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A home in Drayton Valley : a novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kim Vogel Sawyer; Barbara McCulloh; Recorded Books, LLC.
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books... (2013, Jan 1st).
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In 1880, Tarsie Raines is traveling from New York to Kansas with the Brubachers: Joss, Mary, and their two children. Along the way, tragedy strikes, leaving Tarsie and Joss alone to face an unthinkable crisis--and only God's love to guide them forward. more
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A delicate truth
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: John Le Carré; Recorded Books, LLC.; Penguin Audio (Firm)
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books... (2013, Jan 1st).
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In 2008, a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be--or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? more
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The Hit
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: David Baldacci
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Apr 23rd).
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From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the year. THE HIT Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency. To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. 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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The Mystery Woman (Ladies of Lantern Street Series)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Amanda Quick
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Library edition (2013, Apr 23rd).
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The new Ladies of Lantern Street novel from Amanda Quick explores the crimes, passions, and paranormal secrets of Victorian London. Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwood’s gown, a pistol waits at the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission — and with a secret past — and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball — and then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrice’s employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an ebony-and-steel cane. . . . Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally intrigued. more
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Silken prey
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: John Sandford; Richard Ferrone
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books... (2013, Jan 1st).
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"Very early one morning, 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. 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. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen. No matter who gets in the way."--Container. more
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The Pretty One: A Novel about Sisters
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lucinda Rosenfeld
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged; Unabridged edition (2013, Feb 5th).
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For nearly forty years, the Hellinger sisters of Hastings-on-Hudson — namely, Imperia (Perri), Olympia (Pia), and Augusta (Gus) — have played the roles set down by their loving but domineering mother, Carol. Perri, a mother of three, rules her four-bedroom palace in Westchester with a velvet fist, managing to fold even fitted sheets into immaculate rectangles. Pia, a gorgeous and fashionable events coordinator at a museum on the Upper East Side, who became a single mother via sperm donation, still turns heads. And Gus, a fiercely independent lawyer and activist, doesn’t let her breakup with her girlfriend stop her from attending New Year’s Day protests on her way to a family brunch. But the Hellinger women aren’t pulling off their roles the way they once did. more
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Manuscript Found in Accra
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Paulo Coelho
Format: Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (2013, Apr 2nd).
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The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear. . . . Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms. * * * July 14, 1099. Jerusalem awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the city’s gates. There, inside the ancient city’s walls, men and women of every age and every faith have gathered to hear the wise words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. more
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Unintended consequences
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Stuart Woods; Tony Roberts; Recorded Books, LLC.; Penguin Audio...
Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books... (2013, Jan 1st).
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New Yorker Stone Barrington travels across the Atlantic for a tale of international intrigue. While investigating a high-profile murder, Stone uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly games they play. With no checks on their ambition, the wealthy will go to any ends to increase their power--and only Stone stands in the way of their dark schemes. more
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