iPods and Audio Books
The Murphy Library is pleased to announce an exciting way to experience reading - digital audio books and iPod nanos are now available for checkout at the Grayslake campus!The iPods can be checked out for two weeks at a time and patrons can view a list of available titles below, or by accessing the library catalog - http://lrc.clcillinois.edu and choosing the "Media Type/Language" search and entering "Audio Books Ipod".
Interested CLC students and staff members may visit the Circulation desk at the Grayslake Campus to check out an iPod and have it loaded with their audio book selection. If you would like more information about this service please contact Michelle Carter, 847-543-2891, mcarter@clcillinois.edu.
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The Art of Happiness at Work By The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler Narrator Howard Cutler, M.D., and B.D. Wong Description: For the first time since The Art of Happiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has teamed up with psychiatrist Howard Cutler to continue the discussion about what makes life meaningful. In conversations with the Dalai Lama over the past several years, Howard Cutler has asked the questions we all want answered about how to find happiness in the place we spend most of our time -- work. Beginning with the basic need to find satisfaction in our careers, Dr. Cutler questions His Holiness about the nature of work. In psychiatry and according to the Dalai Lama, our motivation for working determines our level of satisfaction. Dr. Cutler probes the Dalai Lama's wisdom by posing these questions: What is the relationship between self-awareness and work? How does lack of freedom at work affect our levels of happiness? How can we deal with boredom or lack of challenge? Job change and unemployment? How much of our misery comes from our identity being tied up with work? Dr. Cutler walks us through the Dalai Lama's reasoning so that we may know how to apply his wisdom to daily life. The Art of Happiness at Work is an invaluable source of strength and peace for anyone who earns a living. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream By Barack Obama Narrator Barack Obama Description: In this stirring volume, Senator Obama shares his thoughts about healing the divisions in our country. [ Non-Fiction - Abridged ] |
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A Bend in the Road By Nicholas Sparks Narrator L.J. Ganser Description: Miles's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident. He still rises each morning to take care of his young son and carries out his duties as deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, but it's all in a numb and hopeless haze. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, who is rebuilding her own life. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream By Shakespeare Narrator Full Cast Description: Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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A Wrinkle In Time By Madeleine L'Engle Narrator Madeleine L'Engle Description: Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Accidental Tourist By Anne Tyler Narrator George Guidall Description: Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir By Frank McCourt Narrator Frank McCourt Description: "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood". So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy - exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling - does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Angel's and Demons By Dan Brown Narrator Richard Poe Description: An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Anne of Green Gables By L.M. Montgomery Narrator Ruth Ann Phimister Description: Anne, an 11-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress By Dai Sijie Narrator B.D. Wong Description: In 1971 Mao's campaign against the intellectuals is at its height. Our narrator and his best friend, Luo, distinctly unintellectual but guilty of being the sons of doctors, have been sent to a remote mountain village to be 're-educated'. The kind of education that takes place among the peasants of Phoenix Mountain involves carting buckets of excrement up and down preciptous, foggy paths, but the two seventeen-year-olds have a violin and their sense of humour to keep them going. Further distraction is provided by the attractive daughter of the local tailor, possessor of a particularly fine pair of feet. Their true re-education starts, however, when they discover a comrade's hidden stash of classics of great nineteenth-century Western literature - Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy and others, in Chinese translation. They need all their ingenuity to get their hands on the forbidden books, but when they do their lives are turned upside down. And not only their lives; after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, the Little Seamstress will never be the same again. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Bel Canto By Ann Patchett Narrator Anna Fields Description: Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots. Without the demands of the world to shape their days, life on the inside becomes more beautiful than anything they had ever known before. At once riveting and impassioned, the narrative becomes a moving exploration of how people communicate when music is the only common language. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Big Bad Wolf By James Patterson Narrator Peter J. Fernandez and Denis O'Hare Description from the Publisher: Alex Cross' family is in terrible danger—at the same time that his new job with the FBI brings him the scariest case of his career. A team of kidnappers has been snatching successful, upstanding men and women right before their families' eyes—possibly to sell them into slavery. Alex's knowledge of the D. C. streets, together with his unique insights into criminal psychology, make this mindbending case one that only he can solve—if he can just get his colleagues to set aside their staid and outdated methods. With unexpected twists and whiplash surprises, this is another brilliantly irresistible novel from America's bestselling suspense writer. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War By Howard Bahr Narrator Brian Emerson Description from the Publisher: The Black Flower is the gripping story of a young Confederate rifleman from Mississippi named Bushrod Carter, who serves in General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee during the Civil War battle that takes place in Franklin, Tennessee, in November 1864. Written with reverent attention to historical accuracy, the book vividly documents the fear, suffering, and intense friendships that are all present on the eve of the battle and during its aftermath. When Bushrod is wounded in the Confederate charge, he is taken to a makeshift hospital where he comes under the care of Anna, who has already lost two potential romances to battle. Bushrod and Anna's poignant attempt to forge a bond of common humanity in the midst of the pathos and horror of battle serves as a powerful reminder that the war that divided America will not vanish quietly into the page of history. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking By Malcolm Gladwell Narrator Malcolm Gladwell Description from the Publisher: How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That's the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can process quickly, but on the few particular details on which we focus. Leaping boldly from example to example, displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Gladwell reveals how we can become better decision makers--in our homes, our offices, and in everyday life. The result is a book that is surprising and transforming. Never again will you think about thinking the same way. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Bridges of Madison County By Robert James Waller Narrator Mitch Greenberg Description from the Publisher: The legendary love story, the bestselling hardcover novel of all time, and the major motion picture starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. This is the story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Cell By Stephen King Narrator Campbell Scott Description from the Publisher: "On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wife, and he knows just what he'll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? Clay's feeling good about the future." "That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature ... and then begins to evolve." There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points home to Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction: Kashwak=NO-FO. A promise, perhaps. Or a threat. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Cider House Rules By John Irving Narrator Grover Gardner Description from the Publisher: First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch - saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Coffee Trader: A Novel By David Liss Narrator John Lee Description from the Publisher: The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659—a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success—a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called “coffee.” To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam’s ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business. Readers of historical suspense andlovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Cold Mountain By Charles Frazier Narrator Charles Frazier Description from the Publisher: Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered. Charles Frazier reveals marked insight into man's relationship to the land and the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great nineteenth-century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain recreates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to our time. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time By Mark Haddon Narrator Jeff Woodman Description from the Publisher: Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Darling By Russel Banks Narrator Mary Beth Hurt Description from the Publisher: The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the Unites States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison. Hannah's encounter with Taylor in America ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to make a heartrending choice. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The DaVinci Code By Dan Brown Narrator Paul Michael Description from Publisher: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can deipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightening-paced, intelligent thriller…utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Digging to America By Anne Tyler Narrator Blair Brown Description from the Publisher: In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her 'outsiderness.' Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport-the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an 'arrival party,' an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined. Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. But only up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife's death, suddenly all the values she cherishes-her traditions, her privacy, her otherness-are threatened. Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded. A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Drop City By T.C. Boyle Narrator Richard Poe Description from the Publisher: It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska—in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of “Drop City” arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyle's ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close By Johnathan Safran Foer Narrator Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone Description from the Publisher: Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. An inspired creation, Oskar is endearing, exasperating, and unforgettable. His search for the lock careens from Central Park to Coney Island to the Bronx and beyond. But it also travels into history, to Dresden and Hiroshima, where horrific bombings once shattered other lives. Along the way, Oskar encounters a motley assortment of humanity—a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, lovers enraptured or scorned—all survivors in their own ways. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Fortress of Solitude By Johathan Lethem Narrator David Aaron Baker Description from the Publisher: This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisions—what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money—are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore. This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives. This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption. This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is The Fortress of Solitude. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate: The Sunday Philosophy Club, Book 2 By Alexander McCall Smith Narrator Davina Porter Summary: Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, gets caught up in an affair of the heartthis one a transplant. When Isabels niece, Cat, asks Isabel to run her delicatessen while she attends a wedding in Italy, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly plagued with memories of events that never happened to him. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Good Harbor By Anita Diamant Narrator Linda Emond Summary: Fifty-nine-year-old Kathleen Levine, is a longtime resident of Gloucester, on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. She is graceful, maternal, and steady, a devoted children's librarian, a convert to Judaism, the mother of two grown sons. But when she is diagnosed with breast cancer -- which killed her sister fifteen years earlier -- her life is thrown into turmoil. Frightened, lonesome for a woman to talk to, burdened by secrets, she meets Joyce Tabachnik and a once-in-a-lifetime friendship is born. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Grayson By Lynne Cox Narrator Lynne Cox Summary: Lynne Cox tells the story of an encounter with a baby gray whale that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim. The baby whale had lost its mother; and, if Lynne didnt find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Great Fire: A Novel By Shirley Hazzard Narrator Virginia Leishman Summary: In 1947, a thirty-two-year-old English war hero visiting Hiroshima during the occupation finds himself billeted in a compound overseen by a boorish Australian brigadier and his scheming wife. He is immediately enchanted, however, by the couple's childrena brilliant, sickly young man and his adoring sister. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator Frank Muller Summary: The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is a tale of America in the 1920s. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Green Hills of Africa By Ernest Hemingway Narrator Josh Lucas Summary: In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. This is is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Hamlet By Shakespeare Narrator Frank Muller Summary: A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Hiroshima By John Jersey Narrator Edward Asner Description: On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The House on Mango Street By Sandra Cisneros Narrator Sandra Cisneros Summary: Told in a series of vignettes, this is the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Jo's Boys By Lousia May Alcott Narrator C.M. Herbert Description: Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini Narrator Kahled Hosseini Summary: Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epid of Discovery By Lewis and Clark Narrator Patrick Cullen Description from the Publisher: In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts. All of their triumphs and terrors are here - the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison on the plains, the tensions and admiration in the first meetings with Indian peoples, Lewis's rapture at the stunning beauty of the Great Falls, the fear the captains felt when a devastating illness befell Sacagawea, the ordeal of crossing the Continental Divide, Clark's joy at seeing the Pacific, miserable days of cold and hunger, and the kidnapping and rescue of Lewis's dog, Seaman." "The natural wonders of an unspoiled America are captured in these pages. The lives and customs of its Native peoples also vividly come to life: Lewis and Clark's friendship with the Mandans and the Nez Perces, a deadly fight with the Blackfeet, and a series of intricate interactions and negotiations with numerous northwestern tribes. The cultural differences between the corps and the Indians make for living drama that at times provokes laughter but more often is poignant and, at least once, tragic." In this riveting account, editor Gary E. Moulton blends the narrative highlights of his definitive Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals. For the first time the voices of the enlisted men and of the Native Americans are heard alongside the words of the captains. New maps and illustrations enrich this American epic of discovery. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The Chronicle of Narnia By C.S. Lewis Narrator Michael York Description from the Publisher: An ordinary game of hide-and-seek leads to the discovery of a lifetime! After they arrive in Narnia, Peter, Susan, and Lucy must race to save their brother, Edmund, from the White Witch, the evil queen of the land. With help from the kind creatures of Narnia, the Pevensies find Aslan, the Great Lion, who is their only hope in the struggle against the White Witch. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Little Women By Louisa May Alcott Narrator Barbara Caruso Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Lord of the Flies By William Golding Narrator William Golding Summary: In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Free from the rules that adult society formerly imposed on them, the boys struggle with conflicting instincts--the instinct to work toward civilization and order and the instinct to descend into savagery, violence, and chaos. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan Summary: This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri Narrator Sarita Choudhury Summary: Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol Ganguli is afflicted from birth with a first name that is neither Indian nor American nor even really a first name. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Naughty or Nice By Eric Jerome Dickey Narrator Full Cast Summary: It's Christmas/Kwanzaa in Los Angeles, with lights twinkling in the windows and fake snow glistening beneath the palm trees. The McBroom sisters-Frankie, Livvy and Tommie-all have serious man problems. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Night By Elie Wiesel Narrator George Guidall Summary: Night offers a personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of Sighet. Even as they are stuffed into cattle cars bound for Auschwitz, the townspeople refuse to believe rumors of anti-Semitic atrocities. Not until they are marched toward the blazing crematory at the camp's "reception center" does the terrible truth sink in. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Nights in Rodanthe By Nicholas Sparks Narrator JoBeth Williams Summary: The story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. A housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America By Barbara Ehrenreich Narrator Christine McMurdo-Wallis Summary: With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks Narrator Barry Bostwick Summary: In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton Narrator Jim Fyfe Summary: The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower By Stephen Chbosky Narrator Johnny Heller Summary: Most people think 15-year-old Charlie is a freak. The only friend he had killed himself, forcing him to face high school alone. But then seniors Patrick and his beautiful stepsister Sam take Charlie under their wings and introduce him to their eclectic, open-minded, hard-partying friends. It is from these older kids that Charlie learns to live and love, until a repressed secret from his past threatens to destroy his newfound happiness. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books By Azar Nafisi Narrator Lisette Lecat Summary: In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Rape of Nanking By Iris Chang Narrator Anna Fields Summary: In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Rebecca By Daphne Du Mauier Narrator Anna Massey Summary: Maxim DeWinter brings his new wife to his estate, Manderley, in Cornwall. Manderley is filled with memories of the elegant and flamboyant Rebecca, the first Mrs. DeWinter; with the obsessive love of her housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who observes the young, timid second Mrs. DeWinter with sullen hostility; and with the oppressive silences of her secretive husband, Maxim. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Salem's Lot By Stephen King Narrator Ron McLarty Summary: Tells the story of the slow takeover of an insular hamlet in Maine called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Secret Life of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd Narrator Jenna Larnia Summary: During the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, a young girl is given a home by three black, beekeeping sisters. As she enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, she discovers a place where she can find the single thing her heart longs for most. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Sharp Objects By Gillian Flynn Narrator Ann Marie Lee Description: WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her leg Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed again in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille is haunted by the childhood tragedy she has spent her whole life trying to cut from her memory. HARMFUL on her wrist, WHORE on her ankle As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, she finds herself identifying with the young victims-a bit too strongly. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what happened to her years before if she wants to survive this homecoming. With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable. From the Hardcover edition. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Sharpe's Eagle (Book 1 in series) By Bernard Cornwell Narrator Frederick Davidson Description: Captain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others who have bought their commissions despite their incompetence. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers By Mary Roach Narrator Shelly Frasier Summary: An exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making histo. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Teahouse Fire By Ellis Avery Narrator Barbara Caruso Description from Library Journal: Avery's compelling debut novel presents women who dare to challenge expectations in the changing cultural landscape of 19th-century Japan. The Shin family has taught the tea ceremony for generations, but daughter Yukako is expected to marry the next master teacher instead of assuming the role herself. When Yukako discovers white American Aurelia hiding from her abusive missionary uncle on the Shin estate, she takes her in as a servant-companion and secretly teaches her the family arts. But can their friendship survive the changes that sweep Japan as the 20th century begins? Readers who enjoy historical fiction will be dazzled by Avery's attention to detail, savoring her descriptions of each kimono and tea implement. Those who like plot twists will relish the epic cast of characters who help and hinder Aurelia and Yukako as they mature. An homage to Virginia Woolf's Orlando in both style and theme, Avery's ambitious endeavor is the perfect companion for a series of cold winter nights. Recommended for medium to large fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/06.]-Leigh Anne Vrabel, Carnegie Lib. of Pittsburgh Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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The Things They Carried By Tim O'Brien Narrator Tom Stechschulte Summary: Each of these 22 tales relates the exploits and personalities of a fictional platoon of American soldiers in Vietnam. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson By Mitch Albom Narrator Mitch Albom Description: Mitch Albom chronicles his visits with Morris Schwartz, his college professor and mentor at Brandeis University, during the last months of Morris' life. [ Non-Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Velocity By Dean Koontz Narrator Michael Hayden Description: Bartender Billy Wiles's life spirals out of control after he finds a note on his windshield telling him that he has a choice: involve the police, and a lovely blonde schoolteacher dies. Do nothing, and an elderly woman active in charity work dies. His options only become harder once the killer targets people whom Billy knows and plants circumstantial evidence tying him to the crimes [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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When the Emperor Was Divine By Julie Otsuka Narrator Elaina Erika Davis Description: On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans, they have been reclassified virtually overnight as enemy aliens, and they are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West By Gregory Maguire Narrator John McDonough Description: A fable for adults on the subject of destiny and free will. It tells the story of Elphaba before she became the Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. The novel traces her career as nun, nurse, pro-democracy activist and animal rights defender. [ Fiction - Unabridged ] |
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