206 bones
Reichs, Kathy.
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2009.
Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD REICHS

City of thieves
Benioff, David.
New York : Penguin Audio, p2008.
When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion charges. Instead of the standard bullet in the back of the head, Lev and Kolya are given a chance at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt to find the impossible.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD BENIOFF

The Colorado kid
King, Stephen, 1947-
New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, cp2005.
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD KING

Deception point
Brown, Dan, 1964-
New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2003.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD BROWN 06.365

The defector
Silva, Daniel, 1960-
[Grand Haven, Mich.] : Brilliance Audio, p2009.
Allon, now in the British capital, finds himself once more on the front lines of the secret war between East and West, where Russian spies and dissidents engage in the old game of cat and mouse. There, Allon uncovers a much greater conspiracy, a plot by an old enemy to resurrect a network of death, to bring the world to the precipice of a new confrontation. In order to stop it, he must risk everything.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD SILVA

Even money
Francis, Dick.
[New York, N.Y.] : Penguin Audio, p2009.
As bookie Ned Talbot counts his losses after a winning day for gamblers at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, a man comes to him, claiming to be his father. Ned, who's always been told that his parents died when he was a baby, has trouble accepting the man's claims. But when the man is stabbed in the abdomen in the racecourse's parking lot shortly thereafter, Ned rushes to his side. The man's last words force Ned into a race to uncover the truth about his father. However, this race may prove deadly.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD FRANCIS

Founding brothers the revolutionary generation
Ellis, Joseph J.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2001.
An analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD 973 ELLIS

The girl who played with fire
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004.
[S.l.] : Random House, Inc., p2009.
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD LARSSON

Guardian of lies
Martini, Steve, 1946-
[New York] : Harper Audio, p2009.
Paul Madriani gets caught in a web of deceit and murder involving Cold War secrets, a rare coin dealer who once worked for the CIA, and a furious assassin. As the separate strands of the story come together, Madriani will ultimately find the one person who holds the key to it all: a man some call "The Guardian of Lies."
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD MARTINI

Hallowe'en party
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
Auburn, CA : Chivers Audio Books, [2006].
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD CHRISTIE

The help a novel
Stockett, Kathryn.
[New York, N.Y.] : Penguin Audio, p2009.
In a time when the civil rights movement is in full force, three women, Minny, Aibileen, and Skeeter, start a movement that puts them all at risk. They show the town that, whether black or white, women can unite.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD STOCKETT

The hollow a Hercule Poirot mystery
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
North Kingstown, R.I. : BBC Audiobooks America, p2009.
Jealousy's green eye invades a weekend getaway at the Angkatells' elegant estate, The Hollow. When Hercule Poirot arrives, it looks as if Gerda Christow has just killed her husband--but is it really that simple? The cad's former and current lovers are both nearby--and the guests are all hiding something in this case of love, deceit, mystery, and death.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD CHRISTIE

The killing ground
Higgins, Jack, 1929-
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2007.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD HIGGINS

The last fish tale the fate of the Atlantic and survival in Gloucester, America's oldest fishing port and most original town
Kurlansky, Mark.
{Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, p2008.
Provides a close-up look at the history of Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, how fishing and the culture of fishing have defined the coastal region, and how the disappearance of this way of life has transformed Gloucester.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD 639.2 KURLANSKY

The lost symbol
Brown, Dan, 1964-
New York : Random House ; Westminster, Md. : [Distributed by] Books on Tape, p2009.
Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD BROWN

The lost symbol [a novel]
Brown, Dan, 1964-
[New York] : Random House Audio, cp2009.
He saved the Catholic Church from a fundamentalist radical in Angels & Demons and exposed the world's greatest cover-up in The Da Vinci Code. Now, symbologist and Harvard professor Robert Langdon returns to uncover another mystery. Called to Washington D.C., Langdon must investigate the centuries-old secrets of the Freemasons. However, with treachery around every corner, will Langdon's eidetic memory and insurmountable knowledge of history be able to guide him through another adventure?
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD BROWN

The magicians a novel
Grossman, Lev.
New York : Penguin Audio, p2009.
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD GROSSMAN

The national parks [America's best idea]
Duncan, Dayton.
New York : Random House Audio, p2009.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD 333.783 DUNCAN

A plague of secrets
Lescroart, John T.
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2009.
When the owner of a trendy coffee bean supplier is found shot, the beautiful socialite niece of San Francisco's mayor is put on trial. Did she know that the shop, which on paper belongs to her, was also the supplier of marijuana to San Francisco's wealthy and powerful? Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and P.I. Wyatt Hunt find themselves on different sides of this trial in another crisp and page-turning thriller from New York Times best selling author Lescroart.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD LESCROART

Rain gods a novel
Burke, James Lee, 1936-
[New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2009.
Eager to escape his problematic past, Hackberry Holland acquires the sheriff's position in a rundown Texas border town. When authorities discover nine dead prostitutes buried in the desert, Hack must work with both Texas and Mexico, as well as face down hired gunmen, crooked strip club owners, and dubious drug lords, to solve the case.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD BURKE

Rules of vengeance
Reich, Christopher, 1961-
New York : Random House Audio, p2009.
Months after foiling an attack on a commercial jetliner, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under an assumed name in a remote corner of Africa, while his newly revealed spy wife, Emma, desperate to escape the wrath of Division, the secret American intelligence agency she betrayed, has vanished into the netherworld of international espionage. Both look forward to sharing a stolen weekend in London--until an ambush on a convoy of limousines turns their romantic rendezvous into a terrorist bloodbath. In the confusion, Emma disappears--BOT website.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD REICH

South of Broad
Conroy, Pat.
New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio, p2009.
Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD CONROY

Spartan gold
Cussler, Clive.
[New York] : Penguin Audio, p2009.
Sam and Remi Fargo, legendary treasure-hunting brothers, embark on another adventure when Hadeon Bondaruk, a millionaire who is said to be a direct descendant of Persian king Xerxes the Great, claims to know the location of Delphi's treasury, including two gold pillars. Though skeptical, Sam and Remi delve into thousands of years' worth of history, from Spartan Greece to Napoleonic Europe.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD CUSSLER

That old cape magic a novel
Russo, Richard, 1949-
New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio, p2009.
Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is still very much alive, and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But by the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD RUSSO

The universe in a nutshell
Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.).
New York : Random House Audio, p2001.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD 530.12 HAWKING

When you are engulfed in flames
Sedaris, David.
New York, NY : Hachette Audio, p2008.
From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, Sedaris' sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.
Hopkinton Adult - BOOK.CD 814.54 SEDARIS

The black circle
Carman, Patrick.
New York, NY : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2009.
In the first 39 Clues book, Amy and Dan Cahill discovered that they're part of one of the most powerful families in human history. Passing up the hush money, the siblings set out to uncover the 39 clues which would reveal the source of their family's awesome power. In each subsequent book, the siblings attempt to discover one clue at a time. Here, in the fifth book, Amy and Dan find themselves on their most dangerous adventure yet as they investigate Lucian secrets and elude Irina Spasky.
Hopkinton Juvenile - J BK.CD CARMAN

Charlotte's web
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
New York : Listening Library : Random House, [2002], c1970.
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Hopkinton Juvenile - J BK.CD WHITE

A good night for ghosts
Osborne, Mary Pope.
New York : Listening Library, p2009.
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Hopkinton Juvenile - J BK.CD OSBORNE

Haunted kids true ghost stories
Zullo, Allan.
Grand Haven, Mich. : Brilliance Audio, p2008.
Eleven tales, based in part on reported cases, of children's encounters with the supernatural.
Hopkinton Juvenile - J BK.CD ZULLO

Holes
Sachar, Louis, 1954-
[New York, NY] : Random House, p1999.
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a sense of himself.
Hopkinton Juvenile - J BK.CD SACHAR

Superfudge
Blume, Judy.
New York : Random House/Listening Library, p2005.
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.
Hopkinton Juvenile - J BK.CD BLUME

Along for the ride
Dessen, Sarah.
New York : Penguin Audio, p2009.
Eager to escape her sleepless nights and demanding mother, Auden travels to a quaint beach town to spend her summer break with her newly remarried father. Once there, Auden acquires a job at a local clothes boutique and befriends a group of girls. When she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, Auden finds a companion for her restless evenings. As their friendship blossoms, Auden looks to experience a classic teenager's summer, while Eli looks to get over the guilt he feels regarding a friend's death.
Hopkinton Young Adult - YA BK.CD DESSEN

The boxer and the spy
Parker, Robert B., 1932-
New York : Random House/Listening Library, p2009.
Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the unexpected death of a classmate.
Hopkinton Young Adult - YA BK.CD PARKER

Catching fire
Collins, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic Audiobooks, p2009.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Hopkinton Young Adult - YA BK.CD COLLINS

The hunger games
Collins, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic, [2008].
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Hopkinton Young Adult - YA BK.CD COLLINS

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