Melissa Albert
Melissa Albert is the New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland) and a former bookseller and YA lit blogger. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and included in the New York Times list of Notable Children’s Books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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Our Crooked Hearts
- By: Melissa Albert
- Narrator: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 28, 2022
- Language: English
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3.84(5281 ratings)
Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft. This is Our Crooked Hearts, a darkly gripping contemporary fantasy from Melissa Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood
“A riveting story that grips you like a spell until you’re too deep to emerge unscathed.” –Angeline Boulley, author of Firekeeper’s Daughter
“Galvin and Cannon deftly narrate this atmospheric, twisting tale from the perspectives of Ivy and Dana respectively. Galvin’s youthful performance has just enough of an edge for the innocent yet sensible Ivy and her strained relationship with her mother. Cannon’s rich, at times rough-around-the-edges Dana perfectly encompasses both her guarded youth and her haunted but hopeful woman.”- Booklist on Our Crooked Hearts
The suburbs, right now . . .
Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known–that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye.
The city, back then . . .
Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.
Years after it began, Ivy and Dana’s shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
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- By: Melissa Albert
- Narrator: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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4.03(4568 ratings)
A gorgeous collection of twelve “lush and deliciously sinister fairy tales” (Kelly Link) by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country!
Before The Hazel Wood, there was Althea Proserpine’s Tales from the Hinterland…
Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world where a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice–and still lives.
Perfect for new listeners and dedicated fans alike.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
“Albert’s rich and tightly focused collection forms the core of the mythology created in her novels, and her fans will be thrilled at this further glimpse into that world.”–Booklist, starred review
... Read moreThe Hazel Wood
- By: Melissa Albert
- Narrator: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 30, 2018
- Language: English
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3.57(70164 ratings)
“Highly literary, occasionally surreal, and grounded by Alice’s clipped, matter-of-fact voice, it’s a dark story that readers will have trouble leaving behind. HIGH-DEMAND: the buzz for this debut is deafening…” Booklist, Starred Review
From rising star Melissa Albert comes a fantastical story of mythic proportions.
Welcome to The Hazel Wood—a fiercely stunning contemporary fantasy audiobook.
*This program includes a bonus novella, The Boy Who Didn’t Come Home, set in the world of The Hazel Wood and narrated by James Fouhey*
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away–by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”
Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother’s tales began–and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.
Praise for The Hazel Wood:
“The Hazel Wood starts out strange and gets stranger, in the best possible way…Albert seamlessly combines contemporary realism with fantasy, blurring the edges in a way that highlights that place where stories and real life convene…a captivating debut.” — New York Times Book Review
“The Hazel Wood will be your next obsession.” –Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval
“Thoroughly, creepily captivating.” –Kristin Cashore, author of Graceling
“This is one of the best books I’ve read in years.” –Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places
“A dream of a book I cannot recommend highly enough.” –Seanan McGuire, author of Every Heart a Doorway
The Night Country
- By: Melissa Albert
- Narrator: James Fouhey
- Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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3.73(12749 ratings)
“In this sequel to THE HAZEL WOOD, narrator Rebecca Soler returns to breathe life into Alice, who has now escaped from the magical story-fueled world of the Hinterland…Soler’s narration brims with Alice’s anger and grit, her conflicting emotions spilling into every word.” — AudioFile Magazine
“A must-read for fans of portal fantasies, mysteries, and readers who prefer their magic with bloody sharp edges.”- Booklist, Starred Review
The highly anticipated sequel to Melissa Albert’s beloved, New York Times bestselling debut The Hazel Wood!
In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang.
With Finch’s help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother’s dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland’s survivors–and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and–if he can find it–a way back home…
Praise for The Night Country:
“The Night Country is a new modern classic for thrill seekers young and old. A stunning sequel filled with wondrous delights and daring forays into the dark. Not to be missed!” — Kim Liggett, author of The Grace Year
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