Inc Books on Tape
83) Shades of Grey
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Chromatacia novels volume 1
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English
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The New York Times bestseller hailed as “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from the author of the Thursday Next series and Red Side Story.
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the...
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the...
84) Night probe!
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 6
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English
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Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.
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English
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"Murder on the Iditarod Trail is a gripping mystery set during Alaska's world-famous Iditarod, a grueling eleven-hundred-mile dogsled race across hazardous Arctic terrain. It is an arduous sport, but not a deadly one-until now. Suddenly the top Iditarod contestants are dying in bizarre ways: First a veteran musher smashes into a tree, then competitors begin turning up dead, with each murder more brutal than the last. State trooper Alex Jensen begins...
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Coming-of-age
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Oprah's Book Club - Adult
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Oprah's Book Club - Adult
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"Great Expectations is among the most masterful of Charles Dickens's novels. Displaying extraordinary tragicomic range, Dickens blends an atmosphere of brooding violence and guilt with sharp and often disturbing humor to create a drama charged with the thrilling intensity of a detective story and the poignancy of a spiritual autobiography. Much of the novel's power comes from Dickens's unequaled skill at making even the most wildly eccentric of characters...
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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
Father's Day SHPL
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
Road Trip Listens SHPL
Father's Day SHPL
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
Road Trip Listens SHPL
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A complex and profound book, The Tale of Two Cities explores the consequences of tyranny, fate and self-sacrifice. With much of the narrative played out in Paris, during the French Revolution Dickens examines the interplay between personal action, and the flow of history. Dr Manette, having travelled to Paris finds himself imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 brutal years, unable to see his kind and loving daughter Lucy. On his eventual return to London...
88) The countess
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English
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Andrea Jameson is young, rich, toothsome, and adores her Dandie Dinmont terrier, George. However, Andrea doesn't have a single dream of meeting Mr. Right, marrying, and living happliy ever after. Go figure. She strikes a bargain with an older widowed earl who promises her all the razzle-dazzle with the obey part. She's perfectly happy with the deal until she meets the earl's nephew and realizes fairly quickly that she might have made an exceptional...
90) No greater love
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Father Koesler mysteries volume 21
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English
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Father Robert Koesler investigates a murder in a Detroit seminary, the result of antagonism between liberal students and conservative teachers. A look at tensions in the Catholic Church, including those caused by women wanting to be priests.
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English
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A vivid portrait of life in England a thousand years ago. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, the authors interview top historians and archaeologists, and they examine the human and social ingredients that were to make for achievement and success in the next thousand years.
94) Wild tales
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Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock 'n' roll. A fascinating look back at an extraordinary life with all the highs and lows: the love, the sex, and the jealousy, the politics, the drugs, the insanity -- the sanity -- of a magical era of music.
95) Maeve's times
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"Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom-a timeless gift to her legion of fans" --
"Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives." She was an...
98) Walkin' the dog
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Socrates confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore in these powerful new stories which explores life outside the law in modern-day Los Angeles.
100) Not cool
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English
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Greg Gutfeld, host of Red Eye and cohost of The Five, lays out the battle plan for reclaiming the real American ideal of cool - building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for one's actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they darn well please. Gutfeld fights back against the culture of phonies, elitists, and creeps who want everyone's souls. It's not a book, it's a weapon, and one should be armed with...