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Real Food, Fake Food: Why the Delicious Difference Matters_and Why You Don't Know Which You're Eating
Real Food, Fake Food: Why the Delicious Difference Matters_and Why You Don't Know Which You're Eating

Larry Olmsted · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audio Compact Disc - Unabridged

You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted...
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Pacific CD: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Pacific CD: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

Simon Winchester · HarperAudio
Format: Audio Compact Disc - Unabridged

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.As the Mediterranean...
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The Ugly Renaissance
The Ugly Renaissance

Alexander Lee · Books On Tape
Format: Audio CD

Enter the world of the ugly Renaissance. Uncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period's best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded...
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The Graham Cracker Plot
The Graham Cracker Plot

Shelley Tougas · Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

Meet Daisy Bauer and her sometimes best friend, Graham, who are determined to break Daisy's dad out of prison in this hilarious middle-grade debut. No one believes her, but Daisy Bauer knows her dad has been wrongfully imprisoned and that it's up to her to break him out of jail (aka...
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The Spy: A novel
The Spy: A novel

Paulo Coelho · Random House Audio Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First...
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of  American Disaster in Asia
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia

James Bradley · Hachette Audio
Format: Audio CD

"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --Christian Science Monitor
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Terror in Taffeta
Terror in Taffeta

Marla Cooper · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audio Compact Disc - Unabridged

Wedding planner Kelsey McKenna is just a few hours away from wrapping up her latest job: a destination wedding in San Miguel de Allende. But just as the priest is about to pronounce them husband and wife, one of the bridesmaids collapses into a floral arrangement. Worst of all, Kelsey...
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Any other name
Any other name

Craig Johnson; George Guidall; Recorded Books LLC.; Playaway Digital Audio.; Findaway World LLC. · Findaway World
Format: Audiobook

"Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock...
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H Is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald · Isis Publishing, Ltd. UK and Blackstone Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

[*Read by the author - Helen Macdonald] When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief,...
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Reykjavi?k nights
Reykjavi?k nights

Arnaldur Indriðason; Victoria Cribb; George Guidall; Recorded Books LLC. · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavi?k's underworld. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband, and an unexplained death. When a homeless...
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The case of the weird blue chicken : the next misadventure
The case of the weird blue chicken : the next misadventure

Doreen Cronin; Adam Grupper; Recorded Books LLC. · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

When a weird blue chicken comes to Chicken Squad headquarters for help, siblings Dirt, Sugar, and Sweetie help find her missing house.
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4 3 2 1 : a novel
4 3 2 1 : a novel

Paul Auster · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent...
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Smoke gets in your eyes : & other lessons from the crematory
Smoke gets in your eyes : & other lessons from the crematory

Caitlin Doughty; Recorded Books LLC. · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

The blogger behind the popular Web series "Ask a Mortician" describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues; Library Edition
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues; Library Edition

Martin J. Blaser · Tantor Media Inc; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Missing Microbes presents a surprisingly clear perspective on a complex problem.--The Philadelphia Inquirer In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful...
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