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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROWTackett, Michael
Summary: Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the corn fields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, a baseball whisperer who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl's original long shot projects, a skinny kid from the ghetto in Los Angeles who would one day become a beloved...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.357 TACRioux, Anne Boyd
Summary: "Since its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women has been one of America's favorite stories. While we now think of it as a girls' book, it was initially read by both boys and girls, men and women of all ages. Professor Anne Boyd Rioux, who read it in her twenties, tells us how Louisa May Alcott came to write the book and drew inspiration for her story from her own life. Its Civil...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 808.3 RIOEbershoff, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC EBERaimo, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RAIZevin, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZEVBerry, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERLeonard, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA W LEORid, Thomas
Summary: A sweeping history of cybernetics explores the discipline's early myths and wide-ranging influence after World War II, illuminating specific examples of cybernetics applications as utopian technologies, political tools, and military weapons.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge a division of Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 600 RidAl-Marashi, Huda
Summary: "When Huda meets Hadi, the boy she will ultimately marry, she is six years old. Both are the American-born children of Iraqi immigrants, who grew up on opposite ends of California. Hadi considers Huda his childhood sweetheart, the first and only girl he's ever loved, but Huda needs proof that she is more than just the girl Hadi's mother has chosen for her son. She wants what the American girls...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 AL-MARASHI, HUDA ALMCrummey, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRUPerry, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERSherry, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHESummary: Since A prairie home companion first went on the air, July 6, 1974, a steady stream of great performers has crossed its stage. In this comprehensive collection of highlights ever assembled from America's favorite live radio show, 85 standout performances from decades of music, stories, and laughter, with unforgettable moments from every era of the show, including the 40th anniversary...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEIKeillor, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KEIWeintraub, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: "Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent settlement there in 2032. As we gear up for missions like these, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already inhabit the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 523.43 WEIWohlsdorf, 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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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WOHBarbery, Muriel
Summary: The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Company 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARGoolrick, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOJanzen, Rhoda.
Summary: Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her with serious injuries. What was a gal to do? Rhoda packed her bags and went home. This wasn’t just any home, though. This was a Mennonite home. While Rhoda had long ventured out...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Company 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JANZEN, RHODA JANSummary: NPR reports on the Vietnam War, from its origins to the major battles, through the fall of Saigon, to repercussions of the conflict still felt today.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2013
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 959.704 NPRContents: Disc 1. Introduction with Nick Spitzer -- Dave Brubeck -- Antique Radio Museum, St. Louis -- Tom Waits -- Tito Puente -- Rufus Thomas -- Sea Breeze Beach.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC SPIKeillor, Garrison
Summary: Since A Prairie Home Companion first went on the air, July 6, 1974, a steady stream of great performers has crossed its stage. In this, the most comprehensive collection of highlights ever assembled from America's favorite live radio show, we are pleased to present 85 standout performances from four decades of music, stories, and laughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KEIDaley, Brian.
Summary: Ten episodes building on the original story as seen in the film The empire strikes back.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2013