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"When I was your age, television was called books." ~ from The Princess Bride
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Listening for Teens and Children
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Flat Stanley audio collection
by Jeff Brown
Juvenile fiction. Four of the author's stories starring Flat Stanley--an ordinary boy flattened by a fallen bulletin board--are collected in an audio package and include the adventures, Flat Stanley, Invisible Stanley, Stanley in Space, and Stanley, Flat Again. Read by Daniel Pinkwater.
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The Elite
by Kiera Cass
Teen science fiction. Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies. Read by Amy Rubinate.
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The whites of their eyes
by Andrew Clements
Juvenile fiction. With a key to the Oakes School in his possession, Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town, but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve. Read by Keith Nobbs.
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Stella by starlight
by Sharon M. Draper
Juvenile fiction. Growing up in the segregated South where they accept the disparities in how they are treated, Stella and her little brother witness a terrible event that compels them to fight back and trigger fundamental changes. By the Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Out of My Mind. Read by Heather Alicia Simms.
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Fairest : Levana's Story
by Marissa Meyer
Teen science fiction. A story bridging the events between Cress and Winter traces the early years of "glamour" ruler Queen Levana, who endures war, deceit and challenges in love before crossing paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress. Read by Rebecca Soler.
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Knockout Games
by Greg Neri
Teen fiction. As a gang of urban teenagers known as the TKO Club makes random attacks on bystanders, Erica, who is dating the gang leader, wrestles with her dark side and "good kid" identity. Read by Ali Ahn.
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All the bright places
by Jennifer Niven
Teen fiction. Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world. A first young adult novel by the author of American Blonde. Read by Kirby Heyborne, Ariadne Meyers, and the author.
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Public School Superhero
by James Patterson
Juvenile fiction. Targeted by bullies for his membership in the chess club, Kenny, a boy who longs to be a hero, struggles to find his inner strength, but can he recognize it before peer pressure forces him to make the worst choice of his life? Read by Joshua Boone.
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Sinner
by Maggie Stiefvater
Teen fiction. A tale based on a pivotal character from the best-selling Shiver Trilogy reveals disgraced former star Cole's identity as a wolf shapeshifter while tracing his return to the side of the one woman who knows his secret. By the award-winning author of The Ravel Boys. Read by Dan Bittner & Emma Galvin.
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Gone Crazy in Alabama
by Rita Williams-Garcia
Juvenile fiction. Spending the summer with their grandmother in the rural South, three sisters from Brooklyn discover the surprising reason behind their mother's estrangement from their aunt. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of One Crazy Summer. Reader to be announced.
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Leaving before the rains come
by Alexandra Fuller
Memoir. The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. Read by the author.
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Even this I get to experience
by Norman Lear
Memoir. The Emmy Award-winning producer of such sitcoms as All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time and The Facts of Life traces 50 years in show business and politics while discussing his wartime contributions and experiences as a family man. Read by the author.
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Yesterday, today, tomorrow : my life
by Sophia Loren
Memoir. A memoir by the Academy Award-winning international film star traces her childhood in war-torn Naples through her life as a screen legend, fashion icon and devoted mother. Read by Cassandra Campbell.
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There was a little girl : the real story of my mother and me
by Brooke Shields
Memoir. The award-winning actress and best-selling author of Down Came the Rain explores her relationship with her tough single mom, detailing her role in shaping Shields' career, her fierce protectiveness and her struggles with alcohol. Read by the author.
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Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America
by Linda Tirado
Biography/ Poverty. We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like-on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should." Read by the author.
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You know who killed me
by Loren D Estleman
Mystery. Private detective Amos Walker's investigation into Donald Gates' death is complicated by a reward being offered by an anonymous donor from the dead man's church and a Ukrainian mobster in the Witness Protection Program. Read by Mel Foster.
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Darned if you do
by Monica Ferris
Mystery. When her new friend is wrongly accused of murdering a reclusive hoarder, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, finds clues to the real killer's identity in the clutter the victim left behind. By the USA Today best-selling author of The Drowning Spool. Read by Susan Boyce.
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| The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula HawkinsSuspense. During Rachel's daily commute to and from a London job she no longer has, her train passes two houses: the one she used to share with her ex-husband (who now resides there with his new wife), and the one whose seemingly blissful occupants -- dubbed "Jason" and "Jess" -- fuel her obsessive fantasies about the domestic harmony she craves. However, when "Jess" goes missing, Rachel, simultaneously desperate and afraid to learn the truth, insinuates herself into the investigation. Like Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, this dark psychological thriller examines dysfunctional relationships through the eyes of characters who may or may not be trustworthy. Read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, and India Fisher. |
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Cold cold heart
by Tami Hoag
Mystery. Struggling with PTSD, memory loss and dark flashbacks a year after escaping a notorious serial killer, television reporter Dana Nolan uses her investigative skills to reclaim the missing pieces of her life and begins questioning everything she thought she believed. By the best-selling author of The 9th Girl. Read by Julia Whelan.
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Hush Hush
by Laura Lippman
Mystery. Taking a case that challenges her busy childcare schedule, Tess Monaghan and new partner, Sandy Sanchez, assess the security needs of an imperious Baltimore woman whose family reunion is overshadowed by a violent stalker. By the New York Times best-selling author of After I'm Gone. Read by Linda Emond.
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| The Magician's Lie: A Novel by Greer MacallisterMystery. From her tiny jail cell in Janesville, Iowa, famed female magician the Amazing Arden (née Ada Bates) recounts her life story to police officer Virgil Holt, who suspects her of using one of her stage illusions to commit a very real murder. Richly detailed depictions of early 20th-century traveling circuses and Arden's own autobiographical "confession" keep listeners hooked throughout this story's many twists and turns. Read by Julia Whelan and Nick Podehl. |
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The martini shot : a novella and stories
by George P Pelecanos
Mystery. A collection by the best-selling author of The Night Gardener features protagonists engaged in fights for their lives, from a claims investigator who tracks a supposed dead man to an aging loser who pursues respectability by becoming an informant. By the award-winning writer-producer of The Wire. Read by Dion Graham.
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Betrayed
by Lisa Scottoline
Mystery. Judy Carrier races to the side of her cancer-stricken aunt, whose close friend, an undocumented worker at a local farm, has died under suspicious circumstances. Read by Maria Bello.
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Other New and Recently Released Fiction
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The Alphabet House
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Fiction. Two British pilots during World War II are shot down during a raid over Germany. They survive the crash, but are faced with a German dog patrol. They manage to save themselves by jumping aboard a hospital train and hide among the patients. But when they reach their destination, it occurs to them that it is a mental hospital. Now they can either try to simulate insanity or try to escape. Read by Malcolm Graeme.
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| A Touch of Stardust: A Novel by Kate AlcottHistorical fiction. Julie Crawford is busy watching (fake) Atlanta burn when she's first fired by David O. Selznick. Julie, an aspiring screenwriter from Indiana, arrives in California in 1938, finding work on the set of Gone With the Wind before becoming the personal assistant of movie star (and fellow Fort Wayne native) Carole Lombard. Julie's backstage access gives her a front row seat to the blossoming love affair between Lombard and Clark Gable, recently cast as Rhett Butler. Witnessing a burgeoning scandal (Gable's married) that could derail the stars' careers as well as a troubled shoot that's constantly over-budget and behind schedule, Julie quickly discovers the chaos and heartbreak beneath Hollywood's glittering facade. Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
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Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances
by Neil Gaiman
Fiction. The latest collection of short fiction by the #1 best-selling author of Fragile Things includes previously published stories, verses and a 50th anniversary Doctor Who tale, as well as an original short story. Read by the author.
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The nightingale : a novel
by Kristin Hannah
Fiction. Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Firefly Lane. Read by Polly Stone.
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| Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick HornbyFiction. Almost as soon as she's crowned "Miss Blackpool 1964," Barbara Parker realizes she's not cut out to be a beauty queen and returns her tiara. An aspiring actress who idolizes Lucille Ball, Barbara then heads to London, where she changes her name to Sophie Straw and snags a lead role in a television sitcom. Following Sophie's rise to fame as well as the subsequent peaks and valleys of her career, Funny Girl presents an amusing yet bittersweet coming-of-age story featuring a lively supporting cast and set against the vibrant backdrop of 1960s London. Read by Emma Fielding. |
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The day the streets stood still
by JaQuavis
Fiction. After a robbery goes horribly wrong, setting in motion a chain of events that cause mayhem in the streets of Detroit, Bailey, with a bag full of money and blood on her hands, tries to start a new life until the man in whom she places her trust betrays her after discovering the truth about her past. Read by Cary Hite.
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Inside a silver box
by Walter Mosley
Science fiction. Two people struggle to protect humanity from an imposing alien race that aims to regain control over the powerful Silver Box. By the award-winning author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries. Read by Dion Graham.
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| Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess WalterFiction. In 1962, Porto Vergogna, Italy, is a grubby coastal village that even the locals call culo di baldracca, or "the whore's crack." But Pasquale Tursi, proprietor of the Hotel Adequate View, has big dreams for his hometown -- dreams that appear to be coming true when American starlet Dee Moray arrives at what Pasquale optimistically calls his seaside resort. Dee, a minor member of Cleopatra's sprawling cast (which includes real-life celebrity couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton), brings some much-needed glamour to Vergogna -- but at what cost? Read by Edoardo Ballerini. |
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Other New and Recently Released Non-Fiction
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| As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary ElwesPop Culture. The Princess Bride is almost 30 years old? Inconceivable! Since its original release in 1987, this offbeat, eminently quotable film (based on William Goldman's 1973 novel of the same title) has become a full-fledged cult classic. This behind-the-scenes account of the making of the movie combines leading man Cary Elwes' personal recollections of life on set with exclusive interviews with the film's cast and production crew, in their own words and voices. Read by the author with additional narration. |
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Bullied : What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear
by Carrie Goldman
Bullying. Written by someone who has seen the effects of bullying firsthand, this timely resource, based on research from the top experts in the field, provides specific advice on how to help children respond to bullies, revealing how the power to mitigate the destructive behavior that affects too many children lies within us all. Read by Donna Postel.
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Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana
by William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh
Foreign relations. "Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba--beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo--this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, LeoGrande and Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant account. From Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Castro after the missile crisis, to Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Obama's promise of a 'new approach,' LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future"--Provided by publisher. Read by Robertson Dean.
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The rise of ISIS : a threat we can't ignore
by Jay Sekulow, with Jordan Sekulow, Robert W. Ash and Daviid French
Terrorists. Argues that the extremist Sunni jihadist group ISIS presents a great danger to the United States and the world, looking at the origin of the group, its objectives, and its unlawful terrorist strategies. Read by the author.
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The stranger : Barack Obama in the White House
by Chuck Todd
Politics. BC's award-winning Chief White House Correspondent presents a behind-the-scenes narrative of the 44th President's first term that explores how Obama's pre-presidency status as a Washington outsider has been an advantage and disadvantage and how his decisions are setting the stage for future politics. Read by the author.
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Contact your librarians for more great books!
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System 6532 Adelphi Rd. Hyattsville, Maryland 20782 301-699-3500http://www.pgcmls.info/ |
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