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| | | |  Listeners of all ages can start 2017 with stories of civil rights leaders' lives; kids will enjoy Jabari Asim's Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis, while teens and adults will want the new memoir from Coretta Scott King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy. Middle graders who aren't at quite the right stage for either should pick up the collection Flying Lessons & Other Stories, produced in partnership with We Need Diverse Books. Young adult audiobooks include some terrific debut fiction, series launches from Veronica Roth and Scott Westerfeld, and Patricia Hruby Powell's work in verse, Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case. Adult fiction releases include Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is, about a family navigating life with a child who is gender nonconforming, and my picks round up winter mysteries. Plus, narrator Tavia Gilbert answers the Fast Five questions, sharing her favorite book, movie, and television show. |
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|  Mysteries of Note | Stephanie’s Picks
Suspenseful January listens include the hunt for a French serial killer, a detective who solves crimes over the course of modern Hong Kong history, and two women who separately inhabit the same strange apartment. |
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| | |  The Extraordinary Life of Coretta Scott King | Nonfiction
Coretta Scott King writes a new memoir, Douglas Preston joins a team of scientists looking for a fabled lost city in the Honduran jungle, and Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, explains the Danish concept of hygge. |
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| |  Exciting Debuts | Young Adult
Natalie C. Anderson's City of Saints & Thieves is a murder mystery set in Kenya and Congo, Stephanie Garber's Caraval gives listeners a front-row seat at a fantastical, immersive performance, and Robin Roe's A List of Cages reunites a teen with his former foster brother. |
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| |  A Short Story Collection from We Need Diverse Books | Middle Grade
Created in partnership with WNDB, this collection features authors such as Ellen Oh, Kwame Alexander, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kelly J. Baptist.
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| | |  Fast Five with Tavia Gilbert
What’s your favorite type of character to narrate?
I adore voicing big, quirky, over-the-top characters. Writers who give me a vocal playground are my favorites!
What was your favorite nonaudiobook gig?
One of my favorite-ever nonaudiobook gigs was years ago—a professional musical theater production that was part of a summer arts festival in a charming small town in Maine. The town leaders hung our headshots all over town, advertising the show. We had a blast for a couple weeks one summer, performing the absolutely delightful musical, going canoeing during our time off, catching glimpses of ourselves as we entered and exited the grocery store or the laundromat. It was like summer theater camp for adults!
What’s your favorite book/TV show/movie?
My favorite book on my bookshelf is a beautiful copy of Little Women, gorgeously illustrated, with a hand-painted inscription by my grandfather, an oil painter. TV show? As Time Goes By, with Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. Movie? The Scarlet Pimpernell with Ian McKellan. Radio drama? The Archers!
What are five adjectives that describe you?
Kind, compassionate, driven, devoted, resilient.
What’s your motto?
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Beckett.
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