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OverDrive Audiobooks September 2018
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"The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story." -- Muriel Spark
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The Finishing School
by Muriel Spark
The arrival of Chris Wiley, a seventeen-year-old literary prodigy whose historical novel on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of Lord Darnley has already ignited publisher interest, at the College Sunrise finishing school sparks a dangerous game of envy, sexual jealousy, attraction, and adultery for Rowland Mahler, a would-be novelist, and his wife, Nina.
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The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta
Teaching human sexuality from a perspective that information and pleasure are top priorities, divorced mom Ruth Ramsey butts heads with the local soccer coach, a divorced former addict who became an evangelical Christian after hitting rock bottom. By the author of Joe College.
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Confessions : a Novel
by Kanae Minato
After her pupils murder her only daughter, Yuko Moriguchi sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge.
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One of Us is Lying
by Karen M. McManus
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
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School Days
by Robert B. Parker
Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment.
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September is National Recovery Month
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Recovery : Freedom From Our Addictions
by Russell Brand
The British comedian and radio host shares the story of his personal struggles with addictions ranging from drugs and alcohol to food and fame, offering compassionate advice about the programs that most helped him.
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We All Fall Down : Living With Addiction
by Nic Sheff
The author writes candidly about stints at inpatient rehab facilities, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction.
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With or Without You : a Memoir
by Domenica Ruta
A wryly comic, deeply emotional memoir of the author's relationship with her flamboyant drug dealer mother describes her misfit youth and eventual escape into writing before succumbing to addiction and resolving to leave her past in order to survive.
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Unchain Your Brain : 10 Steps to Breaking the Additions That Steal Your Life
by M.D. Amen, Daniel G.
Are you chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Food? Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex? When you are chained by an addiction, it can ruin your life, devastate your family, destroy your relationships, derail your career, lower your grades, and make you physically ill. Do you want to break free from your addictions? If so, you need to optimize your brain. The brain plays a central role in your vulnerability to addiction and your ability to recover. Brain dysfunction is the number one reason people fall victim to addiction, why they can't break the chains of addiction, and why they relapse.
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