Off the Shelf: Audiobooks for Your Summer Traveling
By Savanna Draper on July 17, 2024 from Off the Shelf
Summer is the best time to take a road trip or travel for vacation. I know being in the car for hours on end can be dull, but these days I never travel without an audiobook on standby! The best audiobooks for car travel are fast-paced and allow you to get sucked in so the hours just slip by. Luckily for you, thousands of audiobooks are available at your fingertips by using your Bridgeport Public Library card to access the 
Libby app. I’ve handpicked a few of the best audiobooks for your summer travels.
Libby app. I’ve handpicked a few of the best audiobooks for your summer travels.
For fans of Stephen King, you don’t want to miss his newest title, Holly. Holly marks the triumphant return of the beloved character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy recluse in Mr. Mercedes, to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers, to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In this new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.
S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be. He thought he'd left it all behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn back into a world of blood and bullets… Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland or die trying.
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks is a New York Times Bestseller. Part One takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented young nephew and leaves a great impression, then disappears for twenty-three years. In 1970 the nephew reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was young, draws a new version with his uncle as a WWII fighting hero. In the present day, a director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie. Told from multiple viewpoints, you won’t want to miss this audiobook.
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins is a gothic thriller. When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House. In the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money. He rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life and marrying a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, his uncle's death pulls Camden back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, and its rooms just as elegant, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable...
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