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1) Alias Grace
Author
Language
English
Description
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the...
3) Lost at sea
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 15 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories....
4) Them
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 8 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Them began as a book about different kinds of extremists, but after Jon had got to know some of them--Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen--he found that they had one oddly similar belief: that a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, Jon sets out, with the help of the extremists, to locate that room. The journey is as creepy as it is comic, and along the way Jon is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked...
5) Asleep
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 MP3 CD (approximately 7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4.
Language
English
Description
In 1918, a world war was raging and a lethal strain of influenza was circling the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it would spread across the world, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it would disappear as suddenly as it had arrived--or so the doctors at first thought. Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Moe Berg describes the colorful, vagabond life of the baseball player and spy, detailing his wartime exploits as an OSS operative gathering information on Hitler's atomic bomb project.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (9 hr., 1 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is an engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way. From chitlins and ham hocks to fried...
8) Rotten lies
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hr., 58 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New Mexico has more than its share of unique and well-publicized attributes, but the one they prefer to play down is the fact that they lead the United States in lightning deaths per capita. Thus, the Cottonwood Creek Country Club of Los Alamos, which is hosting the High Desert Women's Classic golf tournament, takes elaborate measures to ensure that the numbers don't go up during the high-profile tournament. Nevertheless, disaster strikes. On the...
10) Frostfire
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tracker Bryn Aven's goal of becoming a member of the elite King's Guard is threatened when she is sent to stop Konstantin, a fallen hero who she once secretly loved, who appears to be kidnapping changelings.
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Language
English
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Description
"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god or the fame of a pop star, in which human achievement soars to new heights while its depravity plunges to the blackest depths. A world in which at least one cat smells like a seafood shop's Dumpster on a hot summer day. This is the world in which Zoey Ashe finds herself, navigating a futuristic city in which one can find elements of the fantastic, nightmarish, and ridiculous on any...
12) Ice kissed
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
309 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having failed in her mission to locate the missing Skojare Queen and capture the ex-tracker Konstantin, tracker Bryn Aven returns to Doldastam to help prepare the kingdom for war against Viktor Dalig--but dark secrets lurk in the halls of the crystal palace, and uncovering them will threaten the half-Skojare tracker and change her life and the Kanin Kingdom forever.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Pierson brought home a border collie, she didn't have a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy seemed magical, Pierson began delving into the techniques of positive reinforcement. To learn more, she met with a host of fascinating animal behaviorists, going behind the scenes to witness the relationships between trainers and animals at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, and to the in-depth...
14) Six of crows
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
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Description
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge; a sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager; a runaway with a privileged past; a spy known as the Wraith; a Heartrender using...
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Language
English
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Description
"A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe... even a dead someone... must have witnessed a crime. Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis's brother, is back with an agenda...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the past three years Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of famous public shamings, often while their shamings are in full force. These are people like us--people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly. Once a transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane, and the next thing they know, they're being torn apart for it, jeered at, demonized, and fired from their jobs. A great...
17) Southern spirits
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she's saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick--she gains the ability see spirits. It leads to an offer she can't refuse from the town's bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with. Ellis Wydell is in possession of a stunning historic property haunted by some of Sugarland Tennessee's finest former citizens. Only some of...
18) The water knife
Author
Language
English
Description
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and its boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can...
19) Big dead place
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 12 hr.) : MP3, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Big Dead Place, a grunt's eye view of America's Antarctic Program that shatters the well-worn cliches of polar literature. Here the heroic camaraderie and romantic desolation give way to sterile buildings populated by characters like a crazed manager who fills his boots with antifreeze, Boozy the Clown, ghosts that haunt the food freezer, and horny employees who grab rare private moments coupling on the altar in the Chapel of the Snows....
Author
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measure his mother took to hide him from a government...