Mbue, Imbolo
Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBUColfer, Eoin.
Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Dave Hooper has the hangover from hell, a demonic ex-wife and the claws of the tax office sinking into him. So the last thing he needs is an explosion at the off-shore oil rig where he works. But this is no ordinary industrial accident, and despite the news reports, Dave knows that terrorists aren't to blame for the disaster. He knows because he kills one of the things responsible. When he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIRBrown, Sandra
Summary: When Lara opens up a medical practice in a small town, the local oil tyrant plans to ruin her business--unless she can find the secret to destroy his empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROHenkes, Kevin
Summary: A young girl visiting her grandparents at the beach stays in a little house and walks along the shore gathering seashells, wondering about the creatures who used to live in each shell, about the hidden treasures of the sea--and about the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library of Ideas, LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HENSager Weinstein, Jacob
Summary: A super-secret operative saves the world from a diabolical threat with her ability to brandish just the right book at the right time in this delightful superhero tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2019
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Gerber, Alyson
Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework, but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head, but sometimes she can't help herself. Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022Beaton, M. C.
Summary: Toni and Agatha are in the car on the way to Officer Bill Wong's long-awaited wedding when, much to their shock, a naked young man bursts through a hedge on the side of the road and comes running toward them. Terrified, he explains that he has just seen a dead body in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEATolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction TolSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEMeyer, Marissa
Summary: Nova and Adrian (aka Insomnia and Sketch) fought the battle of their lives against the Anarchist known as the Detonator. It was a short-lived victory. The Anarchists still have a secret weapon; one that Nova believes will protect her. The Renegades also have a strategy for overpowering the Anarchists, but both Nova and Adrian understand that it could mean the end of Gatlon City, and the world,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYColfer, Eoin.
Summary: Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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Summary: Drumroll, please. Judy Moody is about to become a poop scooping, hinny riding, one girl band extraordinaire as she takes on her very own Bucket List.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Madeline Dare goes to work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Once there she finds a disturbing realm where students and teachers must follow the dean's bizarre therapies. She quickly discovers that many of her colleagues are devout followers of the dean. Maddie forms an unlikely alliance with a small group of rebellious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REABrown, Dale
Summary: Intelligence agent Nick Flynn is ambushed just after learning that Iran and Russia are working together on a mysterious project codenamed Midnight. Now, Flynn must race against time to uncover its lethal secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC BRORoberts, Nora.
Summary: A summer at his grandparents' South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivan's idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he's discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Even horseback riding isn't as awful as Coop thought it would be. Each year, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBSagara, Michelle
Summary: Kaylin wasn't sent to the West March to start a war. Her mission to bring back nine Barrani might do just that, though. She traveled with a Dragon, and her presence is perceived as an act of aggression in the extremely hostile world of Barrani-Dragon politics. Internal Barrani politics are no less deadly, and Kaylin has managed to help the rescued Barrani evade both death and captivity at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fantasy Sagara 2019Colfer, Eoin.
Summary: Artemis's arch rival Opal Koboi has reanimated dead fairy warriors that take possession of Artemis's little brothers. Artemis has until sunrise to get the spirits to vacate his brothers and go back into the earth where they belong.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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Summary: When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KORYee, F. C.
Summary: With her mentors gone, Kyoshi--the true Avatar--voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC YEESterling, Michelle Min
Summary: In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets. Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother, Rose agrees to travel to Camp Zero and spy on its architect in exchange for housing. She arrives at the same time as another newcomer, a college professor named Grant who is determined to flee his wealthy family₂s dark legacy. Gradually,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEDe Alvarado, Aracely
Summary: The Mexican skeleton Catrina has been invited to a Day of the Dead dance, and she's searching for just the right outfit to wear. She pulls her Aunt María's dress from a dusty chest, but it has a stain! There's a skirt made of fine cloth, but it looks like a dusty old drape. Purple shoes that don't fit, a pair of pants that are too short and a blouse missing a button what will she wear? Finally,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020