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Where do you listen?Audiobook listeners are encouraged to send in a photo of where they listen to audiobooks or a photo of themselves listening to audiobooks to webmaster@monroetwplibrary.org. For many audiobook listeners, the joy is in the narrator. Many celebrities narrate audio books and then there are the narrators who entice listeners to borrow anything they narrate! You can vote in our polls this month at the Library's GoodReads page - one about narrators and one about where you like to listen. Or if you aren't sure you're ready for a full length audio, perhaps a podcast will inspire you. This is The Author is a podcast about authors reading their audiobooks. For more information about narrators and narrator profiles, visit these 2 sites:
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The Great Gatsby
Over the years, this audiobook has been narrated by multiple celebrities including Tim Robbins and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends Many celebrities narrate the audiobook version of their memoirs. Betty White, Alan Alda and Tina Fey are a few to try.
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The Beatles
Alfred Molina has narrated a number of audiobooks, including this biography, Grimms fairy tales, and Jeffery Deaver titles.
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Dear Library Lady, I'm tired of listening to the news. Please recommend a "good story". Sincerely, Frantic Frieda Dear F.F., I feel your pain and I am coming to the true understanding of "No news is good news". Here at the Monroe Township Library, we had a contest at the end of 2016 to determine the favorite books of the year. After careful tabulation, the winners were: - 1st Place - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- 2nd Place - Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
- 3rd Place - The Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon
These top three titles are sure to engage you and provide respite from the screaming on your television and/or radio. To quote Edward R. Murrow: "Good night and good luck!" Yours in peaceful quietude, The Library Lady P.S. If you've read these gems, don't hesitate to call the Library Lady (always at your beck and call) and I promise you that we'll find something just right for you. Do you have a questions for the Library Lady? Email it to us!
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I see you everywhere
by Julia Glass
Narrated in the alternating voices of two very different sisters, an intimate novel follows the intertwined lives of Louisa Jardine, the conscientious, careful, and precise older sister who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, and a family, and her younger sister Clem, an iconoclastic, daring rebel, over the course of twenty-five years, from 1980 to 2005.
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Small great things
by Jodi Picoult
When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir : a novel
by Jennifer Ryan
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
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Code name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Flight patterns
by Karen White
Forced by a work assignment to return to the Florida hometown she swore she would never revisit, Georgia, an expert of fine china, encounters her estranged mother and sister, who cause her to realize that she must heal past rifts in order to live an authentic life.
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