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Audiobooks May 2024 This list may include audiobooks in the following formats: audiobook CD, Playaway, and eaudiobooks through Libby and/or Hoopla. If you would like to learn more about any of these listening options, please contact the Adult Services Help Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org.
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Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
by Nicci French
When Alec Salter's wife vanishes, the police think she and their neighbor Duncan Ackerley were having an affair. Decades later, Duncan's children interview Alec for a podcast, stirring up unresolved feelings in the town. Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor will stop at nothing to uncover the truth as a new and terrifying picture of what really happened to Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley emerge.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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Mania
by Lionel Shriver
In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." College English instructor Pearson Converse is against this movement. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend with whom she can speak frankly. Or at least she thinks she can, until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes.
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Sharpe's Command
by Bernard Cornwell
If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and one from the South. If they meet, the British are lost. Only Sharpe's small group of men stand in their way.
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The Husbands
by Holly Gramazio
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem—she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together for years. As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can't remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living?
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
Additional formats: Libby eaudiobook, Playaway
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The Morningside
by Téa Obreht
When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give a young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland in the Old World, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia's new home. As Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities, she becomes obsessed with the mysterious woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside, with three massive Rottweilers who may or may not be more than they appear. Silvia's mission to unravel the truth about this woman's life, and her own haunted past, will transform her own life in the most unexpected of ways.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook, Playaway
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New Adult Nonfiction Audiobooks
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Rebel Rising : A Memoir
by Rebel Wilson
Chronicling the emotional and physical lessons she's learned as well as her most embarrassing experiences, the scene-stealing actress, writing about the most personal and important moments in her life, from fertility issues and weight gain and loss to rejections, shows us how to love ourselves while making us laugh uncontrollably.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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With a Little Luck
by Marissa Meyer
When a mysterious 20-sided dice gives him the gift of good luck, Jude feels invincible until he loses the magic dice, which forces him to step into the spotlight to win the true girl of his dreams.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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Ruthless Vows
by Rebecca Ross
Two weeks after returning home from the front, Iris and Attie seize another chance to report on Dacre's movements, while Roman, who has lost his memory and is stuck in Dacre's realm, becomes entangled in a mysterious pen pal correspondence, leading to a pivotal decision that could impact the course of the war and his relationship with Iris.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
by Anthony R. Keith
In this powerful YA memoir, the poet, writer and hip-hop educator traces his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, homophobia and his own personal Boogeyman to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry.
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Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
by Tiffany Jewell
This overarching nonfiction narrative follows author Tiffany Jewell from early elementary school through her time at college, unpacking the history of systemic racism in the American educational system along the way. Throughout the book, other writers of the global majority share a wide variety of personal narratives and stories based on their own school experiences.
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