Thomson, Mike
Summary: "Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 956.9104 THOMcCullough, David G
Summary: Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.0092 MCCWiesel, Elie
Summary: In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WIESEL, ELIE WieNavai, Ramita.
Summary: This is Real Tehran: A City that is hidden from view and rarely written about, where survival depends on an intricate network of lies and subterfuge. It is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and homemade porn is uploaded to the Internet and sold in the bazaars. Plotted around the city's great central thoroughfare,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 955 NAVBarry, 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 BARHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of thirteen novels, including the bestsellers Bad Monkey, Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and four bestselling children's books, Chomp, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. He joined The Miami Herald in 1976 and worked on the newspaper's magazine and investigations team before starting his column in 1985. In 2010,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 975.9 HIAFinkel, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.7044 FINKaysen, Susanna
Summary: This novel-from-life is an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAYHannah, Kristin
Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC HANMezrich, Ben
Summary: In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROBERTS, THAD MEZConroy, Pat
Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 CONROY, PAT CONRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSHannah, Kristin
Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. The crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANHarrison, Jim
Summary: In this collection of new and previously published essays, Jim Harrison muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life and death on the US/Mexico border.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEWarga, Jasmine
Summary: Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. But this life also brings unexpected surprises. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WARThorogood, Robert
Summary: Living alone in a faded mansion in Marlow, seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is blissfully happy. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. When the local police don't believe her story, Judith and two unlikely friends decide to investigate for themselves. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. But soon another body turns up, and it seems that a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC THOSedaris, David.
Summary: From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 SEDHarjo, Joy
Summary: "Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her 'poet-warrior' road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HARJO, JOY HARHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC HOLClose, Jennifer
Summary: The story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLORigler, Laurie Viera.
Summary: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, inexplicably awakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes--who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIGJacobs, Alan
Summary: A journey into the imaginitive life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to the author of some of the greatest children's books of all time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEWIS, C.S. JACRivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022