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| Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West by Thomas Clavin; narrated by John Bedford LloydAdult Nonfiction. 1870s Dodge City, Kansas was a supply center, a railhead, and a host to gigantic stockyards. It existed on the fuzzy boundary between law and lawlessness, where tough and fearless men, among them Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp, kept order. In this vivid, well-researched portrait of the city and its denizens, award-winning journalist Tom Clavin traces Masterson's and Earp's careers, while narrator John Bedford Lloyd "makes this a delightful listening experience" (AudioFile). |
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| Universal Harvester: A Novel by John Darnielle; narrated by the authorAdult Fiction. This intricate, disturbing novel explores the darker side of 1990s small town Iowa. After several Video Hut customers complain about seeing extraneous footage in their VHS rentals, clerk Jeremy Heldt starts viewing the tapes, which draw him into a decades-old tragedy. Universal Harvester (narrated by author and singer/songwriter John Darnielle) boasts a strong sense of place, compelling turns of phrase, a menacing atmosphere, and an absorbing, lyrical portrayal of grief. |
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| The Girl Before: A Novel by JP Delaney; narrated by Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, and Lise AagaardAdult Fiction. The Girl Before unfolds in two time periods, each focusing on a young woman who has seized the opportunity to live in a one-of-a-kind home, which comes with some rather strict and unusual rules. Their stories emerge in parallel, as the second learns what happened to the girl before her and unwittingly follows the same path. The audiobook features three narrators, who portray the two young women and the building's control-freak architect, together capturing the terrifying character of the building itself. |
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Ring of Fire
by Brad Taylor
Learning of an imminent terrorist attack on the U.S., Pike Logan, Jennifer Cahill and the Taskforce race against time to stop catastrophic events in multiple locations. By the best-selling author of The Forgotten Soldier.
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The Shadow Land
by Elizabeth Kostova
Accidentally taking a parcel from a family with whom she shared a cab, a young American tourist in Bulgaria is horrified to discover that the parcel contains an urn of ashes and embarks on an effort to return it to its family, making astonishing discoveries along the way. By the award-winning author of The Historian.
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4 3 2 1 : A Novel
by Paul Auster
A single child born in 1947 experiences four parallel lifetimes poignantly marked by shifting family fortunes, athletic pursuits, friendships, sex, intellectual passions and the same intriguing woman. By the best-selling author of Winter Journal. Read by the author.
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| My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King; narrated by Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoyAdult Nonfiction. In My Life, My Love, My Legacy, Coretta Scott King's close friend Barbara Reynolds transcribes recordings King made about her life and experiences. After Martin Luther King Jr. persuaded Miss Scott to marry him, she gave up her ambition to be a professional musician and joined her husband as a leader in the Civil Rights movement. This graceful narrative, compellingly voiced by narrators Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoy, brings both Kings to life for the listener. |
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| We Are Okay by Nina LaCour; narrated by Jorjeana MarieTeen Fiction. At the end of last summer, Marin left her home in San Francisco and went off to college in New York with nothing but what she had in her pockets. Now she's facing a lonely winter break in an empty dorm. Narrator Jorgeana Marie skillfully renders the pensive intensity of We Are Okay, expressively portraying Marin's grief and loneliness as well as her friend Mabel's determination to help Marin deal with the reasons for them. |
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Stranger Than Fanfiction
by Chris Colfer
When four fans jokingly invite a world-famous kid actor on a cross-country trip, his surprising acceptance leads to a paparazzi-laden adventure of friendship, loss and revelations.
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Yolo County Library
226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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