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Other countries : A British Police Procedural
by Jo Bannister
When a museum opening is firebombed, Constable Hazel Best saves the life of an attendee, television historian Oliver Ford, and a relationship begins to develop between them that makes her friends, Gabriel Ash and Saturday, uneasy
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| A Touch of Frost by Jo Goodman; narrated by Laurence BouvardAdult Fiction. Remington Frost had one job: ensure that Phoebe Apple arrives safely at the Twin Star Ranch in Frost Falls, Colorado. But Phoebe, the younger sister of his father's new bride, has just been kidnapped en route to her destination. So Remington rides to the rescue, but that's just the beginning of the couple's romantic (mis)adventures. This stand-alone novel by the author of the Bitter Springs series combines passion and thrills in a vivid Old West setting, warmly portrayed in Laurence Bouvard's narration. |
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| American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse; narrated by Tanya EbyAdult Nonfiction. Beginning in November 2012, an arson spree terrorized a rural county in Virginia for six months. In American Fire, journalist Monica Hesse traces the fiery trail of Charlie Smith and Tonya Bundick, who torched unoccupied buildings near where they lived in economically depressed but tightly knit Accomack County. Like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the deadly pair were romantically entwined; their motives remained elusive until after their capture. True crime aficionados and those interested in the economic fates of rural communities will want to listen to this compelling story, in which Tanya Eby's narration convincingly distinguishes among the participants' voices. |
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Origin : A Novel
by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon navigates a dangerous intersection of humanity's two most enduring questions, interweaving codes, science, religion and other disciplines before making a paradigm-shifting discovery. By the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code. Simultaneous.
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Fuel for Fire
by Julie Ann Walker
When his latest mission throws him together with CIA agent Chelsea Duvall, Covert Black Knights Inc. operator Dagan Zoelner struggles to protect the woman of his dreams, who loves him but has a secret that could destroy them both
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| Black Mad Wheel: A Novel by Josh Malerman; narrated by Robertson DeanAdult Fiction. In this second novel by Josh Malerman, author of the highly acclaimed Bird Box, the U.S. government recruits a Detroit rock band in 1957 to search for the origin of a destructive sound in the Namib Desert. After the trip to Africa, band leader and pianist Philip Tonka emerges from a coma in an Iowa clinic, and he struggles to recall what happened in the desert. Malerman's knowledge of music enriches his storytelling, and narrator Robertson Dean turns out a reading that's especially impressive for his emotional portrayal of Tonka and his hospital nurse. |
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Thunder in the Mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
by Daniel J. Sharfstein
Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation.
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The Best Kind of People
by Zoe Whittall
When a celebrated teacher is arrested for sexual impropriety at an elite prep school, his wife and children become social outcasts throughout an impossible defense proceeding that causes them to question their memories and motives.
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| The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland; narrated by an ensemble including Laurence Bouvard, Shelly Atkinson, Laural Merlington, Joe Barrett, and Will DamronAdult Fiction. Magic is real and, until 1851, was practiced openly. Then it disappeared. To find out why, the shadowy government entity known as the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.), recruits Harvard-trained linguist Melisande Stokes to translate ancient documents in search of clues. This collaboration between science fiction writer Neal Stephenson and historical fiction writer Nicole Galland may appeal to fans of Jody Taylor's Chronicles of St. Mary's series. Read by an ensemble, the audiobook offers a rich and compelling listening experience. |
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