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Summary: Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman and has any power of her own, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BONBond, Larry.
Summary: In Hanoi, CIA officer Mara Duncan uses every method necessary to accomplish her mission--to get scientist Josh MacArthur and a seven-year-old witness to Chinese atrocities in Vietnam out of the country safely.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BONBond, Larry.
Summary: In a bid to dominate Asia and the western Pacific, China provokes a military crisis with the United States and then starts shooting down GPS satellites. America has only a short amount of time to devise some way of protecting its remaining satellites or China will gain an enormous advantage in the coming conflict. The only way the satellites can be protected is from orbit, so an armed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BONBond, Larry.
Summary: Witnessing a torpedo attack on a Vietnamese merchant ship by a Chinese nuclear sub, USS North Dakota captain Jerry Mitchell helps to forge a tenuous new alliance with Western Pacific nations in a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy and preventing a full-scale war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BONHood, Ann
Summary: On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOOHood, Ann
Summary: Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group's goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOOHood, Joshua
Summary: The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming fifth birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone₂s director, calls Hayes back for one more mission. It's a walk in the park. You don't even have to go in with the strike team. I just need you...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOOHood, Ann
Summary: "An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOOHood, Ann
Summary: From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother's special-occasion Fancy Lady Sandwiches. Later, the kitchen became the heart of Hood's own home. She cooked...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.5092 HOOHood, Joshua
Summary: Retired airman Travis Lane joins a company that provides protection for clients worldwide. But it's trial by fire when his first mission takes him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to find and retrieve a kidnapped American in the middle of a densely forested jungle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HOOHood, Joshua
Summary: Adam Hayes thought he'd left behind his life as a black ops assassin. But after he is attacked by a hit team, he must regain the skills that Treadstone taught him: lightning reflexes and a cold conscience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOODoidge, Norman.
Summary: An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly inalterable conditions were improved through treatments that involved the thought re-alteration of brain structure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 612.8 Doidge 2011Lyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYOTodd, Terrie
Summary: It's 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia is heartbroken when she learns that her beloved soldier, Henry, has been killed in a train wreck. Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes the desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in her diary. Many...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC TODRoberts, Nora.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Boyd, Pattie
Summary: The former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton describes her intimate relationship with two of the icons of rock music and her memories of the dynamic, often turbulent world of rock music during the 1960s and 1970s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 782.421 BOYFielding, Helen
Summary: With her hotly anticipated third installment, Bridget Jones: Mad about the boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new, enticing phase of Bridget's life, set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, and the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FIELyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD 2004
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GOOHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the best selling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHEDodd, Christina
Summary: I have three confessions to make: 1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. 2. I don't remember an entire year of my life. 3. My name is Kellan Adams ... and that's half a lie. Girl running ... from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear. Tough, capable Kellan Adams is hired at a remote resort on the Pacific Coast. When a former employee...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DODDodd, Christina
Summary: Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory caused by a gunshot wound to the head. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DODDodd, Christina.
Summary: Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do, she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015