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A Week in Winter
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Maeve Binchy
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House (2000, Jan 1st).
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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions. more
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ayana Mathis
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2012, Dec 6th).
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Ten Years Later
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Hoda Kotb
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Jan 15th).
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New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show co-anchor tells the incredible stories of people who, when faced with impossibly challenging or tragic life situations, persevere—and even thrive—and asks, What if you, facing a game-changing event or decision right now, could see ten years into the future?Through years of perseverance, purpose, and passion, Hoda Kotb landed a spot with Kathie Lee on the Today show, won numerous journalism awards, and gained valuable life lessons. Now, after captivating audiences in her blockbuster memoir Hoda, she turns to stories about others who have undergone personal transformation against great odds. In Ten Years Later, Hoda chronicles six amazing stories by identifying a game-changing event in her subjects’ lives and then revisiting those lives a decade later. more
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Speaking from Among the Bones: A Flavia de Luce Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Alan Bradley
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Jan 29th).
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From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. more
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The Last Runaway
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Tracy Chevalier
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Penguin Audio (2013, Jan 8th).
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New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. In New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier’s newest historical saga, she introduces Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in 1850, only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. more
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Insane City
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: The Gza
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Jan 29th).
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A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Seth Weinstein knew Tina was way out of his league in pretty much any way you could imagine, which is why it continued to astonish him that he was on the plane for their destination wedding in Florida. He'd survived an airport prank by the Groom Posse, and it should be smooth sailing from now on. As it turns out, it's more like a trip on the Titanic. By the end, amid gunfire and mayhem, violent men will fall, heroes will rise, and lives will change. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. more
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I, Rhoda
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Valerie Harper
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Jan 15th).
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The heartwarming memoir from beloved, award-winning television actress Valerie Harper.Valerie Harper is finally ready to tell her story. In this, her first memoir, the beloved and award-winning television actress reflects on the role that made her famous—Rhoda Morgenstern on the groundbreaking series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on the spin-off show Rhoda—and the pressures of helming her own sitcom, Valerie. From her childhood in New Jersey and upstate New York to the beginnings of her acting career as a dancer and chorus girl on Broadway—performing alongside stars like Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason—to her recent battle with lung cancer, Valerie shares the story of her life, both the highs and the lows, in this heartwarming memoir, filled with charming anecdotes about Betty, Lucy, and Mary, to name a few. more
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The History of Us
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Leah Stewart
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition (2013, Jan 8th).
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Eloise Hempel is on her way to teach a class at Harvard when she receives devastating news. Her sister and her husband have been killed in a tragic accident, and Eloise must return home to Cincinnati to take her sister's three children, Theodora, Josh, and Claire, out of the hands of her own incapable mother. Nearly two decades later, Eloise is still in that house, still thinking about what she left behind. With Claire leaving for New York City for a promising ballet career, Eloise has plans to finally embark on a life that's hers alone. But when her mother makes a competition out of who inherits the house, and Claire reveals a life-changing secret, their makeshift family begins to fall apart. more
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Guilt: An Alex Delaware Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jonathan Kellerman
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Feb 26th).
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jonathan Kellerman’s “psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix” (Los Angeles Times), and this intensely thrilling blend has never been so powerful as in the acclaimed author’s new novel of murder and madness among the beautiful dreamers, seductive predators, and doomed innocents adrift in the glare of Southern California’s eternal sunshine. A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. more
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Farside
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged edition (2013, Feb 12th).
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[Read by Stefan Rudnicki] Six-time Hugo-Award winner Ben Bova presents Farside. Farside, the side of the moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that show whether or not the planet is truly like Earth -- and if it bears life. Farside observatory will have the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the moon's solid body. more
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