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OverDrive Audiobooks May 2018
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"Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us." -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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May in Jewish American Heritage Month
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Here I Am
by Jonathan Safran Foer
A tale told over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., traces the fracturing of a family in crisis when the three sons of Jacob and Julia confront the paradoxes between the lives they think they want and the lives they are actually living. By the award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated.
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The Red Garden
by Alice Hoffman
Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such characters as a wounded Civil War solider who is saved by a passionate neighbor and a woman who meets a fiercely human historical figure. By the best-selling author of The Third Angel.
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
A former athletic star, family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour "Swede" Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father's world.
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Absurdistan
by Gary Shteyngart
Hoping to get out of Russia and return to his adopted home in the U.S., Misha Vainberg, the obese son of a wealthy Russian, makes his way to Absurdsvani, a small unstable country on the brink of civil war, where he becomes embroiled in the ridiculous conflict, risks his life, and falls in love, all the while plotting to somehow get to America.
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People of the Book : a Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.
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May is National Inventors Month
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Birdseye : the Adventures of a Curious Man
by Mark Kurlansky
A profile of eccentric genius inventor Clarence Birdseye chronicles how his innovative fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. By the best-selling author of Salt: A World History.
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Where Good Ideas Come From : the Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson
From a coral reef teeming with life to the instant success of YouTube, the author explores what kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas, identifying the seven key principles for generating great notions. By the author of Everything Bad Is Good for You.
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Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance
An authorized portrait of one of Silicon Valley's most dynamic entrepreneurs evaluates his role in the successes of such innovations as Tesla and SpaceX while evaluating America's technological competitiveness in today's world. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller.
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The Wright Brothers
by David G McCullough
Chronicles the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity. By the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of Truman.
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
A vivid portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled the country with his mistress to build a new life in America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.
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