Lee, Harper.
Summary: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2006McCullough, Joy
Summary: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCBoyle, Kevin
Summary: The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself--resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 345.73 BOYSchlink, Bernhard.
Summary: A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she was involved in the Holocaust. She refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The young law student gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Schlink 1999Steel, Danielle.
Summary: Set in the Deep South, Danielle Steel's Southern Lights unfolds the story of a mother and daughter both commencing new and separate lives, one in corporate Manhattan, fighting to put a serial killer behind bars, and the other in sultry Charleston, reconnecting with the father she's barely known.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: "Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOXHowe, Katherine.
Summary: "Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. There, Connie discovers an ancient key secreted within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2009
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Summary: "Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the freshwater pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying set of cabins in the Back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances through the screen porch at the uncleared table from the dinner the previous evening: empty wine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Heller 2021Picoult, Jodi
Summary: Olivia McAfee left her husband and moved with her son, Asher, to a small town. When tragedy occurs and Asher becomes a suspect, Olivia must face whether he is revealing the same dark side as his father.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICPatterson, James.
Summary: Detective Alex Cross's pursuit of the killer involved in a series of chilling murders in Washington, D.C. produces a suspect--a British diplomat who engages in a brilliant series of countermoves, both in and out of the courtroom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2006
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Summary: Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery and Theo is the accused. His reputation is on the line, and with the evidence building against him and dangerous threats looming, Theo will do whatever it takes to prove his innocence even if it...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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Summary: With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GUTPatterson, James
Summary: After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women' Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATHarris, Neil Patrick
Summary: "Ridley Larsen is everything you want in a friend. She's tough as nails, she's fiercely loyal, and she's smart as a whip. But she can be a harsh critic, which has put her position with the Magic Misfits on the rocks, even as the threat of the group's longtime enemy Kalagan looms large. Ever since his recent appearance in Mineral Wells, the kids know that a showdown with the vicious magician is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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Summary: "On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match. Meet Shenanigan Swift: Little sister. Risk-taker. Mischief-maker. Shenanigan is getting ready for the big Swift Family Reunion and plotting her next great scheme: hunting for Grand-Uncle Vile's long-lost...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: 1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body, the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window, generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CHIBunting, Eve
Summary: While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE ONELippincott, Rachael
Summary: Stella Grant likes to be in control, even though her out-of-control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. Now she needs to keep herself away five feet away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Then she meets Will Newman, another boy in the hospital and exactly what Stella needs to stay away...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LIPSachar, Louis
Summary: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SACColfer, Eoin.
Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction TolGrisham, John.
Summary: John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, follows the trial, conviction, and death sentence of former Oakland A's player Ron Williamson.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 345.766 GRIShusterman, Neal
Summary: When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone in the hunt for water. And that's when her parents go missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHUWoods, Stuart
Summary: "While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios’ business by making a deal with a young Croatian tech billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023