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Allende, Isabel Ines of My Soul a magisterial work of historical fiction that chronicles the astonishing life of Inés Suárez, a daring Spanish conquistadora who toiled to build the nation of Chile—and whose vital role has too often been neglected by history. Read by Blair Brown. 2006 Other formats available |
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Atkinson, Kate Behind the Scenes at the Museum A family saga chronicles a century of life as four generations of Yorkshire women move through two World Wars, coronations, secrets, heartbreak, and happiness, all seen through the eyes of Ruby Lennox. Read by Susan Jameson. [Awards: Whitbread Book Award winner, book of the year and first novel, 1995.] 2008 |
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Barry, Sebastian The Secret Scripture Recording the events of her life from a mental hospital as her hundredth birthday approaches, Roseanne McNulty considers returning to society when she learns that the hospital is about to close, but her situation is complicated by the possibility that Roseanne remembers her life quite differently from what is documented in her patient records. Read by Wanda McCaddon. 2008 |
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De Bernieres, Louis A Partisan's Daughter Chris, a medical rep, is captivated by a young woman on a street corner, visiting her frequenstly as Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world – from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito’s Partisans, her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London. Read by Sian Thomas and Jeff Rawle. 2008 |
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Frazier, Charles Thirteen Moons: [a Novel] From the age of twelve, when he is sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post, Will's life becomes intertwined with the destiny of the Cherokee Indians, as he falls in love with a mysterious girl named Claire, builds a friendship with a Cherokee Chief named Bear, learns to fight and survive, and battles Washington to preserve the Cherokee homeland and culture. Read by Will Patton. 2006 |
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Haddon, Mark A Spot of Bother At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased. Her mother, Jean, is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned. Then George discovers a lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. Read by Simon Vance. 2006 |
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Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. Read by Jeff Woodman. 2003 |
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Hale, Shannon Austenland: a Novel By Shannon Hale. Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women. Read by Katherine Kellgren. 2007 Appears on the following book lists:  Audiobooks for Teens |
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Heller, Joseph Catch-22 Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy, a bombadier named Yossarian is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. He has decided to live forever, even if he has to die in the attempt. Read by Jay O. Sanders. 2007 |
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Jordan, Hillary Mudbound The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. Read by various narrators. 2008 |
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Keillor, Garrison Liberty : a Lake Wobegon Novel Excitement is in the air as Lake Wobegon prepares for the 4th of July and the magical parade in which Clint Bunson has run for the last six years. Clint, the town mechanic with a rocky marriage and a drinking problem, announces his desire to run for Congress, sending the town into a tizzy. Read by the author. 2008 |
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Kent, Kathleen The Heretic's Daughter Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived. 2009 |
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Kerouac, Jack On the Road On the road is a thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lover, and fellow travelers. Read by Will Patton. 1999 |
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Klosterman, Chuck Downtown Owl Chuck Klosterman faces the question of what it is to be normal in his debut novel about an isolated, far-from-typical town in North Dakota. Read by various narrators. 2008 |
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Lamb, Wally The Hour I First Believed Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events. Read by George Guidall. 2008 |
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Landvik, Lorna Oh My Stars In a novel set during the early days of rock 'n roll, the life of Violet Mathers, a down-and-out woman, becomes embroiled with that of a handsome musical pioneer. Read by Teres Byrne. 2005 |
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Maguire, Gregory Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West This re-creation of the land of Oz, tells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Past the yellow brick road and into a world rich with imagination and allegory, Wicked just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature. Performed by John McDonough. 2005 |
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Morrall, Clare Natural Flights of the Human Mind Living alone in a converted lighthouse on the Devon coast, a reclusive Peter Straker struggles to deal with his belief that he had killed seventy-eight people more than twenty years earlier, until his solitude is interrupted by Imogen Doody, a school caretaker with her own painful past. Read by Patience Tomlinson. 2006 Other formats available |
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Morrison, Toni A Mercy: a Novel In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith. Read by the author. 2008 |
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O'Nan, Stewart Songs for the Missing: a Novel When a popular high-school student goes missing from her small Midwestern community, her loving parents, introverted sister, friends, and boyfriend devote themselves to finding her, an effort that gives way to pleading television appearances, private investigations, and intimate struggles to cling to hope. Read by Emily Janice Card. 2008 |
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