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Spanish guaranteed [sound recording].
cover imageCovers basic Spanish language skills for beginners, including words and phrases for greeting people, ordering at a restaurant, shopping, and traveling.

The hiding place [sound recording] / Corrie ten Boom ; with John & Elizabeth Sherrill.
cover imageAn old Dutch watchmaker and his two daughters become the center of a major underground operation: to hide Jewish refugees from the occupying Germans. They break all the rules to save the lives of men, women, and children being hunted by the Nazis. The cost of their bravery is betrayal, ...



The law of nines [sound recording] / Terry Goodkind.
cover imageIn this intense thriller, Alex, an impoverished artist living in the Midwest, fears his 27th birthday like the plague. His mother went insane at the age of 27 and once warned him of his fate. While Alex inherits a massive piece of fertile land and becomes a hero for saving ...


Dark slayer a Carpathian novel / [sound recording] : Christine Feehan.
cover imageAfter freeing the mage Razvan from his prison cave, Ivory, a rare Carpathian female, must flee with him, risking their lives to save their love.


Zazoo [sound recording] / by Richard Mosher.
cover imageAmid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.


The liar in your life the way to truthful relationships / [sound recording] : Robert Feldman.
cover imageA leading psychology professor explores the role of deception in modern culture, considering how often and why people lie, why some deceptions are perceived as harmless, and how to manage a habitual liar.

How did that happen? holding people accountable for results the positive, principled way / [sound recording] : Roger Connors and Tom Smith.
cover imageDiscusses strategies for holding workers accountable while building morale, how to manage unmet expectations in a positive way, and how to enjoy greater productivity and job satisfaction.

Postcards from heaven [sound recording] : messages of love from the other side / Dan Gordon.
cover imageCovering four generations, from the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression to contemporary America, Dan Gordon reveals his family's tremendous journey throughout time. Revealing that he believes that there is life after death, Gordon shares his inspiring communications with deceased family members.

Planet Google [sound recording] : how one company's all-encompassing vision is transforming our lives / Randall Stross.
cover imageRandy Stross explores Google's bold and possibly disastrous attempts at continued success. He explains the possibilities of bankruptcy for other providers, and how this will affect our culture as a whole.




Squire [sound recording] / Tamora Pierce.
cover imageAfter becoming a squire to Lord Raoul, commander of the King's Own, Kel of Mindelan, must face a terrifying test in the Chamber of the Ordeal before she can be a knight.

Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary [sound recording] / Brandon Mull.
cover imageKendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn compete with the Society of the Evening Star to gain access to a dragon sanctuary called Wyrmroost in order to retrieve a key to a vault housing an imporant artifact.

Fablehaven rise of the Evening Star / [sound recording] : Brandon Mull.
cover imageWhen Kendra and Seth return to Fablehaven, they discover that Grandpa Sorenson has asked three specialists to protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, a group determined to steal an artifact of great power from the preserve.

Fablehaven [sound recording] / Brandon Mull.
cover imageWhen Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.

The dangerous days of Daniel X [sound recording] / James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge.
cover imageFifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.

Andromeda Klein [sound recording] / Frank Portman.
cover imageHigh school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way.












Nocturnes [sound recording] / Kazuo Ishiguro.
cover imageFive interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.

Blood's a rover [sound recording] / James Ellroy.
cover imageA political noir tale set during the summer of 1968 in which the lives of three men collide in the pursuit of the leftist shadow figure known as the Red Goddess Joan.

Homer & Langley [sound recording] : a novel / E.L. Doctorow.
cover imageBronx-born E. L. Doctorow - who attended Kenyon College, served with the Army of Occupation in Germany, and penned his first novel after perusing a plethora of Western genre scripts as a reader in Hollywood - presents his thirteenth full-length novel, Homer and Langley. Other critically acclaimed works by Doctorow ...

The professional [sound recording] / Robert B. Parker.
cover imageElizabeth Shaw of the Boston law firm Shaw & Cartwright hires sleuthing extraordinaire Spenser to investigate Gary Eisenhower. Notorious for his affairs with wealthy married women, Gary is now being accused of blackmailing his former lovers. Spenser's investigation quickly shifts from blackmail to murder, though, when the blackmailed women turn ...

The year of the flood [sound recording] / Margaret Atwood.
cover imageFollowing a cataclysmic natural disaster, Adam One, leader of the religion known as God's Gardeners, and his followers make their way through an altered, depopulated world, while Ren, a performer trapped in a high-end sex club, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa, try to decide how ...

Hothouse orchid [sound recording] / Stuart Woods.
cover imageSent on a forced vacation after letting an especially dangerous terrorist get away, CIA Special Agent Holly Barker returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida. However, Orchid Beach's new police chief happens to be a man who once attempted to rape Barker years before, prompting Barker to challenge him ...

Evidence [sound recording] : an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman.
cover imageIn the 24th installment of Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate a lovers' midnight romp in a construction site gone wrong. A man and a woman have been murdered, bludgeoned to death during their intimate act; and as Delaware and Sturgis dig ...

Spartan gold [sound recording] / Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood.
cover imageThousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars in the Pennine Alps. Unable to transport them Napoleon creates a map ...

South of Broad [sound recording] / Pat Conroy.
cover imageAfter his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family in Charleston, South Carolina, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship.

The accidental billionaires the founding of Facebook : a tale of sex, money, genius, and betrayal / [sound recording] : Ben Mezrich.
cover imageRelates the story behind the founding of Facebook by a small group of Harvard University undergraduates and describes how conflicting ideas for the future of the site destroyed the friendship of co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.


Where men win glory [sound recording] : the odyssey of Pat Tillman / Jon Krakauer.
cover imageIrrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a ...

Have a little faith [sound recording] : a true story / by Mitch Albom.
cover imageWhen an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A ...


Reinventing the body, resurrecting the soul how to create a new you / [sound recording] : by Deepak Chopra.
cover imageExplains how the body is a reflection of the mind, inviting readers to satisfy their desires in a life rich with joy and meaning, and guiding them step-by-step through their renewal process.


The steps [sound recording] / Rachel Cohn.
cover imageOver Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.


Little bird of heaven [sound recording] / Joyce Carol Oates.
cover imageWhen a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects, her estranged husband, Delray Kruller, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers' son, Aaron, and Eddy Diehl's daughter, Krista, become obsessed with each other, each believing the ...

Homer's odyssey [sound recording] : [a fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat] / by Gwen Cooper.
cover imageAfter Gwen Cooper adopts an abandoned blind kitten, she finds herself inspired and her life transformed.


Cash in a flash [sound recording] : [fast money in slow times] / Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen.
cover imageTwo of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country share the recipe for wealth that will show you how to turn that dream into a reality now, no matter what your current circumstances or the economic climate.



A duty to the dead [sound recording] / by Charles Todd.
cover imageThe daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his patriotic footsteps, volunteering to serve her country as a nurse during the Great War. In 1916, she promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to a brother. When the hospital ship is sunk by a ...

Generosity [sound recording] / Richard Powers ; read by David Pittou.
cover imageRussell Stone is teaching creative nonfiction in Chicago when he meets a young Algerian woman with "a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell." His curiosity about her happiness despite her refugee status leads a geneticist to research further and announce discovery of ...

Evil at heart [sound recording] / Chelsea Cain.
cover imageFamed killer Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose and although she and Archie Sheridan have an agreement that she will no longer kill anyone, a body shows up with her trademark heart. Has the beauty serial killer returned to killing, or is someone imitating her style?

The help [sound recording] / Kathryn Stockett.
cover imageLimited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.

That old Cape magic [sound recording] / Richard Russo.
cover imageThe lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.


War and peace [sound recording] / by Leo Tolstoy ; [translated by Constance Garnett].
cover imageOften called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, it follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop ...

There goes the bride [sound recording] : an Agatha Raisin mystery / M.C. Beaton.
cover imageBossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James' young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do, and Agatha is named the prime suspect.

The spire [sound recording] / Richard North Patterson.
cover imageTo repay a debt to an old professor, Mark Darrow reluctantly becomes president of his former university in an attempt to save it from an embezzlement scandal. However, haunting memories of a twenty-year-old murder and the conviction of his best friend lead Mark to re-examine the case. After another murder ...

Guardian of lies [sound recording] / Steve Martini.
cover imagePaul Madriani investigates the case of a woman accused of murder and a million-dollar heist, a trial that will unravel a conspiracy involving rare coins, an ex-CIA agent, a former Soviet scientist, and a missing nuclear device being prepared for a trip to the United States.

A gate at the stairs [sound recording] : a novel / Lorrie Moore.
cover imageAs the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. As the year unfolds and ...


The blind assassin [sound recording] / Margaret Atwood.
cover imageIris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.

Atlas shrugged [sound recording] / Ayn Rand.
cover imageThis is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight ...

The Girls of Room 28 [sound recording] : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt / Hannelore Brenner.
cover imageFrom 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors--women in their late seventies today. Weaving these interviews with excerpts ...

Past imperfect [sound recording] / by Julian Fellowes.
cover imageDamian Baxter is very rich and dying. He's received an anonymous letter that suggests he fathered a child forty years ago. With a massive fortune at stake, he needs to know if he has an heir. But finding the truth will not prove easy--the only man who knows where to ...

Skeleton Hill [sound recording] / by Peter Lovesey.
cover imageOn Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later ...

Sarah's key [sound recording] / Tatiana de Rosnay.
cover imageOn the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.

The last song [sound recording] / by Nicholas Sparks.
cover imageSeventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina. Three years later her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her younger brother spent the summer with him. Resentful and rebellious, she rejects all ...

Night pleasures [sound recording] / by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
cover imageHe is solitude. He is darkness. He is the ruler of the night. Yet Kyrian of Thrace has just woken up handcuffed to his worst nightmare: an accountant. Worse, she's being hunted by one of the most lethal vampires out there. And if Amanda Devereaux goes down, then he does, ...

The memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots [sound recording] : [a novel] / by Carolly Erickson.
cover imageBorn Queen of Scotland, married as a young girl to the King of France, Mary took the reins of the unruly kingdom of Scotland as a young widow and fought to keep her throne. Many believed that she, and not her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, was the rightful Queen of ...

The night monster [sound recording] / by James Swain.
cover imageTough-as-nails abduction specialist Jack Carpenter is not easily spooked. But when he witnesses his daughter's college basketball teammate being violently abducted, Jack cannot suppress his horror. The kidnapper's face is one Jack recognizes from an unsolved case early in his career on the police force. With a deadly clock ticking, ...



True compass [sound recording] / Edward M. Kennedy.
cover imageEdward M. ("Ted") Kennedy, was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1962, after playing a key role in his brother John's Presidential campaign. " In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the Univ. of Virginia for an oral history project about his life. Since ...

The murder of King Tut [sound recording] / James Patterson.
cover imageNovelist James Patterson teams up with non-fiction writer Martin Dugard to uncover the mystery shrouding the death of Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut. Ever since Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922, many scholars have speculated on the boy king's fate. Patterson and Dugard utilize modern technology, including X-rays and ...

No impact man [sound recording] : the adventures of a guilty liberal who attempts to save the planet, and the discoveries he makes about himself and our way of life in the process / Colin Beavan.
cover imageDescribes the author's one-year experiment with minimizing his impact on the Earth, an effort for which he eschewed technology, processed foods, and other negative-impact products while evaluating the plausibility and actual value of sustainable living.


Julie & Julia [sound recording] / Julie Powell.
cover imageThirty-year-old Julie Powell lives in a rundown apartment in Queens and works at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. Desperately needing something to free her from the monotony, she invents a deranged assignment: Using her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, ...

Traveling with pomegranates [sound recording] : a mother-daughter story / Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor.
cover imageSue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees, and Ann Taylor Kidd, her daughter, co-author this personal narrative about their experience together while traveling Europe. Listen as the two women learn a great deal about one another and strengthen the mother and daughter bond, as they visit the ...

Strength in what remains [sound recording] : [a journey of remembrance and forgiveness] / Tracy Kidder.
cover imagePulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder discusses the 1994 civil war and genocide which took place in Burundi and Rwanda.

The score takes care of itself [sound recording] : my philosophy of leadership / Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh.
cover imageNFL coach and three-time Superbowl winner Bill Walsh delivers his ultimate lecture on leadership--illustrated by dramatic and apt anecdotes from throughout his career--that will help your business increase its chances of prevailing into the 21st century.

Nurtureshock [sound recording] : new thinking about children / Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.
cover imageArgues that popular nuture-based parenting techniques are proving unsuccessful because they fail to include key aspects of scientific research, in an analysis that covers such topics as aggression, intelligence, and moral behavior.

Create your own economy [sound recording] : the path to prosperity in a disordered world / Tyler Cowen.
cover imageAn economics professor and author describes how the World Wide Web is changing the way our minds work, and provides a guide to the coming world of Web 3.0, where social networking and "Tweeting" will improve education and enrich lives.

Blue moon [sound recording] : a novel / Alyson Noël.
cover image"Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way, but just as her powers are increasing, his are in decline, and as she searches for a way to save him, she finds herself with a ...

Something, maybe [sound recording] / Elizabeth Scott.
cover imageHannah tries to avoid behaving like her embarrassing parents, but her plans become complicated when she falls hard for a cute coworker but then discovers that another, the one who annoys her the most, has fallen hard for her.

Living dead girl [sound recording] : a novel / Elizabeth Scott.
cover imageAfter being abducted when she was ten and abused for five years by her kidnapper, Ray, Alice's only hope of freedom is in death, but her only way to achieve such an escape is to help Ray find the next girl for his collection.

Reinvention [sound recording] : how to make the rest of your life the best of your life / by Brian Tracy.
cover imageTracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can re-make ourselves and put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction we might feel in our careers and lives.

The ride of a lifetime [sound recording] : doing business the Orange County Choppers way / by Paul Teutul, Sr. with Mark Yost.
cover imagePaul Teutul, Sr., TV star and entrepreneur, has watched his Orange County Choppers motorcycle-building business transform into a worldwide phenomenon. He shares the tumultuous story of his success, and the ups and downs he experienced on his way to the top.

Hit the ground running [sound recording] : a manual for new leaders / by Jason Jennings.
cover imageJennings draws on the examples of ten CEOs who successfully implemented dramatic transformations within the early days of their jobs to identify ten "golden rules" for taking over leadership responsibilities, formulating a strategy, and inspiring working teams.

Twitter power [sound recording] : how to dominate your market one tweet at a time / by Joel Comm with Ken Burge.
cover imageIf you don't know what Twitter is, or how to use it, this is the audiobook for you. In this insightful volume, Comm shows listeners how to use one of the Internet's hottest social networking tools to keep customers and business partners "in the know" in real time. The best ...

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