Bats at the library
Lies, Brian.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2009.
Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.
South Hadley Juv Kit - J KIT LIES
The bean trees
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, Inc., p1994.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK KINGSOLVER
Cemetery dance
Preston, Douglas J.
Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2009.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK PRESTON
De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento
Alvarez, Julia.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2008.
This is the story of four sisters and their family, as they become Americanized after fleeing the Dominican Republic in the 1960s. A family of privilege in the police state they leave, the Garcías experience understandable readjustment problems in the United States, particularly their old-world patriarch father. "Abandonando la tensión política de la República Dominicana de los explosivos años sesenta, las cuatro hermanas García acompañadas de sus padres se autoexilian en el Bronx Neoyorquino, arribando a un ambiente totalmente desconocido y en extremo liberal para sus conservadores padres"--Container.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK ALVAREZ
En el tiempo de las mariposas
Alvarez, Julia.
Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2004.
En el 25 de noviembre de 1960, tres hermanas son encontradas asesinadas después de visitar a sus maridos, los líderes rebeldes, como sospechados y encarcelados. Las hermanas llegaron a ser mártires, conocido como "Las Mariposas." Ellos tuvieron a una cuarta hermana que vive, y Alvarez dice el cuento de las hermanas, encuadrado por la hermana sobreviviente. On November 25, 1960, three sisters are found assassinated after visiting their husbands, jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The sisters became martyrs, known as "Las Mariposas." They had a fourth sister who lives, and Alvarez tells the story of the sisters, framed by the surviving sister.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK ALVAREZ
Mercy
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2006.
Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder--a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his oath to uphold justice and his family obligations as chief of the Scottish McDonald clan. Meanwhile, another new arrival in town, Mia Townsend, threatens to unwittingly drive a dagger through Cam's marriage.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK PICOULT
Midnight's children
Rushdie, Salman.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2009.
In India, one thousand and one children are born in the hour following the midnight commemorating the country's independence from British rule. And of those children, none is more entwined with the destiny of that land than Saleem Sinai, he of dubious birth and a nose of astounding proportion. Discovering a psychic connection with midnight's other thousand, Saleem recounts a life both reflecting and recreating the modern history of his oft-troubled homeland.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK RUSHDIE
Montana 1948
Watson, Larry, 1947-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p1997.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK WATSON
Shanghai girls [a novel]
See, Lisa.
Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2009.
In the mid 1930's two well-educated sisters from Shanghai go to Los Angeles to become brides of the "Gold Mountain men" when their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. When the get there they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months. When one of the sisters becomes pregnant they vow that no one will ever know.
South Hadley Sound Rec - CD BOOK SEE
The summoning
Armstrong, Kelley.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2009.
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
South Hadley Sound Rec - YA CD BOOK ARMSTRONG
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