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🎧 🌑 This one goes in the headphones. Lights off. Late night. Trust.

Futility by Nuzo Onoh.

Two women. Both done wrong by the men they thought were solid. Both sitting in that simmering, teeth-clenching kind of rage. Then a trickster spirit shows up with an offer. They say yes.

Eight hours of Nigerian folklore, body-swapping, blood, and comedy dark enough to make you stop and ask: wait, is this funny? Am I supposed to be laughing? (Yes. You are.)

Nuzo Onoh is a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and the Queen of African Horror.

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week. You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by @v_e_tirado.

Gothic horror. Family drama. One of them is a demon, and they have twelve hours to find out who. When the patriarch of the Abreu family dies, his will delivers one last gut punch: a deal was made with a demon, and someone in that room is it. The family is already a mess. Then the storm rolls in. Then people start dying. Xiomara has spent her whole life being the one Papi liked. Which means she's the one everyone else can't stand. Now she has to survive both.

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧

If you watched Arcane and immediately needed more Ambessa, this is the one.

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by @clclarkwrites is set inside the League of Legends: Arcane universe. Warrior. General. Mother. Ambessa Medarda has led armies, slain legendary beasts, and walked into the realm of death for a vision of the throne. But before she can rule an empire, she has to survive her own family. A cousin who knows her sins. A daughter she keeps underestimating. A clan title she has to bleed for.

C. L. Clark is a Nebula Award-nominated, BFA award-winning author. This one's built for anyone who loves their fantasy fierce and their politics personal.

🎧 Listen through our @Libro.fm partnership: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781405564496-ambessa-chosen-of-the-wolf

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🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

This week's audiobook is giving us 1960s NASA, arcane engineering, and a murder that reaches all the way to the stars.

The Starseekers by @nicolegloverwrites is Book 4 in the Murder & Magic series and it stands completely on its own. Think Hidden Figures meets a magical whodunit set against the space race. 📚

Cynthia Rhodes is a brilliant arcane engineer at NASA who moonlights as an amateur sleuth. When a coworker dies in what looks like a lab accident, she knows better. The deeper she digs, the more she finds connecting that death to a theft at an arcane history museum, and suddenly the stakes go from personal to cosmic. 🌌

Nicole Glover puts Black brilliance exactly where it has always belonged: at the center of history, science, and the impossible. The Rhodes family has been using magic to protect their community since before the Civil War. The times changed. The gift did not. ✨

🎧 📚 Purchase through our partnership with @librofm at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780063293656-the-starseekers or @libby.app

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week Blood Moon by @britney.s.lewis 🩸🌑

Book one of The Blood Chronicles. Mira Owens starts college ready to leave her past behind. But strange animal attacks on campus are reopening cold cases tied to her missing mother. And the only person with answers is Julian Santos, the boy who desperately wants her gone. Werewolves. Vampires. A slow burn romance that will have you kicking your feet. This is the paranormal romance era we deserved. 🌙

👉🏾 Purchase through our @Libro.fm partnership at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798349108624 or borrow free via @libby.app

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🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

Sundown Girls by @shellystrattonbooks is the YA thriller your reading list needs right now. Sixteen year old Naomi Ward arrives at a small mountain town in the Shenandoah Valley for what should be a quiet family vacation. But something is off. The town smells wrong. And she is the only one who can sense it. 🌑 When Naomi learns that Sparksburg was once a sundown town — a place where Black people were murdered if found after dark — the dread she has been carrying finally has a name. Then the ghost starts appearing outside her window. Then two girls go missing. And Naomi realizes the past in Sparksburg never actually left. 📚🩸 🎧 Grab it through our @Libro.fm partnership at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798217280483-sundown-girls or via @libby.app 📚 Grab your copy at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favorite #library.

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🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

Today we celebrate Ghana's independence. ✊🏾 And today we're spotlighting a Ghanaian-American author whose writing carries that same spirit of resistance and liberation.

Chain Gang All Stars by @king_nk 📖 Two Black women gladiators. One corrupt private prison system. And freedom just a few death matches away. 🩸

Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of CAPE, Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, where prisoners fight to the death before packed arenas for a chance at freedom. 🏟 Teammates. Lovers. Fan favorites. And running out of time.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah built something electric and devastating here. 🔥 National Book Award finalist. New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year. Stephen King called it brutal and beautiful, and he was right. ✊🏾

This is speculative fiction doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Holding a mirror up to mass incarceration, systemic racism, and unchecked capitalism, and refusing to look away. 🌍

Press play. This one stays with you. 🎧🤎

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🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe by @dr.littlebadger

Before Elatsoe, there was Shane. Shane and her mother work with ghost dogs to track missing persons—whether families can pay or not. After losing their home to a devastating flood, and much of their family with it, they know what it means to search for the impossible.

Then the unthinkable happens: her mother disappears. A fairy ring. A missing boy. And a trail that may not exist in this world—or this time. What follows is a journey through grief, displacement, family secrets, and fierce determination. This prequel expands the world readers first met in Elatsoe and centers Ellie’s grandmother in a story that is haunting, grounded, and unforgettable.

If you love speculative fiction rooted in Indigenous storytelling, layered family legacy, and supernatural mystery—press play.

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