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Car Talk: 25 Years of Lousy Car Advice
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ray Magliozzi
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: HighBridge Company; Original radio broadcast; 2 hours edition (2013, Jan 1st).
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In 1987, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, made the leap from nursing the motley car population of New England to creating the nationally beloved public radio phenomenon that we all know as Car Talk. The advice may be a little suspect, and the memories in desperate need of a tune-up, but the laughs are genuine as Click and Clack look back on an illustrious—if not industrious—25 years of delighting NPR audiences with their wit, wisdom, and occasionally relevant musings on the maintenance of cars. Lovingly compiled by the long-suffering lackeys at Car Talk Plaza, this collection represents the most memorable, most hilarious moments from the show’s vast archives. more
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Amy Stewart
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: HighBridge Company; Unabridged; 10.25 hours edition (2013, Mar 19th).
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, and fruits (and even a few fungi).Some of the most extraordinary and obscure plants have been fermented and distilled, and they each represent a unique cultural contribution to global drinking traditions and our history. Molasses was an essential ingredient of American independence when outrage over a mandate to buy British rather than French molasses for New World rum-making helped kindle the American Revolution. more
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Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Eddie Huang
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Jan 29th).
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“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony BourdainNATIONAL BESTSELLEREddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night—and one of the food world’s brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. Eddie grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. more
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Frozen in Time CD
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mitchell Zuckoff
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: HarperAudio; Unabridged edition (2013, Apr 23rd).
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On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished.In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors. Frozen in Time places us at the center of a group of valiant airmen fighting to stay alive through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter until an expedition attempts to bring them to safety. But that is only part of the story. In present-day Greenland, Zuckoff joins the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. more
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Inferno: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Dan Brown
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, May 14th).
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In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . more
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![On heaven and Earth : [Pope Francis on faith, family, and the Church in the twenty-first century]](http://firstbooklook.com/images/dvd.png "On heaven and Earth : [Pope Francis on faith, family, and the Church in the twenty-first century]")
On heaven and Earth : [Pope Francis on faith, family, and the Church in the twenty-first century]
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Francis, Pope; Mark Bramhall; Arthur Morey; Abraham Skorka
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Books on Tape... (2013, Jan 1st).
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6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. more
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Steve Sheinkin
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Listening Library (2000, Jan 1st).
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In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb. Bomb is a 2013 Newbery Honor, winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, Winner of the Robert F. more
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Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jeanne Marie Laskas; Jamie Heinlein; Penguin Audio (Firm); Recorded...
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Penguin Audio ; Prince Frederick... (2000, Jan 1st).
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Looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers. more
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Death of Yesterday: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: M. C. Beaton
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: AudioGO; Unabridged edition (2013, May 14th).
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When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn’t remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn’t begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and he’d prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant and annoying woman. But when her body is discovered, Hamish is forced to investigate a crime that the only known witness—now dead—had forgotten. more
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The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Nicco Mele
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: HighBridge Company; Unabridge; 8.25 hours edition (2013, Apr 23rd).
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Radical connectivity—our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally—is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed and reshaping our biggest institutions. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual. In some cases this is a positive development, but as Mele reveals, the promise of the Internet comes with a troubling downside. He asks: How do we trust information when journalists are replaced by bloggers, phone videos, and tweets? Will the collapse of two-party government bring us qualified leaders or demagogues and special-interest-controlled politicians? When web-based micro-businesses can out-compete major corporations, who enforces basic regulations—product safety, privacy protection, fraud, and tax collection?Unless we exercise deliberate moral choice over the design and use of technologies, Mele contends, we doom ourselves to a future that tramples human values, renders social structures chaotic, and destroys rather than enhances freedom. more
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Silken Prey
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: John Sandford
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, May 7th).
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Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman . . . The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times– bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner. At 1:15 a.m., a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah? Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then—very troublingly—to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then—most troublingly of all—to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. more
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Starting now
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Debbie Macomber; Abby Craden
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Books on Tape... (2013, Jan 1st).
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"For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career-- her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: She's been let go and must rebuild her entire life-- starting now. With no job prospects in sight, Libby reaches out to old friends and spends her afternoons at A Good Yarn, the local knitting store. There she forms a close bond with Lydia, the sweet-natured shop owner; Lydia's spirited teenage daughter, Casey; and Casey's best friend, Ava, a shy yet troubled girl who will shape Libby's future in surprising and profound ways. more
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Paris: The Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Edward Rutherfurd
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Apr 16th).
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From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout history. In this breathtaking saga of love, war, art, and intrigue, Rutherfurd has set his sights on the most magnificent city in the world: Paris. Moving back and forth in time across centuries, the story unfolds through intimate and vivid tales of self-discovery, divided loyalties , passion, and long-kept secrets of characters both fictional and real, all set against the backdrop of the glorious city—from the building of Notre Dame to the dangerous machinations of Cardinal Richlieu; from the glittering court of Versailles to the violence of the French Revolution and the Paris Commune; from the hedonism of the Belle Époque, the heyday of the impressionists, to the tragedy of the First World War; from the 1920s when the writers of the Lost Generation could be found drinking at Les Deux Magots to the Nazi occupation, the heroic efforts of the French Resistance, and the 1968 student revolt. more
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The accursed
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Joyce Carol Oates; Grover Gardner; Books on Tape, Inc.
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Books on Tape... (2013, Jan 1st).
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In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair. more
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Wedding Night: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sophie Kinsella
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House (2000, Jan 1st).
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old flame, calls her out of the blue and reminds Lottie of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. No formal dates—just a quick march to the altar and a honeymoon on Ikonos, the sun-drenched Greek island where they first met years ago. Their family and friends are horrified. Fliss, Lottie’s older sister, knows that Lottie can be impulsive—but surely this is her worst decision yet. And Ben’s colleague Lorcan fears that this hasty marriage will ruin his friend’s career. more
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Mom & Me & Mom
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Maya Angelou
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Apr 2nd).
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The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, 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 grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been told. more
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