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New and Coming Soon Audiobooks March 2020 Click on the title to check availability, and to log in and place holds online. To place holds by phone, please call us at (708) 366-5205. During open hours, you can also chat with us at www.riverforestlibrary.org. It's easy!
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American Dirt : a novel
by Jeanine Cummins
When her journalist husband writes a tell-all profile about an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, bookstore manager Lucia is forced to flee Mexico and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
CD BOOK CUMMINS
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The Boy from the Woods
by Harlan Coben
A man with a past shrouded in mystery searches desperately for a missing teenage girl whose disappearance is triggering disastrous consequences throughout her community and the world. By the best-selling author of Fool Me Once. 750,000 first printing.
CD BOOK COBEN
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The Mirror & the Light
by Hilary Mantel
The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell's journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.
CD BOOK MANTEL
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The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
CD BOOK ERDRICH
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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up. It is a searing debut for our times.
CD BOOK REID
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New Nonfiction Audiobooks
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Bitcoin Billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
by Ben Mezrich
The best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires traces the story of Harvard twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who in the aftermath of their infamous legal battle with Facebook became tycoons in the obscure and sometimes sinister world of cryptocurrency. Read by Armie Hammer. Simultaneous
CD BOOK 332.4 MEZ
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Broken Places & Outer Spaces : finding creativity in the unexpected
by Nnedi Okorafor
The science fiction author discusses how she used her hardships throughout life to fuel her creative work, touching upon such other artists as Frida Kahlo and Mary Shelley to explore how limitations have the potential to become one's greatest strengths.
CD BOOK BIOGRAPHY OKORAFOR
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Unfreedom of the Press
by Mark R. Levin
FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials, but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism.
CD BOOK 320 LEV
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Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us.
CD BOOK BIOGRAPHY DOYLE
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