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OverDrive Audiobooks December 2017
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"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened." -- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham
Re-released for the holiday season, a novel by the author of The Summons finds Luther and Nora Krank opting to forego the unfulfilling end-of-year traditions, much to the chagrin of their friends and neighbors.
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NPR Holiday Favorites
by Book Author
Like an overstuffed stocking on Christmas morning, NPR Holiday Favorites is full of unexpected pleasures and evergreen delights.
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A Highland Christmas
by M. C. Beaton
Left alone in chilly Lochdubh, Scotland, while his family spends Christmas in Florida, Constable Hamish Macbeth copes with a missing cat and the disappearance of a town's holiday tree and decorations, while searching for a way to make a little girl's Christmas dreams come true.
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Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
by Stephanie Barron
Invited to spend the Christmas holiday season of 1814 at the ancestral home of the wealthy Chute family, Jane investigates the suspicious death of a Yuletide reveler whose killer is among the snowbound guests.
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The Christmas wedding
by James Patterson
A widow's imminent marriage to a mystery groom reunites her four grown children, who share a first Christmas together since the death of their father four years earlier and who receive a surprise gift from their mother. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Alex Cross series.
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A Charles Dickens Christmas
by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens wrote many books and short stories about Christmas. Here, along with his most famous work, "A Christmas Carol," are the best. “A Christmas Carol”. You've seen the movie, and read the book ... but 'A Christmas carol" comes to vivid life as never before - in your imagination! With lush music, wonderful performances, and lots of holiday cheer - the Colonial Radio Theatre's production of this great classic will enchant you and yours for years to come." Also included are: ”The Chimes," “The Cricket On The Hearth. (a fairy tale of home)” and “The Seven Poor Travellers”.
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Nobel Prize in Literature (December 10th is Nobel Prize Day)
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The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)
An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity.
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Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro (2013)
Ten short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian émigré's winter journey to the Riviera.
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Silent House
by Orhan Pamuk (2006)
Awaiting the annual summer arrival of her grandchildren in her fishing village home outside Istanbul, bed-ridden widow Fatma shares memories and grievances with her late doctor husband's illegitimate son until his cousin, a fervent right-wing nationalist, involves the family in the Turkish military coup of 1980. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding (1983)
William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. Golding's portrayal of the collapse of social order into chaos draws the fine line between innocence and savagery.
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Light in August
by William Faulkner (1949)
In a novel about hopeless perseverance in the face of mortality, guileless Lena Grove searches for the father of her unborn child, Reverend Hightower is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and drifter Joe Christmas is consumed by his mixed ancestry.
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis (1930)
First published in 1922, the Nobel Prize-winner's classic satirical novel follows middle-class businessman and upstanding citizen George Babbit on his sometimes hilarious quest for a greater purpose in life. Read by Grover Gardner.
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