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Addison, Corban
Summary: Somali pirates hijack a sailboat in the Indian Ocean and take Americans Daniel Parker and his teenaged son, Quentin, as hostages. A tense standoff orchestrated by top US negotiator Paul Derrick ends in tragedy. The pirates are captured and extradited to stand trial in the United States, and a young man named Ismail is identified by his cohorts as the leader. Paul begins to suspect there is more...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ADDAkhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AKHAlam, Rumaan
Summary: Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. So she reaches out to a lady that offered help at the hospital. Priscilla's presence quickly does as much to shake up her life as it does to stabilize her life. When Priscilla dies in childbirth, Rebecca steps up to adopt the baby. But she is unprepared for what it means to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: MP3CD FIC ALAAllen, Sarah Addison.
Summary: Willa Jackson's family was once a family of means in Walls of Water, North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Madam which was built by her great-great-grandfather and now is being turned into an inn by Willa's former classmate Paxton Osgood after years standing as a lonely monument of misfortune and scandal. Willa and Paxton form an unlikely friendship when a skeleton is found beneath the property's lone...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYAlyan, Hala
Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A dock worker in Bristol, Harry Clifton never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then his unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, twin brothers are accidentally separated at birth. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. When both men decide to run for governor, they learn the truth about their kinship-- and must face its tragic consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prision. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim's family, the only thought is revenge. Another group who doesn't believe him--the men in prison from Dixon's last job, an armored car robbery. They're sure he's gone back to grab the hidden...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKAusten, Jane
Summary: Alternately enchanted and affronted by the haughty, opinionated Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet suspends her usual, more rational judgment concerning him, putting her chance for romance in jeopardy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION Austen 1980Austen, Jane
Summary: The classic story of class-conscious eighteenth-century England and the romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The clash between opinionated Elizabeth and proud Mr. Darcy is set against a backdrop of wonderful minor characters and the social system in which they all live.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSBarry, Sebastian
Summary: Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating its patients to determine whether they can...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARBatsha, Nishant
Summary: 1985. An Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now, fear and shock are rippling through Indian community on a small Pacific island as racial tensions rise to the brink.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BATBaxter, Charles
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAXBenioff, David.
Summary: When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion charges. Instead of the standard bullet in the back of the head, Lev and Kolya are given a chance at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENBerg, Elizabeth
Summary: It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERBerg, Elizabeth
Summary: A novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life. Lucille is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur, she has begun to teach baking classes. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. In these difficult times, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERBerg, Elizabeth.
Summary: Beloved author Elizabeth Berg tells the story of the recently widowed Helen Ames and of her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa. Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered and loyal husband had been leading a double life. The Ames's had saved money for a happy retirement, planned in minute detail, but that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals spent by Helen's husband...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERBerg, Elizabeth.
Summary: Sharing nothing in common except their 16-year-old daughter, divorced parents John and Irene reconnect in the wake of a devastating tragedy and discover things about each other that they had not revealed during their marriage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERBinchy, Maeve.
Summary: Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until a social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BINBlake, Sarah
Summary: The bereaved matriarch of a powerful early-twentieth-century American family makes a fateful decision that reverberates throughout two subsequent generations further impacted by racism, reversed circumstances, and disturbing revelations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLABohjalian, Chris
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOHBohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: For ten summers, the extended Seton family met at their country home in New Hampshire, but during the eleventh summer everything changed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Randon House Audio 2004