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Audiobooks, Music, & Movies March 2026 |
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An Academic Affair
by Jodi McAlister
Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher have known each other for fifteen years - and they've disliked each other for every one of them. It started with a minor altercation in an undergrad literature class, but as their academic careers developed, so did the intensity of their arguments. By the time they graduate with their doctorates, they're embroiled in a full-on rivalry. So when a position comes up that Sadie and Jonah are both perfect for, their ongoing enmity explodes into a red-hot competition. But as Sadie fights to secure her future, she realizes there might be a way for both of them to get their dream job. There's just one catch -they'll have to get married first. When things get personal, though, Sadie will have to keep her eye on the prize. A fake marriage isn't worth jeopardizing her real career over, is it?
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Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben
Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn't. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion. Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself--or she will be the next one who is.
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Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis--A Memoir
by Priscilla Presley
Priscilla Presley’s divorce from Elvis stunned fans who saw only the glamour of life at Graceland. But after entering his world at seventeen, she eventually realized she had never discovered who she was outside of it. Leaving Elvis became the only way she could find her own identity—and protect a life for herself and her daughter. Softly, As I Leave You is Priscilla’s intimate story of love, loss, and reinvention. After Elvis’s untimely death, she rebuilt her life as a devoted mother, businesswoman, and actress, helping transform Graceland into an international destination. Through heartbreak and resilience, she shares a moving testament to survival and strength in the face of profound loss.
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The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
by Harper Lee
From one of America’s most beloved authors, The Land of Sweet Forever gathers newly discovered short stories along with essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee. Best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee is revealed here not only as a novelist but as a young writer honing her craft and a thoughtful observer of American life. Spanning Alabama childhood memories to mid-century New York, the collection showcases the early fiction and later nonfiction that shaped her distinctive voice. With an introduction by Lee’s biographer Casey Cep, it offers a rare glimpse into the creative world behind one of literature’s most enduring figures.
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People Like Us
by Jason Mott
From the author of the National Book Award–winning Hell of a Book, People Like Us is Jason Mott’s riveting new novel. Though not a memoir, it draws on deeply personal elements of the author’s life while blending reality with dreamlike moments—time travel, sea monsters, peacocks, and memories so vivid they ache. The story follows two Black writers searching for peace and belonging in a world marked by gun violence. One is traveling the globe after winning a major literary prize; the other is preparing to speak at a school that has experienced a shooting. As their stories begin to converge, humor and danger intertwine—award trophies double as drinking cups, strange encounters unfold, and hope persists in unexpected ways. Both wickedly funny and deeply moving, People Like Us is filled with unforgettable characters navigating loss, love, and resilience. It’s a bold and imaginative novel that confirms Jason Mott as a singular literary voice.
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As Many Souls as Stars
by Natasha Siegel
An inventive and romantic speculative novel about two women--a witch and an immortal demon--who make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.
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The Last Showgirl
Pamela Anderson delivers a poignant, tour-de-force performance as Shelly, who's spent 30 years headlining an iconic rhinestone and feathers Vegas revue, Le Razzle Dazzle. When the stage manager announces the show's closure in two weeks, Shelly's life is thrust into uncertainty. Leaning on her brassy best friend, former showgirl-turned-performing-cocktail-waitress Annette, Shelly must find her way through this career crisis, perhaps by reconnecting with her estranged daughter, Hannah.
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One Battle After Another
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw resurfaces after 16 years, they must face Bob's past and run for the future.
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Bugonia
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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The Roses
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the fac⁺ʹade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing. As Theo's career nose-dives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites in this wonderfully wry, dark comedy.
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Art of Loving
Multi-BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominee Olivia Dean presents her highly anticipated second album, The Art of Loving, via Capitol Records. The Art of Loving is a tender, intentional deep dive into the many dimensions of love -romantic, platonic, self, and everything in between.
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Hard Headed Woman
For nearly a decade, Margo Price has created a lane where independent-minded, insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Now she's back with an exquisite, timeless album that reconnects with her roots. At it's core, Hard Headed Woman is about that furious instinct to never waver - especially when our values and future are so clearly on the line. It's country music as only Price can make it free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard headed but with a delicate beating heart.
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Sentient
Carlos Santana is music's great collaborator, blending his singular guitar style and expansive musical vision with a stunning variety of artists to create something new, unique, and universal. Santana's vision for Sentient was to revisit recent collaborations through a new lens, weaving them together into a sonic pilgrimage that passes through jazz, hip-hop, soul, rock, and Latin rhythms. The songs on Sentient range from recent hits and superstar collaborations to rare, unreleased, recordings.
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Spotlight On: Documentaries
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American Experience: Kissinger
An unlikely celebrity who drew fire from across the political spectrum, Henry Kissinger is widely recognized as one of the great American statesmen of the twentieth century. According to biographer Robert Schulzinger, "Kissinger seizes the imagination because he engineered the most significant turning point in United States foreign policy since the beginning of the cold war." Born in 1923 in Germany, to devout Jewish middle-class parents, the young Kissinger was forced to flee Hitler₂s anti-Semitic regime, settling with his family in New York City in 1938. After studying at City College, he joined the U.S. Army in 1943, serving as an interpreter and intelligence officer in Europe. Kissinger returned home in 1947 to a brilliant academic career at Harvard University, where he became a professor of government and international affairs in 1957.
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Beneath the Polar Sun
Science meets adventure an Arctic expedition is caught in the grip of the ice it has come to study. In the Last Ice Area, 500 nautical miles from the North Pole, a scientific team is on a rare mission to measure the world's oldest ice floes. Tiny specks in a vast ocean wilderness, they are alone. And they're in trouble. Jumbled slabs of sea ice are closing in from every corner. Hauling loaded kayaks, the team struggles to follow a route that had been navigable only years earlier. Trapped in a frozen maelstrom caught in the grip of the floes they came to study something has to give. Science is scuttled: bearing witness to Earth's most pressing existential threat, what matters now is survival. They must escape the chaos by traversing a narrow channel between Canada and Greenland the most formidable passage of the polar north.
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Wildflower: The Documentary
Honors student Christina balances school, track, and teen life while caring for her mom with a 59 IQ and supporting her dad. A powerful true story about sacrifice, disability, and the unspoken weight of growing up as a young caregiver.
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Caregiving
From Executive Producer Bradley Cooper, this is the story of a group of paid and unpaid caregivers navigating the ups and downs of this deeply challenging and immensely meaningful work. Intertwining intimate personal stories with the untold history of caregiving, the documentary reveals both the state and the stakes of care in America today. Malcoma Brown- Ekeogu devotes herself to her husband's care in the final stages of his illness, even when she feels alone in the journey. As the home health aide to Sherril Johnson, who has multiple sclerosis, Zulma Torres provides care with the same kindness that she would for a family member. Matt Cauli juggles care for his young son with care for his wife, Kanlaya, in the wake of a health crisis keeping the family together against the odds. Kim and Guillaume Olloz raise a disabled daughter in a world not built for people with disabilities in a home filled with love and care. Tracy Eacret experiences the laughter and the tears of a bittersweet season with her father as his end-of-life caregiver. And the Gutierrez family contends with a chronic illness that makes a caregiver out of their tender-hearted 14-year-old son.
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Simon Schama: Holocaust 80 Years on
In the year marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last concentration camps, renowned historian Sir Simon Schama confronts the history of the Holocaust as not just a Nazi obsession, but as a European-wide crime. In the most personal and unflinching film of his career, Simon visits mass killing sites in Lithuania, the home of his mother's family. He travels to the Netherlands, a nation famed for its long history of tolerance and where he lived and worked as a young historian, to answer the question of why fewer Jews survived here than in any other Western occupied country. And despite a lifetime dedicated to documenting Jewish history, this film also captures the emotional toll of Simon's first ever visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Want to request any of these titles? Place a hold through the online catalog, or call the library 831-768-3404 for assistance. |
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