Julia Gibson

My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Richard Poe, Julia Gibson, Barbara McCulloh, and others
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Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13 she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is.

Vanishing Acts

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Jim Jenner, Robert Ramierez, Sharon Washington, and others
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Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.

The History of Love

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Nicole Krauss
• Narrated By George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Julia Gibson, and others

Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices.

The Last Chance Olive Ranch

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Susan Wittig Albert
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times best-selling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him. A killer McQuaid put away years ago has busted out of Huntsville Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. China wants to stay by her husband's side and keep him from harm, but McQuaid insists that she get out of town and go to the Last Chance Olive Ranch, where she's agreed to teach a workshop on herbs.

Deep Dish: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Mary Kay Andrews
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. But when her show gets canceled - and she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the boss' wife - Gina realizes that she's meant for bigger and better things. Namely, a gig on national television.

The Patron Saint of Liars

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Ann Patchett
• Narrated By Julia Gibson

St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs.

But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them.

Salem Falls

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Julia Gibson

A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets - and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation.

Keeping Faith

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Eliza Foss, Julia Gibson
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Mariah has just discovered her husband Colin is having his second affair. During the divorce process, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, meets an imaginary friend who may be God. Amidst much controversy, Colin sues for custody of Faith, compelling Mariah to find her inner strength.

Shakespeare's Landlord: Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Charlaine Harris
• Narrated By Julia Gibson

From the Anthony Award-winning author of the immensely popular Sookie Stackhouse mysteries comes the first book starring Lily Bard, a reclusive cleaning lady with a penchant for karate. When Lily finds and reports a dead body, her shady past and connections to potential perpetrators make her a leading suspect.

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Tom Angleberger
• Narrated By Mark Turetsky, Greg Steinbruner, Jonathan Ross, and others

A journalist and fiction author, Tom Angleberger has a knack for capturing the lives of today’s youth. In The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, socially awkward Dwight shows up to school one morning waving a green finger puppet. Strange enough, but then Dwight starts talking in a funny voice and doling out advice. Is it the puppet, or is it Dwight? And will paper Yoda be able to help Dwight convince the girl of his dreams to go to the big dance with him?

Indigo Lake

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jodi Thomas
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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Blade Hamilton is the last of his line. He's never even heard of Crossroads, Texas, until he inherits land there. Riding in on his vintage Harley-Davidson, Blade finds a weathered ranch house, an empty prairie, and a dark river that cuts a decisive path between the Hamiltons' land and that of their estranged neighbors. When Dakota helps a stranger on the roadside, she isn't prepared for the charisma of the man on the motorbike - or for the last name he bears: Hamilton, of her family's sworn enemies.

Bulls Island

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Dorothea Benton Frank
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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A satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love infused with Southern wit, grace, and charm - the story of two old Southern families. The Langleys have more money than the Morgan Stanley Bank. And they think they have more class. The Barrett family made their 19th-century fortune in a less distinguished manner: corner grocery stores and liquor stores.

Shakespeare's Christmas: The Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Charlaine Harris
• Narrated By Julia Gibson

Lily Bard is going home for the holidays. More comfortable in baggy sweats than bridesmaid's frills, Lilly isn't thrilled about attending her estranged sister's wedding. She has moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas, to start a new life, cleaning houses for a living, trying to forget the violence that once nearly destroyed her. Now she's heading back to home and hearth - just in time for murder.

Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Julius Lester
• Narrated By Sisi Aisha Johnson, Lizan Mitchell, Marc D. Johnson, and others

As did his father before him, Pierce Butler treats his plantation slaves like family. But massive gambling debts force him to sell 429 “family” members. When the auction begins, torrential rain falls - not stopping until the final slave is sold the next day. The ominous rainfall prompts these words: “This ain’t rain. This is God’s tears.” Based on the largest slave auction in U.S. history, this poignant montage is the fictionalized account of that 1859 Georgia tragedy.

Shakespeare's Champion: Lily Bard Mysteries, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Charlaine Harris
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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When Lily stumbles upon the well-built corpse of a local body builder - his neck broken by a barbell - the town's underlying racial tension begins to boil over. The white victim was somehow connected to two unsolved murders of black residents of Shakespeare - and a dogged policeman is determined to stop the killing. But it is Lily herself who may have to decide whether to stay and fight for justice, or run away one more time.

Married Men

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Carl Weber
• Narrated By Kevin Free, Dion Graham, Marc Johnson, and others

Carl Weber is a recipient of the Blackboard Bookseller of the Year Award. Married Men is a fresh and funny take on modern love that has been described as Waiting to Exhale on testosterone. Lifelong friends Kyle, Allen, Wil, and Jay all make mistakes in their marriages-and all get kicked to the curb by their wives. What follows is a wild ride with stops in sleazy hotels, divorce court, and even jail. In their adventure, fueled by Viagra® and lovely young ladies, the four men always have each other to lean on.

The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee: An Origami Yoda Book

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Tom Angleberger
• Narrated By Julia Gibson, Jennifer Ikeda, Ali Ahn, and others

With Dwight attending Tippett Academy this semester, the kids of McQuarrie Middle School are on their own - no Origami Yoda to give advice and help them navigate the treacherous waters of middle school. Then Sara gets a gift she says is from Dwight - a paper fortune-teller in the form of Chewbacca. It’s a Fortune Wookiee, and it seems to give advice that’s just as good as Yoda’s - even if, in the hands of the girls, it seems too preoccupied with romance. In the meantime, Dwight is fitting in a little too well at Tippett. Has the unimaginable happened?

Stone Kiss

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Faye Kellerman
• Narrated By George Guidall, Julia Gibson
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Murder hits close to home as the brother-in-law of Decker’s half-brother is found dead in a seedy hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man’s 15 year-old-niece. Pete finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, and soon devastating family secrets emerge.

Blackthorne's Bride

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Joan Johnston
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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Two years have passed since Josie Wentworth was bought from the Sioux for a gold watch and whisked back to England by Marcus Wharton, the Duke of Blackthorne. When Marcus breaks his promise to return Josie to America, she ends up as a maid in the home of his charming but neglected nephews. Once Josie's long-lost family finds her, however, the suddenly wealthy heiress sets out to save the two boys from their indifferent uncle - and teach the duke a lesson in honor.