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Last night at the Lobster [playaway]
Stewart O'Nan.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, the Red Lobster hasn't been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift. With only four shopping days left until Christmas, Manny must convince his near-mutinous staff to hunker down and serve the final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics, and holiday office parties. All the while, he's wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with, his pregnant girlfriend at home, and where to find the present that will make everything better.
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A life decoded [playaway] : my genome, my life
J. Craig Venter.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
The story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he announced that he would successfully sequence the human genome years sooner, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would--a prediction he kept in 2001. --From publisher book description.
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Life of Pi [playaway] : a novel
Yann Martel.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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The lion, the witch and the wardrobe [playaway]
C.S. Lewis.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Macbeth [playaway]
William Shakespeare.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Presents a full cast performance of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the story of a man who kills the King of Scotland in order to claim the throne for himself.
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Les misérables [playaway]
Victor Hugo.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Story of Jean-Valjean, a convict struggling to escape his past, that became a gospel for the poor and oppressed.
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My revolutions [playaway]
Hari Kunzru.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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The Odyssey [playaway]
Homer.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
"In his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, Odysseus must pass through the land of the Cyclopes, encounter Circe the Enchantress, and face the Charybdis and the six headed serpent Scylla."
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Oliver Twist [playaway]
by Charles Dickens.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
A social commentary in the form of the story of poor orphan Oliver Twist, who experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal world with his companions: a pickpocket, a thief, a prostitute, and a fence.
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Open house [playaway] : a novel
Elizabeth Berg.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Pride and prejudice [playaway]
Jane Austen.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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The purpose-driven life [playaway]
Rick Warren.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
"This book will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you--both here and now, and for eternity."--Container.
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