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ID: 225766

Title: All My Puny Sorrows

Author: Miriam Toews

Narrator: Erin Moon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a 'wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel' (Entertainment Weekly).

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a

Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart while facing a profound question: what do you do for a loved one who truly wants to die?

All My Puny Sorrows is a deeply personal story that is as much comedy as it is tragedy, a goodbye grin from the friend who taught you how to live.

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ID: 225768

Title: City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Author: Donald L. Miller

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects -- which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics. The saga of Chicago's unresolved struggle between order and freedom, growth and control, capitalism and community, remains instructive for our time, as we seek ways to build and maintain cities that retain their humanity without losing their energy. City of the Century throbs with the pulse of the great city it brilliantly brings to life.

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ID: 283483

Title: Leap Day

Author: Wendy Mass

Narrator: Johanna Parker, Julia Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:49:49

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Award-winning author Wendy Mass delivers Leap Day, chosen by the Junior Library Guild as a 2004 selection. Today is a big day for Josie Taylor-she has play auditions and a driver's test. But even more importantly, she is celebrating her sweet sixteen and her fourth birthday-she was born on Leap Day. Told from Josie's perspective and the perspective of her friends and family, this entertaining tale will ring true for every teenage listener.

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ID: 251574

Title: Forever an Ex

Author: Victoria Christopher Murray

Narrator: Suzzanne Douglas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:19:27

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Three Los Angeles women who've helped each other overcome heartbreak are reunited eight years later when their troublesome exes come back into the picture in this follow up to Victoria Christopher Murray's bestselling novel The Ex Files. Sheridan, Kendall, and Asia first bonded when they met at a church prayer group and helped each other overcome romantic heartbreak. Now eight years later, their exes are back, wreaking havoc on the lives they've worked so hard to rebuild. Sheridan has found love again after her ex-husband left her for a man, but her old wounds are reopened when her daughter tells her she's gay and Sheridan blames her ex. Kendall is forced to reunite with her former husband, who left her for her own sister, when her father wass diagnosed with cancer. And Asia must reevaluate her life when her L.A. Laker ex-boyfriend reminds her that her lavish lifestyle will end when their son turns eighteen next year. With her trademark writing that 'has the kind of momentum that prompts you to elbow disbelief aside and flip the pages in horrified enjoyment' (The Washington Post), Forever an Ex is Murray's best novel yet.

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ID: 223442

Title: Blood of the Fifth Knight

Author: E.M. Powell

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:31:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction

Summary:

England, 1176. King Henry II has imprisoned his rebellious Queen for attempting to overthrow him. But with her conspirators still at large and a failed assassination attempt on his beautiful mistress, Rosamund Clifford, the King must take action to preserve his reign.

Desperate, Henry turns to the only man he trusts: a man whose skills have saved him once before. Sir Benedict Palmer answers the call, mistakenly believing that his family will remain safe while he attends to his King.

As Palmer races to secure the throne for the King, neither man senses the hand of a brilliant schemer, a mystery figure loyal to Henry’s traitorous Queen who will stop at nothing to see the King defeated.

The Blood of the Fifth Knight is an intricate medieval murder mystery and a worthy sequel to E.M. Powell’s acclaimed historical thriller The Fifth Knight.

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ID: 226454

Title: Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England

Author: Catherine Bailey

Narrator: Gareth Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-14

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World

Summary:

Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England's aristocrats. With the novelistic flair and knack for historical detail that Catherine Bailey displayed in her New York Times bestseller The Secret Rooms, Black Diamonds provides a compelling chronicle of the Fitzwilliam coal-mining dynasty and their breathtaking Wentworth estate, the largest private home in England.

When the sixth Earl Fitzwilliam died in 1902, he left behind the second largest estate in twentieth-century England, valued at more than three billion dollars in today's money-a lifeline to the tens of thousands of people who worked either in the family's coal mines or on their expansive estate. The earl also left behind four sons, and the family line seemed assured. But was it? As Bailey retraces the Fitzwilliam family history, she uncovers a legacy riddled with bitter feuds, scandals, and civil unrest, as the conflict between the coal industry and its miners came to a head.

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ID: 226453

Title: Come Home to Me

Author: Brenda Novak

Narrator: Carly Robins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-14

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

By the time Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behavior that resulted from her difficult childhood. Now she's back in the small town that was the closest thing to 'home' she ever knew-the town where she can be with the sister who is her only family.

There's just one catch: Aaron Amos still lives in Whiskey Creek-at least until he moves to Reno to open a branch of the Amos brothers' auto body shop. And no matter how hard she's tried, Presley hasn't been able to get over him. Seeing him again makes the longing so much worse. But she hopes she can get through the next few months because she can't fall back into his arms . . . or his bed. She's come too far to backslide now. And there's a secret she's been guarding-a secret she'll do anything to protect.

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ID: 226449

Title: How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower

Author: Adrian Goldsworthy

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:31:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-14

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained.

This was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers. It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the greater good of the state.

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ID: 256518

Title: Mojave

Author: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:34:58

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western

Summary:

'Boggs is among the best western writers at work today.' --Booklist 'Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West.' --The Shootist 'Til Death Do Us Part Stranded in the Mojave Desert, Micah Bishop is about to cash in his chips for good when he's rescued by an unlikely savior. Whip Watson is hand-delivering two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, where miners are going loco for companionship. Better still, Watson asks Micah if he'd help escort the wagons--and far be it for Micah to pass up both cash and some very pretty faces. But Micah doesn't know that Whip Watson has some killer competition. Candy Crutchfield is racing to get to Calico first with her own maids-in-waiting. Neither Watson or Crutchfield are going to back down. Both are willing to kill to beat the competition. Now, Micah is going to find out just how far he'll go for a buck. Because these 'wives' aren't what they seem. And they're all about to be delivered straight into a living hell. . . 'Johnny Boggs has produced another instant page-turner...don't put down the book until you finish it.'--Tony Hillerman on Killstraight 'Johnny D. Boggs tells a crisply powerful story that rings true more than two centuries after the bloody business was done.'--The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier on The Despoilers Raves For The Westerns Of Johnny D. Boggs 'Another dramatic story by a finalist for the Spur award of Western Writers of America.' --Amarillo Globe-News (on Once They Wore the Gray) 'An entertaining western in the classic mold. The characters possess enough human frailty to be believable, the author includes interesting stuff on the weaponry of the times, and there is enough gunplay to satisfy genre purists.' --Booklist on Ten and Me 'Boggs has once more written a humdinger of a book with wonderful characters, even the villains. The Despoilers tears at one's heart, which is what really good fiction should do.' --Roundup on The Despoilers 'Boggs' unique approach to the Lincoln County War's legal skirmishing is both eye-opening and memorable.' --True West on Law of the Land 'A finely crafted historical novel with fully developed characters playing out their lives against the backdrop of early Texas settlement.' --American Cowboy on Spark on the Prairie 'Boggs delivers a colorful, clever and arresting tale.' --Santa Fe New Mexican on Camp Ford

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ID: 226157

Title: Ashes and Ice

Author: Tracie Peterson

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-23-14

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own. Continuing their journey north to the goldfields seems their only option, and Adrik Ivanov agrees to be their guide. With the constant threat of winter hastening their pace, Adrik wonders at the wisdom of their decision. But he longs to prove his commitment and growing love for Karen, who has pushed aside his advances in the past.

Inspired by the beautiful and rugged landscape, Karen thrives under the difficult conditions of their trek. As her heart begins to journey back to the core of her once-solid faith, will she dare to embrace the love offered to her?

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