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2008
- Sandra Dallas. Ready by Lorelei King. Tallgrass
- During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and with them, a shift in her perspective and a discovery of secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. (Downloadable Audio)
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2007
- Anna Quindlen. Ready by Carol Monda. Rise and Shine
- Meghan is the popular host of America's top-rated morning talk show--until she shatters her seemingly perfect life by letting two profane words slip from her lips just before a commercial break. Suddenly, she is shamed--something she's not equipped to handle. Her sister Bridget, a social worker who has long lived in Meghan's shadow, feels the effects of the on-air gaffe, too. They may be different, but the Fitzmaurice sisters share a deep connection that helps them challenge the world when faced with disgrace. (Unabridged CD)
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2006
- Mitch Cullin. Read by Simon Jones. A Slight Trick of the Mind
- At the age of ninety-three, Sherlock Holmes, living in a remote Sussex farmhouse, confronts the diminshing powers of his razor-sharp mind as he ponders a case hitherto unknown, that of a Mrs. Keller, the long -ago object of Holmes's deep and never acknowledged infatuation.(Unabridged CD & Downloadable Audio)
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2005
- Russell Banks. Ready by Mary Beth Hurt. The Darling
- A major new novel from the author of "The Sweet Hereafter" follows an American woman in Liberia and her struggle to save endangered chimpanzees amidst the violence of civil unrest. (Unabridged CD)
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2004
- Ruth Ozeki. Read by Anna Fields. All Over Creation
- Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi (aka Yummy) is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a fairly responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, her Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind? And there's the former lover whose agribusiness client has banished him to Idaho, where he lands in the small-town community he once offended and in Yumi's life. (Unabridged CD)
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2003
- Jeffrey Eugenides. Read by Kristoffer Tabori. Middlesex
- In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
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2002
- Stephen King and Peter Straub. Read by Frank Muller. The Talisman
- Thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer has been chosen for a quest across America and into another realm. To save his mother's life, Jack must search for a prize in an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, incredible dangers, and even more incredible truths. (Unabridged CD)
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2001
- Tom Robbins. Read by Keith Szarabajka. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy, a cyberwiz who hates computers ..." (Unabridged Cassette)
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2000
Wally Lamb. Read by George Guidall. I Know This Much Is True
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1999
- John Irving. Read by George Guidall. A Widow for One Year
- A novel about a family marked by tragedy and the "difficult" women who survive. Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, this is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. (Unabridged Cassette)
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1998
Kit Denton. Read by Terence Donovan. The Breaker
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1997
- Stephen King. Read by Frank Muller. The Green Mile
- The story revolves around a guard's remembrances of the green corridor leading to the electric chair at a Southern prison in 1932. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
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1996
- Earl Hamner, Jr. Read by Richard Thomas. The Homecoming
- When Clay Spencer fails to arrive home at the expected hour on Christmas Eve of 1933, his family grows concerned. While his seven brothers and sisters and his mother keep vigil the older son, Clay-boy, goes in search of his father. But on his journey through the snowbound Virginia hills, the boy experiences a series of hazardous, touching and hilarious adventures. Basis for the TV series The Waltons. (Unabridged Cassette)
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