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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of Americas Shining Women

Kate Moore · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous-the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust...
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The People of Sparks

Jeanne DuPrau · Listening Library/Random House
Format: Audio CD

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.
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The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk · Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

“As a modern sea adventure it is absolutely first-rank reading.” —Lee Rogow, Saturday ReviewThe novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-MartialHerman Wouk’s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining...
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The Midnight Bell

Jack Higgins · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

"The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it. " - Irish proverb   From "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) comes a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge.        In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills...
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The Obsidian Chamber

Douglas Preston · Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

Another blockbuster Pendergast novel from Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
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Think Twice

Lisa Scottoline · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred? Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different...
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Time traveling with a hamster

Ross Welford · Random House/Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Three Brothers

Peter Ackroyd · Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2014, ©2013.
Format: Audio CD

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world - a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal...
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better

Wendy Suzuki · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide - a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing...
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Christmas Bliss

Mary Kay Andrews · Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezyBut theres trouble afoot - and its heading toward Weezie.Seems BeBes been holding a big secret backthat would make Santas reindeer stop dead in their tracks.Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists?Will they do it in time...
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Night and Day

Virginia Woolf · Naxos Audio Books
Pages: 15
Format: Audio CD

Written before she began her experiments in the writing of fiction, Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day, is a story about a group of young people trying to discover what it means to fall in love. It asks all the big questions: What does it mean to fall in love? Does marriage...
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Gathering prey : a novel

John Sandford · Penguin Audio/Books on Tape
Format: Audiobook on CD

"They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes--they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended...
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The Trials of Apollo, Book One: The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · Listening Library (Audio)
Format: Audiobook

How do you punish an immortal?By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern...
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Skippyjon Jones, Class Action

Judy Schachner · Dutton Books for Young Readers; Rei/Com edition
Format: Audiobook

Skippyjon Jones really wants to go to school. School is for dogs, his mama tells him. Its where they go to get trained. But nothing can stop Skippy-once inside his closet, he finds himself on the playground of his imagination, surrounded by dogs of all kinds. He bays with the beagles, learns...
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