2023 Audie Awards | Main library

1) Pipeline

Author

Morisseau, Dominique

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Audio Drama Winner

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eAudiobook, eBook

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With profound compassion and lyricism, Morisseau brings us a powerful play that delves into the urgent issue of the "school-to-prison" pipeline that ensnares people of color. Issues of class, race, parenting, and education in America are brought to the frontlines, as we are left to question the systematic structures that ultimately trap underserved communities.

2) Finding me

Author

Davis, Viola

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Audiobook of the year Winner & Narration by the Author(s) Winner

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Audiobook CD, Audiobook on CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print - Paperback

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"Much-anticipated, emotionally-charged debut memoir from award-winning actor and icon Viola Davis"--

3) Unprotected: a memoir

Author

Porter, Billy

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Autobiography/Memoir Winner

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Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healingânow in paperback
Itâs easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking...

4) Fairy tale: a novel

Author

King, Stephen

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

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Best Male Narrator Winner

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Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice!

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great...

5) On the Hustle

Author

Herrera, Adriana

Series

Dating in Dallas volume 2

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Erotica Winner

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eAudiobook, eBook

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Alba Duarte is the queen of the side hustle. As the eldest daughter in her crisis-prone family, she’s always stepped up to help. Her favorite gig is doing Instagram-worthy, bookish-themed bedroom makeovers for friends. Her most hated? Working as the assistant to the most gorgeous—and most infuriating—man on earth. Theo Ganas is a former Olympic swimmer and heir to a bona fide real estate empire. He’s also about as warm and fuzzy as a New...

6) ¡Primera caída!: (El enmascarado de terciopelo 1)

Author

Mejía Eguiluz, Diego

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Spanish Language Winner

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¿La sensibilidad se lleva bien con los luchadores?

Desde su debut, el Conde de Terciopelo se ha empeñado en demostrar que no hay luchador más rudo que él. El ring no es un lugar para débiles, el chiste es apabullar a todos para llegar al estrellato. Pero, la verdad, el Conde es de naturaleza sensible, y su carrera podría irse a pique por eso. Lo que pasa es que desde chiquito le enseñaron a aguantarse como

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7) Dark Angel: A Military Action and Supernatural Warfare Thriller

Author

Wilson, Jeffrey

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Faith-Based Fiction or Non-Fiction Winner

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Former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson returns to Nashville ready to begin his training with the elite warriors known as the Shepherds. He thinks he knows what to expect when he arrives on the sprawling, state-of-the-art facility but quickly realizes he'll have to find his place as the rookie leader of a new team. Then he starts having visions of an imminent attack overseas, and with the clock ticking, Jed and his team are dispatched to neutralize the...

8) Mad honey: a novel

Author

Picoult, Jodi

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Fiction Winner

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Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...

9) Happy-go-lucky

Author

Sedaris, David

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Humor Winner

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Book, Audiobook CD, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print - Hardback

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The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.

10) Sparring Partners: Novellas

Author

Grisham, John

Series

Jake Brigance novels

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Multi-Voiced Performance Winner

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store.

“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the...

11) Delilah Green doesn't care

Author

Blake, Ashley Herring

Series

Bright Falls volume 1

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Romance Winner

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Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love-with all its complications-by debut author Ashley Herring Blake. Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls-nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's...

12) Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc

Author

Bishop, Ash

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Science Fiction Winner

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A Science Fiction 2023 AUDIE AWARDS® Nominee Finding work is easy. Staying alive is a little bit harder. When Russ Wesley finds an unusual artifact in his grandfather's collection of rare antiquities, the last thing he expects is for it to draw the attention of a ferocious alien from a distant planet. Equally surprising is the adventurous team of intergalactic exterminators dispatched to deal with the alien threat. They're a little wild, and a...

13) Greenwich Park

Author

Faulkner, Katherine

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Thriller/Suspense Winner

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"A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and the fallibility of the memories we cherish"--

14) The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Author

Hannah-Jones, Nikole

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Audiobook of the Year Finalist & Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire

NOW AN...

15) Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon

Author

Gladwell, Malcolm

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Audiobook of the year Finalist

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What happens when Paul Simon, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in music history, and Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author, sit down together, with a tape recorder and a guitar? Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is part memoir, part investigation, and unlike any creative portrait you've ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Gladwell, and Gladwell's oldest friend and...

16) Remarkably bright creatures: a novel

Author

Van Pelt, Shelby

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Audiobook of the year Finalist

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Book - Hardback, eAudiobook

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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--

17) Clean Sweep

Author

Andrews, Ilona

Series

Innkeeper Chronicles

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Audio Drama Finalist

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This is a short novel, about 60,000 words.
On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is...different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the...

18) The extraordinary life of an ordinary man: a memoir

Author

Newman, Paul

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Autobiography/Memoir Finalist

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"The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman's...

19) Hello, Molly!: a memoir

Author

Shannon, Molly

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Autobiography/Memoir Finalist & Narration by the Author(s) Finalist

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A New York Times bestseller

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon

At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised

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20) Left on tenth: a second chance at life : a memoir

Author

Ephron, Delia

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Autobiography/Memoir Finalist

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The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone).

Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer....