Salley, Coleen.
Summary: Epossumondas's mother tells him a story about how his great-great-grandfather became the first possum to have a hairless tail.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE WHYCarlin, George.
Summary: In a collection of irreverent humor, the author presents his observations and opinions on the foibles and follies of modern life, taking on such topics as the media, the battle of the sexes, hygiene, evasive language, and politics.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 CARBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson shares his breath-taking adventures and the fascinating history of the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, as he travels slowly on foot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 917.4 BRYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 917.404 BryBryson, Bill.
Summary: A portrait of the Bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 BRYBryson, Bill
Summary: "Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body--how it functions,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612 BRYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Surprised by how little he knew of the things that made his home life so comfortable, author Bill Bryson decided study each room in his house and discover how they came to be. Here, with trademark humor and wit, Bryson chronicles the history of domesticity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: 643.1 Bryson 2010Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 643.1 BRYGraudin, Ryan
Summary: Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature. Exploring history himself is all he's ever wanted, and after failing his final time-traveling exam, Far takes a position commanding a ship with a crew of his friends as part of a black market operation to steal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRAHerbert, Brian.
Summary: Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF HERBraun, Lilian Jackson.
Summary: Jim Qwilleran, a middle-aged out-of-work reporter, accepts a position as Art writer. His new beat is as tricky as his old crime watch; murder, vandalized art works, and danger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAHerbert, Brian.
Summary: Brian Herbert presents the second interquel of Frank Herbert's epic Dune series, continued by his son, Brian, chronicling the life of Lady Jessica after the disappearance of her son, Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib. The growing battle between Jessica and her daughter, Alia, continues as Alia tries to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan and Bronso of Ix seems to be leading the opposition...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF HERThor, Brad.
Summary: Two years after five of GTMO's deadliest detainees are freed, counter-terrorist agent Scot Harvath's girlfriend is murdered. When he learns the murderer's bloody signature glows with a radioactive isotope that's linked to a top-secret program tracking America's worst enemies, Scot demands answers. Livid at the stonewalling and apathy he encounters, Scot--in violation of Presidential...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOKaras, G. Brian.
Summary: This is the story of how young Zeus, with a little help from six monsters, five gods, an enchanted she-goat (that's me), and his mother, became god of gods, master of lightning and thunder, and ruler over all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE YOUPatterson, James
Summary: Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PATPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Olivia McAfee left her husband and moved with her son, Asher, to a small town. When tragedy occurs and Asher becomes a suspect, Olivia must face whether he is revealing the same dark side as his father.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICBrown, Sandra
Summary: Shelley Browning, recovering from a disastrous marriage, is determined to get the college degree she abandoned to wed a young doctor. She's back at an Oklahoma University at age twenty-six, a little older and a lot wiser. But Shelley can't explain why she takes a class in government taught by Grant Chapman -- except that she feels compelled to see him again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Sandra
Summary: The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasn't just a tragedy to TV reporter Avery Daniels, it was an act of fate that handed her a golden opportunity to further her career. Mistaken for another woman, the badly injured Avery would find that plastic surgery had given her the other's face, a famous senatorial candidate for a husband, and a powerful Texas dynasty for in-laws. And as she lay helpless in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BROBrown, Dan
Summary: Cryptographer Susan Fletcher finds herself fighting for her country, her life, and the life of the man she loves when she is called in by the National Security Agency to decipher a mysterious code and discovers a plot that has the power to cripple U.S. intelligence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Sandra
Summary: In Bittersweet rain, Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips and the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she fears she might not survive her husband's son. Who says he wants to settle his father's estate ... but what he really wants is to settle the score with Caroline.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Dan
Summary: A Harvard symbologist analyzes a mysterious symbol seared to the chest of murdered physicist and discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood to carry out its vendetta against the Catholic Church.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Pierce
Summary: For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRO PT 2 OF 2Brown, Sandra
Summary: Upon acquittal, hired killer Ricky Lozada becomes obsessed with the jury forewoman, Dr. Rennie Newton. Meanwhile Fort Worth detective Wick Threadgill, on leave from the department, seeks to avenge Lozada's murder of his brother. The policeman also falls for Rennie.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Dan
Summary: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROBrown, Pierce
Summary: For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019