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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian · Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen...
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Tantor Media
Format: Audiobook on CD

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen...
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Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi

Richard Rohr O.F.M. · Franciscan Media
Format: Audio CD

Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved of all saints. Both traditional and entirely revolutionary, he was a paradox. He was at once down to earth and reaching toward heaven, grounded in the rich history of the Church while moving toward a new understanding of the world beyond.  ...
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Hellbent

Gregg Hurwitz · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Evan Smoak -- government assassin gone rogue -- returns in Hellbent, an engrossing, unputdownable thriller from Gregg Hurwitz, the latest in his #1 international bestselling Orphan X series.Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government...
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I'm Fine...And Other Lies

Whitney Cummings · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Well, well, well. Look at you, ogling my book page. . . . I presume if you're reading this it means you either need more encouragement to buy it, you're very bored in an airport, or we used to date and you're trying to figure out if you should sue me or not. Here are all the stories...
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The Irish identity : independence, history, and literature

Marc C Conner · Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick
Format: Audiobook

Discover the dazzling arts of the Irish Renaissance and the violent struggles of the Irish fight for independence, using great literary works as your guide.
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Kinder than solitude

Yiyun Li · Recorded Books
Format: Audio CD

A tale set in America and China follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning and years later are haunted by the possibility that one of them actually committed a murder.
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Ghost ship

Clive Cussler · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook on CD

When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust...
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Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions

Chris Barton · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.
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Proving Ground

Peter Blauner · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements. As an act of rebellion, Natty joined the U.S. Army and served in Iraq, coming back with a chest full of commendations and a head full of disturbing...
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Billy Joel

Fred Schruers · Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legendIn Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers draws upon more than one hundred hours of exclusive interviews with Joel to present an unprecedented look at the life, career, and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island...
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Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs

Philip Moeller · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides the bulk of most...
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Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be

Joel McHale · Penguin Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook

From actor and comedian Joel McHale comes the most important celebrity-penned book of this, or any, generation - Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be. Part shocking tell-all memoir, part aspirational how-to guide, and mostly all book,...
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How to Train Your Dragon: How to Speak Dragonese

Cressida Cowell · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Audiobook

The rollicking sequel to "How to Train Your Dragon" and "How to Be a Pirate" offers a fast-paced plot, slapstick humor, witty dialogue, and imaginative black-and-white illustrations to enhance an exciting tale featuring Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Now available in paperback!
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Until We Touch

Susan Mallery · Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery comes the story of secret desires finally fulfilledAfter a family tragedy, former football hero Jack McGarry keeps the world at arms length-a challenge now that his PR firm has moved to neighborly Fools Gold, California.Larissa Owens...
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