SYNC's 2019 summer season will be 14 weeks long. That's 28 free audiobooks for anyone 13 and up! Season opening is Thursday, April 25, with a new pair of thematically linked titles offered each Thursday and for one week only. The finalized list will be announced at the end of this month. In the meantime, we can tell you that the following publishers deserve our and your thanks:

Blink!

Brilliance Publishing

Candlewick on Brilliance

Dreamscape

Full Cast Audio

Hachette

HarperAudio

L. A. Theatre Works

Listening Library

Naxos AudioBooks

Oasis

Recorded Books

Scholastic Audiobooks

Tantor

Among the 28 titles, you'll find plays (including Shakespeare), narrative nonfiction, fantasy, a bit of romance and a bit of mystery, #OwnVoices, and biography, autobiography, and some history, too. There is a wide range of performance styles, too, including narrators you've enjoyed in previous seasons, asked to have included in this, and some full cast readings as well as a couple of author narrations. The program will again be delivered through OverDrive (but not the Libby app!) and again these titles, once downloaded, are yours to keep (again, for individuals to keep, not by institutional collections). We will publish our usual toolkit with all the information you need regarding rules and technology and you can expect to have that in hand more than two months before the program begins.

Excited? We are, too!