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Apocalyptic literature Female friendship Fiction Gogh, Vincent van 1853-1890 Fiction Organized crime Fiction Painters France Paris Fiction Paris (France) History 19th century Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 1864-1901 Fiction Women detectives California San Francisco Fiction Women in the professions FictionGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GHOGloss, Molly.
Summary: "In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GLOHosp, David.
Summary: A Boston lawyer accepts a dangerous assignment involving an attack on a policewoman and an El Salvadoran immigrant with ties to one of South America's most notorious gangs.
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 HOSLuqman-Dawson, Amina
Summary: "Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his younger sister, unwillingly leaving their mother behind. Through tangled vines, hidden doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved people and some freeborn children, Homer finds new friends, almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Recounting the story of her life to her granddaughter, octogenarian Addie describes how she was raised in early-twentieth-century America by Jewish immigrant parents in a teeming multicultural neighborhood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIADiamant, Anita.
Summary: Two women are brought together by a mutual love for books, humor and nature for a once in a lifetime friendship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio Division 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIAShreve, Anita.
Summary: On a beach in New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a young woman is drawn into a rocky, disastrous passage to adulthood. Olympia Biddeford is the only child of a prominent Boston couple - a precocious and well-educated daughter, alive with ideas and flush with the first stirrings of maturity. Her summer at the family's vacation home in Fortune's Rocks is transformed by the arrival of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orion Audio Books 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ShrShreve, Anita
Summary: "In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shreve 2017Swarup, Vikas.
Summary: There's a caste system - even in murder. Viky Rai, notorious son of a prominent Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy Delhi restaurant. Thanks to his mother pulling a few strings, he gets off scot-free. At a lavish society party to celebrate his acquittal he is himself murdered. Who did it? The Bollywood actress with a guilty secret; the American who came to India to marry his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M SWAShreve, Anita.
Summary: Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick join a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the African mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRSchneider, Josh
Summary: A father tells outlandish stories while trying to get his young son, who is a very picky eater, to eat foods he thinks he will not like.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Schneider 2012Malerman, Josh.
Summary: Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MALBazell, Josh.
Summary: Peter Brown is a young emergency room doctor whose sealed identity in the witness protection program is about to give out! After a heart-thumping morning (including a mugging and a lusty elevator encounter with a hot pharmaceuticals rep), Peter treats a new patient who knows him from his other life. Can he keep the patient alive long enough to beat the reaper?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAZMoore, Christopher
Summary: This novel casts Moore's view askance on a familiar subject and twists it into something wholly original. Famed painter Vincent van Gogh lies dead, an apparent suicide victim. Two of his painterly colleagues are not convinced that the artist truly offed himself, though, so they embark on a quest to find the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MorPatterson, James
Summary: The Women's Murder Club discovers the connection between a series of so-far unrelated but brutal killings, one that had been overlooked by their male colleagues.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2002