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Audiobooks January 2018 Please remember physical audiobooks are available at the Woodbridge Main Library on CD and on Playaway. Digital eaudiobooks are available online for free with a valid Woodbridge Library Card
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Fantasyland : How America Went Haywire : a 500-year History
by Kurt Andersen
What it's about: The best-selling author of Heyday explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of contributors ranging from P. T. Barnum and Billy Graham to Disney and Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion and magical thinking.
What people are saying: “A provocative new study of America’s cultural history . . . In this absorbing, must-read polemic, Andersen exhaustively chronicles a development eating away at the very foundation of Americanism.”—Newsday
Narration: Kurt Andersen reads his own work.
Availability: Digital eaudiobook from elibraryNJ
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What Happened
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
What it's about: The former secretary of state includes entries describing her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign and incorporates hundreds of inspirational quotes that have shaped her life and work.
Book Buzz: Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography (2017), Time Magazine Best Book of the Year and New York Times Notable Book
Narration: Hillary Clinton reads her own work.
Availability: Audiobook on CD.
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Dancing at Midnight
by Julia Quinn
What it's about: Suspecting that there is more to Lord John Blackwood than meets the eye, independent Lady Arabella Blydon determines to heal his shattered spirit, but the war-scarred soldier refuses her tempting attentions.
Series Alert: Book 2 of the The Splendid Trilogy.
Narration: Read by Lucy Rayner.
Availability: Digital eaudiobook from Hoopladigital.
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Hardcore Twenty-four
by Janet Evanovich
What it's about: Reluctantly agreeing to babysit a professional grave robber's pet boa constrictor, Stephanie Plum is embroiled in a bizarre series of crimes that escalate from the violation of stolen corpses to the murder of a homeless man, a case that is complicated by the return of the hunky but reckless Diesel.
Series Alert: This the 24th book focusing on Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer in Trenton, New Jersey,
Narration: Lorelei King.
Availability: Digital eaudiobook from ElibraryNJ.
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I Know a Secret
by Tess Gerritsen
What it's about: Investigating the death of a horror film producer whose murder scene has been gruesomely staged, detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are baffled by an apparent lack of a cause of death, a case that is further complicated by a second, equally bizarre murder.
Series Alert: Book 12 in the Rizzoli & Isles series, the series served as the basis for the TNT show Rizzoli & Isles.
Narration: Read by Tanya Eby.
Availability: Audiobook on CD.
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The Saboteur : a Novel
by Andrew Gross
What it's about: Engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb, in a thriller inspired by a true story.
What people are saying: “From its opening pages, Gross’s novel grips readers as they follow the tough-minded and persistent Nordstrum every step of the way. Highly recommended for thriller fans as well as lovers of historical fiction based on true events.” --Library Journal (starred review)
Narration: Read by Edoardo Ballerini.
Availability: Audiobook on Playaway.
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The Leavers : a Novel
by Lisa Ko
What it's about: An award-winning debut novel follows the experiences of a Chinese youth who when his undocumented worker mother fails to return home is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.
Book Buzz: National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction & for Debut Goodreads Author (2017), PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2016)
Narration: Read by Emily Woo Zeller
Availability: Audiobook on Playaway.
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Dunkirk : the History Behind the Major Motion Picture
by Joshua Levine
What it's about: Recounts the Battle of Dunkirk and the daring evacuation of the British Army from the European continent, revealing the stories of the soldiers and civilians who made a difference that day.
Showbiz Connection: Released as a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance in 2017. The film received eight nominations at the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards and three at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.
Narration: Read by Jonathan Keeble.
Availability: Audiobook on CD.
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| Emma in the Night by Wendy WalkerWhat it's about: Sisters Cassandra and Emma disappeared together; three years later Cass reappeared alone with a complicated explanation. Now FBI forensic psychiatrist Abby Winter is sure that Cass isn't telling her everything. What really happened, and could their mother have played a role?
Why you might like it: Unreliable witnesses, a dysfunctional family, and a convoluted plot will keep your attention.
Narration: Therese Plummer and Julia Whelan.
Availability: Audiobook on CD. |
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| Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardWhat it is: The award-winning Sing, Unburied, Sing relates a powerful story of how the past affects the present and of deeply entrenched racism. Featuring 13-year-old biracial Jojo and his black, drug-addicted mother, the novel delivers deeply affecting characters, a strong sense of place (rural Mississippi), and a touch of magical realism. (Fiction.)
Book Buzz: National Book Award for Fiction (2017), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2018), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017), Reading Women Award Nominee for Fiction (2017).
Narration: Read by Kelvin Harrison Jr., Rutina Wesley, and Chris Chalk.
Availability: Audiobook on CD.
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