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OverDrive Audiobooks September 2019
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"Words are the only bread we can really share." -- Luis Alberto Urrea
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Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15)
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The House of Broken Angels
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of family patriarch Miguel "Big Angel" De La Cruz and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore. By the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of The Hummingbird's Daughter.
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The Book of Unknown Americans
by Cristina Henríquez
Moving from Mexico to the United States when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A novel set against the violence of 1990s Columbia follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship as the families of both struggle to maintain stability amidst Bogotá's rapidly escalating violence.
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Next Year in Havana
by Chanel Cleeton
A freelance writer returns to her grandmother’s homeland to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes scattered in Havana and discovers her family history amidst Cuba’s tropical beauty and dangerous political environment.
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The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
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September is Healthy Aging Month
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Life Reimagined : the Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
An award-winning journalist exposes the myth of the midlife crisis, drawing on emerging information from the fields of neurology, psychology, biology, genetics and sociology and explains that it should instead be about fresh possibilities, transformation and plotting new courses.
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The Happiness Curve : Why Life Gets Better After 50
by Jonathan Rauch
Using cutting edge scientific studies, an award-winning journalist discusses the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which is high in our 20s and declines in our 40s before surging upward again after age 50 and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
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In Our Prime : the Invention of Middle Age
by Patricia Cohen
A social history of the concept of middle age traces the period from when the term was first coined in the late 19th century through the present, offering insight into the current midlife generation's considerable influence as well as the biological, psychological and sociological factors shaping the midlife experience.
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