Bruder, Jessica
Summary: In a secondhand vehicle she christens "Van Halen," Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects--transient older Americans who call themselves "workampers." From campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions and the dangerous work of beet harvesting, Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy--one that foreshadows...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 331.3 BRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 331.3Link, Mardi.
Summary: Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: the memoir of a woman who, after ending her nineteen-year marriage, staves off a perpetually empty bank account, saves her century-old farmhouse from foreclosure with the help of her three young sons, and reclaims her life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 630.92 LINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINK, MARDI JO LinPlain, Belva.
Summary: Septuagenarian Iris Stern questions her beliefs about what it means to be a woman and a wife when her daughter's marriage crumbles, an event that is complicated by the revelation of a dark family secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PLADelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELRichards, Susan
Summary: A memoir about the life-giving power of caring for an animal. One day, after waking up hung-over for nine years, Susan Richards realized she was an alcoholic. Here, she chronicles how her horse, Georgia, kept her steady and focused as she slowly overcame her urge to drink and learned how to love again.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 RICHARDS, SUSAN RicRoss, Ann B.
Summary: Shortly after the death of her husband, a wealthy Southern widow is visited by an impoverished young woman with a small boy. A mistress? A son? Julia Springer can't believe it, only to discover that the whole town has known for years. But she will rise to the occasion when the boy is kidnaped.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSSellers, Heather
Summary: At her twentieth high school reunion, author and creative writing professor Heather Sellers discovered that she had inherited illness: face-blindness. In a normal brain, a series of processes in the fusiform face area allow people to recognize old faces. But in Sellers' case, these processes do not occur. Here, Sellers recounts how she has coped with her condition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Sellers 2010Shalvis, Jill
Summary: After losing her sister in a devastating car accident, chef Quinn Weller is finally getting her life back on track. She appears to have it all: a loving family, a dream job in one of LA's hottest eateries, and a gorgeous boyfriend dying to slip an engagement ring on her finger. So why does she feel so empty, like she's looking for a missing piece she can't find?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAMacDonald, Betty Bard.
Summary: Contains a collection of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories, describing how she lives in a upside-down house that is always filled with the smell of freshly baked cookies and her backyard of buried treasure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MRSMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Can a city girl make it work with a country man? And will a rancher keep his word when it comes to marriage? Find out in this two stories in one collection.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MACPlain, Belva.
Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011