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The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters

Karl Rove · Audioworks
Format: Audio CD

From New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove comes a fresh look at President William McKinley who found a message that healed his nation, pried his party away from its bosses, and extended its reach to forge a governing majority that lasted thirty years.Many...
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories

Nafissa Thompson-Spires · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes.Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly...
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Candy Corn Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery

Leslie Meier · Dreamscape Media
Pages: n/a
Format: Audiobook

Lucy's getting very annoyed that her husband Bill and his friend Evan have been working seemingly nonstop on their potentially prize-winning pumpkin catapult. But when the day of the big contest arrives, Evan is nowhere to be found - until a catapulted pumpkin busts open the trunk of the Dodge....
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The Lost Boy: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg · Blackstone Audiobooks
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

[Translated from Swedish by Tiina Nunnally][Read by Simon Vance] From #1 internationally bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg comes a new psychological thriller -- irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Mats Sverin was Fjallbacka's financial director on a regeneration...
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Vinegar Girl.

Tyler Anne
Format: Audiobook

A modern retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind and who is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
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Animal Dreams: Library Edition

Barbara Kingsolver · Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her place in the world.At the end of her rope, Codi Noline...
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

Matthew B. Crawford · Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as SoulcraftIn his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant...
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Fallon: A Novel

Louis L'Amour · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny...
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Air bound : a Sea Haven novel

Christine Feehan; Phil Gigante · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Airiana has always been aware of her extraordinary gift. Her abilities led to her placement in a secret government training facility, but after her mother was murdered, she fled the program. Unable to outrun the members of a shadowy cabal, she ends up kidnapped and held aboard a ship. Her only...
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Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

A. S. King · Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12 - 17) ][Read by Christine Lakin]In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A. S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last - a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present...
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Meet Paris Oyster: A Love Affair With the Perfect Food; Library Edition

Mireille Guiliano · Blackstone Audiobooks; Com/Cdr Un edition
Format: Audio CD

[*Read by the author - Mireille Guiliano] From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat comes a memorable look at the French appetite for oysters, the characters who harvest and serve them, and the compelling reasons why we should all enjoy them. Meet Paris...
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The Beekeeper's Daughter

Santa Montefiore · Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

England, 1932 Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeepers daughter, she knows her place and what the future holds - that is, until her father dies. Her childhood friend Freddie has recently become her lover, and she is thankful...
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Mermaids in Paradise

Lydia Millet · Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

In this hilarious novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet, a honeymooning couple makes friends with a marine biologist who discovers genuine mermaids in a coral reef - and who, the next night, apparently drowns in her hotel bathtub. As a resort chain swoops in to corner the market...
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The bad mood and the stick

Lemony Snicket
Format: Audiobook

New York Times bestselling author Lemony Snicket sheds light on the way bad moods come and go. Once there was a bad mood and a stick. The stick appeared when a tree dropped it. Where did the bad mood come from? Who picked up the stick? And where is the bad mood off to now? You never know...
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Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect

Mark Greaney · Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't...
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