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Summary: Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVIFarid, Diana
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARLittle Badger, Darcie
Summary: "Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LITWoods, Stuart
Summary: Rogue agent Teddy Fay was long thought dead but, Stone Barrington, Holly Barker and Dino Baldachetti have been sent by the CIA to the St. Marks in the Caribbean to track him down.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOAvi
Summary: As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood. Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens to be the town sheriff, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered in their home. Marie Catherine Hale, a diminutive fifteen-year-old, was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: In this memoir, award-winning actress Viola Davis shares her story, in her own words, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DAVIS VIOLA DAVPatterson, James
Summary: On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATRosenfelt, David.
Summary: Andy Carpenter, plunges into a high-profile murder case with a golden retriever as his key witness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSBaldacci, David.
Summary: In this fourth of the Camel Club series, two bullets silence Oliver Stone's foes. Those assassinations set off a manhunt of enormous proportions by some of the highest officials in government. The Camel Club must fend for itself, all the while protecting their elusive leader, Stone, as he avoids capture by the sometimes uninformed Joe Knox, the man in charge of the hunt.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALBrooks, David
Summary: Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. He helps listeners become more understanding and considerate towards others, and find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way he offers a possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The story of one teenager's descent into methamphetamine addiction is told from his father's point of view, describing how a varsity athlete and honor student became addicted to the dangerous drug and its impact on his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Summary: All through the house, five dogs are stirring, and so is lawyer Andy Carpenter, who must save the rescue organization's best volunteer, recently arrested for murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ROSBaldacci, David
Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BALPilkey, Dav
Summary: George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day -- then they switch! But it turns out there's something rotten in the state of Ohio, and it's smellier than a pile of putrid gym socks. The boys' malicious gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, has created a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: George and Harold thought they were beyond boogers. Their new pet, Sulu the Bionic Hamster, had defeated the Bionic Booger Boy, and through the wonders of science, Melvin Sneedly had been brought back to normal (well, almost normal). It looked like their last adventure was actually going to have a happy ending... except for one thing (well, three things) -- the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023
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Summary: Best friends always stick together--especially when they are in trouble!Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot always watch out for each other--that's what friends are for! This time, they've managed to mangle the Ricotta family's minivan. Somehow they have to find a way to make up for their mistake. When a mean little Martian named Major Monkey invades Earth, Ricky and his Robot race to save the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: George and Harold were about to take their pet pterodactyl Crackers back to the Cretaceous period. But things didn't work out quite as they had hoped. They've entered an absurd alternate reality where teachers are nice, kids are allowed to read banned books, and the cafeteria food doesn't smell like dirty diapers. Even worse, they've discovered alternate versions of themselves, Evil George and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PILAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.6 WAAKanon, Joseph
Summary: Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KANGrippando, James
Summary: Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024