Audiobooks narrated by Roxanne Hernandez

A Bird With the Heart of a Mountain Audiobook

Drina knows the men who love to watch her dance also believe Gypsies are no better than stray dogs — but when she dances, Drina doesn’t think. She forgets who she is. She forgets what seems to be her legacy: I am nothing. I belong nowhere. The daughter of a Gypsy woman and a well-to-do Spaniard who abandoned them, Drina wants only to dance. Why then does her mother forbid it? Set during the chaos of the Spanish Civil War in the fascinating world of Gypsy campgrounds, the vineyard estate of the family she has never known and the dance halls of Seville where flamenco reigns, Drina fights to discover who she is and where she belongs. Can her passion — her duende — save her from the perils of the civil war? From a father lost, then found? And will she come to understand what it means to be a bird with the heart of a mountain?

Barbara Mariconda (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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A Different Dawn

A Wall Street Journal bestseller. For nearly thirty years a serial killer has been hiding in plain sight. So has the key to an FBI agent’s dark past. A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than two thousand miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her. Nina has known evil, but these macabre reenactments are as disturbing as they are baffling. Now she must uncover the meaning behind the rituals as the evidence leads her in an unexpected direction—far closer to home than anyone could have imagined. As the team narrows in on a suspect, the present collides with Nina’s past in a twist of fate that forces her to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Isabella Maldonado (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Beacon Street Girls Special Adventure: Isabel's Texas Two-Step

Isabel's sister Elena Maria is turning fifteen, and the Martinez family is planning her quinceañera-at Uncle Hector's ranch in San Antonio! ¡Hóla! Everything about San Antonio is awesome (except for my annoying cousin Ricardo)! The Southwestern art is giving me all sorts of ideas for new drawings. But Elena has turned Quincezilla-you'd think no one has ever turned fifteen before-and it's like I'm invinsible. It's a good thing there's so much to see and do around here. And you won't believe what I discovered when my cousin and I got stranded in a cave during a thunder and lightning storm! Un beso, Isabel

Annie Bryant (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Beyond Magenta

“I’ve always loved my body, and now I love it even more because it fits how I feel.” — Jessy “Learn your pronouns because I don’t want to have to slap somebody tonight.” — Christina “Transition? Everyone goes through one kind of transition or another. We go through transitions every day. Except mine is maybe a little more extreme.” — Mariah “Being trans is not the next step to being gay. They are similar in that they are both breaking gender rules.” — Cameron “When people say I look male or female, it messes up my head.” — Nat “My family was okay with me being gay, but trans was a different issue for them. I think a lot of it was because they had no experience with it.” — Luke In Beyond Magenta, six teens tell what it is like for them to be members of the transgender community.

Susan Kuklin (Author), Janina Edwards, Marisol Ramirez, Nancy Wu, Nick Podehl, Roxanne Hernandez, Susan Kuklin, Tanya Eby, Todd Haberkorn (Narrator)

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Bluescreen

"Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome."-James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni-a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen-and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the net-going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen-a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected.

Dan Wells (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Collected Stories

Collected Stories is the definitive compilation of Lewis Shiner's short work, featuring over forty stories voiced by top narrators in the business. Contents include: Introduction, read by Karen Joy Fowler 'Perfidia,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Stuff of Dreams,' read by John Rubinstein 'The War at Home,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Straws,' read by Scott Brick 'Nine Hard Questions,' read by Kimberly Farr 'White City,' read by Gabrielle de Cuir 'Primes,' read by Arthur Morey 'The Long Ride Out,' read by Rex Linn 'Sitcom,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'The Death of Che Guevara,' read by Roxanne Hernandez and Stefan Rudnicki 'His Girlfriend's Dog,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Deep without Pity,' read by Rex Linn 'The Circle,' read by Kimberly Farr 'Twilight Time,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Jeff Beck,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Wild for You,' read by Kris Tabori 'Till Human Voices Wake Us,' Read by John Rubinstein 'Flagstaff,' read by Scott Brick 'Tommy and the Talking Dog,' read by Janis Ian 'Oz,' read by Kris Tabori 'Love in Vain,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Steam Engine Time,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Kings of the Afternoon,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Sticks,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'The Tale of Mark the Bunny,' read by Janis Ian 'The Killing Season,' read by Rex Linn 'Scales,' read by Gabrielle de Cuir 'Snowbirds,' read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki 'Match,' read by Kris Tabori 'Relay,' read by Gabrielle de Cuir and Stefan Rudnicki 'Castles Made of Sand,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Prodigal Son,' read by Rex Linn 'Mozart in Mirrorshades,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Kidding Around,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Mystery Train,' read by John Rubinstein 'Secrets,' read by Roxanne Hernandez 'Golfing Vietnam,' read by Gabrielle de Cuir 'Stompin' at the Savoy,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Gold,' read by Arthur Morey 'Dirty Work,' read by Stefan Rudnicki 'Lizard Men of Los Angeles,' read by David Birney

Lewis Shiner (Author), Arthur Morey, David Birney, Gabrielle De Cuir, Janis Ian, John Rubinstein, Kimberly Farr, Kristoffer Tabori, Multivoice, Rex Linn, Roxanne Hernandez, Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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Dark One: Forgotten

From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s new DARK ONE fantasy saga. Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved. In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined to change that. After struggling with the loss of her father, she sets out on a journey to bring the justice that has eluded her to the families of other victims. And she starts with a particularly strange case. The murder of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson, who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. As Christina digs deeper, the story gets stranger. Leona was a prodigy, someone too good to be forgotten, but that’s exactly what has happened. She’s been forgotten. Entirely. By everyone who knew her. From the gushing music critic in her hometown, to the detectives investigating her murder, even her own mother. So Christina embarks on a cross-country mission, with her roommate Sophie, to figure out what happened to Leona. In the process she uncovers a trail of similar victims who have suffered the same fate. But if no one can remember the victims, how can the killer possibly be caught? Christina’s only leads come from a crazed homeless man’s ramblings, a mysterious glass eye, and an otherworldly totem. Is Christina crazy or has she stumbled upon something so implausible it must be true?

Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells (Author), Avery Waddell, Jim Meskimen, John H. Mayer, Jose Luis Bermudez, Kaleo Griffith, Keith Szarabajka, Kelli Tager, Mia Barron, Nan Mcnamara, Rachel Jacobs, Roxanne Hernandez, Sophie Oda, William Elsman (Narrator)

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Domain

An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn't an asteroid ... For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites: the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the temple of Angkor Wat, the Pyramid of the Sun, and the key site-the Kukulcán Pyramid at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán Peninsula, site of the ancient asteroid impact-represent pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the doomsday prophecy. Now, only one person can prevent our annihilation-Julius' son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum. Miami, 2012. Psychology major Dominique Vazquez reports to a Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patient-Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ. Mick attempts to charm her into believing his father's theories of the apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesn't realize is that she represents Mick's last hope of saving humanity. Fall equinox, 2012. As it has done for a thousand years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcán Pyramid. As a rare galactic alignment occurs, a deep space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried long ago in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the beginning of the end. "Jarring, frightening, thrilling."-James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author

Steve Alten (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Faces in the Crowd

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city’s subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen and Federico García Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss. Valeria Luiselli’s debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. “In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage—and then, in the book’s second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer.”—Francisco Goldman, award-winning author of Say Her Name

Valeria Luiselli (Author), Armando Duran, Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told that "girls can't do science" or "women just don't know how to handle machines." Yet in the span of just six years, Cecilia became the first Latina pilot to secure a place on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and earn the right to represent her country at the Olympics of aviation, the World Aerobatic Championships. How did she do it? Using mathematical techniques to overcome her fear, Cecilia performed at air shows in front of millions of people. She jumped out of airplanes and taught others how to fly. She learned how to fund-raise and earn money to compete at the world level. She worked as a test pilot and contributed to the design of experimental airplanes, crafting curves of metal and fabric that shaped air to lift inanimate objects high above the earth. And best of all, she surprised everyone by overcoming the prejudices people held about her because of her race and her gender. Flying Free is the story of how Cecilia Aragon broke free from expectations and rose above her own limits by combining her passion for flying with math and logic in unexpected ways. You don't have to be a math whiz or a science geek to learn from her story. You just have to want to soar.

Cecilia Aragon (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Hell or High Water

Nola Cespedes, an ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, finally catches a break: an assignment to write her first full-length feature. While investigating her story, she also becomes fixated on the search for a missing tourist in the French Quarter. As Nola's work leads her into a violent criminal underworld, she's forced to face disturbing truths from her own past. Vividly rendered in razor-sharp prose, this haunting thriller is a riveting journey of trust betrayed - and the courageous struggle to rebuild. Fast-paced, atmospheric, and with a knockout twist, Joy Castro's Hell or High Water features an unforgettable heroine as fascinating and multi-layered as New Orleans itself.

Joy Castro (Author), Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Hot Sur

From revered Colombian writer Laura Restrepo comes the smart, thrilling story of a young woman trying to outrun a nightmare. María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence. But the dangers of prison are not her only obstacles: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back. Can María Paz survive this double threat in a land where danger and desperation are always one step behind, and safety and happiness seem just out of reach?

Laura Restrepo (Author), David Colacci, Roxanne Hernandez (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez