Wilson, Brian
Summary: The memoirs of the legendary co-founder of the Beach Boys offer insights into his difficult relationship with his father, the women in his life, his parenting experiences, and the events that inspired his music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 WILSON, BRIAN WILGraves, Robert
Summary: Originally published in 1929, when the late British poet Robert Graves was in his 30s, Good-bye to All That is his personal account of the horrible and unseen side of the First World War.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Word 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRAVES, ROBERT GRAStewart, Rory.
Summary: Stewart travels with his eighty-nine year old father--a comical, wily, courageous, and infuriating former British intelligence officer--along the border they call home, talking about the political turmoil and vivid lives that created the Marches, the borderland between England and Scotland.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists--from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches--braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West. What is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 GESLaNier, 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 LANAbbott, Edwin Abbott
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc. 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 530.11 ABBShakespeare, William
Summary: Rebellion still simmers in England and King Henry's health is failing. Prince Hal has proved his courage but the king still fears that his son's pleasure-loving nature will bring the realm to ruin. Meanwhile Falstaff and his ribald companions waste the nights in revelry, anticipating the moment when Hal will ascend the throne.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arkangel Productions 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: The young and virtuous physician's daughter Helena desperately loves Count Bertram, but he regards her as beneath his notice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villain who through family mechinations, political marriages and military coups, usurps the crown from King Edward IV.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHASummary: Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 812.52 MILGreene, Thomas Christopher.
Summary: Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREMaugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Summary: There's something Constance's friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this biting comedy of manners, marriages and mistresses, the not-so-desperate Constance has some ideas of her own about extra-marital activity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 791.447 MAUGodin, Seth.
Summary: Seth Godin calls for end of mass and for the beginning of offering people more choices, more interests and giving them more authority to operate in ways that reflect their own unique values. A celebration of choice, of treating different people differently and of embracing the notion that everyone deserves the dignity and respect that comes from being heard.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302.54 GODKahn, Roger.
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 KAHDoidge, Norman.
Summary: An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were improved through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 Doidge 2011Gillespie, Marcia.
Summary: An observation of Maya Angelou's life as well as her myriad interests and accomplishments by longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 ANGNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: A memoir of Bich Nguyen and her journey to become a "real" American.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 NGUYEN, BICH MINH NGUSummary: UK's bestselling language learning audio series. This Italian Audio Course takes you from complete beginner to complete confidence. It is the perfect companion for holidays and business trips abroad. Easy to use--fast, flexible and portable; Easy to follow--just listen, speak and learn; Easy to learn--no complex grammar Whether you're a beginner or you want to refresh and build upon your...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.3 ITAPaterniti, Michael.
Summary: Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a car barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an 84 year old pathologist, Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 and then removed the brain and took it home and kept it for over 40 years. The two men and the brain leave New...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.07 PATFinkel, David
Summary: In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced "the surge" as the newest plan for winning the Iraq war. But the strategy's true story remained unknown to many Americans--until now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Montalván, Luis Carlos.
Summary: A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours in Iraq. After returning home, however, the pressures of his physical wounds, traumatic brain injury and crippling PTSD took their toll. Haunted by the war and in constant pain, Luis drank, argued, and cut himself off from those he loved. Then he met Tuesday, a beautiful and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MONTALVAN, LUIS CARLOS MonPaterniti, Michael.
Summary: Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history. A moving exploration of happiness, friendship, and betrayal, The Telling Room introduces us to Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, an unforgettable real-life literary hero, while also holding a mirror up to the world, fully alive to the power of stories that define and sustain us.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 637.3092 PATSivers, Derek.
Summary: A manifesto about living life, appreciating enough, and doing what matters. It's most of what fabled entrepreneur Derek Sivers learned in ten years of starting and growing a small business.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658.421 SIVCastaneda, Carlos
Summary: "For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda's master thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda's supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, Don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing Don Juan's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010