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Hotel Portofino

Author(s):

J. P. O'Connell

Esther Wane, narrator

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Problems are mounting for Hotel Portofino coproprietor Bella Ainsworth, and all eyes are on the arrival of a potential love match for her son Lucian. But events don't go to plan, with far reaching consequences.

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FIC OCo

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The Lost And Found Girl : A Novel

Author(s):

Maisey Yates

Samantha Cook, narrator

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Ruby McKee has lived a charmed life. But an encounter with the town's black sheep sends her on a quest for the truth about her mysterious past. When her quest reveals a devastating secret, will her sisters stand by her?

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FIC Yat

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Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis

Author(s):

Annie Proulx

Gabra Zackman

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A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment, by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood role of these wetlands in saving the planet. Taking us on a fascinating journey through history, Proulx shows us the fens of 16th-century England to Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and the 19th-century explorers who began the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Along the way, she writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands, the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever, and the surprisingly significant role of peat in industrialization.

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577.687 Pro

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Jacqueline in Paris

Author(s):

Ann Mah

Caroline Hewitt

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In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother's expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light.

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FIC Mah

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Act of oblivion

Author(s):

Robert Harris

Tim McInnerny, narrator

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1660. General Edward Whalley and his son-in-law Colonel William Goffe are on the run in the New World. They're wanted in England for the murder of King Charles I. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture, dead or alive.

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FIC Har

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Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian

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Ellen Jovin

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After travelling the country with her grammar table, Ellen Jovin tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking, from the Oxford comma to things you were never told about.

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428.2 Jov

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Bindle punk bruja

Author(s):

Desideria Mesa

Frankie Corzo, narrator

Description:

Luna--or depending on who's asking, Rose--is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen and ruthless mobsters discover her ties to an immigrant boxcar community that secretly houses witches. Last thing she wants is to put her entire family in danger.

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FIC Mes

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Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives

Author(s):

Mary Laura Philpott

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A poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope. A lifelong worrier, Philpott always kept an eye out for danger, a habit that only intensified when she became a parent. But she looked on the bright side, too, believing that as long as she cared enough, she could keep her loved ones safe. Then, in the dark of one quiet, pre-dawn morning, she woke abruptly to a terrible sound, and found her teenage son unconscious on the floor. In the aftermath of a crisis that darkened her signature sunny spirit, she wondered: If this happened, what else could happen? And how do any of us keep going when we can't know for sure what's coming next?

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305.2442 Phi

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Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the south seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune

Author(s):

Keith Thomson

Feodor Chin, narrator

Description:

Charts a legendary two-year expedition by three hundred pirates in the year 1680 to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline of Central and South America, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships, as well as their sensational trial back in England.

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972.8702 Tho

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Lucky turtle

Author(s):

Bill Roorbach

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White and privileged, Cindra is sent to a reform camp in Montana where she forms a relationship with a camp employee. Together, they flee to the wilderness until caught. Not everyone is as lucky as Cindra.

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FIC Roo

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The fortunes of jaded women

Author(s):

Carolyn Huynh

Vyvy Nguyen, narrator

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Everyone in Orange County's Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love, so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. Oanh's current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She's divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she's estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon's underground). Though Mai's three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers (one of them is John Cho's dermatologist!), the same can't be said for their love lives. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave. Desperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic in Hawaii, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son. This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins, for better or for worse.

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FIC Huy

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The skeptics' guide to the future : what yesterday's science and science fiction tell us about the world of tomorrow

Author(s):

Steven Novella

Bob Novella

Jay Novella

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This is a high-tech roadmap of the future, cracking open the work of futurists of the past by examining what they got right, what they got wrong, and how they came to those conclusions.

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500 Nov

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We spread

Author(s):

Iain Reid

Robin Miles, narrator

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Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many "incidents."

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FIC$aRei

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And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle

Author(s):

Jon Meacham

Description:

Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on Good Friday 1865: his rise, his self-education through reading, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans of the nineteenth century, Lincoln's story illuminates the ways and means of politics, the marshaling of power in a belligerent democracy, the durability of white supremacy in America, and the capacity of conscience to shape the maelstrom of events.

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B Lin

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Daughters of the New Year

Author(s):

E.M. Tran

Lulu Lam, narrator

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In present day New Orleans, three sisters begin to encounter glimpses of long-buried secrets from their ancestors. Moving backward in time, the story of the Trung women reveals the events that brought them to America.

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Someday, maybe

Author(s):

Onyi Nwabineli

Adjoa Andoh

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A debut novel about a young woman's emotional journey through unimaginable loss, pulled along by her tight-knit Nigerian family, a posse of new friends, and the love and laughter she shared with her husband.

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FIC Nwa

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The vibrant years : a novel

Author(s):

Sonali Dev

Deepti Gupta

Soneela Nankani

Anita Kalathara

Description:

When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded, and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a home with Bindu even after her divorce from Bindu's son. But maybe this change is just the push Aly needs to fight for the segment she's been promised for years at the news station where she works. As Bindu and Aly navigate their new dynamic, Aly's daughter, Cullie, is faced with losing the business that made her a tech-world star. The only way to save it is to deliver a new idea to her investors, and of course they want the half-baked dating app she pitched them in a panic. Problem is, Cullie has never been on a real date. Naturally, enlisting her single mother and grandmother to help her with the research is the answer.

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FIC Dev

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Endless forms : the secret world of wasps

Author(s):

Seirian Sumner

Description:

Behavioral ecologist Seirian Sumner transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring their secret world and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance.

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595.79 Sum

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The sugar jar : create boundaries, embrace self-healing, and enjoy the sweet things in life

Author(s):

Yasmine Cheyenne

Description:

Combining stories, exercises, and prompts, this book lets you see just how much energy you have and how much is being used by others. It helps you identify what depletes you, what restores you, and how to recognize destructive patterns. It empowers you to free yourself from performing for and serving others, teaching you to set boundaries to help you heal and recharge.

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158.1 Che

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No one left to come looking for you

Author(s):

Sam Lipsyte

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Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City, and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack's punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse's outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret.

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FIC Lip

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So long, Chester Wheeler : a novel

Author(s):

Catherine Ryan Hyde

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Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing buttons, Chester hits Lewis with the big ask. Lewis can't say no to a dying wish: drive Chester to Arizona in his rust bucket of a Winnebago to see his ex-wife for the first time in thirty-two years, for the last time. One week, two thousand miles. To Lewis, it becomes an illuminating journey into the life and secrets of a vulnerable man he's finally beginning to understand. A neighbor, a stranger, and a surprising new friend whose closure on a conflicted past is also just beginning.

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FIC Hyd

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The sunshine girls : a novel

Author(s):

Molly Fader

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When tragedy strikes, forcing them down separate paths in 1967 Iowa, former nursing school roommates, against all odds, form a decades-long friendship that sees them through life's trials and tribulations until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.

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FIC Fad

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Wade in the water : a novel

Author(s):

Nyani Nkrumah

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In Mississippi in 1982, Ella is a Black eleven-year-old who befriends a mysterious white woman from Princeton, unwittingly pushing against the woman's carefully guarded past and dangerous secrets.

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FIC Nkr

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The pavilion in the clouds

Author(s):

Alexander McCall Smith

David Rintoul, narrator

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In the waning days of the British Empire, Bella lives with her parents on a tea plantation. But when Bella's suspicions about her governess sparks off her mother's imagination, confrontation leads to disaster.

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FIC$aMcC

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The faraway world : stories

Author(s):

Patricia Engel

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A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.

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FIC Eng

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Moonrise over New Jessup

Author(s):

Jamila Minnicks

Karen Chilton, narrator

Description:

A Black woman does whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.

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FIC Min

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Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom

Author(s):

Ilyon Woo

Janina Edwards, narrator

Leon Nixon, narrator

Description:

The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled white man and William posing as 'his' slave.

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306.362 Woo

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The good life : lessons from the world's longest study of happiness

Author(s):

Robert Waldinger

Marc Schulz

Description:

What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and overall healthier lives. In fact, the Harvard Study of Adult Development reveals that the strength of our connections with others can predict the health of both our bodies and our brains as we go through life. The invaluable insights in this book emerge from the revealing personal stories of hundreds of participants in the Harvard Study as they were followed year after year for their entire adult lives, and this wisdom is bolstered by research findings from this and many other studies.

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302.1 Wal

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Cold people

Author(s):

Tom Rob Smith

Rebecca Lowman, narrator

Description:

The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist, Antarctica.

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FIC Smi

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Really good, actually : a novel

Author(s):

Monica Heisey

Julia Whelan, narrator

Description:

Maggie is fine. Sure, she's broke and her marriage is over at the age of twenty-nine. But she barrels uncertainly through a year of single life, modern love, friendship, and what we call happiness.

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FIC Hei

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Cinema speculation

Author(s):

Quentin Tarantino

Edoardo Ballerini, narrator

Description:

Quentin Tarantino provides an entertaining look at key American films of the 1970s, which he first saw as a young moviegoer. Written in his singluar voice, this book combines film criticism, film theory, reporting, and personal history.

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791.4309 Tar

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The porcelain moon : a novel of France, the Great War, and forbidden love

Author(s):

Janie Chang

Katharine Chine, narrator

Saskia Maarleveld, narrator

James Chen, narrator

Description:

In 1918, Pauline Deng runs away from her uncle in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. She is offered shelter in a small town by Camille Roussel, but danger escalates for both women.

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FIC Cha

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All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me

Author(s):

Patrick Bringley

Description:

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

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708.1471 Bri

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The writing retreat : a novel

Author(s):

Julia Bartz

Gail Shalan, narrator

Description:

Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn't dampen her excitement. But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell, they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza's erratic behavior, Wren's cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she's desperate to discover the truth and save herself.

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FIC Bar

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The adventures of Amina al-Sirafi : a novel

Author(s):

S. A. Chakraborty

Amin El Gamal, narrator

Description:

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. But when she's tracked down by the wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no one could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a vast sum.

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FIC Cha

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Africatown : America's last slave ship and the community it created

Author(s):

Nick Tabor

Chris Butler, narrator

Description:

The last West Africans smuggled to America were emancipated five years later but had no way to return home. Instead they created their own community, which endures to the present day, despite the odds.

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305.896 Tab

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Miss Eliza's English kitchen

Author(s):

Annabel Abbs

Bianca Amato, narrator

Description:

In 1835, London is awash with new ingredients, but no one knows how to use them. Eliza Acton hires young Ann Kirby to help her write a cookbook. They break class boundaries while creating new ways of writing recipes.

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FIC Abb

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Femina : a new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it

Author(s):

Janina Ramirez

Description:

Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez presents a reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters.

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305.409 Ram

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Now you see us : a novel

Author(s):

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Angela Lin, narrator

Description:

Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workers sent to Singapore to be maids and caregivers. When one of their own is accused of murder, they piece together what really happened.

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FIC Jas

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The plot to save South Africa : the week Mandela averted civil war and forged a new nation

Author(s):

Justice Malala

Nick Boraine, narrator

Description:

South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the riveting story of the nine-day scramble to avoid civil war after the 1993 shooting of Nelson Mandela's heir apparent by a white supremacist trying to end peace talks.

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968.071 Mal

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Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration

Author(s):

Rebecca Heisman

Allyson Ryan, narrator

Description:

Here is the never-before-told story of how a group of scientists used nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration--from takeoffs to flight paths and behaviors, to challenges in reaching their destinations.

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598.1568 Hei

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Yours truly

Author(s):

Abby Jimenez

Kyla Garcia, narrator

Zachary Webber, narrator

Description:

Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is flatlining: her bother needs a kidney donor, and a new man-doctor is going to get the promotion she wants. Then she sees a different side to this new doctor.

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FIC Jim

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The house is on fire

Author(s):

Rachel Beanland

Joniece Abbott-Pratt, narrator

Andi Arndt, narrator

Michael Crouch, narrator

Ruffin Prentiss III, narrator

Description:

Richmond, Virginia, 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. On the night after Christmas, the city's only theater is packed when it goes up in flames. Four characters make difficult decisions.

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FIC Bea

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Searching for Savanna : the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many

Author(s):

Mona Gable

Cassandra Campbell, narrator

Description:

In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after the pregnant woman disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna's, but she would not be found until her body was pulled from the Red River days later. This horrifying and unimaginable crime sent shockwaves through the country and helped bring to light the overwhelming sexual and physical violence Native American women and girls have endured since the country's colonization. With pathos and respect, Mona Gable confronts the history and attitudes towards these women and why our government has turned its back on the countless victims by highlighting this specific tragic case. Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this is much more than a true crime book, it is also a call to action for those who cannot speak for themselves.

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305.48897 Gab

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The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

Author(s):

David Grann

Dion Graham, narrator

Description:

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then, six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes, they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death, for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

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910.9164 Gra

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Don't trust your gut : using data to get what you really want in life

Author(s):

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Andrés Pabon, narrator

Description:

Economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our own lives. Stephens-Davidowitz exposes that, while we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers disagree. He unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better.

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153.83 Ste

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A wing and a prayer : the race to save our vanishing birds

Author(s):

Anders Gyllenhaal

Cassandra Campbell, narrator

Description:

Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds to scrappy black crows, from a rainbow of warblers to common birds such as owls and sparrows. In a desperate race against time, scientists, conservationists, birders, wildlife officers, and philanthropists are scrambling to halt the collapse of species with bold, experimental, and sometimes risky rescue missions. High in the mountains of Hawaii, biologists are about to release clouds of laboratory-bred mosquitos in a last-ditch attempt to save Hawaii's remaining native forest birds. In Central Florida, researchers have found a way to hatch Florida Grasshopper Sparrows in captivity to rebuild a species down to its last two dozen birds. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a team is using artificial intelligence to save the California Spotted Owl. In North Carolina, a scientist is experimenting with genomics borrowed from human medicine to bring the long-extinct Passenger Pigeon back to life. For the past year, veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction.

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Call Number:

639.978 Gyl

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Denialism

Author(s):

Michael Specter

Richard Poe, narrator

Description:

Specter fervently argues that people are turning away from new technologies and engaging in a kind of magical thinking that is hindering scientific progress.

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Music CD

Call Number:

306.45 Spe

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Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge : from ancient wisdom to modern magic

Author(s):

Simon Winchester

Description:

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.

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Audiobook

Call Number:

306.42 Win

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The Half Moon : a novel

Author(s):

Mary Beth Neane

Rebecca Lowman, narrator

Norbert Leo Butz, narrator

Description:

Malcolm Gephardt, the handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss is finally ready to retire, Malcolm is inspired to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to make it a bigger success, but quickly realizes that his customers don't like change and that making a profit won't be easy. Malcolm's wife Jess is smart, confident, and has dedicated herself to her law career. But after years of trying to have a baby, she's struggling to accept the idea that motherhood may not be in the cards for her. Like Malcolm, she feels her youth beginning to slip away, and while her hopes and expectations fall short of the current reality, she wonders how to reshape her life.

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Audiobook

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FIC Kea

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