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New eAudiobooks October 2019
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New eAudiobooks from Pindigital/Overdrive
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A tale set over the course of five decades traces a young man’s rise from poverty to wealth and back again as his prospects center around his family’s lavish Philadelphia estate.
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Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
The podcast host of “Revisionist History” and best-selling author of Outliers presents a controversial reassessment of leading news stories that offers strategic tips for more accurate and productive interactions with strangers.
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The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
A woman navigating the out-of-place artifacts in her caretaker’s sprawling early 20th-century mansion discovers a mysterious book that reveals impossible truths about the world and her own past.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
A tale of spycraft, love, and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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Well Met
by Jen DeLuca
While in the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, to help her sister, Emily is roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire with her teenaged niece where she, after meeting an irritating, yet handsome, schoolteacher, finally finds a place to call home.
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The Stranger Inside
by Lisa Unger
A woman is forced to confront the dark secrets of her past when a serial killer strikes too close to home.
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Nothing Ventured
by Jeffrey Archer
A series debut introduces London Metropolitan Police Force detective William Warwick, who on his first investigation reflects on his complicated childhood while uncovering the schemes of a ruthless art collector.
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Cold Storage
by David Koepp
A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park follows the desperate mission of a Pentagon bioterror operative and two unwitting security guards to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.
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The United States of Trump
by Bill O'Reilly
The television journalist and author of the best-selling Killing series draws on exclusive interview materials and deep research, in an insider’s portrait of the 45th President that includes previously undisclosed details about Trump’s childhood, family life, and career.
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New eAudiobooks from eRead Illinois/Axis360
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The Institute
by Stephen King
A supernatural thriller finds an abducted youth imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where teens with psychic abilities are subjected to torturous manipulation.
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The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery.
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Lethal Agent
by Kyle Mills
A divisive presidential election is complicated by terrorist videos of a kidnapped scientist who is being forced to produce anthrax, catapulting Mitch Rapp into an undercover mission to prevent the weapon from being smuggled into America.
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We are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
An urgent call to action on climate change by the author of Eating Animals shares insight into the climate denial mindset while identifying meat farms as a primary source of environmental pollutants.
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Quichotte
by Salman Rushdie
The award-winning author of Midnight’s Children presents a modern adaptation of Don Quixote that finds a courtly, addled salesman embarking on a cross-country journey with his imaginary son after falling impossibly in love with a television star.
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What Rose Forgot
by Nevada Barr
Waking up in a nursing-home Alzheimer’s Unit with no memory of how she got there, Rose Dennis orchestrates an escape but does not know who to trust.
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Red at the Bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
As Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents’ house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody’s own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place in this novel about different social classes.
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No Judgments
by Meg Cabot
Relocating to the Florida Keys after a devastating breakup, Bree refuses to evacuate during a Category 5 hurricane before finding herself scrambling to protect the pets her neighbors were forced to leave behind.
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Sins of the Fathers
by Judith A Jance
Agreeing to help an acquaintance from the past track down a missing child, Beau launches an investigation that forces him to confront his troubled past.
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The Stalking
by Heather Graham
A police officer teams up with an FBI consultant, her former high-school classmate, to investigate a possible serial killing that may exonerate an innocent man.
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New eAudiobooks from Hoopla
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After the Flood
by Kassandra Montag
A tale set in an anarchic near-future America of mountaintop colonies surrounded by rising oceans finds an independent woman trading for supplies and information about the daughter who was stolen from her eight years earlier.
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The Ventriloquists
by E. R. Ramzipoor
A tale based on true events finds a misfit journalist, a forger, and a street urchin joining a band of resistance fighters who risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Nazis.
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The Ungrateful Refugee
by Dina Nayeri
The award-winning author draws on first-person testimonies in an urgent portrait of the refugee crisis that reveals how it happened and the harmful ways that Western governments respond to the inhumane conditions refugees endure.
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by Maika Moulite
Told in epistolary style through letters, articles, emails, and diary entries, a debut novel by sister authors follows the experiences of a Haitian American teen who is sent to work in a Haitian nonprofit, where she learns about local culture and her family heritage.
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Strands of Truth
by Colleen Coble
A marine biologist whose last relative has passed away is surprised to discover that she has a half-sister at the same time her business partner’s stroke leads to an unexpected romance.
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Hurricanes
by Rick Ross
Hip-hop icon Rick Ross describes his life growing up in Miami during the height of the city’s crack epidemic and how he worked as dope boy in a notorious housing project while honing his musical talents.
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Memories of Glass
by Melanie Dobson
In 1942 Holland, childhood friends Josie and Eliese partner with a few other citizens to rescue Eliese's son and hundreds of other Jewish children awaiting deportation, but dangerous secrets could derail their mission.
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The Call of the Wild + Free
by Ainsley Arment
The co-host of the weekly Wild + Free podcast offers advice and information to current and potential homeschooling parents and discusses how to restore their children’s natural curiosity and joy while receiving a quality education.
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Diamond in the Rough
by Jen Turano
As Poppy attempts to learn the ways of the elite class, she turns to Reginald, the son of a duke, for etiquette lessons that end up becoming so much more.
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Time Management Ninja
by Craig Jarrow
This book presents the "21 Rules" that will show you an easier and more effective way to take control of your time and manage your busy life.
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