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The fatherless daughter project : understanding our losses and reclaiming our lives

Denna D Babul · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Drawing on interviews with over 5000 women who became fatherless due to death, divorce, neglect, and outright abandonment, the authors have found that fatherless daughters tend to push their emotions underground. These issues in turn become distinct patterns in their relationships as adult...
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Wired

Julie Garwood · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

A beautiful computer hacker and a bad-boy FBI agent must collaborate - in more ways than one - in the sizzling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.Allison Trent doesn't look like a hacker. In fact, when she's not in college working on her degree, she models...
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The murder of Mary Russell : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Laurie R King · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart:...
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Undermajordomo Minor

Patrick deWitt · Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook on CD

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets...
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Beauty and the Beast: A Favorite Story in Rhythm and Rhyme

JONATHAN PEALE · CANTATA LEARNING
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

In the story of Beauty and the Beast, things are not always as they seem! Beauty is sent to live with an ugly, fearsome Beast, but is he really as horrible as people think he is? A classic fairy tale retold in song, with full-color illustrations and music. This hardcover book comes with...
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No longer at ease

Chinua Achebe; Peter Jay Fernandez; Recorded Books LLC. · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

After returning to Africa from his education abroad, Obi Okonkwo feels alienated and disgusted at the fact that he has been thrust into the ruling class, of whom most are corrupt.
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The queen's garden

Daniel Stewart
Format: Audiobook

With permission from Queen Elizabeth, this program covers a year in Buckingham Palace Garden, exploring the history and the natural history of this remarkable hidden royal treasure in the heart of London.
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A stranger in the house

Shari Lapena · Findaway World
Format: Audiobook

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A Game for All the Family

Sophie Hannah · Findaway World
Format: Audiobook

Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending from the New York Times bestselling...
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Homesick for another world : stories

Ottessa Moshfegh · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

An electrifying first collection of short stories from the author of Eileen.
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Understanding Trump

Newt Gingrich · Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

Understanding Trump requires a willingness to study and learn from him. His principles grow out of five decades of business and celebrity success. Trump behaves differently than traditional politicians because his entire life experience has been different than most traditional politicians....
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Destined for war : can America and China escape Thucydide's Trap

Graham T Allison · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise...
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