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Summary: It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life; has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIVGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people. But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is suddenly spending their time at the hospital. And soon they are helping a critically ill friend, even as they struggle with how their own lives have turned upside down.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GLAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GLAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: The Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GLAKelly, Martha Hall.
Summary: An arresting, powerful debut novel inspired by the life of debutante turned unlikely WWII hero Caroline Ferriday. Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life - Caroline's interest in aiding the war effort grows and she eventually comes to hear...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Ward, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSummary: A collection of children's stories about love and families.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Tahir, Sabaa
Summary: Following the events of the Fourth Trial, an army led by Masks hunts the two fugitives as they escape the city of Serra and journey across the vast lands of the Martial Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf-- the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison-- and save her brother, whose knowledge of Serric steel is the key to the Scholars' future. And Elias is determined to stay by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAHBarton, Fiona
Summary: "When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth--and this time is no exception. But she can't help...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARBerg, A. Scott (Andrew Scott)
Summary: Presents a biography of Katharine Hepburn, based on conversations between the actress and the author. Details her career and her relationships with Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Berkley Audio and BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HEPBURN, KATHARINE BERBinchy, Maeve
Summary: A selection of short stories includes pieces spanning the author's career and features characters whose relationships with each other endure in the face of changing times, lost hopes, and new loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BINGeorge, Margaret
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Margaret George has brought history to vivid life with her chronicles of queens and kings. Now, she turns her gaze to an Emperor ... Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman--or child....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOMcLain, Paula.
Summary: "Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction McLain 2015Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023