Girard, Anne.
Summary: When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: This largely autobiographical modern classic is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. At once a scathing critique of corporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family and the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life. Universally...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WILBrockmann, Suzanne.
Summary: When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly have known that she would not only get a front-row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus but would innocently witness something that would put her life in peril. Nor did she expect that a tall stranger in a cowboy hat would turn...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrockmann, Suzanne.
Summary: Maverick movie producer Jane Mercedes Chadwick's newest film that frankly portrays the homosexuality of a real-life WWII hero is causing a storm of controversy, so Troubleshooters Incorporated is called in to provide her with round-the-clock bodyguards. Navy SEAL Chief Cosmo Richter is working at Troubleshooters during his vacation, so he gets the job. A bond forms between Cosmo and Jane that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005
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Summary: When Harry arrives in New York, his publisher Harold Guinzberg tells him he has been elected as the next president of English PEN, which will give him the opportunity to launch a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who is languishing in a Russian Gulag in Siberia. His crime, writing a book Uncle Joe, which gives an insight into what it was like to work for Josef Stalin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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Summary: A man framed for the murder of his best friend seeks revenge against the four men who put him in Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love, and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life forever. Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: Follow the struggles and triumphs of the Clifton and Barrington families into the 1960's: the construction of a luxury ocean liner which comes under sabotage from the IRA; the Clifton family's entry into the London art scene; and a sweeping ending with all of the Barringtons and the Cliftons aboard the ship for its maiden voyage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2014
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Summary: When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which is stolen that night. But in the end, it is a courageous young woman who escapes from North Tower of the World Trade Center after the first plane...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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Summary: William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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Summary: A series debut introduces London Metropolitan Police Force detective William Warwick, who on his first investigation reflects on his complicated childhood while uncovering the schemes of a ruthless art collector.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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Summary: George Mallory was an intelligent student who attended Cambridge and served in World War I. He was an individual that wanted to accomplish great tasks that would ensure him a place in history. At age 37, he decided to climb Mt. Everest and was last seen 400 feet from the top. In 1999, his body was discovered, and the question of whether he made it to the top remains a mystery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009
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Summary: After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Digital Audio 2005
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Summary: Going undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A dock worker in Bristol, Harry Clifton never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then his unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011
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Summary: In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, twin brothers are accidentally separated at birth. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. When both men decide to run for governor, they learn the truth about their kinship-- and must face its tragic consequences.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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Summary: The story opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Archer 2016Eugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course to see what all the fuss is about, and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EUGEugenides, Jeffrey.
Summary: In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Archer, Jeffrey
Summary: Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. After his ship is sunk, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past by assuming the identity of an American officer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCLent, Jeffrey.
Summary: Set in the art scene of postwar New York, a commune in the early 1970s, and contemporary small-town New England, A Peculiar Grace is an insightful portrait of family secrets, with an unforgettable cast of characters who have learned to survive by giving shape to their losses.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LENArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: This is the third book in the Clifton Chronicles series. Opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
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Summary: Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ArcherArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. When his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018