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ID: 521439

Title: XOXO

Author: Axie Oh

Narrator: Greta Jung

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-21

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

Jennys never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. A modern forbidden romance wrapped in the glamorous and exclusive world of K-pop, XOXO is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Maurene Goo.

Jenny didnt get to be an award-winning, classically trained cellist without choosing practice over fun. That is, until the night she meets Jaewoo. Mysterious, handsome, and just a little bit tormented, Jaewoo is exactly the kind of distraction Jenny would normally avoid. And yet, she finds herself pulled into spending an unforgettable evening wandering Los Angeles with him on the night before his flight home to South Korea.

With Jaewoo an ocean away, theres no use in dreaming of what could have been. But when Jenny and her mother move to Seoul to take care of her ailing grandmother, who does she meet at the elite arts academy shes just been accepted to? Jaewoo.

Finding the dreamy stranger who swept you off your feet in your homeroom is one thing, but Jaewoo isnt just any student. Turns out, Jaewoo is a member of one of the biggest K-pop bands in the world. And like most K-pop idols, Jaewoo is strictly forbidden from dating anyone.

When a relationship means not only jeopardizing her place at her dream music school but also endangering everything Jaewoos worked for, Jenny has to decide once and for all just how much shes willing to risk for love. XOXO is a new romance that proves chasing your dreams doesnt have to mean sacrificing your heart, from acclaimed author Axie Oh. 

Indigo Best Teen Books of 2021

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ID: 489205

Title: Count the Ways: A Novel

Author: Joyce Maynard

Narrator: Joyce Maynard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:16:46

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women

Summary:

In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a familyfrom the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives

Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. Shes an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls. Within four years they are parents to three children, two daughters and a red-headed son who fills his pockets with rocks, plays the violin and talks to God. To Eleanor, their New Hampshire farm provides everything she always wantedsummer nights watching Cams softball games, snow days by the fire and the annual tradition of making paper boats and cork people to launch in the brook every spring. If Eleanor and Cam dont make love as often as they used to, they have something that matters more. Their family.

Then comes a terrible accident, caused by Cams negligence. Unable to forgive him, Eleanor is consumed by bitterness, losing herself in her life as a mother, while Cam finds solace with a new young partner. 

Over the decades that follow, the five members of this fractured family make surprising discoveries and decisions that occasionally bring them together, and often tear them apart. Tracing the course of their livesthrough the gender transition of one child and anothers choice to completely break with her motherJoyce Maynard captures a family forced to confront essential, painful truths of its past, and find redemption in its darkest hours.

A story of holding on and learning to let go, Count the Ways is an achingly beautiful, poignant, and deeply compassionate novel of home, parenthood, love, and forgiveness.

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ID: 515383

Title: I Couldn't Love You More: A Novel

Author: Esther Freud

Narrator: Niamh Cusack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:31:47

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past 

Its London, 1960, and Aoife Kellyonce the sparkling object of young mens affectionsruns pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow. One of these daughtersfiery, independent-minded Rosaleenmoves back to London, where she meets and begins an affair with the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish refugee artist over twice her tender eighteen years. When Rosaleen finds herself pregnant with Felixs child, she is evicted from her flat, dismissed from her job, and desperate to hide the secret from her family. Where, and to whom, can she turn?

Meanwhile, Kate, another generation down, lives in present-day London with her young daughter and husband, an unsuccessful musician and destructive alcoholic. Adopted and floundering to find a sense of herself in the midst of her unhappy marriage, Kate sets out to track down her birth mother, a search that leads her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the harrowing history that it holds.

Stirring and nostalgic at moments, visceral and propulsive at others, I Couldnt Love You More is a tender, candid portrait of love, sex, motherhood, and the enduring ties of family. It is impossible not to fall under the spell of this tale of mothers and daughters, wives and muses, secrets and outright lies.

From Soho to London to Ireland, I Couldn't Love You More is a captivating novel that delves into the complexities of womanhood and feminism, earning it a spot among the best novels about women.

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ID: 516044

Title: Appleseed: A Novel

Author: Matt Bell

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:44:53

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST OF THE YEAR

Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bells Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious. Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in Trouble

A breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything youve ever read (Esquire) from Young Lions Fiction Awardfinalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanitys unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple. 

In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and brokenand possibly healed.

Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the worlds resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and powerand in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the companys original founders will return to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build.

A thousand years in the future, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacierand in a daring and seemingly impossible quest, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization.

Hugely ambitious in scope and theme, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer as self-assured as he is audacious (NPR) who may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic, part tech thriller, part reinvented fairy tale, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate, civic, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all. 

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ID: 509153

Title: It Happened One Summer: A Novel

Author: Tessa Bailey

Narrator: Charlotte North

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:48:40

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Contemporary Women

Summary:

The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood It Girl is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesnt belong. 

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late fathers dive bar... in Washington.

Piper hasnt even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she wont last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper cant do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? Shes determined to show her stepfatherand the hot, grumpy localthat shes more than a pretty face.

Except its a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but theres an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesnt want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendanand this town full of memoriesmay have already caught her heart. 

As seen on E!Online, PopSugar, CNN, EliteDaily, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Bustle, the Nerd Daily, PARADE, LA Magazine, Country Living, USA Today, and more!

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ID: 525027

Title: Dreaming of You

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:44:21

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

When shy and secluded author Sara Fielding ventures from her country cottage to research a novel, she inadvertently witnesses a crime in progressand manages to save the life of the most dangerous man in London.

Derek Craven is a powerful and near-legendary gambling club owner who was born a bastard and raised in the streets. His reputation is unsavory, his scruples nonexistent. But Sara senses that beneath Derek's cynical exterior, he is capable of a love more passionate than her deepest fantasies.

Aware that he is the last man that an innocent young woman should ever want, Derek is determined to protect Sara from himself, no matter what it takes. But in a world where secrets lurk behind every shadow, he is the only man who can keep her safe. And as Derek and Sara surrender to an attraction too powerful to deny, a peril surfaces from his dark past to threaten their happiness . . . and perhaps even their lives.

Together they will discover if love is enough to make dreams come true.

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ID: 518091

Title: How I Saved the World

Author: Jesse Watters

Narrator: Larry Wayne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:26:28

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Politics, Literary, Arts & Entertainment, Political Ideologies

Summary:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future.

In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to pampered champion of right-thinking Americans. He has divined great truths about the nature of our country while stumbling across beaches asking oblivious college students basic political questions and while stumbling out of Air Force One with the President.

Interspersed are his thoughtful suggestions for overcoming left-wing radicalism, maintaining American democracy, moving beyond aging hippies (like his long-suffering, loving parents), saving the world from social justice warriors and the deep stateall while smirking his way through life in only the nicest way. 

Watters outlines the stark choice ahead of us between all-American hamburgers and leftist Green New Deal breadlines (okay, maybe that one is a no-brainer) and shows the way for order and fairness to be restored. A manifesto and a call-to-arms from a man for all seasons, How I Saved the World is a hilarious, enlightening, entertaining book with a reasonable chance of winning a Nobel Prize in every category, even chemistry. 

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ID: 518085

Title: Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope

Author: Shannon Dingle

Narrator: Jaime Lamchick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:01:04

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

For all women looking to find hope in a hopeless world and bravery in an age that seems to lack it, comes a searing memoir by Shannon Dingle, a writer and disability advocate who has navigated loss, trauma, abuse, spiritual reawakening, and deep painand come out the other side still hopeful.

Shannon Dingle has experienced more than her fair share of tragedy and trauma in her life, including surviving sexual abuse and trafficking as a child that left her with lasting disabilities and experiencing faith shifts that put her at odds with the evangelical church that had been her home. Then, in July 2019, Shannons husband was tragically killed by a rogue wave while the family was on vacation. The grief of the aftermath of losing her love and life partner sits at the heart of Living Brave, where Shannons searing, raw prose, illustrates what it looks like to take brave steps on the other side of unimaginable loss.

Through each challenge, she reveals the ways she learned to walk through them to the other side, and find courage even through the darkest moments. Living Brave gives women permission to wrestle with difficult topics, to use their voice, to take a stand for justice, to honor the wisdom of their bodies, and to enact change from a place of strong faith. 

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ID: 519314

Title: If You, Then Me

Author: Yvonne Woon

Narrator: Katharine Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:07:53

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

A warm and funny teen coming of age story set in Silicon Valley from Asian American author Yvonne Woon about the questions we all ask when making mistakes in life and in love, perfect for fans of Emergency Contact and When Dimple Met Rishi.

What would you ask your future self? First question: What does it feel like to kiss someone?

Xia is stuck in a lonely, boring loop. Her only escapes are Wiser, an artificial intelligence app she designed to answer questions as her future self, and a mysterious online crush she knows only as ObjectPermanence.

Until one day Xia enrolls at the Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley, and suddenly anything is possible. Flirting with Mast, a classmate also working on AI, leads to a date. Speaking up generates a vindictive nemesis intent on publicly humiliating her. And running into Mitzy Erst, Foundry alumna and Xias idol, could give Xia all the answers.

And then Xia receives a shocking message from ObjectPermanence. He is at the Foundry, too. Xia is torn between Mast and ObjectPermanencejust as Mitzy pushes her towards a shiny new future. Xia doesnt have to ask Wiser to know: The right choice could transform her into the future self of her dreams, but the wrong one could destroy her.

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ID: 521690

Title: Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

Author: Earl Swift

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:07:49

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, North America, Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep.'' Hampton Sides

In this ''brilliantly observed'' (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of Chesapeake Requiem reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missionsdistinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicledeserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration.

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moons left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles in to this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankinds travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander. 

A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric go-cart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moons reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on Americas last three ventures to the lunar surface. 

In the decades since, the exploits of the astronauts on those final expeditions have dimmed in the shadow cast by the first moon landing. But Apollo 11 was but a prelude to what came later: while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan. All told, their crews traveled fifty-six miles, and brought deep science and a far more swashbuckling style of exploration to the moon. And they triumphed for one very American reason: they drove.

In this fast-moving history of the rover and the adventures it ignited, Earl Swift puts the reader alongside the men who dreamed of driving on the moon and designed and built the vehicle, troubleshot its flaws, and drove it on the moons surface. Finally shining a deserved spotlight on these overlooked characters and the missions they created, Across the Airless Wilds is a celebration of human genius, perseverance, and daring.

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