Rowley, Emma

Summary: "The missing don't always want to be found. Kate Harlow recognizes this painful truth, even as she keeps searching for her daughter, Sophie, who disappeared two years ago. The police have stopped investigating -- after all, Sophie has sent postcards home, insisting that she's fine. To fill the space in her increasingly empty days, Kate volunteers at Message in a Bottle, where runaways can leave...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Crummey, Michael

Summary: The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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Perry, Thomas.

Summary: A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences--half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books 2018

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Sherry, Miranda.

Summary: Narrating from the afterlife, a woman who was murdered in a farmstead massacre in the South African bush watches as her family tries to pick up the pieces and make sense of the tragedy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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Ebershoff, David.

Summary: Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks "What do you do when someone you love wants to change?"

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010

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Raimo, Veronica

Summary: "While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door. Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and violent affair she's had with her professor, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Zevin, Gabrielle

Summary: When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Berry, Jedediah.

Summary: Charles Unwin, a clerk in a detective agency, is promoted after his boss is murdered and a detective goes missing. Now a detective himself, Unwin seeks out the whereabouts of the missing detective, as all as those who murdered his boss. However, things quickly turn sour for the novice gumshoe, as he is framed for murder and on the run from a gang of thugs.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2009

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Leonard, Elmore

Summary: Set against a breathtaking landscape, here are the extraordinary characters, the desperate odds, and the spirit of a wild frontier, in three of Elmore Leonard's western stories.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2008

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Keillor, Garrison.

Summary: On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012

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Wohlsdorf, Gina

Summary: When the gleaming new Manderley Resort opens in twenty-four hours, Santa Barbara's exclusive beachfront hotel will offer its patrons the ultimate in luxury and high-tech security. No indulgence has been ignored, no detail overlooked. But all the money in the world can't guarantee safety. As hotel manager Tessa and her employees ready the hotel for its invitation-only grand opening, a killer is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Goolrick, Robert

Summary: Manhattan in the 1980s shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything, and anyone, they want. Until, one by one, they fall.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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Makkai, Rebecca.

Summary: When her favorite patron, a book-loving ten-year-old, runs away from overbearing parents who force him to attend anti-gay classes with a celebrity pastor, children's librarian Lucy Hull flees with the boy and discovers that they are being pursued by an anonymous adversary.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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Filipacchi, Amanda.

Summary: Meet the Knights of Creation, a group of artistic friends struggling with society's standards of beauty. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, chooses to don a fat suit in hopes that it will help her meet the man of her dreams--a man who can see beyond her looks. Lily, Barb's brilliantly talented, unfortunate-looking musician friend, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the shallow man...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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Johnston, Tim

Summary: The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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Némirovsky, Irène

Summary: A novel about life and death in occupied France during World War II.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006

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