Milford - New Audiobooks

La audacia de la esperanza [reflexiones sobre cómo restaurar el sueño americano]
Obama, Barack.
Doral, Fla. : FonoLibro, p2008, c2006.
Barack Obama maintains the vision that people must move beyond differences if they wish to solve their nation's problems. Here, he calls for a new kind of politics, void of bitter partisanship.
Milford Adult - S 92 OBAMA (CD)

Nights in Rodanthe
Sparks, Nicholas.
New York, NY : Hachette Audio, p2008.
At 45, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's idyllic getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives.
Milford Adult - NEW! F SPARKS (CD)

Spanish (Latin American) the complete course I, beginners/part A
New York, NY : Simon and Schuster Audio [producer] ; Prince Frederick, MD Recorded Books [distributor, 2001].
Milford Adult - LANGUAGES SPANISH PIM

The thirteenth tale [a novel]
Setterfield, Diane.
New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2006.
A compelling emotional mystery about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling. A dying writer bids a young bookshop assistant to write her biography.
Milford Adult - F SETTERFIELD (CD)

Blink [the power of thinking without thinking]
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
New York, NY : Time Warner AudioBooks, p2005.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! 153.44 GLA c.2 (CD)

Breaking the rules a novel
Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933- LOCATION = Milford Audio-Visual.
New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, p2009.
After a near-fatal brush with a deadly killer in England, a young woman named M embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Initially settling in the U.S., she married a famous actor and becomes one of the world's foremost fashion models. However, her celebrity status soon makes her family the target of her dark past.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F BRADFORD (CD)

The Christmas list a novel
Evans, Richard Paul.
New York : Simon and Schuster Audio, p2009.
Beloved author Richard Paul Evans once again gets listeners in the holiday spirit with another Christmas-themed novel.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F EVANS (CD)

A crack in the edge of the world
Winchester, Simon.
New York : Harper Audio, p2005.
A Crack in the Edge of the World is the definitive account of the San Francisco earthquake and a fascinating exploration of a legendary event that changed the way we look at the planet on which we live.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! 979.4 WIN

Dark watch [a novel of the Oregon files]
Cussler, Clive.
New York, NY : Penguin Audio, p2005.
Cabrillo and his crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a comfortable but dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. Their newest clients are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F CUSSLER (CD)

Day after night a novel
Diamant, Anita.
[S.l.] : Recorded Books : Simon & Schuster Inc., p2009.
Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F DIAMANT (CD)

Dead as a doornail a Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire mystery
Harris, Charlaine.
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Because her mind-reading ability tends to spook people, most of Sookie's friends are of the not-exactly-human variety. And now that her brother is about to transform into a were-panther for the first time, the supernatural world is suddenly a family affair. When Sookie realizes a deadly sniper is gunning down the local changelings, her feelings turn to full-blown terror. She needs to stop the assassin before the next full moon--if he doesn't get to her first.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F HARRIS (CD)

Double take An FBI thriller
Coulter, Catherine.
Grand Haven, Mich. : Brilliance Audio, p2007.
Milford Audio-Visual - F COULTER (CD)

Ford County stories
Grisham, John.
[S.l.] : Random House Audio, p2009.
John Grisham presents a riveting collection of short stories based in Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his best selling debut novel, A Time to Kill.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F GRISHAM (CD)

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.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! 973.4092 ELL (CD)

From dead to worse
Harris, Charlaine.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2008.
After Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit in New Orleans, Sookie Stackhouse faces danger, death, and being betrayed by someone she loves.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F HARRIS c.2 (CD)

The godfather returns
Winegardner, Mark, 1961-
New York : Random House Audio, p2004.
Beginning in 1955, when Puzo's novel ends, Mark Winegardner fills the gaps in the saga of the Corleone family.
Milford Audio-Visual - F WINEGARDNER (CD)

Going rogue an American life
Palin, Sarah, 1964-
[New York] : Harperaudio, 2009.
Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! 92 PALIN (CD)

Half broke horses a true-life novel
Walls, Jeannette.
[S.l.] : Simon and Schuster Audio, p2009.
Jeannette Walls unfolds the story of Lily Casey Smith. Born tough, Lily shoed her first horse at age six, moved to the western frontier at age fifteen, and soon learned to drive a car and fly an airplane. Always filled with adventure, Lily's life held witness to several disasters, heartbreaks, and wars.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F WALLS (CD)

Her fearful symmetry
Niffenegger, Audrey.
New York, NY : Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio, p2009.
When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, their mother's twin sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers -- with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another. The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery in London. They come to know the building's other residents. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Marjike, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in their neighbors' fraying lives, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including -- perhaps -- their deceased aunt, who can't seem to leave life behind.-- From publisher description.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F NIFFENEGGER (CD)

Hollywood moon a novel
Wambaugh, Joseph.
[S.l.] : Hachette Audio, p2009.
Dana Vaughn, the LAPD's toughest cop, and her partner, former Hollywood actor Nate Weiss, are called to investigate a serial rapist. Meanwhile, fellow officers Flotsam and Jetsam are tracking a pair of suspicious bikers. However, when their cases cross paths and reveal something much more sinister, the foursome embarks on a career-changing case.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F WAMBAUGH (CD)

Last night in Twisted River a novel
Irving, John, 1942-
New York, N.Y. : Random House Audio, p2009.
In 1954 New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old accidentally insults the local constable's girlfriend. Consequently, the boy and his father are forced to flee and essentially become fugitives from the law. Forced to hide throughout the northeastern United States before finally escaping to Toronto, the outcasts befriend a fiercely protective logger who shelters them from their pursuers.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F IRVING (CD)

The last of the Mohicans
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
Grand Haven : Brilliance Audio, p1993.
The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiance, and by the treacherous Indian Magua, who secretly serves the French.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F COOPER (CD)

Lord of the flies
Golding, William, 1911-1993.
New York : Listening Library, p2002.
Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F GOLDING (CD)

The lost art of gratitude
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
[Prince Frederick, Md.] : Recorded Books, p2009.
When the ever ethical Isabel Dalhousie bumps into Minty Auchterlonie for the first time in years, she is skeptical (again) of Minty's integrity. But Minty mentions the bank where she works is having internal troubles, and Isabel must determine, once and for all, if Minty can be trusted.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F MCCALL SMITH (CD)

The march [a novel]
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
New York : Random House Audio, p2005.
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F DOCTOROW (CD)

Nine dragons
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
[New York, N.Y.] : Hachette Audio, p2009.
Coveted mystery writer Michael Connolly presents the fifteenth installment of his Harry Bosch series. Investigating the murder his friend John Li, a Chinese store owner, Detective Harry Bosch links Los Angeles' latest crime wave to a syndicate working out of Hong Kong. As Bosch gets closer to the case, his daughter is kidnapped by the syndicate, leading Bosch on a one-man mission of personal vengeance.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F CONNELLY (CD)

Rainwater a novel
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
[New York] : Simon and Schuster Audio, p2009.
In the midst of the Great Depression, Ella Barron strenuously works to keep her Texas boardinghouse up and running. Between cooking, cleaning, and caring for her misbehaving child, Ella struggles to get by. However, the enigmatic David Rainwater shows up out-of-the-blue, looking for room and board, Ella happily takes him in. But when Conrad Ellis and his gang of hoods threaten violence, Ella and Rainwater are put to the test.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F BROWN (CD)

Skeleton coast [a novel of the Oregon files]
Cussler, Clive.
New York : Penguin Audio, p2006.
While returning from a mission on the Congo River Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. They save Sloane MacIntyre, who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F CUSSLER (CD)

Stones into schools promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Mortenson, Greg.
New York, NY : Penguin Audio, p2009.
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where "Three Cups of Tea" left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! 370.958 MOR (CD)

Sundays at Tiffany's
Patterson, James, 1947-
New York : Hachette Audio, p2008.
As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend -- a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael -- but only she can see him.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F PATTERSON (CD)

Trial by fire [a novel of suspense]
Jance, Judith A.
New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2009.
Taking a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department, former television journalist Ali Reynolds investigates a subdivision fire and the identity of an injured amnesiac woman, a case that unleashes a family drama and a remorseless killer.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F JANCE (CD)

U is for undertow
Grafton, Sue.
[New York, N.Y.] : Random House Audio, p2009.
After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four -year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F GRAFTON (CD)

U is for undertow
Grafton, Sue.
[New York, N.Y.] : Random House Audio, p2009.
After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four -year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! F GRAFTON c.2 (CD)

What the dog saw
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
New York : Hachette Audio, p2009.
Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.
Milford Audio-Visual - NEW! 814.6 GLA (CD)

Updated Fri Jan 22 14:17:06 2010