The Dress Shop of Dreams: A Novel

The House at the End of Hope Street

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Menna Van Praag
• Narrated By Elizabeth Sastre
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Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she’s never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house’s usual conditions: She has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. With nothing left to lose, Alba takes a chance and moves in. She soon discovers that this is no ordinary house.

Garden Spells

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen
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The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers.

Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.

Together again in the house they grew up in, the Waverley sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy - if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom - or with each other.

The Summer That Made Us

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Robyn Carr
• Narrated By Therese Plummer
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A television talk show host returns to her childhood summer home to rebuild her life after she's fired for falling ratings. The return is bittersweet as the house has been neglected for years. She's flooded with memories of the wonderful summers she spent with her sisters and cousins before a tragic event changed everything. Working to uncover what really happened the last summer they were all together, she reaches out to her family and the women all gather for an uneasy family reunion.

The Bookshop on the Corner

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Jenny Colgan
• Narrated By Lucy Price-Lewis
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Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect books for her readers. But can she write her own happy ever after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book lovers the world over, the New York Times best-selling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Meg Donohue, Sophie Kinsella, and Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop.

The Wishing Thread

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Lisa Van Allen
• Narrated By Amy Rubinate
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The Van Ripper women have been the talk of Tarrytown, New York, for centuries. Some say they're angels; some say they're crooks. In their tumbledown "Stitchery", not far from the stomping grounds of the legendary Headless Horseman, the Van Ripper sisters - Aubrey, Bitty, and Meggie - are said to knit people's most ardent wishes into beautiful scarves and mittens, granting them health, success, or even a blossoming romance. But for the magic to work, sacrifices must be made - and no one knows that better than the Van Rippers.

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Rebecca Lowman
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In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world - no matter how out of place they feel.

How to Find Love in a Bookshop

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Veronica Henry
• Narrated By Fiona Hardingham
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Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers - a cozy haven and welcoming getaway for the literary-minded locals. But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open after her beloved father's death, and the temptation to sell is getting stronger. The property developers are circling, yet Emilia's loyal customers have become like family, and she can't imagine breaking the promise she made to her father to keep the store alive.

The Sugar Queen

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Karen White
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Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night.

Lost Lake

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Janet Metzger
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The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future. That was half a lifetime ago. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby’s past. Her husband, George, is long passed. Most of her demanding extended family are gone.

The Apprentice Witch

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By James Nicol
• Narrated By Elizabeth Knowelden

Arianwyn has flunked her witch's assessment. She knows she's doomed. Declared an apprentice and sent to the town of Lull in disgrace, Arianwyn may never become a real witch like everyone else - much to the glee of her archrival, Gimma. But the remote Lull is not as boring as it seems. Strange things are being sighted in the woods, and a dangerous infestation of hex creeps throughout the town. Then the worst thing Arianwyn can imagine arrives in Lull: Gimma turns up on vacation determined to make her life miserable.

The Peach Keeper: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Karen White
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

The Sparrow Sisters: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs)
• By Ellen Herrick
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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The Sparrow Sisters are as tightly woven into the seaside New England town of Granite Point as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls along the harbor. Sorrel, Nettie, and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk.

The Forbidden Garden: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Ellen Herrick
• Narrated By Fiona Hardingham
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At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate. Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife, Stella, Sorrel is shocked by the desolate state of the walled garden. Generations have tried - and failed - to bring it back to glory.

Season of the Dragonflies: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Sarah Creech
• Narrated By Kate Turnbull
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For generations, the Lenore women have manufactured a fragrance unlike any other. Hidden in the quiet rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, their perfumery guards unique and mysterious ingredients. A secret known only to a select clientele of movie stars, politicians, artists, and CEOs, the Lenores' signature elixir is the key to success for the world's most powerful women. Capturing the essence of sisterhood with the sweetness of flowers, Season of the Dragonflies is a beguiling tale of practical magic, old secrets, and new love.

The Ladies' Room

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Carolyn Brown
• Narrated By Donna Postel
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Secrets told in the church ladies' room are supposed to stay in the ladies' room. But that doesn't mean that what Trudy overhears there during her great-aunt Gertrude's funeral won't change the rest of her life. Trudy has a daughter in the middle of a major rebellion; a two-timing husband who has been cheating for their entire married life; and a mother with Alzheimer's residing in the local nursing home.

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Ellen Berry
• Narrated By Gabrielle Glaister
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Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop is about to open its doors.... In the beginning...Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn't an issue that 'Cooking with Aspic' can't fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You. Forty years later.... On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwright plans to open a very special little bookshop.

The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Ruth Hogan
• Narrated By Jane Collingwood, Sandra Duncan
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Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects - the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind - and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners.

The House On Tradd Street

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Karen White
• Narrated By Aimée Bruneau
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Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An Old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog - and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.

The Little French Guesthouse: La Cour des Roses, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Helen Pollard
• Narrated By Helen Johns
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When Emmy Jamieson arrives at La Cour des Roses, a beautiful guesthouse in the French countryside, she can't wait to spend two weeks relaxing with boyfriend Nathan. Their relationship needs a little TLC, and Emmy is certain this holiday will do the trick. But they've barely unpacked before he scarpers with Gloria, the guesthouse owner's cougar wife. Rupert, the ailing guesthouse owner, is shell-shocked. Feeling somewhat responsible - and rather generous after a bottle (or so) of wine - heartbroken Emmy offers to help.

The Firefly Dance: Four Novellas About Growing Wise and Growing Up

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen, Kathryn Magendie, Phyllis Schieber
• Narrated By Frances Fuller
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Fireflies seem to dance on sheer air, illuminating the space between heartbeats. Children give off a similar brave glow, despite the challenges of their young lives. The lessons of childhood are often painful, the shedding of fragile wings in the gloam of an uncertain future. These rich novellas are small jewels reflecting the essence of what it means to grow up dancing among the shadows of life, carrying a brave, small beacon because you know that even the brightest days always, always, end in darkness.

The Paris Key

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Juliet Blackwell
• Narrated By Xe Sands
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As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmithing at her uncle's side. But since then, living back in the States, she has become more private, more subdued. She has been an observer of life rather than an active participant, holding herself back from those around her, including her soon-to-be ex-husband. Paris never really left Genevieve, and, as her marriage crumbles, she finds herself faced with an incredible opportunity.

Last One Home: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Debbie Macomber
• Narrated By Rebecca Lowman, Debbie Macomber
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Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close - until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents' hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father's favorite - a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie's actions even harder to bear.

The Book of Speculation: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Erika Swyler
• Narrated By Ari Fliakos
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Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home - a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards and seldom calls.

Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe: Cupcake Café Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Jenny Colgan
• Narrated By Michelle Ford
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Issy Randall can bake. No, Issy can create stunning, mouthwateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe's bakery, she has undoubtedly inherited his talent. She's much better at baking than she is at filing, so when she's laid off from her desk job, Issy decides to open her own little café. But she soon learns that her piece-of-cake plan will take all of her courage and confectionary talent to avert disaster.