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Audiobooks July 2024 This list may include audiobooks in the following formats: audiobook CD, Playaway, and eaudiobooks through Libby and/or Hoopla. If you would like to learn more about any of these listening options, please contact the Adult Services Help Desk at 309.590.6168 or reference@bloomingtonlibrary.org.
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Shelterwood
by Lisa Wingate
In 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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Lucky
by Jane Smiley
Jodie Rattler thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then, through a combination of hard work and serendipity, she started a singing career. Jodie comes of age in recording studios, backstage, and on tour, and she tries to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Joni Mitchell. Yet it feels like something is missing. Could it be true love? Or is that not actually what Jodie is looking for?
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Look on the Bright Side
by Kristan Higgins
Lark Smith's life plan unravels with a failed relationship, a career setback, and her parents' divorce. Dr. Lorenzo Santini, seeking a date for his sister's wedding, proposes a fake relationship with Lark. Despite initial intentions, Lark finds herself drawn to Lorenzo's warm family, especially his estranged brother. Simultaneously, her mom forges an unexpected bond with her flamboyant landlady, Joy. As the summer unfolds, the women navigate uncertainties and discover that life's best moments often defy meticulous planning.
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First Frost
by Craig Johnson
Set in the unpsoiled countryside of Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire has to navigate his own increasingly complicated personal life with the ever-changing and often violent underworld that encroaches on what was once referred to as the Old West. This time, he is up against a sinister plot that could hurt the people closest to him and forever change the way he sees his beloved Wyoming.
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The Comfort of Ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear
London, 1945. As psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs picks apart the threads of her dead husband's life, she unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future.
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Stuart Woods' Smolder
by Brett Battles
Finally enjoying some downtime in Santa Fe, Stone Barrington agrees to attend an art exhibit with a dear friend. There, he encounters an intriguing woman who is on the trail of a ring of art thieves. Always one to please, Stone offers his help. From Santa Fe to Los Angeles, it quickly becomes clear that her investigation has links to Stone--particularly to rare Matilda Stone art, his mother's paintings. And when old grudges come to light, Stone is forced to reckon with a familiar enemy. Stone must act fast before whoever is out to get him finally closes in on him... for good.
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Southern Man
by Greg Iles
Penn Cage is alone, until a music festival triggers a mass shooting. That propels Southern war hero Bobby White into a run for the 2024 presidential election, stoking Black vs. white, states vs. federal government, democracy vs. fascism. Penn, with his daughter, and joined by an ex-con, must expose White's secrets before the America of our Constitution slides into the abyss.
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New Adult Nonfiction Audiobooks
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter, a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals.
Additional format: Libby eaudiobook
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt : The Women Who Created a President
by Edward F. O'keefe
Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It's little surprise he'd be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His mother, Mittie, was witty and decisive, a Southern belle raising four young children in New York while her husband spent long stretches away with the Union Army. Theodore's college sweetheart and first wife, Alice, so vivacious she was known as Sunshine, steered her beau away from science (he'd roam campus with taxidermy specimen in his pockets) and towards politics. Older sister Bamie would soon become her brother's key political strategist and advisor; journalists called her Washington, DC, home "the little White House." Younger sister Conie served as her brother's press secretary before the role existed, slipping stories of his heroics in Cuba and his rambunctious home life to reporters to create the legend of the Rough Rider we remember today. And Edith, Theodore's childhood playmate and second wife, would elevate the role of presidential spouse to an American institution, curating both the White House and her husband's legacy.
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What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
by Bill Maher
Bill Maher revisits more than a decade of editorial segments from his show Real Time on free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, the generations, cancel culture, and more, rewriting, reimagining, updating them, and adding new material to speak exactly to the moment we're in.
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Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
by Whoopi Goldberg
If it weren't for her mother Emma, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010--and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later--she felt deeply alone. In this memoir, Whoopi shares many deeply personal stories of their lives together for the first time.
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Crashing into You
by Rocky Callen
Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she is falling for.
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At the Speed of Lies
by Cindy L. Otis
As kids all around them are being kidnapped, including fellow students, Quinn Calvet, a member of the club Defend Kids, and her friends try to find out what's really happening amid an uptick in bullying and crazy conspiracy theories.
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