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The Lager Queen Author and Narrator Feature

How to Brew an Audiobook: Narrator Judith Ivey and Author J. Ryan Stradal on The Lager Queen of Minnesota Submitted by Becca Stumpf on July 22, 2019

The Midwest: a place where farm fields and family trees stretch for miles and rich, loamy emotions are buried beneath a topsoil of quiet grit. Read more

Tagged: book club, cooking, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, Summer Listens, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

7 Audiobooks that Are a Feast for the Ears Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on December 19, 2017

Cooking has always been a way of nourishing not only the body but the soul. The characters in these sumptuous stories experience just that. Read more

Tagged: Aimee Bender, baking, cook, cooking, delicious, Erica Bauermeister, food fiction, gardener-cook, J Ryan Stradal, Joanne Harris, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, Laura Esquivel, like water for chocolate, Listen While You Cook, Louise Miller, peaches for father francis, Ruth Reichl, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living, the particular sadness of lemon cake, the school of essential ingredients

Best Debut Fiction Audiobooks of 2015 Submitted by Emily Davis on December 17, 2015

Everyone has a favorite author. But that favorite author was, at one time, a debut writer. Their voice not yet discovered, their first book impatiently waiting on the shelves to be read, loved, shared.

You’ll always pick up the new audiobook (or hardcover if you’re into that sort of thing) by your go-to author, but even the big names only turn out, at most, a few books a year. And if you’re an avid reader, you need books. All. The. Time. So why not take a chance on a writer you haven’t heard of before? Finding a new voice is one of the great joys of reading. Read more

Tagged: Alexander Essbaum, Among the Ten Thousand Things, Andria Williams, Another Woman's Daughter, debut fiction, Fiona Sussman, Girl at War, Hausfrau, Hester Young, J Ryan Stradal, Julia Pierpont, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, Paula Hawkins, Sara Novic, THE GATES OF EVANGELINE, The Girl on the Train, The Longest Night

Audiobooks as Sous Chefs – Cook and Read at the Same Time Submitted by Emily Davis on August 14, 2015

For some, the act of cooking is relaxing. For others, it’s a chore. For readers, it’s one more thing that stops us from finishing our book.

But no longer! Now, you can cook and read at the same time. Read more

Tagged: Audiobooks, cook, cook and read, cooking, cooking with audiobooks, Darien Gee, E L James, EL James, Friendship Bread, gardener-cook, Grey, Janet Evanovich, Julia Child, Junie B Jones, Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, Lee Goldberg, My Kitchen Year, My Life in France, Ruth Reichl, Ryan J Stradal, The Heist