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"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book. Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with...
2) The Old Man
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Now an original series from FX starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brenneman: a retired intelligence officer living off the grid is caught in “[a] harrowing hunt-and-hide adventure” (The New York Times).
To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don’t have multiple driver’s...
To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don’t have multiple driver’s...
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
A devastating novel of multiple narratives, "a mark of Neel Mukherjee's range and force and ambition" (New York Times Book Review).
A State of Freedom wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances—from a domestic cook in Mumbai to a vagrant and his dancing bear—find out the
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Jean Gilkyson, pregnant when her husband was killed, is raising their daughter, Griff, in an Iowa trailer house with yet another brutal boyfriend, when she realizes this can't go on. But the only refuge available is a town in Wyoming where her loved ones are dead and her father-in-law wishes she was too. For a decade he has blamed her for his son's death, choosing to go on living himself largely because his oldest friend otherwise couldn't survive....
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p2009
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7 sound discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Just after her 40th birthday, Rhoda Janzen experienced the worst week of her life. First, her husband left her for another man. Then she was in a serious car accident. Here, Janzen reveals her subsequent spiritual exploration and healing.
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[2017]
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10 audio discs (12 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the border zone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy: the holiday-makers, the potential escapees.Today,...
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[2016]
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13 audio discs (16 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel...
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[2015]
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10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager, and the manager's teenage daughter.
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p2008
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2 sound discs (2 1/4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A collection of Driveway Moments--stories that keep you in the car to listen to the end even after you've reached your destination. Stories from Jonathan Winters, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, David Sedaris, Larry David and more.
11) Summerland
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning Michael Chabon comes this bestselling novel for readers of all ages that blends fantasy and folklore with that most American coming-of-age ritual: baseball - now in a new edition, with an original introduction by the author. Ethan Feld is having a terrible summer: his father has moved them to Clam Island, Washington, where Ethan has quickly established himself as the least gifted baseball player the island has ever...
12) Stories
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[2010], p1992
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1 sound media player (3 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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This audio collection includes Keillor's own favorite stories from his many years as a contributor to The New Yorker and from two of his best-selling books, Happy to Be Here and We Are Still Married.
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[2019]
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7 audio discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs," the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is gaslighting his audiences with music that sounds suspiciously...
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[released 2008], c2008
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1 sound media player (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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Grounded in the revolutionary positive psychology movement, Ben-Shahar combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual enlightenment. He weaves them together into a set of principles that you can apply to your daily life.
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[2016]
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5 audio discs (6 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 12 cm)
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With frequent stops at pop culture meccas, and unforgettable encounters with humans of singular interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces listeners not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them, and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way listeners have come to expect from NPR.
16) World War II
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p2011
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3 sound discs (180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Released in time for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, nearly 30 stories from NPR reflect on the deadliest war in human history.
17) Summer love
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p2011
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2 sound discs (2 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4/ in.
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Join Garrison Keillor and friends for highlights from their 25-city Summer Love Tour, a celebration of love in all its splendor.
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This collection, presented in a wood gift box, gathers seven popular Louis L'Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast. Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen. The collection includes:Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie...
20) Shade: [a novel]
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p2004
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9 sound discs (9 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.