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The Good Father: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Noah Hawley
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2012, Mar 20th).
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An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son. As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons—hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. more
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The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jay Elliot
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged; Unabridged edition (2011, Apr 12th).
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The former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer and close colleague of Steve Jobs’s throughout his tenure, Jay Elliot takes listeners on a remarkable tour through Jobs’s astonishing career. From the inception of game-changing products like the Apple II and the Macintosh, to his stunning fall from grace, and on to his rebirth at the helm of Apple, his involvement with Pixar, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and much more, The Steve Jobs Way presents real-life examples of Jobs’s leadership challenges and triumphs, showing readers how to apply these principles to their own lives and careers. Packed with exclusive interviews from key figures in Apple Computer’s history, this revealing account provides a rarely seen, intimate glimpse into the Steve Jobs you won’t see on stage, thoroughly exploring his management and leadership principles. more
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The Apothecary
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Maile Meloy
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Penguin Audio (2011, Oct 4th).
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This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. more
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Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Marc Aronson
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (2011, Feb 8th).
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It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of YA literature’s top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that ingeniously pick up where the last one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk. Who’s got next? One day One court Ten voices . more
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The Neverending Story
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Michael Ende
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged,Unabridged CD edition (2012, Mar 26th).
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In this classic fantasy novel from author Michael Ende, small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Then, through the pages of an ancient, mysterious book, he discovers the enchanted world of Fantastica, and only Bastian himself can save the fairy people who live there. Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill. more
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Snow White and Other Stories
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Rebecca Burns
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged,Unabridged CD edition (2012, Mar 5th).
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Collected and published by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s, "Snow White" is a classic and timeless tale. The jealous queen's multiple attempts to take the beautiful Snow White's life are foiled by the sympathetic dwarfs. Eventually, Snow White gets her happily ever after with the prince, while the queen receives her comeuppance.Included in this book are twenty more tales from the Grimm Brothers' collection and by Charles Perrault:CinderellaRumpelstiltskinThe Fisherman and His WifeThe Sleeping Beauty in the WoodHans in LuckThe Golden BirdLittle Red Riding HoodKing ThrushbeardRapunzelThe FairiesHansel and GretelThe Galant TailorSnow White and Rose RedThe RavenThe Brother and SisterRicky of the TuftThe Twelve BrothersThe Frog PrinceLittle Tom ThumbThe Golden Goose . more
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Wonder
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: R. J. Palacio
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged (2012, Feb 14th).
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August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He’s about to enter fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if you’ve ever been the new kid, then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie’s just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, despite appearances? R. J. Palacio has crafted an uplifting novel full of wonderfully realistic family interactions, lively school scenes, and writing that shines with spare emotional power. “Wonder is a book with such a big, wide heart— it shows how we are all fragile, imperfect, and perfectly beautiful creatures. A wonderful novel by a wonder of a writer!” — Julia Alvarez, author of Return to Sender, Before We Were Free, Finding Miracles, and the Tía Lola Stories . more
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Susan Orlean
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (2011, Sep 27th).
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Nearly ten years in the making and perfect for the holidays, Susan Orlean’s first original book since the celebrated bestseller The Orchid Thief is the publishing event of the season: a sweeping, surprising, and powerfully moving work of narrative nonfiction about the dog actor and international icon, Rin Tin Tin. German shepherd Rin Tin Tin’s journey is the story of the twentieth century. From the discovery of Rin Tin Tin on a WWI battlefield in 1918, to the movies, radio programs, and the 1950s television show that would cement his legacy around the world, Rin Tin Tin traces the extraordinary history of the dog and his descendants over more than ninety years. Rin Tin Tin was a star (he received 10,000 fan letters a week); a worldwide sensation; a social figure (as the U. more
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jared Diamond
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2011, Jun 7th).
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the paths of development of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start. Only societies that advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage acquired a potential for developing writing, technology, government, and organized religions—as well as those nasty germs and potent weapons of war. more
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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Melissa Fay Greene
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged,Unabridged CD edition (2011, Apr 25th).
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When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia."Greene is best known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. But Melissa and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. When the number of children hit nine, Greene took a break from reporting. She trained her journalist's eye upon events at home. more
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