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Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) Fiction Decker, Peter (Fictitious character) Fiction Government investigators Fiction Lazarus, Rina (Fictitious character) Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Police California Los Angeles Fiction Police spouses Fiction Serial murders FictionIbrahim, Maiya
Summary: The first book in an epic fantasy series set in an Arabian-inspired land with secret spice magic. Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands, sixteen-year-old Imani must fight to find her brother, whose betrayal is now the country's greatest threat. In the hidden desert city of Qalia, there is secret spice magic that awakens the affinities of those who drink the misra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IBRMays, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 MAYS, WILLIE MAYJasanoff, Maya
Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 JASAngelou, Maya.
Summary: In this straightforward yet prosaically beautiful work, award-winning author Maya Angelou provides heartfelt advice to the masses. While imploring her readers to work hard at living well, she offers real and applicable ways in which to make the world a better place while also cultivating fulfillment within yourself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 ANGAngelou, Maya.
Summary: For the first time, Maya Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence - a presence absent during much of Angelou's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ANGELOU, MAYA ANGBanks, Maya
Summary: Now widowed, Josslyn seeks the one thing her beloved husband couldn't give her: dominance. Lonely, searching for an outlet for her grief and wanting only a brief taste of the perfection she once enjoyed, she seeks what she's looking for at an exclusive club that caters to people indulging in their most hedonistic fantasies. She never imagined that what she'd find would be the one man who's long...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANSobel, Dava.
Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBAkhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AKHSobel, Dava.
Summary: Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SOBEL, DAVA SOBHorn, Dara
Summary: Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest. She's already put up with scores of marriages and hundreds of children, over 2,000 years-ever since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem. There's only one other person in the world who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORAlyan, Hala
Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: His existence shattered by the Great War, Bennett Grey is investigated by an American agent who thinks he may be useful for protecting national security.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KINAlyan, Hala
Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYCornwall, Gaia
Summary: Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He's finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he's a great jumper, so he's not scared at all. 'Looks easy, ' says Jabari, watching the other kids take their turns. But when his dad squeezes his hand, Jabari squeezes back. He needs to figure out what kind of special jump to do anyway, and he should probably do some...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 SEDKellerman, Faye
Summary: When a developmentally disabled man goes missing from a local diner, the disappearance becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to detectives Peter Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELKellerman, Faye.
Summary: A woman is raped in a Yeshiva community. Detective Peter Decker teams with the religious Rina Lazarous in an effort to solve the crime.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELKellerman, Faye.
Summary: A young man's obsessive investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer. He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear. Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELKellerman, Faye.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KELPatterson, James
Summary: FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murderer who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry. He describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PatKellerman, Faye.
Summary: The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon's death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker. Why, for example, would the family of a man so beloved respond to his slaying with more...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KELMcNees, Kelly O'Connor.
Summary: In the summer of 1855 and the notion of making a living as a writer is still a far-off dream for Louisa. The Alcott family, destitute as usual, moves to a generous uncle's empty house in Walpole, New Hampshire, for the summer. Here, a striking but pensive Louisa meets Joseph Singer. But just as she begins to open her heart, she discovers that Joseph may not be free to give his away. Their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCNSummary: From powerful and moving to knee-knocking suspense and troubled love, these darkly comic tales of lives on the edge represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Performances recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and on tour around the country.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELPatterson, James
Summary: The toughest cases are the ones that hit close to home.When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known.Chasing a ghost he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015