April and May 2025 Book Club Titles
April 3 - It had to be you by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (DB055305)
After her father dies, Phoebe Somerville is shocked that she has temporarily inherited the Chicago Stars football team. To keep the team, she must work with head coach Dan Calebow, whom she dislikes. Companion to This Heart of Mine (DB 52086). Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1994. [11 hours, 53 minutes]
April 10 - Kiss an Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (DB105928)
Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Alex Markov has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled brat, and puts her to work in his broken-down traveling circus. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2009. [11 hours, 27 minutes]
April 16 - Wolfner Zoom with author, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Simply the best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (DB119445)
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Brett Rivers is the hottest sports agent in the business fast and furious, swift and deadly. Rory Garrett is let’s be honest a disaster. She has a big heart, an empty bank account, a passion for making exquisite chocolate, and a huge inferiority complex from living in the shadow of Brett’s most important client, her football legend brother. Brett and Rory should never have met, and they absolutely, positively should never have had to deal with the consequences of one stupid, drunken night…one disastrous lie…one career in jeopardy…one missing football player…and a very dead body. When it comes to love—what price are any of us willing to pay to be simply the best? [10 hours, 1 minute]
April 24 - The British are coming by Rick Atkinson (DB095379)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (DB 54939) recounts the first twenty-one months of the American Revolution in this first volume of three. Describes principal battles, key figures, British perspective, and historical context for the conflict. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. [26 hours, 5 minutes]
May 1 - The Last Murder at the end of the World by Stuart Turton (DB122011)
"From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution. Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death . . . the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer--and they don't even know it. And the clock is ticking." [11 hours, 25 minutes]
May 8 - The Maid by Nita Prose (DB106298)
Twenty-five-year-old Molly Gray doesn't interact well with the world and misses her gran who codified it for her. She has gotten a job as a hotel maid and revels in her orderly duties. When she discovers a dead body in a room, Molly must unravel the real killer's identity. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2022. [9 hours, 40 minutes]
May 15 - The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer (DB066634)
England, 1888. When her sixty-four-year-old mother disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday, Enola sends telegrams to her much-older brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. After deciphering why her mother left, Enola escapes to London to search for her and becomes involved in a second mystery. [4 hours, 14 minutes]
May 22 - Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo (DB070357)
At eighteen Kate Burkholder left her Amish community in Painters Mill, Ohio. Now chief of police, Kate is shocked by the reappearance of the serial killer who terrorized their town when she was a girl—because she thought she had killed him. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2009 [12 hours, 4 minutes]
May 29 - Down the Hill by Susan Hendricks (DB116938)
On February 13, 2017, two teenage girls—13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German—decided to enjoy a day off from school by exploring the popular hiking trails near the Monon High Bridge just a few minutes’ drive from Libby’s home in Delphi, Indiana. Less than 24 hours later, their bodies were found on the north bank of Deer Creek, about a mile from where they were last seen . . . In Down the Hill, Hendricks digs deeper in into the mystery that has captivated our nation for years, exploring the family's enduring resilience and advocacy, as well as the rippling impact the case has had on not just Delphi, but the very heart of the American heartland. [8 hours, 1 minute]