Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Now Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.932 COAHagberg Fisher, Eva
Summary: A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost-and for anyone who has struggled to seek help or accept it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 HAGBERG FISHER, EVA HAGClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will, searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fic GarBarra, Allen.
Summary: Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between Micky Mantle and Willie Mays, two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 BARMays, Willie
Summary: "In Willie's own words and those of others whose lives he has touched -- including Hall of Famers, Negro Leaguers, teammates, opponents, managers, commissioners, childhood friends, celebrities, and three U.S. presidents -- this revealing book emphasizes his unique and lasting place in American history, culture, and public life. Willie Mays is an American icon, treasure, and hero. For the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 MAYS, WILLIE MAYClements, Andrew
Summary: A girl who has always enjoyed the spotlight encounters an unexpected rival in her own best friend, who has accidentally triggered a hot new fad at school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CLESmith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: With hope for salvation dwindling, Captain Akira Hayashi deploys on a desperate mission to find Apeiron, believing only she can stop Doctor Otto Cross from completing his reset of Earth. But Akira soon realizes they need more than just Apeiron. Shadow Squad must somehow reunite with Tadhg and the weapon he carries. Only then can Akira lead the charge against the machines in one last fight for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIAldrin, Buzz.
Summary: Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings -- Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the...
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 629.4553 ALDPilkey, Dav
Summary: Best friends always stick together--especially when they are in trouble!Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot always watch out for each other--that's what friends are for! This time, they've managed to mangle the Ricotta family's minivan. Somehow they have to find a way to make up for their mistake. When a mean little Martian named Major Monkey invades Earth, Ricky and his Robot race to save the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PILWeintraub, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: "Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent settlement there in 2032. As we gear up for missions like these, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already inhabit the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 523.43 WEITodd, Charles
Summary: Although the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting for transport back to her post, Bess Crawford meets Captain Alan Travis from the island of Barbados. Later, when he's brought into her forward aid station disoriented from a head wound, Bess is alarmed that he believes his distant English cousin, Lieutenant James Travis, shot him. Then the Captain is brought back to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TODHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILTodd, Charles
Summary: Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times best selling author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TODWeir, Andy
Summary: "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacute while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's aliveway alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIMcCloskey, Robert
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2024
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Summary: In this fresh history of one of America's key turning points, author Kevin Phillips charts how this tumultuous year shaped America's commitment to revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 PHIWechsler, Pamela
Summary: Chief of homicide district attorney Abby Endicott hasn't had the easiest adjustment to normal life. Her wealthy Boston family has cut her off because of her dangerous job, her new apartment with her musician boyfriend Ty is not up to her standards, and her impending position as godmother to her new niece or nephew is overwhelming. However, her personal life is about to be put on hold when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WECHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Mark Whitney was nearly killed by a dust storm on Mars and was abandoned by his crew who thought him dead. Now he's all alone with no way of letting Earth know he's alive, which doesn't matter because his supplies would run out before they'd get there. Either way, the environment or human error will likely kill him first. Not giving in, Mark works to survive, battling obstacle after obstacle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEITodd, Charles
Summary: After the 1918 Armistice, nurse Bess Crawford is trying to save a former soldier in England from a mysterious killer when she is asked to carry out a personal mission in Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TODPerry, Thomas.
Summary: A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences--half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERReyes, Ana
Summary: Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed... Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: When a woman from a community where he exposed school-board corruption years earlier is found dead, Virgil Flowers identifies clues linking the case to a 20-year high school reunion and its related traumas, dramas and rivalries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2017