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Audiobooks Narrated by Lauren Baldwin
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"In Victorian London, magic earns you a noose.
Eighteen-year-old Dorothy St. James can't control her magic. To avoid arrest, she locks herself at home and buries her nose in her experiments. But a kidnapper called the Rook is on the loose, and his victims keep turning up insane. When Dorothy's father is taken, she must exchange her beakers for bravery and find the Rook's trail—the problem is, only one person ever has: a mysterious masked hero.
Ashley Gardner unabashedly casts illusions, using his charm to flit between the upper ton and the magical underbelly below. When Dorothy accuses him of knowing the masked hero's identity, he flatly denies it. Until the clever beauty intercepts a communique he desperately needs.
They strike a bargain: she'll give him the message in exchange for three clues to point her in the right direction. But Ashley won't make them easy. In fact, he'll make them impossible, because he has his own dangerous reasons for keeping Dorothy away—and Ashley always gets what he wants.
Through dazzling ballets, wild carnivals, and death-defying train rides, Dorothy must use her wits and magic to solve Ashley's riddles and unravel her budding feelings for the illusionist mastermind behind them. The masked hero isn't who she believes, and the Rook is closer than she suspects. While the game was always rigged against her, returning her father—mind intact—might just cheat her out of a heart, too."
"London, 1878. A secret gift. A deadly vision. A relentless hunt for the truth.
Electra Poole has spent much of her life hiding her abilities, fearing the same fate as her mother, who was labeled mad and locked away. But in order to survive on her own, she plays into London's obsession with spiritualism, offering carefully crafted séances to those desperate for answers. Yet when she foresees the death of a wealthy noblewoman and chooses to stay silent, the guilt is suffocating, and the danger is very real.
Lady Becknell is murdered that very night. And someone might know what Electra saw. While Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Gideon Pierce, a man tied to her past and to the father she's never forgiven, is tasked with solving the case of Lady Becknell's murder, Electra can't help but do a bit of investigation of her own. She feels guilty for not warning Lady Becknell. But the killer is watching, and with each step closer to the truth, Electra fears that more lives hang in the balance.
To outwit a murderer, she must embrace the very gift she's always feared… before the killer claims their next victim."
"This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing—of being—articulated by these ten pathfinding women."
"First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family’s pet dog comes to grips
with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes
unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater
Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically
superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic
rebirth, one woman declines immortality.
For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary, delivering a lens
through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two,
award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-seven of the best stories published by both
new and established authors in 2016."
"We can all be heroes. That's the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee scientist.
Each entry in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a character trait that makes the person a role model for kids. The heroes tell their life stories in first-person present tense, which keeps the books playful and accessible to young children. And each book ends with a line of encouragement and a direct quote. This tenth audiobook in the series features Jane Goodall, the scientist and conservationist who is famous for her work with chimpanzees."
"Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass. FEATURING // CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE // PAOLO BACIGALUPI // ALIETTE DE BODARD // JOE ABERCROMBIE // RICH LARSON // NAOMI NOVIK // ALYSSA WONG // DARYL GREGORY // ALEX IRVINE // SAM J. MILLER // ALICE SOLA KIM // SETH DICKINSON // CAROLYN IVES GILMAN // GENEVIEVE VALENTINE // CAITLIN R. KIERNAN // AMAL EL-MOHTAR // THEODORA GOSS // IAN R. MACLEOD // DELIA SHERMAN // GEOFF RYMAN // NINA ALLAN // N.K. JEMISIN // LAVIE TIDHAR // YOON HA LEE // PAUL MCAULEY // CHARLES YU // E. LILY YU // KEN LIU Author bio: Jonathan Strahan is the multi-award winning editor of such anthologies as Engineering Infinity, Fearsome Magics, The Best of Science Fiction & Fantasy, The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other ground-breaking collections of the very finest genre fiction."
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