Audio Books, Miscellaneous
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| PETER ACKROYD | CHATTERTON (BOT) -
Though the characters at first seem to be excessively eccentric, Dickensian to a fault, eventually they become credible as an ingenious plot fuses their lives. Revolving around the eponymous English poet who committed suicide in 1770 when he was 18, the story begins in modern-day London where another impoverished poet, Charles Wynchwood, discovers a painting that appears to depict Chatterton at an age older than he was when he died. Intrigued, Charles travels to Bristol, Chatterton's birthplace, where he acquires a manuscript that suggests that Chatterton faked his own death and continued to write poetry that was attributed to Cowper, Grey and Blake, among others. Meanwhile, elderly novelist Harriet Scrope employs Charles to help her write her memoirs, which she hopes will not reveal the fact that her novels have all been plagiarized from obscure authors. Simultaneously, the owners of an art gallery where Charles's wife Vivien works are made aware that paintings they have sold are actually fakes. As Charles's life begins more and more to resemble Chatterton's, whom we meet in flashback, Ackroyd unrolls further surprises, capturing the reader in a spiraling series of events, all of which relate to the nature of truth and reality, and the role of art in assuring immortality.
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(8T,12H) | $30 | N | T |
| ISABEL ALLENDE | DAGHTER OF FORTUNE -
Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep.
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(10T,15H) | $19 | N | T |
| STEVE ALTEN | THE TRENCH -
A Prehistoric Killing Machine. Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel doors holding it in a Monterey aquarium. The captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more. On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean lies the Mariana Trench where the Megalodon has spawned since the dawn of time. Using himself as bait, Paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor will enter the ultimate battle, a fight to the death between man and beast in the darkest recesses of the ocean, and a fight for his sanity from the depths of his own tormented soul
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(7T,12H) | $14 | N | T |
| RUSSELL ANDREWS | GIDEON -
Gideon, an identity shrouded in mystery, the anonymous source who holds the key to an explosive secret. Writer Carl Granville, hired to turn the pages of an old diary into compelling fiction, begins to understand that it is something more, and becomes a Man Alone, on the run, and wanted for murder
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(9T,14H) | $18 | N | T |
| JEAN M. AUEL | THE VALLEY OF HORSES -
The unforgettable heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear, sets out on her own odyssey of discovery away from the nurturing adoptive family and friends of the Clan. She is in search of others like herself and in search of love. Driven by her intelligence, her curiosity, and her destiny, she explores where the Clan never dared to travel and encounters a hostile world of awesome mystery, glacial cold, terrifying beasts, and intense loneliness in which survival itself is a constant battle.
Sharing a hidden valley with a herd of steppe horses, Ayla finds a unique friendship with animals as vulnerable as herself and ingeniously discovers the complex skills needed to survive—skills no Clan member was ever able to master. But none of her experiences prepares her for the emotional turmoil she feels when she rescues a young man—the first of the Others she has seen—from almost certain death. Torn between her desire for human companionship and her fear of the unknown Others, she struggles against her deep attraction to the handsome Jondalar. It is Jondalar who teaches her the meaning of true friendship and love.
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(12T,18H) | $22 | N | T |
| DAVID BALDACCI | LAST MAN STANDING -
A terrific David Baldacci novel: a tough but tender-hearted hero, dirty dealings in the nation's bureaucracy, and a roller-coaster plot. Web London, a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, froze up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone underground.
As a pretty psychiatrist puzzles over the corners of Web's brain that kept him alive, Web himself stays on the move. He's certain that the ambush is connected to the prison escape of a neofascist leader, Ernest B. Free, whom he helped arrest five years earlier, and a series of new murders leads him to a Virginia horse farm and the driving force behind all the carnage.
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(15T,17H) | $22 | N | T |
| DAVID BALDACCI | SAVING FAITH -
Not far from Washington, D.C., in a wooded area of Northern Virginia, a small house at the end of a gravel road serves a secret purpose. With its sophisticated security apparatus and hidden miniaturized cameras, it is being used by the FBI to interview one of the most important witnesses the agency has ever had, a young woman with an incredible story to tell. But a few people know about the secret meeting. And for them, a violent drama is about to begin.. Relentless Chase Novel, power gone mad in Washington.
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(8T,10H) | $20 | N | T |
| DAVID BALDACCI | SAVING FAITH - (2Copies)
Not far from Washington, D.C., in a wooded area of Northern Virginia, a small house at the end of a gravel road serves a secret purpose. With its sophisticated security apparatus and hidden miniaturized cameras, it is being used by the FBI to interview one of the most important witnesses the agency has ever had, a young woman with an incredible story to tell. But a few people know about the secret meeting. And for them, a violent drama is about to begin.. Relentless Chase Novel, power gone mad in Washington.
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(4T,6H) | $12 | N | T |
| DAVID BALDACCI | SIMPLE TRUTH -
Brilliant young attorney Pike Fiske is an accomplished, admired clerk to a Supreme Court Justice. His colleague Sara Evans clerks for a female Court justice who is powerfully connected to Congress. Both Mike and Sara, whose career seems to have limitless possibilities, are about to become irrevocably trapped in a struggle that will link a convicted murderer to the Court.
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(4T,6H) | $12 | N | T |
| J.G. BALLARD | CRASH (BOT) -
This graphic, violent novel is controversial wherever it is read! The book's characters are obsessed with automobile accidents and are determined to narrate the horrors of the car crash as luridly as possible. In the words of the novel's protagonist, the wounds caused by automobile collisions are "the keys to a new sexuality born from a perverse technology." Read this novel and learn why David Cronenberg, who had previously adapted Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch for the screen, fought to turn it into his latest film. | Y
(7T,7H) | $21 | N | T |
| J.G. BALLARD | EMPIRE OF THE SUN (BOT) -
A novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches, which blends honesty with a vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. It is rooted in the author's own experience of war in our time.
The novel won "The Guardian" Fiction Prize.
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(8T,12H) | $30 | N | T |
| MELISSA BANK | THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING -
Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire.
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(4T,6H) | $12 | N | T |
| RAYMOND BENSON | THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH - (2Copies)
James Bond must race to defuse an international power struggle, with the world's oil supply hanging in the balance. The movie stars Pierce Brosnan, reprising his role as Agent 007. | Y
(4T,6H) | $13 | N | T |
| JUDY BLUME | SUMMER SISTERS (BOT) -
In Summer Sisters, her third novel for adults, the author again explores the ramifications of love--and lust--on two friends. Initially, the differences between Caitlin Somers and Victoria Leonard (or "Vix," as Caitlin christens her) draw them together: privileged Caitlin is wild and outspoken, beautiful but emotionally fragile, while working-class Vix is shy, reserved, and plain in comparison. After Caitlin selects Vix to accompany her to her father's home in Martha's Vineyard for the summer, the two become inextricably connected as "summer sisters."
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(6T,9H) | $ 23 | N | T |
| WILLIAM BOYD | THE BLUE AFTERNOON (BOT) -
From the author of A Good Man in Africa and Brazzaville Beach comes an ambitious and seductive novel--part suspense, part romance, all grand storytelling. Told in flashbacks, the story travels from 1930's Hollywood to the exotic, violent world of the Philippines in 1902, telling a tale of medicine, the murder of American soldiers, and the creation of a magical flying machine. | Y
(8T,12H) | $30 | N | T |
| DALE BROWN | BATTLE BORN -
The world in is on the brink of World War III and a new generation of brash young heroes is playing the flying game. The fragile peace in Asia is shattered, North Korea surrenders, and the United Republic of Korea is born. But this United Korea is also the world's newest nuclear power.
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(4T,6H) | $12 | N | T |
| KING / STRAUB | BLACK HOUSE (2vols) -
In the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial killer in a neighboring town.
Of course, this is no ordinary policeman, but Jack Sawyer, hero of Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1984 fantasy The Talisman. At the end of that book, the 13-year-old Jack had completed a grueling journey through an alternate realm called the Territories, found a mysterious talisman, killed a terrible enemy, and saved the life of his mother and her counterpart in the Territories. Now in his 30s, Jack remembers nothing of the Talisman, but he also hasn't entirely forgotten ...
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(15T,20H) | $24 | N | T |
| RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON | DARK LADY - Fast paced mystery: In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other: the general manager of the company that is building a new baseball stadium, the city's hope for the future; and the local drug dealers' attorney of choice. In each case, homicide is suspected but not immediately provable; in each case, the character of the dead man seems contradicted by the horrific particulars of his death.
Stella Marz is the Assistant County Prosecutor, so driven by her job the defense attorneys call her "The Dark Lady" Feeling that someone is already following and watching her every move, Stella struggles to deal with the multiple murders before it is too late
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| JAMES PATTERSON | 1ST TO DIE -
First of a new series dubbed The Women’s Murder Club, featuring a four-woman team that occasionally works outside the system: Inspector Lindsay Boxer of SFPD; Claire, an MD; fledgling newspaper reporter, Cindy; and Assistant DA Jill Bernhardt.
Lindsay suddenly finds herself in the middle of two horrifying situations: The first is that she’s just learned she has an often-fatal blood disease. The second is a double homicide case she’s now heading up that involves the murder of newlyweds on their wedding night. Burdened with Chris Raleigh, a new partner reassigned from the mayor’s office, Lindsay finds that she has too much to deal with and turns to her best friend, Claire, for helpful advice and human, friendly contact amid a job filled with violence, cruelty, and fear.
Soon a fledgling newspaper reporter, Cindy, makes contact with Lindsay looking for a career-making story. Although Lindsay can’t officially comment on the case, the two women form a rapport, and Cindy joins Lindsay and Claire for their weekly meeting. When a second pair of newlyweds is murdered, and later a third, the investigation leads to a prominent crime writer, Nicholas Jenks, who has a history of spousal abuse and a predilection for kinky, dangerous sex games.
Eventually the four “Murder Club” ladies share private interdepartmental information in an effort to track and stop the killer before he strikes again. The story lines balance out to show us the true mettle of someone who puts the safety of others before her own.
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(7T,9H) | $24 | N | T |
| DANIELLE STEEL | BITTERSWEET - A story of freedom, of having dreams and making choices to find them -- a moving portrait of a woman who dares to embark on a new adventure and the man who helps her get there | Y | $20 | N | T |
| SCOTT TUROW | PERSONAL INJURIES -
Robbie Feaver is a successful personal injury lawyer, with a burgeoning practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife he loves--who is dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds which make their way into the pockets of the judges who decide Robbie's cases.
Robbie is apprehended, and, in exchange for leniency, agrees to wear a wire tap as he continues to try to fix decisions. The FBI agent assigned to supervise him goes by the alias of Evon Miller. She is stocky, lonely, uncomfortable in her skin, and impervious to Robbie's charms. And she carries secrets of her own. As the law tightens its net, Robbie's and Evon's stories converge thrillingly and, ultimately, tragically. Turow shows us a new side to Kindle County, the world of greed and human failing he has made immortal in Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and The Laws of Our Fathers. He also shows us enduring love and quiet, enexpected heroism.
Personal Injuries is Turow's most reverberant, most moving novel--a powerful drama of individuals trying to escape their character
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(9T,12H) | $24 | N | T |
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