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Book Award Spotlight 2020 Audie Award Winners
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Audiobook of the Year and Best Multi-Voiced Performance
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The Only Plane in the Sky : An Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M. Graff
A panoramic oral history of the September 11 attacks draws on hundreds of interviews with government officials, first responders, survivors, friends and family members to recount events from the perspectives of firsthand witnesses.
Available on Overdrive
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Best Autobiography/Memoir Audiobook
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
Available on Audiobook CD, eReadIllinois, and Overdrive
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Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
Agreeing to help her former college roommate care for two stepchildren who possess the ability to spontaneously combust when agitated, Lillian endeavors to keep her young charges cool in the face of an astonishing revelation.
Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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Kingdom of the blind : a novel
by Louise Penny
The six-time Agatha Award-winning author of such best-sellers as Still Life and The Cruelest Month presents the latest entry in the popular Chief Inspector Gamache series.
Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
Available on Overdrive
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City of girls : a novel
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eighty-nine-year-old Vivian recounts her life after being kicked out of Vassar College at nineteen, living in Manhattan with her Aunt Peg, and the personal mistake that resulted in a professional scandal.
Available on audiobook CD, eReadIllinois, and Overdrive
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Best History/Biography Audiobook
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American moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the great space race
by Douglas Brinkley
Draws on new primary source material and firsthand interviews in a reassessment of the space program that examines the political, cultural, and scientific factors that launched NASA and the space race.
Available on eReadIllinois
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Best Literary Fiction/Classics Audiobook
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The water dancer : a novel
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery. By the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me. Read by the author.
Available on audiobook CD, eReadIllinois, and Overdrive
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The Chestnut Man
by Søren Sveistrup
When a serial killer begins leaving handmade dolls at his murder scenes, two detectives struggle to put aside their differences and follow forensic clues linking the case to a politician’s kidnapped daughter.
Available on Overdrive
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Best Narration by the Author or Authors
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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X.
Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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Devil's daughter : The Ravenels Meet the Wallflowers
by Lisa Kleypas
Falling for a dashing stranger, the daughter of Lord St. Vincent and Evie Jenner is horrified to discover that he is the bully responsible for her late husband's boarding-school misery. By a New York Times best-selling author. Read by Mary Jane Wells.
Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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Best Short Story/Collection Audiobook
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Full throttle : stories
by Joe Hill
A collection of thirteen short stories of supernatural suspense including "Throttle," co-written by Stephen King, in which a trucker is caught in a sinister dance with motorcycle outlaws in the Nevada desert.
Available on eReadIllinois and Overdrive
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Best Thriller/Suspense Audiobook
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The institute : a novel
by Stephen King
Published to coincide with the release of It: Chapter Two, a supernatural thriller finds an abducted youth imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where teens with psychic abilities are subjected to torturous manipulation.
Available on audiobook CD, eReadIllinois, and Overdrive
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Best Young Adult Audiobook
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