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Audiobooks Books on CD Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Fiction Latin language Grammar Problems, exercises, etc Latin language Humor Paparazzi Fiction Pennsylvania History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Reagan, Ronald United States History Anecdotes Women singers FictionGoodwin, Jason
Summary: In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOLarson, Erik.
Summary: In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitler's violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror. Here, author Erik...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LARBrands, H. W.
Summary: Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon. Playing a major role in ending Communism in the Soviet Union, Reagan established himself as one of the truly great presidents of the twentieth century. Follow him from small-town Illinois through his career as an actor and finally into politics, as a California governor and then president whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REAGAN, RONALD BRAGreene, Thomas Christopher.
Summary: Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double", portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIAMoerk, Christian.
Summary: In Dublin, Niall, a young mailman, discovers the diary of Fiona Walsh, a recent murder victim, in the dead-letter bin at the post office. Upon reading the diary, Niall immerses himself in the enchanting mystery of traveling Irish storyteller Jim, who entered Fiona and her sister's life, wooing them with his tragic narratives. As Niall reads, though, he connects Jim to a string of murders...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MOEAhamed, Liaquat.
Summary: "With penetrating insights for today, this history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s presents unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century." "In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHAHyde, Catherine Ryan.
Summary: Pearl was thirteen when she got pregnant and accidentally kills the father who is a police officer. She goes on the run for the next five years, but is forced by a cop to confront what she did. She leaves her son with a neighbor and never returns.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDMukherjee, Siddhartha.
Summary: A stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. Siddhartha Mukherjee provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.99 Mukherjee 2010Pearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PEAGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Presents a companion volume to The History Channel's documentary which recounts the events of ten pivotal days that changed the course of American history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 GILMount, Harry
Summary: In this lighthearted, guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 478.242 LATShaara, Michael.
Summary: This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is the finest historical dramatization of the Civil War. The book centers around the key battle of the war: the battle of Gettysburg. In July of 1863, the Confederate Army, led by General Robert E. Lee, invaded the North, in order to deal a fatal blow to the Union Army. Lee's right hand man was the loyal General Longstreet. Opposing them was General George...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004