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ID: 83646

Title: Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

Author: Avi Steinberg

Narrator: Dustin Rubin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, Social Science

Summary:

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seeking direction—and dental insurance—Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison.

 

The prison library counter, his new post, attracts con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. There’s an anxious pimp who solicits Steinberg’s help in writing a memoir. A passionate gangster who dreams of hosting a cooking show titled Thug Sizzle. A disgruntled officer who instigates a major feud over a Post-it note. A doomed ex-stripper who asks Steinberg to orchestrate a reunion with her estranged son, himself an inmate. Over time, Steinberg is drawn into the accidental community of outcasts that has formed among his bookshelves — a drama he recounts with heartbreak and humor. But when the struggles of the prison library — between life and death, love and loyalty — become personal, Steinberg is forced to take sides.

Running the Books is a trenchant exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world while trying not to get fired in the process. 

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ID: 157665

Title: Begin Again, Believe Again: Embracing the Courage to Love with Abandon

Author: Sharon A. Hersh

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:16:07

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-10

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Our hearts as women were made by God for relationships. Why is it, then, that the thing we most deeply desirerelationshipsbecomes the source of so much pain? Difficult marriages, the loneliness of being single, problem children, abusive employers, fractured friendships...life's realities are often very different from the dreams we dreamed for ourselves as girls. How do we live with this beautiful ache for relationships in a world that doesn't always work?When we've been betrayed, how do we trust again? When we've been disappointed, how do we hope again? When we've been terribly hurt, how do we love again?In this honest, intimate, and transformative book, counselor Sharon Hersh helps you gain a new, truly biblical perspective on relationships that can help you endure the heartaches and still come up living wholeheartedly, loving with abandon, and daring to hope and believe. The stories of the women in this book, including that of the author, are signposts that point you beyond the sometimes devastating problems of life to the deep, rich reason and root of all relationships, both good and bad: God's desire for relationship with you.In Sharon's words, Relationships are not the destinationthey are the path to something more.

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ID: 155464

Title: Man's Heart

Author: Lori Copeland

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:07:22

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-10

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

Jules broke off her wedding to Cruz practically at the altar. Not just once, but twice. Now the man Jules loves best can't stand the sight of her.Only for Pop could Jules have made such a sacrifice. And now Pop is gone, leaving Jules with his struggling Washington State potato farm; with a sister excluded from his will; and with a heart wounded by the sacrifice she has made on behalf of her father.It looks like strengthening her relationship with her sister and improving the prospects of the Blue Bayou farm will be Jules' chief concerns. But when cancer takes the life of her best friend, Jules finds herself caring for her friend's two small children as well as the Blue Bayou.A drought-stricken farm. A promise to a dead friend and two needy little lives. And disturbing memories stirring up a growing relationship with her sister. How can one woman handle it all?The answer lies with a God who holds the keys to yesterday, today, and tomorrowand to the heart of the one man whom Jules could ever love.

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ID: 154322

Title: Undaunted Spirit

Author: Jane Peart

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:35:18

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-10

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Western, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

Free-spirited journalist Independence McClaren follows her heart to a Colorado silver-town -- and a test of her fierce commitment to the truth. Mindy's birth name is Independence McClaren -- a fitting match for her tenacity and determination. Leaving behind a secure but colorless future in the east, the fiery young woman heads west to Coarse Gold, Colorado, and the opportunity to carve her mark in a man's world. As reporter for the Roaring River Gazette, Mindy not only will ferret out the news but will become the voice of conscience in this rough-and-tumble mining town, its reminder of the biblical principles of truth, virtue, and mercy. Little does she dream how her most prized possession as a journalist -- her passion for the truth -- will be put to the test. To follow her heart or to retain her integrity? Mindy will have to choose.

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ID: 83520

Title: American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

Author: H. W. Brands

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, History, North America

Summary:

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.

The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century saw the wholesale transformation of America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant. Driven by unfathomably wealthy and powerful businessmen like J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, armies of workers, both male and female, were harnessed to a new vision of massive industry. A society rooted in the soil became one based in cities, and legions of immigrants were drawn to American shores. What’s more, in accomplishing its revolution, capitalism threatened to eclipse American democracy. “What do I care about the law?” bellowed Cornelius Vanderbilt. “Hain’t I got the power?” He did, and with it he and the other capitalists reshaped every aspect of American life. In American Colossus, H.W. Brands portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.

The capitalist revolution left not a single area or aspect of American life untouched. It roared across the South, wrenching that region from its feudal past and integrating the southern economy into the national one. It burst over the West, dictating the destruction of Native American economies and peoples, driving the exploitation of natural resources, and making the frontier of settlement a business frontier as well. It crashed across the urban landscape of the East and North, turning cities into engines of wealth and poverty, opulence and squalor. It swamped the politics of an earlier era, capturing one major party and half of the other, inspiring the creation of a third party and determining the issues over which all three waged some of the bitterest battles in American history.

Brands’s spellbinding narrative beautifully depicts the oil gushers of western Pennsylvania, the rise, in Chicago, of the first skyscraper, the exploration of the Colorado River, the cattle drives of the West, and the early passionate sparks of union life. By 1900 the America he portrays is wealthier than ever, yet prosperity is precarious, inequality rampant, and democracy stretched thin. American Colossus is an unforgettable portrait of the years when the contest between capitalism and democracy was at its sharpest, and capitalism triumphed.

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ID: 83648

Title: Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family

Author: Condoleezza Rice

Narrator: Condoleezza Rice

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.

Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman--and the first black woman ever--to serve as Secretary of State.

 

But until she was 25 she never learned to swim, because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access.

 

Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. But by 1963, Birmingham had become an environment where blacks were expected to keep their head down and do what they were told--or face violent consequences. That spring two bombs exploded in Rice’s neighborhood amid a series of chilling Klu Klux Klan attacks.  Months later, four young girls lost their lives in a particularly vicious bombing.

 

So how was Rice able to achieve what she ultimately did?

 

Her father, John, a minister and educator, instilled a love of sports and politics. Her mother, a teacher, developed Condoleezza’s passion for piano and exposed her to the fine arts. From both, Rice learned the value of faith in the face of hardship and the importance of giving back to the community. Her parents’ fierce unwillingness to set limits propelled her to the venerable halls of Stanford University, where she quickly rose through the ranks to become the university’s second-in-command. An expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs, she played a leading role in U.S. policy as the Iron Curtain fell and the Soviet Union disintegrated. Less than a decade later, at the apex of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election, she received the exciting news--just shortly before her father’s death--that she would go on to the White House as the first female National Security Advisor. 

 

As comfortable describing lighthearted family moments as she is recalling the poignancy of her mother’s cancer battle and the heady challenge of going toe-to-toe with Soviet leaders, Rice holds nothing back in this remarkably candid telling.

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ID: 83373

Title: How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay

Author: Julia Alvarez

Narrator: Michelle Gonzalez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:58:41

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-10

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Humor

Summary:

An endearing family story from the international bestselling author of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies

'This twist on a classic story demonstrates that difficult transitions can be eased by new connections. Or a possibly magical aunt.' —The New York Times Book Review

Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami. Like her stories for adults, Julia Alvarez’s first middle-grade book sparkles with magic as it illuminates a child’s experiences living in two cultures.

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ID: 83522

Title: Ghost in Trouble: A Mystery

Author: Carolyn Hart

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Paranormal

Summary:

When Bailey Ruth Raeburn passed over into the great beyond, she was delighted to discover her sleuthing days would last an eternity. Joining Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, she uses her unique advantages as a ghost—sometimes you see her, sometimes you don't—to help those in need and ensure the wicked get their just deserts.

However, on this latest mission, Bailey Ruth finds it more difficult than ever to keep up with her boss Wiggins's rules for good spirit deportment. Not only is the woman she is supposed to save determined to thwart Bailey Ruth's good intentions at every turn, she just so happens to be one of Bailey Ruth's oldest enemies. Not that that should matter to one of Heaven's best and brightest emissaries, but still, there is only so much a person can put up with—living or dead.

But solving Bailey Ruth's toughest case yet means managing a recalcitrant charge, a fraudulent medium, a mother's heartbreak, old passions and new, and a telltale rawhide dog bone. Heaven help her!

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ID: 83409

Title: Revolution

Author: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrator: Emily Janice Card, Emma Bering

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-10

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Historical, Tough Topics

Summary:

BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.

 

PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape.

 

Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.

 

Jennifer Donnelly, author of the award-winning novel A Northern Light, artfully weaves two girls’ stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love. Revolution spans centuries and vividly depicts the eternal struggles of the human heart.

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Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.: Lyrics from “I Wanna Be Sedated,” words and

music by Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, and Douglas Colvin, copyright

© 1978 by WB Music Corp. and Taco Tunes, Inc. All rights administered

by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission

of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.

Hal Leonard Corporation: Lyrics from “Asleep,” words and music by

Johnny Marr and Steven Morrissey, copyright © 1986 by Marr Songs Ltd.

and Bona Relations Ltd. All rights for Marr Songs Ltd. in the U.S. and

Canada controlled and administered by Universal-Polygram In ternational

Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved; Lyrics from “Tupelo (Tupelo Blues),”

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rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.

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David Michael Navarro, and Chad Gaylord Smith, copyright © 1995 by

Moebetoblame Music. Reprinted by permission of Moebetoblame Music.

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ID: 83374

Título: How Tia Lola Learned to Teach

Autor: Julia Alvarez

Narrador: Michelle Gonzalez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 03:21:20

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-12-10

Editor: Listening Library (Audio)

Categorías: Kids, Humor

Resumen:

Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. On the other hand, Miguel’s little sister, Juanita, can’t wait to introduce her colorfully dressed aunt to all her friends at school—that is, if she can stop getting distracted long enough. Before long, Tía Lola is organizing a Spanish treasure hunt and a Carnaval fiesta at school. Will Miguel be willing to join the fun? Will Juanita get her head out of the clouds and lead her classmates to victory in the treasure hunt?

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