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New @ PPL Books on CD, MP3s, and Playaways December 2017
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In the midst of winter : a novel
by Isabel Allende
A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar, his Chilean lecturer tenant and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore firsthand the difficulties of immigrants and refugees in today's world. By the best-selling author of The House of the Spirits. Simultaneous.
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Secrets of Cavendon
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A latest entry in the Cavendon Hall saga is set in the summer of 1949, when a new generation of the estate is torn by scandal, intrigue and romantic betrayals that force the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other from unimaginable threats. By the best-selling author of Secrets from the Past. Simultaneous.
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The Midnight Line
by Lee Child
Spotting a hard-won women's West Point class ring in a pawn shop, Jack Reacher fights a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster to discover the truth about the ring and why its owner sold it. By the best-selling author of Night School. Read by Dick Hill. Simultaneous.
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Every Breath You Take
by Mary Higgins Clark
Struggling with the departure of co-host Alex Buckley, television crimesolver Laurie Moran is teamed with a despised Ryan Nichols, who draws her into the cold case of a wealthy widow pushed to her death from the roof of a famous museum. Simultaneous.
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Typhoon Fury
by Clive Cussler
Hired to track down a valuable art collection, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon sail into a perfect storm involving a Filipino insurgency, a Japanese-developed super-warrior drug and a South African mercenary. Co-written by the best-selling author of Odessa Sea. Read by Scott Brick. Simultaneous.
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Hardcore Twenty-four
by Janet Evanovich
Reluctantly agreeing to babysit a professional grave robber's pet boa constrictor, Stephanie Plum is embroiled in a bizarre series of crimes that escalate from the violation of stolen corpses to the murder of a homeless man, a case that is complicated by the return of the hunky but reckless Diesel. Simultaneous.
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The Noel Diary
by Richard Paul Evans
A latest holiday-themed novel by the best-selling author of The Christmas Box follows the experiences of a man who, in the wake of estrangements and losses, is given a chance to rewrite and rediscover his true past. Simultaneous.
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American Drifter : An Exhilarating Tale of Love and Murder
by Heather Graham
A young U.S. Army veteran suffering from PTSD drifts around Brazil, struggling to make peace with the world's illogical elements before fatefully falling in love with a gangster's mistress. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Rising. Read by Chad Michael Murray. Simultaneous.
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Strange weather : four short novels
by Joe Hill
A collection of four novellas by the award-winning author of "The Fireman" includes the tales, "Snapshot," "Aloft," "Rain" and "Loaded." 200,000 first printing. Simultaneous.
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Sleep No More : Six Murderous Tales
by P. D. James
A collection of six stories that explore the thinking, the memories, the emotional machinations, the rationalizations, and the dreams and desires behind murderous cause and effect.
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The Crooked Path
by Irma Joubert
As retired physician Lettie Louw looks back upon her life, she recounts her coming of age in WWII-era South Africa in this compelling story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation.
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In This Moment
by Karen Kingsbury
Risking his job by organizing an after-school bible-study program to combat local crime and gang activity, Indiana high school principal Wendell Quinn is delighted by the program's positive results, until a complaint renders him the subject of media speculation and a controversial lawsuit. Simultaneous. TV tie-in.
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The Whispering Room
by Dean R. Koontz
Her husband dead and he son in hiding, rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk finds a connection between a schoolteacher's murderous, and ultimately suicidal, rampage; teacher's secret journal; and a cabal of power players bent on controlling America. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Silent Corner. Simultaneous.
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Bonfire
by Krysten Ritter
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.
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God : A Human History
by Reza Aslan
In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt : A Political Life
by Robert Dallek
921 ROO A biography of Roosevelt focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and dealmaker. Takes a fresh look at the many compelling questions that have attracted all his biographers such as how did a man who came from so privileged a background become the greatest presidential champion of the country's needy? How did someone who never won recognition for his intellect foster revolutionary changes in the country's economic and social institutions? How did Roosevelt work make such a profound change in the country's foreign relations?
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It's All Relative : Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
by A. J. Jacobs
The New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All; and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family, where it begins, and how far it goes, and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the family of humankind.
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Killing England : the brutal struggle for American independence
by Bill O'Reilly
In a book told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Great Britain’s King George III, the authors chronicle the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. By a #1 best-selling authors of Killing the Rising Sun. Simultaneous.
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