Johnson, Nancy
Summary: It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She knows that to move forward she must make peace with the past. Returning home to her Indiana factory hometown, she finds it plagued by racism, unemployment,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHAlexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALEHarrison, Jim
Summary: Johnny Lundgren is an unemployed foundation executive who, after surviving a midlife crisis, finally decides to get a job. He soon gets hired by a crazy but genius doctor as a trouble-shooter, where he's tasked with everything battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHarrison, Jim
Summary: Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer and school teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers--one a younger woman, the other his beautiful childhood friend--he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or finally seek the wider, broader horizons he has avoided all his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHarrison, Jim
Summary: Five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. As the family grapples with the mysterious forces that both pull them apart and draw them inextricably back together, they must come to terms with life's greatest and hardest lessons: the deception of passion, the pain of love, the vitality of art, and the supplication to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARSteel, Danielle
Summary: Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. It was a year ago when her husband, industry mogul Matthieu Pasquier, and their son were kidnapped and held for ransom, a nightmare that ended in tragedy. The case has gone cold, despite evidence linking the crime to Matthieu's Russian competitors. When she crosses paths with high-society "networkist" Pierre de Vaumont, Theo politely invites him to an event,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEBarnes, Julian
Summary: Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, and an inspiration--always rigorous, always thoughtful. With her historical soulmate, they challenge the institutional monotheistic thinking in which they're surrounded.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARYu, An
Summary: One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. She discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia's mind and wont leave. The mysterious drawing launches her on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, as she encounters some of the people who call the city home, including a jaded bartender....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Detective Grace Makutsi has domestic troubles involving her husband's furniture store and a friend's troubled son. She must turn to Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani to set it right.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPSteel, Danielle
Summary: Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember. After years of hardship, exploitation, and abuse, her big chance finally comes to do what she loves. But Iris still has to fight every step of the way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STETyler, Anne
Summary: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLHarrison, Jim
Summary: Robert Corvus Strang worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled by a fall. As he tries to regain use of his legs, a blasé journalist arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF MANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MANHarrison, Jim
Summary: Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures. Now, she begins a journey back to the Nebraska prairie where she was born and the son she gave up for adoption years ago.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember. After years of hardship, exploitation, and abuse, her big chance finally comes to do what she loves. But Iris still has to fight every step of the way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: MP3CD FIC STETevis, Walter S.
Summary: Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TEVWinstead, Ashley
Summary: Eight years ago, Shay Evans and her friend escaped a cult. Now, as she searches for answers to her friend's death, Shay is consumed by her obsession to uncover the truth, and by darker desires newly reawakened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction WinsteadHoffman, Alice
Summary: The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger, the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFBayard, Louis
Summary: A novel about the young Jacqueline Bouvier, and about a marriage that almost never happened. At JFK's behest, Lem Billings, Jack's friend and fixer, is courting Jacqueline Bouvier. Only gradually does Jackie realize she is being groomed to be the perfect political wife.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BAYJeffers, Honorée Fanonne
Summary: To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past, uncovering shocking and unexpected tales of ancestors--Black, Indigenous, and white--in the deep South.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEFSteel, Danielle
Summary: In the aftermath of five friends' summer adventure turned battle for survival, devastating secrets are revealed, new love appears on the horizon, and families are forced to reconsider what they once held dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEHuneven, Michelle.
Summary: The year is 1981, Reagan is in the White House, and the country is stalled in a recession. Cressida Hartley, a gifted Ph.D. student in economics, moves into her parents' shabby A-frame cabin in the Sierras to write her dissertation. As Cress tells her best friend back home in Pasadena, being a single woman on the mountain amounts to a form of public service. Falling prey to her own perilous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014