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10 Audiobook Originals You Need To Hear

by PRH Audio Team

June is Audiobook Month, and we’re celebrating with a fantastic playlist of audiobook originals! That’s right: fiction, live performances, and engaging nonfiction from fan-favorite authors like Jason Reynolds, Nick Offerman, Liv Constantine, and Deb Perelman, made especially for the audio format and found only in your headphones.

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    by Jason Reynolds

    Read by Nile Bullock, Mekhi Hewling, Jade Williams, Brandon Miles, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Amir Royale, Jasmin Richardson, Christopher Grant, Khaya Fraites, Nadine Simmons, Robb Moreira, We Ani, Rocky Anicette and Brandiss Seward

    From beloved bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes Soundtrack, an audiobook original performed by a full cast, with an original score by Grammy-winning composer Justin Ellington. When Stuy and his friends begin busking in the New York City subway, they become an underground sensation whose talent and love of music lift them to unexpected heights and change the course of their young lives.

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    by Najwa Zebian

    Read by Najwa Zebian, Catherine Ho, Dani Martineck, Musu-Kulla Massaquoi, Gilli Messer, Lee Osorio and Victoria Villarreal

    Najwa Zebian, EdD, has been grappling with the concept of letting go for years, both in her own journey and in her interactions with community members, students, and friends. Conversations on Letting Go is an original audio experience, written and narrated by Zebian, that guides listeners through authentically letting go and the path to forgiveness, with a combination of prescriptive advice and practical tools.

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    The Ghost Club

    by Kate Winkler Dawson

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    Kate Winkler Dawson, acclaimed author of American Sherlock and host of multiple true-crime podcasts, narrates the story of The Ghost Club, a group made up of some of the 1900s’ most illustrious leaders who gathered to discuss the supernatural, debunk fake spiritual encounters, and prove the existence of poltergeists.

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    Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation

    by Deb Perelman

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    In this special audio original, listeners get a chance to sit at the counter with the internet’s favorite home cook Deb Perelman, while she chats about 44 fail-safe, satisfying recipes you’ll rely on for years to come.

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    MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses

    by Steven Rinella

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    In MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses, a collection of outdoorsmen share remarkable tales of life-altering moments. Listeners will hear firsthand accounts of a deadly helicopter crash, turkey hunting during a tornado, a prophetic dream about a 24-point buck, a fight over a record-breaking black bear, and more stories about close calls and brushes with death.

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    by Nick Offerman

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    In Nick Offerman’s view, we as a country can be doing a better job when it comes to decency. All Rise invites listeners to a rollicking evening of deliberative talking, mirth, and song that compels them to chuckle while contemplating a better side of humanity than the one to which they’ve grown accustomed.

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    by J. Michael Straczynski

    Read by Erik Braa, Pete Bradbury, William DeMeritt, Ryan Haugen, David Lee Huynh, Mars Lipowski, Saskia Maarleveld, Brandon McInnis, Stefan Rudnicki, Salli Saffioti, Christopher Smith, Marc Thompson, Will Watt and Full Cast

    From the creator of Babylon 5 and Sense8 comes a full-cast military audio drama set in the near future, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Timothy Zahn. International tension is rising as the Russian military forms an Eastern Alliance to create a new age of Russian supremacy. The rest of the world is scrambling for a united response. Enter Project Earthlight.

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    David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show

    by David Dean Bottrell

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    In the original audiobook performance of the highly acclaimed stage production, David Dean Bottrell revisits how love and sex (or the lack thereof) have affected the course of his life from age five to the present.

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    Everybody Is a Liar

    by Liv Constantine

    Read by Barrie Kreinik, Saskia Maarleveld, Shayr Guthrie, Jennifer Jill Araya, Dallis Seeker and Danny Campbell

    Liza, a therapist, is helping Julie and Oliver work through Oliver’s recent cheating. But when murder strikes in their small Connecticut town, Liza begins to worry there is a connection between Oliver and another one of her patients … and that the confidences they have shared with her have become the key to solving the murder. As Liza digs deeper, she comes to believe that everybody is a liar in this spellbinding audiobook original from the bestselling author of The Next Mrs. Parrish.

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    No One Goes Alone

    by Erik Larson

    Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Erik Larson

    Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after a family inexplicably vanishes. Was the cause rooted in the physical world … or were there forces more paranormal and sinister at work? Find out in No One Goes Alone. As Larson says, ghost stories are best told aloud.

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