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"The moment builds; it swells and builds -- the moment when I realize we have lost." ~ from Louise Doughty's Apple Tree Yard
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Listening for Teens and Children |
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The Water Castle
by Megan Frazer Blakemore
Juvenile fiction. Moving into an inherited mansion in Maine with their mother and stroke-afflicted father, three siblings uncover a mystery involving hidden passageways, family rivalries and healing waters. Read by Chris Henry Coffey.
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Deep blue
by Jennifer Donnelly
Juvenile fantasy. Living deep in the Mediterranean Sea, mermaid Serafina awakens on the day of her betrothal haunted by a strange dream that foretells the return of an ancient evil before her mother is poisoned by an assassin's arrow, a tragedy that compels her to prevent a war between the Mer nations. Read by Bea Miller.
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This star won't go out : the life and words of Esther Grace Earl
by Esther Earl
Teen biography. A collection of the journals, fiction, letters and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, a young cancer patient who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16, includes photographs and essays by family and friends that help tell Esther's courageous story, along with an introduction by the award-winning author who dedicated his #1 best-selling novel, The Fault in Our Stars, to Esther. Read by Cristina Panfilio, Lori Earl, and Wayne Earl.
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Words with wings
by Nikki Grimes
Juvenile fiction. Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her, until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about herself and her future. Read by Mutiyat Ade-Salu.
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We were liars
by E Lockhart
Teen fiction. A modern, sophisticated suspense tale by the National Book Award finalist author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks follows the revolutionary activities of four friends who turn against each other in the wake of trauma, differing political views and a devastating secret. Read by Ariadne Meyers.
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The mystery of Meerkat Hill : A Precious Ramotswe Mystery for Young Readers
by Alexander McCall Smith
Juvenile mystery. Precious wants to be a detective when she grows up. She is always practicing at being a detective by asking questions and finding out about other people's lives. There are two new students in her class, a girl called Teb and a boy called Pontsho. She learns that they are brother and sister, and even more exciting, that Pontsho has a clever pet meerkat named Kosi. Read by Adjoa Andoh.
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Behind enemy lines
by Jennifer A Nielsen
Juvenile fantasy. Discovering a way to tip the scales in favor of the Allied forces when World War II reaches a stalemate, time travelers Dak, Sera and Riq contemplate an audacious spy mission while worrying that their success is rendering them more subject to the control of SQ. By the author of The False Prince. Read by Dion Graham.
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The Book of Broken Hearts
by Sarah Ockler
Teen fiction. Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. She's seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath, with candles and a contract and everything, to never have anything to do with one. By the author of Twenty Boy Summer. Read by Zilah Mendoza.
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Starters
by Lissa Price
Teen science fiction. In a postapocalyptic world decimated by a viral outbreak where desperate surviving teens rent their bodies to seniors who want to experience youth again, 16-year-old orphan Callie rents out her body only to discover that her renter is planning to commit a murder, in a first entry of a two-part series. Read by Rebecca Lowman.
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The winner's curse : a novel
by Marie Rutkoski
Teen fantasy. Limited by her warmongering empire to join the military or get married, 17-year-old general's daughter Kestrel finds herself falling in love with compelling slave Arin, who hides a dangerous secret. By the author of the Kronos Chronicles. Read by Justine Eyre.
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The blossoming universe of Violet Diamond
by Brenda Woods
Juvenile fiction. Feeling out of place as a biracial student in an all-white school and tiring of people thinking she is adopted, Violet investigates her late African-American father's heritage by forging a tenuous bond with an unwelcoming paternal grandmother. By the Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of The Red Rose Box. Read by Sisi Aisha Johnson.
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The Lucy variations
by Sara Zarr
Teen fiction. "Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place." Read by the author.
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The good spy : the life and death of Robert Ames
by Kai Bird
Biography. Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East. Read by Rene Ruiz.
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Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
by Misty Copeland
Memoir. Documents the author's emotionally dynamic effort to become the third African-American soloist in the history of the American Ballet Theatre, describing the harsh family difficulties she overcame including her mother's highly publicized custody battle to halt her career. Read by Lisa Renee Pitts.
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Furious cool : Richard Pryor and the world that made him
by David Henry and Joe Henry
Biography. Provides a rare glimpse into the life of an outrageously human, fearlessly black, openly angry and profanely outspoken comedic genius whose humble beginnings as the child of a prostitute helped shape him into one of the most influential and outstanding performers of our time. Read by Dion Graham.
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Sally Ride : America's first woman in space
by Lynn Sherr
Biography. A definitive portrait of the history-making first American woman astronaut includes coverage of her service aboard the panel that investigated the shuttle disasters, her co-founding of a science-education organization for girls and her guarded personal life. Read by Pam Ward.
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Life, animated : a story of sidekicks, heroes, and autism
by Ron Suskind
Biography. Tells the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who, unable to speak for years, memorized dozens of Disney movies and turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship and brotherhood. Read by the author and Owen Suskind.
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The Hiltons : the true story of an American dynasty
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Biography. This epic story of the family that established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry sheds new light on its demanding and enigmatic patriarch Conrad Hilton, who struggled with emotional detachment, failed marriages and conflicted Catholicism, and his children. Read by Robert Petkoff.
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You must remember this : life and style in Hollywood's golden age
by Robert Wagner with Scott Eyman
Memoir. The legendary actor and best-selling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden age, touring favorite hotspots and exploring period business practices before the advent of paparazzi culture and high-powered agents. Read by the author.
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Carsick
by John Waters
Memoir/ Travel. The visual artist behind such cult films as Hairspray traces his haphazard cross-country hitchhiking journey at the sides of a motley group of unsuspecting drivers, including a gentle farmer, an indie band and the author's unexpected hero. Read by the author.
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Destroyer angel
by Nevada Barr
Mystery. Testing outdoor sporting equipment designed for a disabled companion, U.S. Park Services ranger Anna Pigeon returns from a solo outing to discover that her fellow campers have been abducted. By the best-selling author of The Rope. Read by Barbara Rosenblat.
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Personal : a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child
Suspense. A follow-up to the best-selling Never Go Back traces the fallout of game-changing events, placing Jack Reacher in a unique environment while pitting him against adversaries whose fates transform in unexpected ways. Read by Dick Hill.
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The Gods of Guilt
by Michael Connelly
Mystery. Defense attorney Mickey Haller investigates after a former client, a prostitute who had left the life for the straight and narrow, turns up dead, in the fifth novel of the crime series following The Fifth Witness. Read by Peter Giles.
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Apple Tree Yard
by Louise Doughty
Suspense. Sitting in a courtroom after being charged with murder, a geneticist and happily married mother of two reflects on her affair with a secret lover who claimed a connection to the British government and who seduced her with an irresistible combination of sexual power, justice and revenge. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
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The silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
Mystery. While investigating the brutal murder of a novelist who had just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knew, which would ruin many lives, P.I. Cormoran Strike must race against time to catch a killer unlike any he has ever encountered before. Read by Robert Glenister.
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Death at the Door
by Carolyn G Hart
Mystery. Annie Darling, owner of the mystery bookstore, prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is murdered. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide, the doctor's sister turns to Annie and her husband, Max, for help. Read by Kate Reading.
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Joyland
by Stephen King
Mystery. Set in a small town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Read by Michael Kelly.
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The Arsonist: A Novel
by Sue Miller
Suspense. After years of traveling the world as a relief worker, Frankie Rowley decides to take a break from her globe-trotting lifestyle and spend some time with her parents, Sylvia and Alfie, who have retired to Pomeroy, New Hampshire. As Frankie begins a relationship with local journalist Bud, Sylvia struggles with Alfie's increasingly erratic behavior, which may indicate dementia. Meanwhile, tensions between vacationers and year-round residents come to a head when an arsonist begins targeting summer homes. Read by the author.
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The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
by Louise Penny
Mystery. In a secluded monastery in Quebec, where 24 monks should be contemplating nature and God, one brother's mind -- and hands -- turn to murder. The cloistered monks, who have taken vows of silence despite their fame as the voices behind a bestselling album of gorgeous Gregorian chants, know as well as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir do that one of them is the killer. Since Louise Penny's well-drawn characters evolve over time, those who haven't read her elegant, award-winning books may want to pick up the 1st in the series, Still Life, before immersing themselves in this "excellent" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) 8th entry. Read by Ralph Cosham.
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The lost island : a Gideon Crew novel
by Douglas J. Preston and Lincoln Child
Mystery. After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment, in the third novel of the series following Gideon's Corpse. Read by David W. Collins.
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Bones never lie : a novel
by Kathy Reichs
Mystery. Forensic investigator Temperance Brennan employs her classic style while embarking into new territory that leads her to reunite with her mother and track down an elusive adversary. Read by Katherine Borowitz.
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Keep quiet
by Lisa Scottoline
Mystery. When they are involved in a terrible car accident, Jake Whitmore makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies and secrecy where a dangerous enemy comes forward threatening to expose them. Read by Ron Livingston.
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The heist : a novel
by Daniel Silva
Suspense. In the New York Times best-selling author's latest thriller, art restorer and occasional spy for Israel, Gabriel Allon, must play a dangerous game of high stakes international intrigue as he searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. Read by George Guidall.
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Cop Town : a novel
by Karin Slaughter
Suspense. Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out to be a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, she'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her own ax to grind (and a brother and uncle already on the force)--a strategy meant to isolate Kate and Maggie from the action. But the move will backfire, putting them right at the heart of it. Read by Kathleen Early.
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Act of war : a thriller
by Brad Thor
Suspense. A follow-up to Hidden Order pits private intelligence operative Scot Harvath and his associates against a formidable new adversary who changes the course of Harvath's life. By the best-selling author of The Apostle and The Last Patriot. Read by Armand Schultz.
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Other New and Recently Released Fiction
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Lucky us : a novel
by Amy Bloom
Historical fiction. Forging a life together after being abandoned by their parents, half sisters Eva and Iris share decades in and out of the spotlight in golden-era Hollywood and mid-20th-century Long Island. By the author of the National Book Award finalist, Come to Me. Read by Alicyn Packard.
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The Snow Queen
by Michael Cunningham
Fiction. At the heart of this lyrical, descriptive story are Brooklyn-based brothers Barrett and Tyler Meeks. Barrett, a retail sales associate recently dumped by his boyfriend, experiences a "celestial light" while walking through Central Park and interprets it as a sign. Meanwhile, struggling musician Tyler reflects on his "difficult but interesting life," in which his increasing dependence on drugs becomes a means of coping with his girlfriend Beth's cancer. Moving and heartfelt, The Snow Queen presents an intimate character study of three individuals seeking redemption and second chances by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. Read by Claire Danes.
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The all-girl filling station's last reunion : a novel
by Fannie Flagg
Humorous fiction. The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café presents a hilarious new mystery that, spanning decades, generations and America in the 1940s and today, centers around five women who worked in a Phillips 66 gas station during the WWII years. Read by the author.
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Fast track
by Julie Garwood
Romance. Devastated by the health setbacks of the father who lovingly raised her alone, Cordelia learns a shocking truth about her mother and enlists the help of her best friend's hotel magnate older brother, Aiden, who is being targeted by a powerful congressman. By the best-selling author of Hotshot. Read by Tanya Eby.
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The signature of all things : a novel
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Historical fiction. The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
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Euphoria
by Lily King
Historical fiction. Loosely based on the life of pioneering American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria introduces husband-and-wife anthropologists Nell Stone and Schyler "Fen" Fenwick. Upon arriving in 1930s Papua New Guinea, where they plan to undertake an ethnographic study of the Tam people, they encounter brilliant but troubled Englishman Andrew Bankson, who's studying the nearby Kiona tribe. As the three collaborate, Nell and Andrew connect in ways that strain her already troubled marriage to Fen, who's threatened by his wife's greater fame and professional reputation. This atmospheric, richly detailed story, told in lyrical language, will transport listeners to another time and place. Read by Simon Vance and Xe Sands.
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I am having so much fun here without you
by Courtney Maum
Fiction. A romance in reverse is set in Paris and London and follows an artist's attempts to fall back in love with his wife after the end of his affair, an effort that is challenged by the sale of a personal painting and his wife's discovery of his infidelity. A first novel. Read by Sam Devereaux.
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Big little lies
by Liane Moriarty
Fiction. An annual school Trivia Night ends in a disastrous riot leaving one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but evidence shows it might have been premeditated in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Husband's Secret. Read by Caroline Lee.
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami
Fiction. Tsukuru Tazaki's life was irreparably changed when his relationships with his high school best friends became severed during Tsukuru's college days. Now at 35, Tsukuru's girlfriend Sara suggested to Tsukuru to go and talk to these high school friends in person to mend the relationships, and to discover the real reason behind the friends' decision to reject Tsukuru. Tsukuru visited his friends in Nagoya and Finland one by one, and uncovers the real reason as to why their relations were broken off. Read by Bruce Locke.
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Dept. of speculation
by Jenny Offill
Fiction. Electronic resource only. An unflinching portrait of marriage by the award-winning author of Last Things features a heroine simply referred to as "the Wife," who transitions from an idealistic woman who once exchanged love letters with her husband and who confronts an array of universal difficulties. Read by the author.
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Landline: A Novel
by Rainbow Rowell
Fiction. Georgie McCool has got it all, or so she thinks. Deftly balancing a successful career and a wonderful family, Georgie's life reaches the next level when she and her writing partner sell their television pilot to a network -- on the condition that they deliver four scripts by December 27. That obviously conflicts with the family's annual Christmas vacation, so when she opts out in favor of meeting her deadline, her husband Neal takes the kids and heads to Nebraska without her. When a panicked Georgie calls from her mother's landline, Neal picks up. However, it's not present-day Neal she's speaking to -- it's Neal from the past, shortly before they got engaged. Handed an improbable opportunity to reexamine (and possibly alter) her past, Georgie must evaluate her life and decide what to do about her own future. Read by Rebecca Lowman.
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Edge of Tomorrow
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Fiction. When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally; the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death? Read by Mike Martindale.
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The vacationers
by Emma Straub
Fiction. Celebrating their 35th anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they would conceal. By the author of Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures. Read by Kristen Sieh.
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The Beekeeper's Ball
by Susan Wiggs
Romance. Only 30, Isabel Johansen has big plans for Bella Vista, her childhood home in Sonoma County, California. She wants to turn it into a culinary school with an emphasis on local ingredients (including honey harvested from her own beehives) and an in-demand destination for events -- like her sister Tess' upcoming wedding. However, Isabel's grand vision is complicated by the unexpected arrival of two men: one, celebrity chef Calvin Sharp, is an unpleasant reminder of her past; the other, journalist Cormac O'Neill, is writing a book about her late grandfather's activities in the Danish Resistance during World War II and may prove to be an important part of Isabel's future. This follow-up to author Susan Wiggs' The Apple Orchard is an engaging, heartwarming story of love and family ties. Read by Christina Traister.
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Other New and Recently Released Non-Fiction
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Make it stick : the science of successful learning
by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, III and Mark A. McDaniel.
Learning. Discusses the best methods of learning, describing how rereading and rote repetition are counterproductive and how such techniques as self-testing, spaced retrieval, and finding additional layers of information in new material can enhance learning. Read by Qarie Marshall.
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America : Imagine a World Without Her
by Dinesh D'Souza
Modern civilization. A conservative political commentator and best-selling author speculates on what the world would be like and how history would be different if the events that led to the discovery and creation of America had never happened. Read by Walter Dixon.
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Blood feud : The Clintons Vs. the Obamas
by Edward Klein
Politics. A behind-the-scenes look at the rivalry between the Obamas and the Clintons reveals the animosity, jealousy, and competition that divides America's two most powerful political couples. Read by Lars Mikaelson.
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The shack revisited : there is more going on here than you ever dared to dream
by C. Baxter Kruger
Theology. In The Shack, a man is lifted from despair through an encounter with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, while this title guides readers into a deeper understanding of these three persons to ascertain the core message of that book—that God is love. Read by the author.
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Think like a freak : The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
Problem solving. In this follow-up to their international bestseller Freakonomics, the authors present an essential decision-making handbook that, analyzing the decisions we make, the plans we create and the morals we choose, shows how their insights can be applied to daily life to make smarter, harder and better decisions. Read by co-author,Stephen J. Dubner.
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People We Meet : Unforgettable Conversations
by NPR hosts: David Greene, Scott Simon, Susan Stamberg, Rachel Martin and others
Interviews. Nationally known NPR on-air personalities share the lasting impressions made during interviews with a wide variety of exceptional individuals. Each story is introduced by the NPR host and offers a candid account of how the encounter was particularly meaningful to them. These are thought-provoking and emotionally resonant interviews with both the famous and the nearly anonymous; real people who reveal themselves over the course of a conversation in delightful, moving, and surprising ways. Radio programs.
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
Humor. The mother-daughter duo of mystery writer Lisa Scottoline and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Francesca Serritella, authors of Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim, team up once again to present a collection of witty, upbeat essays on a wide array of topics including (but certainly not limited to) pets, dating, politics, gardening, familial bonds, and twerking. Read by the authors.
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The big fat surprise : why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet
by Nina Teicholz
Nutrition. A thoroughly researched guide by a veteran food writer challenges popular misconceptions about fats and nutrition science, revealing the distorted claims of nutrition studies while arguing that more dietary fat can lead to better health, wellness and fitness. Read by Erin Bennett.
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What I know for sure
by Oprah Winfrey
Essays. Collects inspirational wisdom shared by the Presidential Medal of Freedom-winning cultural icon as penned for her O column throughout years marked by her retirement from her show, her launch of a television network, her honorary degree from Harvard and other high-profile milestones. Read by the author.
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