül Savas, Baris Duyan, Bev Thomas, bookclub, crafter, Dawn, Jenna Lamia, Juleah del Rosario, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Kate Allen, Kate Reading, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Lights All Night Long, Lydia Fitzpatrick, Martine Fournier Watson, Matthew Gray Gubler, Michael Crouch, Mozhan Marno, Namwali Serpell, Rebecca Lacey, Richard E. Grant, Rumple Buttercup, Sabrina & Corina, Saskia Maarleveld, Selahattin Demirtas, The Dream Peddler, The Line Tender, The Old Drift, Walking on the Ceiling

Audiobooks in Bloom: March 2019 Debuts March 18, 2019

March’s debuts are popping up like daisies, and we couldn’t be more thrilled! READ MORE

Tags: Adjoa Andoh, Alana Kerr Collins, Andrew Rannells, Andrew Ridker, Anna Kyra Hooton, Baby of the Family, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Bryan Washington, Dion Graham, Eithne Shortall, Euan Morton, Grace After Henry, If Then, Jacob Tobia, JD Jackson, Joel Golby, John McMahon, Jon Lindstrom, JP Pomare, Kate Hope Day, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Look How Happy I'm Making You, Lot, Maria Kuznetsova, Mark Bramhall, Maura Roosevelt, Namwali Serpell, Oksana Behave!, Olivia Mackenzie-Smith, Polly Rosenwaike, Rebecca Lowman, Richard E. Grant, Robbie Daymond, Robert Petkoff, Saskia Maarleveld, Scott Brown, Seth Fried, Sissy, The Altruists, The Good Detective, The Municipalists, The Old Drift, Too Much is Not Enough, XL

Audiobooks featuring Cake for National Dessert Day

5 Sweet Audiobook Treats October 8, 2018

One of our favorite things about listening to stories that feature bakers or delectable-sounding cakes is that our hands are free to bake so we can enjoy tasty treats, too! READ MORE

Tags: A Long Line of Cakes, Adenrele Ojo, Adjoa Andoh, Aimee Bender, Alexander McCall Smith, Baking Cakes in Kigali, cook, Deborah Wiles, Gaile Parkin, gardener-cook, Jenna Lamia, jorjeana marie, Louise Miller, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living, The Great Cake Mystery, the particular sadness of lemon cake

8 Audiobooks Told Through Letters September 21, 2018

Writing letters may be seen as a nostalgic form of communication, but it’s also one of the most intimate (plus, who doesn’t love opening their mailbox to find a handwritten letter just for them?). READ MORE