Dubus, Andre
Summary: Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? Can he find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUBBanner, A. J.
Summary: Elise Watters seems to have it all--a blissful marriage, a gorgeous Victorian home surrounded by lush gardens, and a dream job running her late mother's herbal boutique. But on the eve of her first wedding anniversary, Elise makes a shocking discovery that turns her life upside down and casts doubt on everything she thought she knew--about her marriage, her friends, and even herself. As she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANLipstein, Andrew
Summary: "Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the agent, who offers him money, acclaim, and a taste of the literary life. He can't wait for his book to be shopped to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Deitsch, an old college rival and the novel's 'inspiration.' When Avi gets his hands on it, he sees nothing but...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPBartz, Andrea
Summary: Staying with a friend and her husband is sexier--and deadlier--than anyone could imagine in this provocative domestic suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reeses Book Club pick We Were Never Here. Kellys new life in Philadelphia has turned into a nightmare: Shes friendless and jobless, and the lockdown has her trapped in a tiny apartment with the man she gave up everything...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BARDavidson, Andrew.
Summary: The narrator of this story is diving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide, for he is now a monster in appearance as well as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAVMiller, Andrew
Summary: Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to helpwith a dubious family endeavor.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILAndrews, Mary Kay
Summary: Grace Stanton's life as a rising media star and beloved lifestyle blogger takes a surprising turn when she catches her husband cheating. Grace suddenly finds herself locked out of her palatial home, checking account, and even her blog. She starts attending court-mandated weekly 'divorce recovery' therapy sessions with three other women and one man. When their 'divorce coach' starts to act...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ANDHurwitz, Gregg Andrew.
Summary: Mike Wingate had a rough childhood -- he was abandoned at a playground at four years old and raised in foster care. No one ever came to claim him, and he only has a few, fragmented memories of his parents. Now, as an adult, Mike is finally living the life he had always wanted with a happy marriage, a child and a successful business. Then the unimaginable happens: Something from Mike's own past,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: Pru Dunning has a successful boyfriend, a thriving career, and a truly comfortable life. But then the strange voicemails start. Scarletta, as the woman calls herself, seems to know Pru, although Pru certainly doesn't know her. Pru begins to investigate, but carefully, because if anyone found out about these lewd, threatening messages--filled with details that no stranger could possibly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ANDBurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACFreeman, Brian
Summary: One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran's car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he's haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2021