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* The Search Party. By Simon Lelic. Read by a full cast. 2020. lOhr. Books on Tape, DD, $76 (9780593214909). A desperate phone call (with sound effects) leads the police [...]

Burden of Proof. By Davis Bunn. Nov. 2020. 320p. Revell, paper, $15.99 (9780800727888); e-book, $9.99 (9781493426591). Professional surfer Ethan Barrett is dying of cancer when his sister-in-law, Sonya, a science [...]

The Goodbye Man. By Jeffrey Deaver. Read by Kaleo Griffith. 2020. 11.5hr. Books on Tape, DD, $85.50 (9781984832467). Colter Shaw makes his living tracking down missing people and claiming the [...]

Be All In: Raising Kids for Success in Sports and Life. By Christie Pearce Rampone and Kristine Keane. Aug. 2020. 304p. Grand Central, $28 (9781538751732); e-book, $14.99 (9781538751718). 649. Why [...]

Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Loss and Love. By Jenna Bush Hager. Sept. 2020. 240p. Morrow, $26.99 (9780062960627). 973. In a little over a year, Hager lost all [...]

* Code Name Helene. By Ariel Lawhon. Read by Barrie Kreinik and Peter Ganim. 2020. 17.5hr. Books on Tape, DD, $95 (9780593169247). This fascinating audiobook uses alternating time lines and [...]

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems before They Happen. By Dan Heath. Read by the author. 2020. 7hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, CD, $29.99 (9781797100555). A doctor prescribing medicine and [...]

Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage. By Tori Amos. May 2020. 288p. Atria, $26 (9781982104153). 782.42166. Singer/songwriter Amos is passionate about the artist's role in society, and [...]

* Long Bright River. By Liz Moore. Read by Allyson Ryan. 2020.13.5hr. Books on Tape, CD, $45 (9780593146880). Mickey is a Philadelphia cop; her sister, Kacey, is a drug addict. [...]

How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books. By Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer. Mar. 2020. 240p. Morrow, $25.99 (9780062957191). 158.1. Greenberg [...]

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. By Nathaniel Ian Miller. Read by Olafur Darri Olafsson. 2021.10.5hrs. Hachette Audio, CD, $29.88 (9781549134982). The world is lonely for Stockholm Sven. He escapes a [...]

The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina. By Zoraida Cordova. Read by Frankie Corzo. 2021. 11 hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, CD, $27.59 (9781797131351). As Orquidea Divina approaches death, she summons her [...]

* The Heart Principle. By Helen Hoang. Read by Brian Nishii and Natalie Naudus. 2021. 9.5hrs. Dreamscape, CD, $34.99 (9781662010194). Violinist Anna Sun is spinning apart. Not only is she [...]

The Practice of Love: Break Old Patterns, Rebuild Trust, and Create a Connection That Lasts. By Lair Torrent. Feb. 2022.272p. Rowman & Littlefield, $34 (9781538139356). 152.41. Are we born knowing [...]

Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma. By Galit Atlas. Jan. 2022. 288p. Little, Brown, $27 (9780316492126). 158. Sexual abuse, suicides, neglect, war, death, and trauma [...]

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003- 2020). By David Sedaris. Read by the author and Tracey Ullman. Oct. 2021. 17hr. Hachette Audio, DD, $26.98 (9781549108211). An author reading his own [...]

* Beautiful World, Where Are You. By Sally Rooney. Read by Aoife McMahon. 2021. 10hrs. Macmillan Audio, DD, $31.04 (9781250818041). Modern relationships are complicated. Simon and Eileen have been friends [...]

Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World. By Eve Rodsky. Dec. 2021.304p. Putnam, $27 (9780593328019). 153.3. Best-selling self-help expert Rodsky (Fair Play, 2019) defines 'unicorn [...]

* A Slow Fire Burning. By Paula Hawkins. Read by Rosamund Pike. 2021. 9.5hrs. Books on Tape, DD, $40 (9780593453155). In Hawkins' latest a young artist is found murdered on [...]

Apples Never Fall. By Liane Moriarty. Read by Caroline Lee. 2021.18hrs. Macmillan Audio, CD, $37.94 (9781250810700). The Delaneys are a tennis family. Stan and joy, who were on the circuit [...]

The Dating Dare. By Jayci Lee. Read by Natalie Naudus. 2021. 9hrs. St. Martin's, CD, $22.99. Sparks fly when best man, Seth, meets maid of honor, Tara, at his brother's [...]

Mona at Sea. By Elizabeth Gonzalez James. Read by Aida Reluzco. 2021. 8hr. Dreamscape, CD (9781666500967). Mona is famous for being dubbed the 'sad millennial' by social media after she's [...]

Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog. By Jenna Blum. Oct. 2021. 208p. Harper, $22.99 (9780063113183). 636.7. Throughout 15 years of up-and-down relationships, writing successes, and [...]

* Malibu Rising. By Taylor Jenkins Reid. Read by Julie Whelan. 2021.11hrs. Books on Tape, CD, $31.50 (9781984845344). It's tabloid fodder when popular singer Mick Riva leaves his wife and [...]

* Dear Miss Metropolitan. By Carolyn Ferrell. Read by Bahni Turpin. 2021. 11h. Macmillan Audio, CD, $49.99 (9781250804693). Teens Fern, Gwin, and Jesenia are abducted by 'Boss Man' and held [...]

Act Your Age, Eve Brown. By Talia Hibbert. Read by lone Butler. 2021.11hrs. HarperAudio, CD, $30.79 (97800629412991. On the surface, Eve Brown and Jacob Winter couldn't be more different. Eve [...]

Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion. By Wendy Suzuki. Sept. 2021.304p. Atria, $27 (9781982170738). 616.85. After the sorrows and demands of 2020, we could all use [...]

Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop. By Loretta Graziano Breuning. Sept. 2021.208p. Rowman & Littlefield, paper, $19.95 (9781538144190). 158.1. Our mammalian brains are hard-wired to seek status, [...]

Better You, Better Friends: A Whole New Approach to Friendship. By Glenda D. Shaw. Sept. 2021. 224p. Rowman & Littlefield, $32 (9781538152713). 177.62. There are all kinds of friends: childhood [...]

On Juneteenth. By Annette Gordon-Reed. Read by Karen Chilton. 2021. 3.5hr. Recorded Books, CD, $12.64 (9781705034484). The traditional image of a Texan might be a white cowboy, but Gordon-Reed's African [...]

Somebody's Daughter. By Ashley C. Ford. Read by the author. 2021. 9hr. Macmillan, DD, $19.99 (9781250804105). As she waits for the return of her father after he's spent 25 years [...]

Not Dead Yet: Rebooting Your Life after 50. By Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane. Aug. 2021. 240p. Rowman & Littlefield, $32 (97815381484951. 305.26. When coauthors, friends, and bloggers Ballinger and [...]

* Lost in the Never Woods. By Aiden Thomas. Read by Avi Roque. 2021. 12hrs. Macmillan/AudioGO, CO, $50.99. Gr. 9-12. Wendy has no memories of the time, five years ago, [...]

* Libertie. By Kaitlyn Greenidge. Read by Channie Waites. 2021. 12hrs. Recorded Books, CD, $28.74 (9781980075745). Libertie, free and Black, is raised by her mother, a doctor, in New York. [...]

Finding Meaning and Success: Living a Fulfilled and Productive Life. By Chris Palmer. July 2021. 220p. Rowman & Littlefield, $37 (9781475850536). 158. Productivity and success begin with a mission statement, [...]

Universal Human: Creating Authentic Power and the New Consciousness. By Gary Zukav. June 2021.320p. Atria, $27 (9781982169879). 158.1. Authentic power, according to Zukav, comes when personality aligns with the soul. [...]

Set in locales from Paris to India to 1910 New York City, these starred reviews appearing in Booklist from May 15, 2020, to May 1, 2021 all share involving plots [...]

The Good Sister. By Sally Hepworth. Read by Barrie Kreinik. 2021. 8.5hrs. Macmillan, CD, $22.99 (9781250788092). Twins Fern and Rose couldn't be less alike, physically or mentally, but they have [...]

* The Captive. By Fiona King Foster. Read by Courtney Patterson. 2021. 8hr. HarperAudio, DD, $23.99 (9780062991003). Brooke Holland thought she had left her family (a drug-running survivalist group) behind [...]

The Cottage on Lighthouse Lane. By Davis Bunn. May 2021.304p. Kensington, $26 (9781496725028); e-book, $12.99 (9781496725042). Billy Rose Walker has spent his life training to be an actor. He studied [...]

Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety. By Poppy Jamie. June 2021.320p. Rodale, $24 (9780593231685). 158. From the outside, British entrepreneur and media [...]

Youth Audio * Firekeeper's Daughter. By Angeline Boulley. Read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. 2021. 14hrs. Macmillan/AudioGO, CD, $57.99 (9781250779519). Gr. 10-12. Daunis is caught between two worlds: her fathers Ojibwe [...]

ADULT NONFICTION Philosophy & Psychology * Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing. By Pete Davis. May 2021. 272p. Avid Reader, $27 (9781982140908). 170. In a [...]

* The Paris Library. By Janet Skeslien Charles. Read by a full cast. 2021. 12hrs. Simon & Schuster Audio, CD, $39.99 (9781797105000). In 1979 Montana, pre-teen Lily is curious about [...]

Milk Blood Heat. By Dantiel W. Moniz. Read by Machelle Williams. 2021. 6hr. HighBridge, DD, $29.99 (9781696603331). This collection of stories covers weighty subjects including rape, suicide, cancer, and sexual [...]

Spark: How Genius Ignites, from Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers. By Claudia Kalb. Apr. 2021. 368p. National Geographic, $27 (9781426220937). 153.3. Genius comes in many forms and peaks at various [...]

* Broken (in the best possible way). By Jenny Lawson. Read by the author. 2021. 8.5hrs. Macmillan, CD, $19.99 (9781250790934). Sometimes it's a mistake for authors to read their own [...]