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The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War

Jeff Shaara - Random House Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation...
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America's first daughter : a novel

Stephanie Dray - Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, the authors tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph, a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father...
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Mind in the making : the seven essential life skills every child needs

Ellen Galinsky - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audio CD

There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded...
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A Mind Spread out on the Ground

Alicia Elliott - Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise...
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Man of two worlds

Frank Herbert - Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2014.
Format: eAudiobook

Frank Herbert's last published novel is a charming and witty science fiction adventure coauthored with his son Brian. What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen Jr. finds himself sharing his body...
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Our Kind of Cruelty: A Novel

Araminta Hall - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

"This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short: I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line." -- Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlThis is a love story. Mike's love story.Mike...
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Fifty Fifty

James Patterson - Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audiobook

Detective Harriet Blue is a relentless detective--but when her own brother is accused of murder, will she self-destruct? Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister,...
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Can't look away

Donna D Cooner; Sandy Rustin - Scholastic Audio
Format: Audiobook

Sixteen-year-old Torrey Grey's YouTube videos on fashion and beauty for teenagers were famous, but when her younger sister is killed by a drunk driver during a filming her world falls apart--cyber bullies are attacking her, her father moves them to Texas, and she does not know who to trust...
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Overkill

Ted Bell - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Audiobook

Listeners can enjoy the tenth book in the Alex Hawke series written by Ted Bell.
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