Gabaldon, Diana.
Summary: In 1772, the rift between Britain and its American colonies has put a frightening word into the minds of all concerned: revolution. Violence has already reared its ugly head in rural North Carolina, as cabins have been burned to the ground. To preserve the colony for King George III, the governor pleads with Jamie to bring the people together and restore peace. But Jamie has the privelege,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Gabaldon 2005Howe, Katherine.
Summary: "Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. There, Connie discovers an ancient key secreted within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOWGregory, Philippa.
Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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Summary: Recounts one of the love stories of medieval England. This is a tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007
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Summary: On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 973.711 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: A retelling of the presidential election campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson describes the fierce rivalry that was called "America's Second Revolution" and reveals the pivotal roles played by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MOORE, WES MOOEdgerton, Clyde
Summary: Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Greenland where they discover they've traveled back in time to meet Lief Erikson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Scenes from the past and a collection of intensely personal letters tell the story of a long married couple now confined to a nursing home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPASteel, Danielle.
Summary: Set in the Deep South, Danielle Steel's Southern Lights unfolds the story of a mother and daughter both commencing new and separate lives, one in corporate Manhattan, fighting to put a serial killer behind bars, and the other in sultry Charleston, reconnecting with the father she's barely known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILGoodman, Alison
Summary: In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GOOWinik, Jay
Summary: Winik documents the final years of the eighteenth century as a period of tumultuous change marked by Russia's imperial power, the revolution in France, and America's near-collapse, events that the author reveals to be intricately related.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 WINTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: In the second volume of the trilogy, the fellowship has been forced to split up in order to destroy the ring and fight the first battle of the War of the ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1990
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction TolWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Simon Winchester profiles the life and work of Joseph Needham, a man who, in the mid-20th century, dedicated his life to studying the history of Chinese science. He would go on to write the definitive history of China's scientific progress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Needham 2008Hart, John
Summary: Julian survived at the Iron Mountain Home for Boys only because his older brother, Michael, was fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boiled over and a boy was brutally killed, Michael fled the orphanage. Now, two decades later, Michael is an enforcer in New York's world of organized crime, but the life he's fought to build unravels when he meets Elena. He wants a fresh start with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2011
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Summary: As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Sparks 2005Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROSheinkin, Steve
Summary: Presents the story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 959.7 SHEHarris, Charlaine.
Summary: Called to tiny Doraville, North Carolina, Harper investigates the disappearance of several young boys. After finding them buried in a secluded wood, it becomes clear that a sadistic serial killer is stalking the town's children.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, forty-five-year-old Adrienne Willis reconsiders her entire life, until a trip to Rodanthe in North Carolina's outer banks leads to an encounter with successful surgeon Paul Flanner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPACooper, James Fenimore
Summary: The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiance, and by the treacherous Indian Magua,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007