O'Reilly, Bill

Summary: O'Reilly revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 ORE

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 973 ORE

Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)

Summary: In this memoir, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations, and provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science--including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI--revealing both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped his theories.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 109.22 DEN

Cherry, Myisha V.

Summary: "Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn't be more wrong--and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new and healthier...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 155.92 CHE

Apter, Jeff

Summary: In the first and only definitive biography of country music star Keith Urban, insider Jeff Apter chronicles how a skinny, shy high school dropout with an outrageous mullet went from humble origins in Australia to conquering Nashville and global stardom, plus his struggles with addiction, marriage to Nicole Kidman, turns on American Idol, and more.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 URBAN, KEITH APT

Diaz, Joey Coco

Summary: Joey Diaz wasn't always a star, but he was always a comedian, it just took him a while to figure it out. To be fair, much of his youth was spent in addiction and depression until he found his calling.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DIAZ, JOEY DIA

Sinatra, Stephen T.

Summary: Nature has been the world's healer since the beginning of time. Here is how to access the secret to better health through grounding, the simple act of connecting to the energy of the Earth's surface.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 615.8 Sinatra

Roberson, Blythe

Summary: Blythe Roberson quits her day job and sets off to visit America's national parks, all the while pondering the question: Is quitting society for the road about enlightenment and liberty, or is it just selfish escapism?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 917.304 Roberson

Gable, Mona

Summary: In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after the pregnant woman disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna₂s, but she would not be found until her body was pulled from the Red River days later. This horrifying and unimaginable crime...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.488 Gable

Grann, David

Summary: "On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910 GRA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.9164 GRA

Bowden, Mark

Summary: In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.106 BOW

Amen, Daniel G.

Summary: Psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love. Today is the day to start changing the trajectory of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 AME

Smith, Stephen A. (Stephen Anthony)

Summary: Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced a number of struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SMITH, STEPHEN A SMI

Schneier, Bruce

Summary: A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. Bruce Schneier takes hacking out of the world of computing and uses it to analyze the systems that underpin our society: from tax laws to financial markets to politics. He reveals an array of powerful actors whose hacks bend our economic, political, and legal systems to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.4834 SCH

Hyatt, Michael S.

Summary: Everyone has two remarkable, related capacities: we can aspire to something more and we can envision ways to achieve it. But if we're capable of aspiring to something better and making plans to achieve it, why is it sometimes so hard to reach that next level of success? Drawing upon the latest insights from the fields of performance psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as well as...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 HYA

Harry

Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling, and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023

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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HARRY, PRINCE HAR

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 MEL

Davis, Viola

Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAV

Tarantino, Quentin

Summary: Quentin Tarantino provides an entertaining look at key American films of the 1970s, which he first saw as a young moviegoer. Written in his singluar voice, this book combines film criticism, film theory, reporting, and personal history.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 791.43 TAR

Smiley, Jane

Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Meacham, Jon

Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LIN

Obama, Michelle

Summary: Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, Michelle Obama shares the habits and principles she has developed to adapt to change and overcome obstacles.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBA

Ripa, Kelly

Summary: In her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter, and as a mother, she brings a hard-earned wisdom and an eye for the absurdity of life to every minute of every day. It is her relatability in all of these roles that has earned her fans worldwide and millions of followers on social media. Whether recounting how she and Mark really met, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RIP