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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sounds discs (5 1/2 hours) :
Language
English
Description
A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (494 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr. Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking what happened to a person, rather than what’s wrong with them.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (13 Hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What could be a more tempting holiday gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume. The collection will also feature an introduction by the author; a never-before-collected story, 'Unbuttoned'; and a new interview with David Sedaris.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history....
5) The outsider
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 1/2 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever: his own. He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau, and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea. The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.
The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 1/4 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Albert Richardson and Junius Browne, two correspondents for the 'New York Tribune,' were captured at the Battle of Vicksburg and spent twenty months in horrific prisons before escaping and making their way to Union territory. A marvelous, surreal voyage through the cold mountains, dark prisons, and mysterious bands of misfits living in the shadows of the Civil War.