Desai, Kiran
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DESCass, Kiera
Summary: Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illéa, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illéa's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CASSallah, Michael.
Summary: Presents the "last great secret of the Vietnam War," the story of an experimental fighting unit known as the Tiger Force, the atrocities they committed, and the coverup that stretched all the way to the White House.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Yaqub, Salim.
Contents: Part 1: Lecture l. A meeting of two worlds -- Lecture 2. Wilson & the breakup of the Ottoman Empire -- Lecture 3. The interwar period -- Lecture 4. U.S. & the Middle East during World War II -- Lecture 5. Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East -- Lecture 6. Truman & the creation of Israel -- Lecture 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East -- Lecture 8. The Suez crisis & Arab...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 YAQSales, Leila
Summary: Vanessa isn't sure which happened first: finding the abandoned museum or losing her best friend Bailey. She doesn't know what to do with herself now that Bailey has left her behind--but when she stumbles upon an empty, forgotten museum, her purpose becomes clear. Vanessa starts filling the museum with her own artifacts and memories, hoping that perhaps, if she can find the right way to tell the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC SALSalem, Jon.
Summary: Follow the steamy, glamorous lives of three very different women, Liza, Kellyanne, and Billie, over the course of a summer spent at a posh resort in the Hamptons. With a grisly murder, a premature birth, and a public meltdown all on the docket for this intense and erotic plot, these ladies are in for a summer they'll never forget.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliiance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SALShafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAKirk, Cindy.
Summary: A widow at twenty-six, Primrose Bloom returns to idyllic Good Hope, Wisconsin, with her two rambunctious young boys, seeking the beauty of the lakeside landscape and the comfort of home. After the loss of her husband and her job, all she’s looking for is peace. Prim is resolved not to date again until her boys are in college, but her will starts crumbling whenever she’s around her former high...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Cass, Kiera
Summary: Years ago, Kahlen was rescued from drowning by the Ocean. To repay her debt, she has served as a Siren ever since, using her voice to lure countless strangers to their deaths. Though a single word from Kahlen can kill, she can't resist spending her days on land, watching ordinary people and longing for the day when she will be able to speak and laugh and live freely among them again. Kahlen is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CASRushdie, Salman.
Summary: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, fall earthward from a bombed jet toward the sea, singing rival verses in an eternal wrestling match between good and evil.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RUSCass, Kiera
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Selection series Kiera Cass is back with her most epic novel yet--a sweeping enemies-to-lovers standalone romance. "Love has a sound. It sounds like a thousand heartbeats happening at the same time." Princess Annika has lived a life of comfort--but no amount of luxuries can change the fact that her life isn't her own to control. The king, once her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CASRaza, Azra
Summary: We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.99 RAZTahir, Sabaa
Summary: Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TAHTahir, Sabaa
Summary: Following the events of the Fourth Trial, an army led by Masks hunts the two fugitives as they escape the city of Serra and journey across the vast lands of the Martial Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf-- the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison-- and save her brother, whose knowledge of Serric steel is the key to the Scholars' future. And Elias is determined to stay by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAHKirk, Cindy
Summary: Ten years after "marrying" John Burke on the night of her senior prom, Hope Prentiss finds out that her wedding counted. Her jilted husband has returned to town and is staying at the inn where she and her Aunt Verna host weddings. After spending time with John and helping to plan a Christmas wedding, Hope begins to question whether or not she really wants a divorce or a real wedding.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KIRKirk, Daniel.
Summary: While the library that Sam and his adventurous friend Sarah live in is being renovated, the two mice try to make new homes for themselves in the attic, constructing everything from a yurt to a geodesic dome. Includes photographs of real house styles discussed and a brief glossary of terms.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LIBRushdie, Salman.
Summary: On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN RUSRushdie, Salman.
Summary: From Rashid's fertile intellect spring bedazzling tales his son Luka devours with a child's earnestness. But when Rashid succumbs to an unending sleep, Luka must enter a magical world ruled by video-game logic.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RUSThomas, Kara
Summary: The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOAlyan, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYDalai Lama XIV
Summary: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a spiritual leader and Nobel laureate, dissects the Buddhist principle of enlightenment, advising listeners on how to achieve Buddhist edification. He also provides exercises for expanding one's potential for spiritual growth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Ideas 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 DALHorn, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Cussler, Dirk
Summary: In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021