Random House Audio Publishing
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Los Angeles police detective Moses Reed teams up with his half-brother Aaron Fox, a high-end private detective, in an attempt to locate missing college student Caitlin Frostig, in a case that leads to several surprising discoveries and goes a long way toward soothing the often troubled relationship between the brothers.
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2015
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English
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"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton...
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton...
244) The golden compass
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English
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Accompanied by her daemon (her spirit-familiar), Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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English
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages , [8] pages of plates : illustrations (no color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. As Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set along the frozen shores...
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Series
Magic tree house graphic novels volume 1
Publisher
Listening Library/Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[p2007]
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (2 hr., 45 min.) : digital, Dolby processed ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four tales of brother and sister, Jack and Annie, and their adventures with the Magic Tree House.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot...
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play Ultimate Frisbee, and use the word "namaste" without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation's most vocal public proponents. Here's what he's fixated on now: Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and...