{"id":6765,"date":"2021-12-29T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T19:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2021-12-29T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T19:47:09","slug":"3-new-years-eve-audiobook-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/12\/29\/3-new-years-eve-audiobook-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"3 New Year’s Eve Audiobook Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Firkaly|12\/27\/2021<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are like me, you might be happy at home in your comfy pants on New Year’s Eve. I’m also a big audiobook fan. I’ve put together a list of New Year’s Eve-themed audiobooks that you can download and enjoy using one of our library apps, Libby or Hoopla. Need help setting up the app? Give us a call or stop in, we are happy to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not into audiobooks? These titles are also available in print. Visit our<\/span> catalog<\/a> to place a hold.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk<\/em> by Kathleen Rooney<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available on Libby<\/a> and Hoopla<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the last day of 1984, and 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish is about to take a walk.<\/p>\n

As she traverses a grittier Manhattan, a city anxious after an attack by a still-at-large subway vigilante, she encounters bartenders, bodega clerks, chauffeurs, security guards, bohemians, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be\u2014in surprising moments of generosity and grace. While she strolls, Lillian recalls a long and eventful life that included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America\u2014a career cut short by marriage, motherhood, divorce, and a breakdown.<\/p>\n

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Together at Midnight<\/em> by Jennifer Castle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Available on Libby<\/a> and Hoopla<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What does it really mean to be kind . . . and why does it sometimes feel like the hardest thing in the world to do? High school senior Kendall, who just returned from a life-changing semester in Europe, and Max, who is drifting his way through a gap year before college, struggle with these questions when they witness a tragic accident in New York City during the holiday season. Racked with guilt, the two accept a dare to perform random acts of kindness to strangers. The challenge pulls these two teens, who have a history together from back home, closer and closer as they explore a vibrant city filled with other people\u2019s stories and secrets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kendall and Max can\u2019t deny their growing bond, even though they both have other romantic entanglements and uncertain futures. As the clock counts down on New Year\u2019s Eve, will they find themselves together at midnight?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oona Out Of Order<\/em> by Margarita Montimore<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Available on Libby<\/a><\/strong> and Hoopla<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she\u2019s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maria Firkaly|12\/27\/2021 If you are like me, you might be happy at home in your comfy pants on New Year’s Eve. I’m also a big audiobook fan. I’ve put together a list of New Year’s Eve-themed audiobooks that you can download and enjoy using one of our library apps, Libby or Hoopla. Need help setting…<\/span><\/p>\n

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