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Long lost [sound recording]
Harlan Coben.
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7 sound discs (ca. 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Contacted by a woman with whom he had an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret.
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N or M? [sound recording]
Agatha Christie.
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5 sound discs (6 hr., 18 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Spring 1940: As World War II heats up in England, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are enlisted in the cause, independently taking on assumed identities to uncover Nazi informers who imperil the security of their homeland. They set an elaborate trap to expose the traitors in their midst.
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Nixonland [sound recording] : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein.
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30 sound discs (37 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
An account of the thirth-seventh presidency sets Nixon's administration against a backdrop of the tumultuous civil rights movement while offering insight into how key events in the 1960s set the stage for today's political divides.
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Our story begins [sound recording] : new and selected stories
by Tobias Wolff.
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11 sound discs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display Wolff's mastery over a quarter century.
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The reader [sound recording]
Bernhard Schlink ; [translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway].
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4 sound discs (4 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
A German teenager has an affair with an emotionally remote older woman and only years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, does he discover that she was involved in the Holocaust. She refuses to defend herself when she is accused of a hideous crime. The young law student gradually realizes that the woman may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
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The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008 [sound recording]
Paul Krugman.
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6 sound discs (6 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Paul Krugman reveals the striking similarities between the 2008 economic crisis and the Great Depression. Filled with Krugman's cynic wit, listeners will be shocked as they discover the gaffs and blunders that caused the most recent economic blues.
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A room with a view [sound recording]
by E.M. Forster.
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6 sound discs (7.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
A well-reared Edwardian girl is lead into impropriety, confusion and passion on her first trip to Florence.
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Sag Harbor [sound recording]
Colson Whitehead.
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9 compact discs (11 hrs. 30 min.) : digital, 4 3/4 in.
The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria, his social doom is sealed for the next four years. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. And although he's just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates the rest of the year, he thinks that maybe this summer things will be different.
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Shannon [sound recording] : a novel
Frank Delaney.
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12 sound discs (14.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1922, a shell-shocked American Marine chaplain is sent to Ireland to recover his spirit after the Great War.
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The story of human language [sound recording]
John H. McWhorter.
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18 sound discs (60 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + part 1 guidebook (ii, 66 p. ; 22 cm.) + part 2 guidebook (ii, 70 p. ; 22 cm.) + part 3 guidebook (ii, 66 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language is fascinating. It defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. Professor McWhorter explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? In short, everything about a language is eternally and inherently changeable, from its word order and grammar to the very sound and meaning of basic words, while word histories reveal the phenomena of language change and mixture worldwide.
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The used world [sound recording] : a novel
Haven Kimmel.
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11 sound discs (13 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
The Used World Emporium is the sprawling antique store where Hazel, Claudia, and Rebekah pass their days surrounded by dusty furniture, cast-off clothes, and ancient housewares. But with the unexpected arrival of two babies--and the unfolding of not one but three love stories, each spanning generations--their formerly used world becomes new again.
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Vanished smile [sound recording] : the mysterious theft of Mona Lisa
R.A. Scotti.
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
On August 21 in 1911, the da Vinci's Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in Paris. The prime suspects? Cubist poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his good friend Pablo Picasso, an avant-garde artist. R. A. Scotti presents a thrilling and well-detailed account of the mysterious theft and its aftermath.
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