Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

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Title: The Elven Queen

Series: #3 of The Saga of the Elven

Author: Bernhard Hennen

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Release date: June 11, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

The battle for sovereignty over the realms reaches a devastating turning point as the international bestselling fantasy series continues. All that stands between the advancing army of trolls and the endangered fortress of Phylangan is a coalition force led by Alfadas, human hero and protector. He’s amassed his own legion of swordsmen, elves, and ragtag thieves to stave off the enemy. And the next move they make could be the most dangerous one of all. Those Alfadas has left behind are more vulnerable than ever—including his star-crossed elven love; their newborn child; and Queen Emerelle herself, who remains comatose and is powerless to safeguard her compromised kingdom. But as Alfadas risks all in the violent campaign of the realms, the fate of Phylangan trembles ever more as the enemy advances. However tenuous Alfadas’s victory is, what he fears most is what will be left of the homeland he abandoned…

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Title: Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune

Author: Roselle Lim

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Release date: June 11, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places.   At the news of her mother’s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant.  The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along.

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Title: Anika Rising

Series: #4 of Gretel

Author: Christopher Coleman

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

From the bottom of a lake, deep in the Back Country, death takes a turn. Within a day of being struck down by Hansel, Anika has risen. The cruel, addictive infection of Marlene's poison has protected Anika from the finality of death. But the resurrection is not without a price. She has a new hunger, and its lure is irresistible. Anika sees suicide as the only option, until she learns of a new terror in the world, one related to the Witch of the North and which threatens the lives of her children. Anika must now find the threat and destroy it before it kills her children.

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Title: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

Author: George Saunders

Narrator: George Saunders

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 40 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Gappers will get your goat. Literally. If you don't brush them off and return them to the ocean, whence they arrive every day, these bright orange, many-eyed creatures will cover your goats, and the goats will stop giving milk. In a village called Frip, goat's milk was the entire economy. Three families lived there--the Romos, the Ronsens, and a little girl named Capable and her widowed father, who wanted everything to remain the same. It didn't. One day, the Gappers, despite an average IQ of 3.7 (±.02), decided for a good reason to concentrate on Capable's goats. Oh, how the Romos and Ronsens turned their backs on the gapper-ridden Capable! Oh, how they indeed lorded it over her! What kinds of creatures are we, one wonders, when such selfishness so often springs up so spontaneously among us?   And, given the coldness of her neighbors' shoulders, what will Capable do about her Gapper plague, as her share of the economy dries up? Literally. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, with a brilliant story by award-ridden short-story master George Saunders, answers that question. In doing so it tells a tale as ancient as the Bible and as modern as a memo from the Federal Reserve Board. And funnier than both--which isn't saying all that much, admittedly. You don't get to laugh and gaze in visual awe and pleasure all that often when the Golden Rule comes under such serious attack and such staunch defense as it did in Frip. An adult story for children, a children's story for adults, an earthlings' story for aliens, an oceanside fable for the landlocked, a capitalist tool for anarchists, a fish story for loaves, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip represents the classic instant of two young geniuses colliding and colluding. The result is--what else?--an instant classic!

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Title: Little Darlings

Author: Melanie Golding

Narrator: Stephanie Racine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Release date: May 2, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

‘Atmospheric and very creepy’ The Guardian ‘Goosebump-inducing…Unforgettable’ Woman & Home ‘Unforgettable…there is something of Sylvia Plath in Lauren…One suspects that the real sorceress here is Golding, whose writing has given a voice to every wronged mother’ The New York Times ‘Chilling story…stunning’ Clare Mackintosh ‘Taps into every woman’s fear that she will not be believed’ Mel McGrath, author of The Guilty Party * * * * THE TWINS ARE CRYING. THE TWINS ARE HUNGRY. LAUREN IS CRYING. LAUREN IS EXHAUSTED. Behind the hospital curtain, someone is waiting . . . Lauren is alone on the maternity ward with her new-born twins when a terrifying encounter in the middle of the night leaves her convinced someone is trying to steal her children. Lauren, desperate with fear, locks herself and her sons in the bathroom until the police arrive to investigate. When DS Joanna Harper picks up the list of overnight incidents that have been reported, she expects the usual calls from drunks and wrong numbers. But then a report of an attempted abduction catches her eye. The only thing is that it was flagged as a false alarm just fifteen minutes later. Harper's superior officer tells her there's no case here, but Harper can’t let it go so she visits the hospital anyway. There's nothing on the CCTV. No one believes this woman was ever there. And yet, Lauren claims that she keeps seeing the woman and that her babies are in danger, and soon Harper is sucked into Lauren's spiral of fear. But how far will they go to save children who may not even be in danger? * * * * Early readers can’t stop raving about Little Darlings: ‘Every mother will see themselves in Lauren…taut with suspense’ ‘You just need to read it and let the creepiness and uneasiness set in’ ‘A disturbing and spine-chilling tale…This tale will keep readers on the edge of their seat’ ‘A unique, haunting story that stays with you long after finishing it’

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Title: Little Darlings: A Novel

Author: Melanie Golding

Narrator: Stephanie Racine

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 38

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

“Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother. Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own … creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things. A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. But when they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley—to everyone else—but to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, “These are not my babies!” Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw, she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life. Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking—and rechecking—your own little ones. Just to be sure. Just to be safe.

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Title: Return to Summerhouse

Series: #2 of Summerhouse

Author: Jude Deveraux

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.64 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

With her shining gift for “exquisite and enchanting” (Bookpage) storytelling, Jude Deveraux sweeps readers away in a breathtaking follow-up to her beloved New York Times bestseller, The Summerhouse—where a marvelous new adventure awaits. Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family...Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is for a man from years ago...and Zoe, an artist shunned by her hometown for reasons she doesn’t know, after a traumatic night erased her memory. With their mystical powers, Madame Zoya and her sister Primrose are about to transport the trio to eighteenth-century England to alter Amy’s ancestry. But although surprises await each of them, will stepping back in time bring the women the happy endings they seek?

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Title: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Author: Andrea Lawlor

Narrator: Dani Martineck

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

'In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle.' —O, The Oprah Magazine “HOT” (Maggie Nelson) • “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) • “DEEP” (Michelle Tea) It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Paul transforms his body and his gender at will as he crossed the country––a journey and adventure through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his/her way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.

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Title: Roar

Author: Cecelia Ahern

Narrator: Aisling Bea, Lara Sawalha, Adjoa Andoh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates, sometimes in fantastical ways, how women of all kinds navigate the world today—now an Apple TV+ series from the creators of GLOW starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie! In this singular and imaginative story collection, Cecelia Ahern explores the endless ways in which women blaze through adversity with wit, resourcefulness, and compassion. Ahern takes the familiar aspects of women's lives—the routines, the embarrassments, the desires—and elevates these moments to the outlandish and hilarious with her astute blend of magical realism and social insight. One woman is tortured by sinister bite marks that appear on her skin; another is swallowed up by the floor during a mortifying presentation; yet another resolves to return and exchange her boring husband at the store where she originally acquired him. The women at the center of this curious universe learn that their reality is shaped not only by how others perceive them, but also how they perceive the power within themselves. By turns sly, whimsical, and affecting, these thirty short stories are a dynamic examination of what it means to be a woman in this very moment. Like women themselves, each story can stand alone; yet together, they have a combined power to shift consciousness, inspire others, and create a multi-voiced Roar that will not be ignored.

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Title: The Hex Files: Wicked Moon Rising

Series: #4 of Mysteries from the Sixth Borough

Author: Gina Lamanna

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

When Detective Dani DeMarco is attacked in the middle of the night, she’s more than a little disgruntled. However, she soon discovers that things aren’t as simple as they seem and that everyone she loves is in great danger. The battle for The Hex Files has officially begun, and Wicked is under attack. Two werewolves are dead. A rogue vampire is on the loose. The love of Dani’s life is teetering on the edge of death. As the hunt for The Files turns into a race against time, Dani and her friends will come face-to-face with fate—the good, the bad, and the deadly.