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Audiobooks: Selected Fiction
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Barry, Brunonia. The Lace Reader: a Novel A young woman, descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, returns to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts to help search for her missing aunt only to find that her aunt has drowned under mysterious circumstances. Read by Alyssa Bresnahan. 2008 Adult Fiction Audiobook |
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Clayton, Meg Waite. The Four Ms. Bradwells Nicknamed the Ms. Bradwells in law school, the four women have stayed close for thirty years. But when Betts's Supreme Court nomination is threatened by questions about a mysterious death decades ago, they retreat to the scene of the crime--Ginger's mother's summer house--to untangle the past. Read by Karen White. 2011 Adult Fiction CD |
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Engelmann, Karen The Stockholm Octavo Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm, is a drinker, card player, and contented bachelor, until Mrs. Sofia Sparrow, a fortune-teller, shares with him a vision she has had: a golden path that will lead him to love and connection. Read by Simon Vance. 2013 Adult Fiction Audiobook |
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Evans, Nicholas The Brave: a Novel What happened all those years ago remains a secret that corrodes Tom's life and wrecks his marriage. Only when his estranged son, a US Marine, is charged with murder do the events resurface, forcing Tom to confront his demons. Read by Michael Emerson. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Fallon, Siobhan You Know When the Men are Gone A collection of interconnected stories relate the experiences of Fort Hood military wives who share a poignant vigil during which they raise children while waiting for their husbands to return. Read by Cassandra Campbell. 2011 Adult Fiction CD |
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Fortier, Anne Juliet: a Novel Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. Read by Cassandra Campbell. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged. Read by David Ledoux. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Gaiman, Neil Good Omens The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race. Read by Martin Jarvis. 2009 Adult Fiction CD |
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Gregory, Philippa. The Red Queen Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is determined to turn her lonley life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, England, and even her son. Read by Bianca Amato. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Haruf, Kent. Benediction When Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer his wife and daughter try to make his last days as comfortable as possible. All three feel the bitter absence of estranged son, Frank. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with her own painful memories. Read by Mark Bramhall. 2013 Adult Fiction Audiobook |
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Harvell, Richard The Bells Born in an eighteenth-century Swiss Alps community where his mother was the keeper of the church bells, illegitimate youth Moses Froben is cast out by his self-serving father and seeks refuge in the historic Abbey of St. Gall, where he discovers his purpose in life through his singing. Read by Paul Michael Garcia. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Jen, Gish. World and Town Two years after burying her husband and best friend, 68-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist Christians and struggling family farms. Read by Janet Song. 2011 Adult Fiction CD |
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Jordan, Hillary When She Woke In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society. Read by Heather Corrigan. 2011 Adult Fiction Audiobook |
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Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.[Winner of multiple awards including: Pulitzer Prize for fiction and PEN/Hemingway.] Read by Matilda Novak. 2000 Adult Fiction CD |
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Lehane, Dennis. Live By Night: a novel By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, defies his proper upbringing. Joe enjoys the riches, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. Read by Jim Frangione. 2012 Adult Fiction Audiobook |
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Marlantes, Karl Matterhorn: a Novel of the Vietnam War Facing the horrors of war in Southeast Asia, young Bravo Company lieutenant, Waino and his comrades embark on a long, torturous, bloody journey, where the Vietnamese wilderness is just as dangerous as the enemy. Read by Bronson Pinchot. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Mosse, Kate The Winter Ghosts Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Mountain, Fiona. Lady of the Butterflies: a Novel Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. Read by Josephine Bailey. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Norman, Howard A. What is Left the Daughter In the aftermath of his parents' double suicides for their separate affairs with the same neighbor, Nova Scotia teen Wyatt Hillyer moves in with his uncle, aunt, and beautiful cousin and experiences additional life-changing events that culminate in his fathering of a child. Read by Bronson Pinchot. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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Pe´rez-Reverte, Arturo. Pirates of the Levant Taking work as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon, Captain Alatriste, accompanied by his faithful foster son, I´n~igo, participates in a grueling battle on the high seas that brings I´n~igo's readiness for independence into question. Read by Michael Kramer. 2010 Adult Fiction CD |
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