Walls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of twelve, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money beforean increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.
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 WALLally, Caitriona.
Summary: A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship and hopeVivian doesn't feel like she fits in--and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, she is living alone in Dublin, where the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LALLaNier, Carlotta Walls.
Summary: Unabridged.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 379.263 LANCarnegie, Dale
Summary: Overcome the worry habit. Discover how to: eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately, reduce financial worries, turn criticism to your advantage, avoid fatigue and keep looking young, add one hour a day to your waking life, find yourself and be yourself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Audio 1990
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 158.1 CARWilde, Caleb
Summary: The story of one man learning how death illuminates and deepens the meaning of existence, insights that can help everyone pursue and cherish full, rich lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 WILDE, CALEB WilBaldwin, Alec
Summary: A satirical memoir written in the style of Donald Trump shares lampooning insights into the forty-fifth president's election, disdain for the press, backroom strategy sessions with White House advisers, and world-changing decisions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817 BALBaldwin, Alec.
Summary: One of the most accomplished and outspoken actors today chronicles the highs and lows of his life in this beautifully written, candid memoir.Over the past three decades, Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted, hilarious, and controversial leading men. From his work in popular movies, including Beetlejuice, Working Girl, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cooler, and Martin...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 BALDWIN, ALEC BALEggers, Dave.
Summary: A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: In this delightfully original take on nonfiction, bestselling author Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural and natural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols ensures that this book feels like a special object, and the revised edition includes real-life letters from constituents making the case for keeping the bridge orange....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Eggers 2018Eggers, Dave.
Summary: A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 973.92 EGGBarry, Dave
Summary: Sure, there was the 2000 election and flying insects the size of LeBron James. But Barry is going to show you why Florida is a great state. And whatever else you think about Florida-- you can never say it's boring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818 BARBarry, Dave.
Summary: Responding to items sent in by readers from all over the country, Dave Barry talks back just to more than just his readers. He talks back to doctors, lawmakers, and even dumb dogs!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Books, Inc 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 BARBarry, Dave.
Summary: During the course of living (mumble, mumble) years, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom,* (*actual wisdom not guaranteed) and he is eager to pass it on--to the next generation, the generation after that, and to those idiots who make driving to the grocery store in Florida a death-defying experience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 817 BAREggers, Dave.
Summary: A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Eggers 2010Itzkoff, Dave
Summary: "From his rapid-fire stand-up riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his powerful Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative actor and comedian. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture, politics, and personal revelation -- all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 WILLIAMS, ROBIN ITZEmerson, Ralph Waldo
Summary: Making a strong case for the importance of the individual--a core tenet of the transcendental movement--Emerson assails conformity with a series of sharp observations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 814.3 EMEBarry, Dave.
Summary: An irreverent alternate perspective on recent world events features commentary on such topics as the 2000 election, the non-finding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the invention of pizza by Leonardo da Vinci.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 BARMills, Kyle
Summary: After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king's own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the president suspects that the Saudis never intended...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILMeraglia, Tami.
Summary: "Tami offers [a] ... thirty-day plan to restore healthy levels of testosterone and balance the relative levels of other hormones, based on lifestyle modifications such as supplements and nutritional adjustments. She also offers her Mediterranean Diet-based meal plan and low-impact exercise ideas that [may help] boost your energy"--Amazon.com.
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 613 MEREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: To discover how others exist on minimum wage, the author leaves her home, takes the cheapest lodgings she can find, and accepts whatever jobs she's offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she works variously as a waitress, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She learned many things, including the fact that one job is not enough: you need at least two if you intend to live...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2004
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Summary: An audio original collection of primary source documents written by 19th century Black women along with author Erica Armstrong Dunbar's own context, insights, and story-telling talent.
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 920.72 DUNBall, Matthew (Matthew L.)
Summary: Theorist and venture capitalist Matthew Ball predicts how the metaverse, the successor to the mobile internet that has defined the last two decades, will bring trillions in value and radically reshape society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.48 BALCole, Daniel
Summary: Detective Emily Baxter is still reeling from the Ragdoll case, and from the disappearance of her friend William "Wolf" Fawkes. Despite her reluctance to jump into another gruesome case, she's summoned to a meeting of a new FBI/CIA/UK law enforcement task force in New York. There, she is presented with photographs of the latest copycat murder: a body contorted into a familiar pose, strung up...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018