Backman, Fredrik
Summary: "Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: As a big hockey match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks between the communities of Beartown and Hed pile up, leading to the death of a local resident. The people of both towns are forced to wonder if the game they love can ever return to something simple and honest.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: An open house becomes a fearful situation when an escaped bank robber takes everyone inside hostage. As pressure mounts, eight strangers open up to each other and share their darkest secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything."--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Encore, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACBachman, Richard.
Summary: Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., nicknamed Blaze, is a mentally retarded giant of a man living in a decrepit old house. Blaze's best--and only--friend's name is George, and George is a bad influence. It is George who goads Blaze into kidnapping the baby and holding it for a million dollar ransom. As a pitch-black sequence of events unfolds, the true sickness of Blaze's condition comes into focus through...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007