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Angelou, Maya A Song Flung Up to Heaven Read by Maya Angelou. The noted poet, writer, and performer reads the final volume in her acclaimed autobiography. Beginning in the 1960s as she returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X, Angelou relates her experiences through the turbulent decade. [Grammy Award - Spoken Word] 2002 Appears on the following book lists:  Listen to Books |
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Banks, Russell The Darling Read by Mary Beth Hurt. Having fled to West Africa in the late 1970s for her work as a political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah Musgrave befriends notorious former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whom she helps to escape from prison and who years later leads a rebellion that threatens Hannah's family. [Audie Award - Fiction] 2004 |
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Brooks, Max World War Z Read by a full cast. An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. [Audie Award - Multivoice] 2006 |
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Burke, Alafair Angel's Tip Read by Eliza Foss. In the aftermath of a college student's murder, NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher builds a case against a young man last seen with the victim but doubts her original conclusions when she recognizes similarities between the killing and three deaths from a decade earlier. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2008 |
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Burke, James Lee The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Read by Will Patton. A powerful evocation of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on Burke's beloved New Orleans-- Following detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans. [Audie Award - Mystery] 2007 |
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Child, Lee Nothing to Lose Read by Dick Hill. Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They're picking on the wrong guy. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2008 |
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Coben, Harlan Long Lost Read by Steven Weber. Contacted by a woman with whom he had an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2009 |
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Coben, Harlan Long Lost Read by Steven Weber. Contacted by a woman with whom he had an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2009 |
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Coben, Harlan No Second Chance Read by Scott Brick. Injured by an unknown shooter who has killed his wife and abducted his baby daughter, surgeon Marc Seidman struggles with limited options when he receives a ransom note that he will never see his daughter again if he contacts the police. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2003 |
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Connelly, Michael Echo Park Read by Len Cariou. Eleven years after his investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to put the case to rest when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about several others. [Audie Award - Mystery] 2006 |
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Dallas, Sandra Tallgrass Read by Lorelei King. Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered, an event that prompts Rennie's own perspective change and the discovery of dangerous secrets. [Audie Award - Fiction] 2007 Appears on the following book lists: Award-Winning Teen Audiobooks |
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DeMille, Nelson Plum Island Read by Scott Brick. New York detective John Corey, recovering from bullet wounds on an island, narrates his investigation into the murder of two scientists researching biological warfare. The two, a man and his wife, also appear to have been involved in a search for a pirate treasure. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2004 |
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Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol Read by Jim Dale. A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. [Audie Award - Classics, and an ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults] 2003 |
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Donohue, Keith The Stolen Child: a Novel Read by Andy Paris and Jeff Woodman. Stolen from his family by changelings, Henry Day is given the name "Aniday" by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music. [Audie Award - Science Fiction] 2006 |
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Eggers, Dave What is the What Read by Dion Graham. A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy of seven was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked by government helicopters and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001. [AudioFile Earphone Award] 2007 |
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Erdrich, Louise The Plague of Doves Read by Kathleen McInerney and Peter Francis James. Unaware of a violent event, an unsolved murder, that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2008 |
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Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex Read by Kristoffer Tabori. Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. [Audie Winner - Fiction] 2002 |
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Flagg, Fannie Standing in the Rainbow Read by Kate Reading. In 1945 the war is over, the American economy is booming, and there is no better place in the world than Elmwood Springs, Missouri. Ten-year old Bobby Smith's father is the town pharmacist and his mother is a local radio personality. Over the next next several decades, the plot expands to include numerous beguiling characters who interact with the Smith family, including the Oatman Family Southern Gospel Singers. [Audie Winner - Solo Narration] 2002 |
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French, Tana. In the Woods Read by Steve Crossley. Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories. [AudioFile Earphones Award, Anthony Award Winner and Edgar Award Winner] 2006 |
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Frey, James Bright Shiny Morning Read by Ben Foster. An ambitious young Mexican-American woman compromises her future in a moment of searing humiliation, while a narcissistic action-movie star risks everything in his obsession over an unattainable love, and a young couple escapes their suffocating home and struggles for survival on the fringes of Los Angeles. [AudioFile Earphones Award] 2008 |
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