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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Twelve million years ago, rhinos, elephants, and camels roamed North America. They would gather at nearby watering holes -- eating, drinking, and trying not to become someone else's lunch. But one day, in the region we now know as Nebraska, everything changed. The explosion of a supervolcano a thousand miles away sent a blanket of ash that buried these animals for millennia -- until 1953, when a seventeen-year-old farm worker made an unbelievable...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes listeners to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
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Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
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When summer comes around, it's off to the beach for Rosalind ... and off to Maine with Aunt Claire for the rest of the Penderwick girls, as well as their old friend, Jeffrey. That leaves Skye as OAP (oldest available Penderwick)--a terrifying notion for all, but for Skye especially.
55565) Stories for kids who dare to be different: true tales of amazing people who stood up and stood out
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Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Boys will be boys and girls will be girls? Not in this book. The follow-up to Ben Brooks's New York Times bestselling Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, this book offers more extraordinary true stories of amazing people who broke the mold and changed the world for the better. The resulting message? Be yourself, and your dreams might come true. Brooks offers an accessible compilation of 76 famous and not-so-famous influencers from the past...
55567) The long weekend: a novel
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A group of women travel to remote England for a weekend escape, only to discover a startling note that says one of their husbands will be killed before they return home.
Author
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Presents a narrative documenting the transformation in George Washington's attitudes towards slavery, culminating in his determination to emancipate his slaves. Though raised as slaveowner, he began to see the evils of the system and grew to understand that the problem of the "peculiar institution" would become central to the American experience.
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the program, an annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that support the county food pantry. Determined to save the fundraiser, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson offers to hold the event at Elm Creek Manor, her ancestral family estate and summertime home to Elm Creek Quilt Camp. In the spirit of the season, Sylvia and the Elm Creek Quilters begin setting up market booths...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have.
55571) Merci Su?arez changes gears
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sixth-grader Merci Su?arez doesn't have a big house or take fancy vacations like the other kids at Seaward Pines Academy. She's a scholarship student who lives with her extended family in three little houses they call Las Casitas. But everything feels different this year -- and not just at school, where queen bee Edna Santos has set her sights on Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Michael Clark. At home, Merci's beloved grandfather, Lolo, has...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Belle has dreamt of adventures like the ones she reads in her books, of traveling the world outside her small town. When Belle's father is captured, she takes his place as a prisoner of a fearsome Beast. But life in the enchanted castle isn't as terrible as Belle imagines, and she ultimately finds friendship and love. Enjoy this tale as old as time about adventure and love, about looking past first appearances, and about the inner Beauty and Beast...
55573) Dear Sweer Pea
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Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Patricia 'Sweet Pea' DiMarco wasn't sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the idea to live in nearly identical houses on the same street. In the one house between them lives their eccentric neighbor Miss Flora Mae, the famed local advice columnist behind 'Miss Flora Mae I?' Dividing her time between two homes is not easy. And it doesn't help that at school, Sweet...
55574) Just once: a love story
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis harbors a secret: she is dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank. When America enters the war, will either brother make it home alive? Or will Irvel lose everything?
55575) Escaping from Houdini
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they're delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly. But then, privileged young women begin...
55579) Clive Cussler condor's fury
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 20
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken, the men say, by baffling lights that circled the ship....
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