Prager, Joshua
Summary: Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and witnessed her final moments. This book presents her life in full.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 PRABregman, Rutger
Summary: By providing a new historical perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history, Rutger Bregman sets out to prove that we are in fact hard-wired for kindness, geared toward cooperation rather than competition, and more inclined to trust rather than distrust one another. And this fact has huge implications for how society functions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 909 HumOdgers, Darrell.
Summary: When Jack and Sarge move to the town of Doggeroo, Jack soon notices that things are going missing. He doesn't mind when an old boot from the yard disappears, but when his squeaker bone, dinner, dinner bowl and blanket vanish, Jack knows that something sinister is afoot. Jack Russell is a dog-detective with a nose for whodunit and though he is often hampered by the well-meaning but bumbling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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Summary: Roger Kahn shares chronicles his life growing up near Ebbets Field. He also shares his experiences covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Herald Tribune.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.357 KAHKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
Summary: Focuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, able to impart knowledge about the final stages of life. Examines the attitudes of the dying and the factors that contribute to society's anxiety over death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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Summary: "These days, the road to success can feel jam-packed with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no one knows that better than Al Roker -- beloved cohost of The Today Show, weatherperson extraordinaire, and the man we all secretly wish we could turn to for wisdom and wisecracks in our everyday lives. From his college days as a polyester-suit clad weather forecaster...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 070.4 ROKRogers, Kim
Summary: Young Becca is honored when her grandmother asks her for help with a new skill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: It starts with a gift. When Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store, Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 920 HOWGilbert, Elizabeth.
Summary: Elizabeth Gilbert offers powerful insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits that are needed in order to live the most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages listeners to uncover the 'strange jewels' that are hidden within each of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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Summary: Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance, experience and wholeness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.4 GILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, ELIZABETH GILKolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world people are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop 'super coral' that can...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 304.2 KOLMeyer, Elizabeth
Summary: A humorous memoir follows a young socialite as she risks social suicide to work for a legendary funeral chapel on New York City's Upper East Side after she discovered a knack for helping people cope with their grief.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 MEYER, ELIZABETH MeyRogers, Susan
Summary: Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Susan Rogers leads readers to musical self-awareness. She explains that we each possess a unique "listener profile" based on our brain's natural response to seven key dimensions of any song. Whether your taste is esoteric or mainstream, Rogers guides readers to recognize their musical personality, and offers language to describe one's own unique taste.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 781.11 ROGKnox, Elizabeth.
Summary: In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KNOGilbert, Elizabeth
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.81 GILHinton, Elizabeth
Summary: Historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates that the nationwide protests that arose in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 had clear precursors, and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation's enduring strife, Hinton also issues a warning: rebellions will surely...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.8 HINBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane.
Summary: Jenny Weston and her mother, Dora, have been receiving strange midnight visits. The town of Bear Falls, Michigan, has its own elusive and highly secretive poet, Emily Sutton, who has lived her life cloistered away with her sister in a house at the edge of Pewee Swamp. But now, Emily has started leaving scraps of poetry in Dora's little free library, and Dora makes it her mission to befriend the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BUZSandford, John
Summary: In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers receives a message telling him that he's about to get a visit from an Israeli cop. She's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic. As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it.
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 SANAtkins, Robert C.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 613.25 ATKChenoweth, Kristin.
Summary: In this frank and funny memoir, the Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen shares her journey from small-town Oklahoma to big-time Broadway.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 792.02 CHERoosevelt, Theodore
Summary: In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of everyday people, rather than in accounts of the famous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.09 ROOEdwards, Gavin
Summary: Looking back at the history of the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood television show and the creative visionary behind it, Edwards reminds us of the indelible lessons and insights that they conveyed and why they matter. With dozens of interviews of people whose lives were touched by Fred Rogers, this book is a love letter to this unforgettable cultural hero and role model and to the beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 ROGERS, FREDKing, Maxwell
Summary: Maxwell King delivers the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, telling the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, he traces Rogers's personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ROGERS, FRED KINLaing, Olivia
Summary: Olivia Laing examines the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021