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The National Library iv Books for Adults All books listed in this issue of Talking Adult Fiction Book Topics (TBT) have been distributed to cooperating libraries, though TBT does not Adventure include every book that has been produced Ireland & Carter, Books 1–2 by NLS. The complete collection, con- DB100725 17 hours 12 minutes taining a wide range of fiction and nonfic- by Joel Goldman and Lisa Klink tion books, including biographies, classics, read by Maggy Stacy westerns, mysteries, and romances, can be Two novels, published in 2015 and 2018, found by visiting www.loc.gov/nls. featuring Cassie Ireland, a thief who Registered users may also download all catches thieves, and Jake Carter, a gambler titles and magazines from the NLS Braille who knows the odds and thrives on high- and Audio Reading Download (BARD) stakes risk. Includes All In and All Gone, service at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. The free in which the pair race against time to BARD Mobile app is available from the recover stolen copies of the Magna Carta. App Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s Strong language and some violence. 2018. Appstore for reading talking books on your Ashes, Books 13–15 personal smart phone or tablet. To learn DB100384 32 hours 13 minutes more about the collection or to sign up by William W. Johnstone for BARD, contact your local cooperating read by Joe Wilson library. Regional library telephone numbers Books thirteen to fifteen of the series, and email addresses are listed on the last published in 1991 and 1992. In Fury in pages of this magazine. the Ashes, Ben Raines and his army head Books within the headings Adult Fiction to California. Also includes Courage in and Adult Nonfiction are listed alphabeti- the Ashes and Terror in the Ashes. Sequel cally by subject category, author last name, to Ashes, Books 10–12 (DB100250). and title. For example the title War and Violence, strong language, and explicit Peace by Leo Tolstoy would be listed in descriptions of sex. 1992. Adult Fiction under the Classics subject Seven Deadly Wonders category and by the last name Tolstoy. DB100918 12 hours 53 minutes Note: A notice may appear immediately by Matthew Reilly following the book description to indicate read by William Dufris occurrences of violence, strong language, The Golden Capstone atop the Great or descriptions of sex. The word “some” Pyramid protected against the global before any of these terms indicates an occa- flooding and scorching sun that occurs sional or infrequent occurrence, as in “some every 4,500 years due to the Tartarus strong language.” Commercial audiobooks Rotation solar event. But Alexander for which NLS does not have access to the the Great broke the Capstone into print book may display the notice “unrated,” seven pieces and hid them in the Seven which means that the book may or may Wonders of the Ancient World. Now— not contain violence, strong language, or in 2006—the Rotation is due again. descriptions of sex. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2005.

1 Adult Fiction Adventure, Family The Six Sacred Stones Jack Kinsella observes the lives of his DB100756 15 hours 17 minutes politically connected Irish-American by Matthew Reilly family. His Uncle Jimmy is a man to read by Alec Volz be feared, and his cousin Charles races If Jack and his team of adventurers can from one elected position to another. But find and rebuild a legendary ancient family ambitions cause tensions and tur- device known only as the “Machine,” moil. Some violence. 1966. they might be able to ward off the The Lost Girls of Devon coming armageddon. The only clues DB100749 11 hours 33 minutes are held within the fabled and long-lost by Barbara O’Neal Six Sacred Stones. Violence and strong read by Jill Fox language. 2007. Zoe Fairchild returns home to the Devon village where she was born with her Family fifteen-year-old daughter.There, she The Lying Life of Adults reunites with her beloved grandmother DB100469 10 hours 24 minutes and estranged mother. They are all drawn by Elena Ferrante into the mystery of women in the village read by Marisa Tomei going missing. Strong language, some vio- Giovanna’s father tells her she is getting lence, and some descriptions of sex. 2020. uglier and looking more like her Aunt When We Believed in Mermaids Vittoria every day. Giovanna barely DB100739 12 hours 52 minutes knows this aunt hated by her parents and by Barbara O’Neal goes to Naples in search of the truths read by Elizabeth Rose her family keeps hidden. Translated Kit Bianci is watching a news report of a from the 2019 Italian edition. Unrated. fire in Auckland when she spots a woman Commercial audiobook. 2020. who looks exactly like her sister—who Betty died fifteen years ago. Kit travels to New DB100826 17 hours 39 minutes Zealand and discovers truths that unravel by Tiffany McDaniel her world. Strong language, some vio- read by Dale Dickey lence, and some descriptions of sex. 2019. Betty, born the sixth of eight chil- Accidental dren of a Cherokee father and a white DB100199 10 hours 19 minutes mother, grows up in the Ohio hills of by Alex Richards the Appalachians. She faces hardships read by Laura Knight Keating from outside the family and within. To Sixteen-year-old Jo must decide whether to find freedom, she digs deep into her trust her estranged father or the grandpar- family’s past to write of them. Unrated. ents who raised her but hid the truth about Commercial audiobook. 2020. the way her mother died when Jo was only All in the Family two. Strong language and descriptions of DB97594 15 hours 56 minutes sex. Commercial audiobook. For senior by Edwin O’Connor high and older readers. 2020. read by David Hartley-Margolin 2 Adult Fiction—Fantasy Fantasy Harry has faced terrible odds before. But The Trouble with Peace a being powerful beyond what the world DB100843 22 hours 0 minutes has seen in a millennium is coming. by Joe Abercrombie And she’s bringing an army. The Last read by Steven Pacey Titan has declared war on the city of Savine dan Glokta, once Adua’s most Chicago, obliterating any who stand in powerful investor, finds her judge- her way. Violence and strong language. ment, fortune and reputation in tatters. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Meanwhile, for heroes like Leo dan Winterfall: A Novel of the Demon Brock and Stour Nightfall who are only Accords happy with swords drawn, peace is an DB100851 10 hours 13 minutes ordeal to end as soon as possible. Sequel by John Conroe to A Little Hatred (DB96746). Unrated. read by James Patrick Cronin Commercial audiobook. 2020. With a growing, insidious threat to Earth, Emerald Blaze: A Hidden Legacy Novel Chris and Tanya race to save lives while DB100536 12 hours 43 minutes Declan, Stacia, and friends work just as by Ilona Andrews hard to save their own lives on the alien read by Emily Rankin world of Fairie, far removed from the As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor comforts and safety of home. Unrated. and her sisters have extraordinary powers Commercial audiobook. 2017. that their ruthless grandmother would love The Left-Handed Booksellers of London to control. When House Baylor is under DB100928 11 hours 18 minutes attack and monsters haunt her every step, by Garth Nix Catalina is forced to rely on Alessandro read by Marisa Calin Sagredo, the Prime who crushed her heart. In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. eighteen-year-old Susan’s quest to find Innkeeper Chronicles, Books 1–4 her father leads her to an extended DB97391 35 hours 28 minutes family of magical beings who police by Ilona Andrews the mythical Old World of England read by Emily Ellet when it intrudes on the modern world. Four novels blending fantasy and science Strong language and some violence. fiction, published 2013-2019. InClean Commercial audiobook. For senior high Sweep, Dina Demille runs a magical and older readers. 2020. inn that caters to intergalactic visitors. A Deadly Education Also includes Sweep in Peace, One DB100898 11 hours 1 minutes Fell Sweep, and Sweep of the Blade. by Naomi Novik Violence, some strong language, and read by Anisha Dadia some explicit descriptions of sex. 2019. Galadriel is a dark sorceress in training Battle Ground: A Novel of the Dresden Files at the Scholomance, a school for the DB100842 15 hours 46 minutes magically gifted. An outcast among the by Jim Butcher students, El must survive the dangerous read by James Marsters institution, face hordes of monsters and 3 Adult Fiction Fantasy, General cursed artifacts, and deal with the insuf- American Dirt ferably heroic Orion Lake. Unrated. DB98146 16 hours 57 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Jeanine Cummins The Rise of Magicks read by Yareli Arizmendi DB97567 14 hours 14 minutes Lydia Quixano Pérez runs a bookstore by Nora Roberts in Acapulco. When her journalist hus- read by Erin Jones band writes an exposé about Javier, the After a plague destroyed civilization, head of the newest drug cartel in the city, Fallon worked to train her magick. She her life changes forever. Lydia and her has rescued countless shifters, elves, eight-year-old son flee for their lives, and humans, and now must help them hoping to make it to the United States. heal while facing off against the Purity Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Warriors. Sequel to Of Blood and Bone The Midnight Library (DB93358). Violence, strong language, DB100906 8 hours 53 minutes and some explicit descriptions of sex. by Matt Haig Bestseller. 2019. read by Carey Mulligan After she attempts suicide, Nora wakes General up in a mysterious library. The shelves Homeland Elegies are full of books, each the story of DB100802 10 hours 22 minutes another reality. One tells the story of by Ayad Akhtar your life as it is, along with other books read by Ayad Akhtar for the other lives you could have lived. An autobiographical novel of a young Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Pakistani American before and after Just Like You 9/11. Akhtar grew up in the Midwest, DB100899 8 hours 8 minutes the son of immigrants. While his mother by Nick Hornby is homesick for Pakistan, his father is read by various narrators fiercely proud to be American, until he Lucy is a nearly divorced, becomes disillusioned with his adopted forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with country. Unrated. Commercial audio- two school-aged sons. When she meets book. 2020. Joseph, she isn’t exactly looking for Anxious People love—she’s more in the market for a DB100531 9 hours 56 minutes babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living by Fredrik Backman at home with his mother, and working read by Marin Ireland several jobs. The pair connect, despite Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life- their different backgrounds. Unrated. or-death situation, but an apartment open Commercial audiobook. 2020. house in a Swedish town becomes just Their Eyes Were Watching God that when a failed bank robber bursts in DB100477 6 hours 47 minutes and takes an eclectic group of strangers by Zora Neale Hurston hostage. Strong language and some vio- read by Ruby Dee lence. Commercial audiobook. 2020. 4 Adult Fiction—General This classic novel tells the story of Janie, more stunned to learn that she wasn’t a Black woman who had three mar- meant to die for another fifty years. One riages: to middle-aged Logan Killicks, terrible, embarrassing clerical error is a prosperous farmer; to Joe Starks, a behind it, and an administrator named go-getter who makes Janie Mrs. Mayor Death is to blame. Unrated. Commercial Starks of Eatonville, Florida; and to audiobook. 2020. Tea Cake Woods, who teaches Janie, at Monogamy forty, the reality of love and happiness. DB100599 10 hours 56 minutes Commercial audiobook. 1937. by Sue Miller On the Corner of Hope and Main: A read by Sue Miller Blessings Novel Graham and Annie have been married DB100422 9 hours 5 minutes for nearly thirty years.When Graham by Beverly Jenkins suddenly dies, Annie is lost. What is the read by Lynnette R. Freeman point of going on, she wonders, without Trent July has been the mayor of Henry him? Then, while she is still mourning Adams, Kansas, for the past four years, him intensely, she discovers that Graham but now he’s ready to let someone else had been unfaithful to her. Unrated. take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a Commercial audiobook. 2020. former Marine, decides he wants the Sweet Sorrow job—but then a surprise candidate also DB100370 12 hours 10 minutes enters the ring. Unrated. Commercial by David Nicholls audiobook. 2020. read by Stephen Van Doren Sisters On the verge of marriage, thirty-eight DB100416 4 hours 37 minutes year old Charlie Lewis can’t go to the by Daisy Johnson altar without coming to terms with his read by various narrators relationship with Fran, the girl he fell in Born just ten months apart, July and love with the summer of his sixteenth September never needed anyone but year. Strong language and some descrip- each other. Now, following a case of tions of sex. 2019. school bullying, the teens have moved This Won’t End Well away with their single mother to a DB100274 7 hours 58 minutes long-abandoned family home near the by Camille Pagán shore. There, the bond between the sis- read by Lindsey Pierce ters starts to shift. Unrated. Commercial When Annie’s boss sabotages her chem- audiobook. 2020. istry career and her fiancé leaves her to Daisy Cooper’s Rules for Living gallivant around Paris, she decides she is DB100807 10 hours 40 minutes done with people. But then Annie meets by Tamsin Kelly her new neighbor Harper and the private read by Laura Kirman detective who is apparently following Surprised to find herself in an Afterlife Harper, and can’t help but get involved. processing center, Daisy Cooper is even Some strong language. 2020.

5 Adult Fiction General, Historical Fiction The Book of Two Ways England, 997. In the time of the DB100856 15 hours 51 minutes Anglo-Saxon kings, Vikings rule the by Jodi Picoult seas. A Norman noblewoman follows her read by Patti Murin new husband across the sea to her new Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when they home. A boat builder moves his family are told to prepare for a crash landing. to safety, but doesn’t fit in. And a monk She braces herself as thoughts flash dreams of a center of learning. Unrated. through her mind. The shocking thing is, Commercial audiobook. 2020. the thoughts are not of her current life. The Forgotten Home Child After Dawn miraculously survives the DB100588 10 hours 35 minutes crash, her two possible futures unspool by Genevieve Graham side by side. Unrated. Commercial read by various narrators audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. Nearing the end of her life, Lake Life ninety-seven-year-old Winnifred Ellis is DB100479 9 hours 39 minutes asked by her great-grandson Jamie about by David James Poissant his family heritage. Winnifred reflects read by Jacques Roy back on her life. At fifteen, she was sent Richard and Lisa Starling have decided to Canada from a Liverpool girls’ home to sell their summer home and retire to and found herself treated as an inden- Florida. With their grown children, they tured servant rather than as a beloved decide to spend one last weekend at the daughter. Unrated. Commercial audio- lake. The family witnesses a tragedy book. 2020. that triggers a series of dramatic reve- The King’s Curse lations among the Starlings. Unrated. DB100467 24 hours 15 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Philippa Gregory read by Bianca Amato Historical Fiction England, 1499. The former Margaret of Eli’s Promise York has been married off to Sir Richard DB100661 11 hours 49 minutes Pole and grieves her brother—executed by Ronald H. Balson by the crown for being a Plantagenet read by Fred Berman heir. After being widowed, Margaret wit- 1945. Allied soldiers have liberated the nesses the rise of King Henry VIII and Buchenwald concentration camp aban- his marriage to Katherine of Aragon as doned by the SS. One of the prisoners, Eli, a lady-in-waiting. Unrated. Commercial is reunited with his son Izaak, who has audiobook. 2014. been kept in the children’s block. Eli sets The Book of Lost Names out to discover what happened to his wife. DB100408 10 hours 52 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Kristin Harmel The Evening and the Morning read by Madeleine Maby DB100586 24 hours 21 minutes Sixty years after Germany surrendered by Ken Follett World War II, librarian Eva Traube read by John Lee 6 Adult Fiction—Historical Fiction Abrams spots a book she hasn’t seen Once in Australia, they meet Mathinna— since the war in a news article. In the orphaned daughter of the Lowreenne book, she recorded the names of the tribe’s chief. Unrated. Commercial Jewish children she helped forge new audiobook. 2020. identities for during the war. Unrated. Fifty Words for Rain Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100587 13 hours 16 minutes From Sand and Ash by Asha Lemmie DB97390 12 hours 7 minutes read by various narrators by Amy Harmon Kyoto, 1948. Eight-year-old Nori—the read by Emily Pike Stewart daughter of a married Japanese aristocrat Italy. Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco and her African-American GI lover—is have loved each other since they were abandoned at her grandparents’ estate. children. But Angelo becomes a priest, When she meets her older half-brother and as World War II looms, Eva and Akira, she finds in him an unexpected other Italian Jews are in danger. Angelo ally, and must battle for her place in struggles with his calling even as he tries the world as she grows up. Unrated. to protect Eva. Violence and explicit Commercial audiobook. 2020. descriptions of sex. 2016. Jack The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen DB100592 10 hours 28 minutes Elizabeth II’s Childhood by Marilynne Robinson DB100836 16 hours 2 minutes read by Adam Verner by Wendy Holden John Ames Boughton—Jack to his read by Katharine Lee McEwan friends—is the prodigal son of Gilead’s 1932. Marian Crawford is training to be Presbyterian minister. He has fallen a teacher when she is called to serve as for Della Miles, a high school teacher governess to the daughters of the Duke and fellow preacher’s kid. Jack’s past and Duchess of York, the princesses and their interracial romance cause Elizabeth and Margaret. Her one stipula- them heartache and more. Unrated. tion is to introduce the princesses to the Commercial audiobook. 2020. everyday lives of their future subjects. Royal Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100481 7 hours 38 minutes The Exiles by Danielle Steel DB100662 10 hours 21 minutes read by Nick Afka Thomas by Christina Baker Kline Sent into hiding during World War II, read by Caroline Lee headstrong seventeen-year-old Princess 1840. Naïve governess Evangeline has Charlotte assumes an alias and enjoys the become pregnant by her employer’s son. freedoms of a normal life in Yorkshire First sent to Newgate prison on a false before her ill-fated romance with her charge, she is condemned to transpor- guardians’ son leads to the orphaning tation to Van Diemen’s Island. On the of a royal infant. Unrated. Commercial voyage, she befriends streetwise Hazel. audiobook. Bestseller. 2020.

7 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction, Holidays, Human Relationships The Orphan Collector All This Could Be Yours DB100470 15 hours 54 minutes DB97561 8 hours 4 minutes by Ellen Marie Wiseman by Jami Attenberg read by Rachel Botchan read by Erin Jones Philadelphia, 1918. Thirteen-year-old Now that her father is on his deathbed, German immigrant Pia Lange is uneasy Alex feels she can finally unearth the in the crowd celebrating the end of secrets of Victor’s life and career. She World War I. Tragedy strikes the city as travels to New Orleans to be with her the Spanish Flu spreads, and Pia must family, but mostly to interrogate her tight- provide for her baby twin brothers. But lipped mother, Barbra. Strong language another covets them and compounds and some descriptions of sex. 2019. family tragedy. Unrated. Commercial 500 Miles from You audiobook. 2020. DB100603 11 hours 5 minutes by Jenny Colgan Holidays read by Eilidh Beaton When Christmas Comes: Thomas Lissa is a nurse in London who has Kinkade’s Cape Light been suffering quietly with PTSD after DB97387 11 hours 40 minutes helping to save the victim of a shocking by Katherine Spencer crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges read by Jennifer Hubbard for Lissa to spend a few months trading Liza Merritt returns home to Angel jobs with Cormack, a nurse in the Island and is excited to see her dear little town of Kirrinfief in the Scottish friend Claire North. But Liza is troubled Highlands. Unrated. Commercial audio- by the state of the inn. Meanwhile, in book. 2020. Cape Light village, Emily Warwick and Transcendent Kingdom her sister Jessica Morgan plan a sur- DB100528 8 hours 43 minutes prise party for Ezra Elliot’s ninety-fifth by Yaa Gyasi birthday. 2019. read by Bahni Turpin Human Relationships Sixth-year PhD candidate Gifty searches Butterfly for the answers to addiction in the mice DB98149 8 hours 8 minutes she works with, hoping to understand by Ashley Antoinette what tore her family apart. Even as she read by Nicole Small leans on science to understand, she longs Morgan Atkins, born deaf and unoffi- for the evangelical faith she was raised cially adopted into a family, feels as if in. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. she has never belonged. A single mother Bestseller. 2020. of twins, she has built a comfortable The Sweetness of Forgetting life with a man who is not their father. DB97384 13 hours 4 minutes But when a ghost from her past comes by Kristin Harmel to town, she begins an affair. Unrated. read by Jill Fox Commercial audiobook. 2019. Recently divorced Hope runs her fam- ily’s struggling bakery on Cape Cod 8 Adult Fiction—Human Relationships, Legal Themes while raising her daughter. Her French- The Return born grandmother is suffering from DB100846 9 hours 59 minutes Alzheimer’s, but in a rare moment by Nicholas Sparks of lucidity she asks Hope to track read by Kyf Brewer down seven people from her past in When he is sent home from Afghanistan France. 2012. with devastating injuries, Trevor Benson Troubles in Paradise finds the dilapidated cabin inherited from DB100979 11 hours 39 minutes his grandfather a good place to regroup. by Elin Hilderbrand He soon feels a connection with local read by Erin Bennett deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson. Some After uprooting her life in the States, descriptions of sex. Commercial audio- Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa book. Bestseller. 2020. on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit Legal Themes from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Ben Kincaid, Books 6–7 Irene once again learns just how little she DB97810 25 hours 23 minutes knew about the man she loved. Unrated. by William Bernhardt Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. read by Stephen Van Doren The Secrets of Love Story Bridge Two novels, published in 1997 and 1998, DB100810 8 hours 4 minutes feature Tulsa criminal defense attorney Ben by Phaedra Patrick Kincaid. In Naked Justice, Kincaid defends read by Matthew Lloyd Davies the city’s first Black mayor and former Mitchell Fisher hates all things romance. college football hero when he’s suspected He relishes his job cutting off the pad- of murdering his wife and two daughters. locks that couples fasten to the famous Also includes Extreme Justice. Some vio- “love story” bridge. Then one hot day, lence and some strong language. 1998. everything changes when Mitchell cou- Mike Daley/Rosie Fernandez, Books 5–7 rageously rescues a woman who falls DB100371 26 hours 4 minutes from the bridge into the river. Unrated. by Sheldon Siegel Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Stephen Van Doren The Book of Second Chances Three novels, published 2004–2009, fea- DB100597 10 hours 50 minutes turing San Francisco criminal attorneys by Katherine Slee Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. Includes read by Imogen Church The Confession, Judgment Day, and Emily can’t remember the last time Perfect Alibi, in which Mike’s and Rosie’s she spoke to anyone besides her grand- sixteen-year-old daughter is the alibi for her mother, beloved children’s author boyfriend when he is suspected of killing Catriona Robinson. After Catriona’s his judge father. Strong language. 2009. death, Emily gets an unexpected letter Special Circumstances from her grandmother, revealing that DB100610 14 hours 27 minutes she might have left behind a final book. by Sheldon Siegel Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Frank Muller 9 Adult Fiction Legal Themes, LGBT Themes, Mystery and Detective Fired by Simpson & Gates, one of San Lieutenant Kazimierz are brought to an Francisco’s most prestigious law firms, English hospital—Kaz for a heart condi- lawyer Mike Daley quietly opens his own tion, and Billy for emotional exhaustion practice on the wrong side of town. He and his recent methamphetamine abuse— takes on his first client when police arrest but also to secretly investigate the murder his best friend, a partner at Simpson of a British agent recuperating there. & Gates, for a brutal double murder. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2000. Furmidable Foes DB100659 9 hours 17 minutes LGBT Themes by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown Late to the Party read by Kate Forbes DB100638 8 hours 36 minutes The women of St. Luke’s prepare for by Kelly Quindlen a homecoming celebration, planting read by Piper Goodeve flowers and trimming hedges. But the Codi and her two best friends, Maritza beautiful spring is marred when the and JaKory, spend more time in her base- brewery owned by Janice Childs and ment watching Netflix than engaging Mags Nielsen, two members of the with the outside world. So when her gardening committee, gets robbed. Then friends suggest crashing a party, Codi’s Jeannie Cordle drops dead at a charity life unexpectedly changes. Strong lan- auction, poisoned by a fatal weed. guage and some descriptions of sex. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Commercial audiobook. For senior high A Private Cathedral and older readers. 2020. DB100489 11 hours 32 minutes Mystery and Detective by James Lee Burke Poisoned Pages read by Will Patton DB100911 9 hours 12 minutes After finding himself caught up in one of by Lorna Barrett Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family read by Karen White rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner must battle the most terrifying adversary and amateur sleuth, throws a house- he has ever encountered: a time-traveling warming cocktail party in her new apart- superhuman assassin. Unrated. ment and has cooked all the food by Commercial audiobook. 2020. herself—quite a feat for someone who August Heat previously couldn’t boil water. Then DB100430 5 hours 45 minutes one of her guests is poisoned and dies. by Andrea Camilleri Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. read by Grover Gardner The Red Horse When Inspector Montalbano is forced to DB100909 11 hours 16 minutes stay in Vigàta during the August heat, his by James R. Benn long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, invites a read by Peter Berkrot friend—husband and young son in tow— Just after the Liberation of Paris, to keep her company. But when the boy US Army detective Billy Boyle and disappears into a narrow shaft hidden 10 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective under their beach rental, Montalbano by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Translated uncovers something terribly sinister. from the 1996 Italian edition. Unrated. Translated from the 2006 Italian edition. Commercial audiobook. 2005. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2009. Hounds of the Basket Stitch The Shape of Water DB100609 8 hours 57 minutes DB100790 4 hours 7 minutes by Anne Canadeo by Andrea Camilleri read by Alyssa Bresnahan read by Grover Gardner When Maggie Messina visits her two sis- Early one morning, Silvio Lupanello—a ters, the rest of the Black Sheep knitters big shot in the village of Vigàta—is tag along. Rose manages the houseful found dead in his car with his pants of rescue hounds while Holly runs the down. Since he was parked in a rough family nursery. Then Holly is attacked part of town frequented by prostitutes in her greenhouse and the building set and drug dealers, rumors begin to circu- ablaze, and Rose is found unconscious late. Enter Inspector Salvo Montalbano, nearby, her dogs running wild. Unrated. Vigàta’s most respected detective. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Translated from the 1994 Italian edition. After the Funeral Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2005. DB100863 6 hours 58 minutes The Snack Thief by Agatha Christie DB100792 6 hours 13 minutes read by Hugh Fraser by Andrea Camilleri After the funeral it is suspected that the read by Grover Gardner deceased was murdered. A collection of When an elderly man is stabbed to death appealing characters, young and old, pro- in an elevator and a crewman on an vide suspects until Poirot finally unmasks Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned the least likely. Unrated. Commercial by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily’s audiobook. 1953. coast, only Inspector Montalbano, with Death in the Clouds his keen insight into human nature, sus- DB100864 6 hours 21 minutes pects the link between the two incidents. by Agatha Christie Translated from the 1996 Italian edition. read by Hugh Fraser Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2003. Who would want to kill a little old The Terra-Cotta Dog lady like Madame Giselle? The answer DB100791 7 hours 30 minutes soon becomes clear as Hercule Poirot by Andrea Camilleri delves into the life of the slain victim read by Grover Gardner and discovers that she was a black- A mysterious tête-à-tête with a Mafioso, mailer, a money-lender, and a woman some inexplicably abandoned loot from a with a lurid past. Unrated. Commercial supermarket heist, and some dying words audiobook. 1935. lead Montalbano to an illegal arms cache The Hollow in a mountain cave. There the inspector DB100860 7 hours 14 minutes finds two young lovers, dead for fifty by Agatha Christie years and still embracing, watched over read by Hugh Fraser 11 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective Death is no laughing matter, especially The Darkest Evening: A Vera at a luncheon party in an English country Stanhope Novel house. When Poirot finds a handsome DB100853 11 hours 19 minutes young man lying on the edge of the by Ann Cleeves swimming pool with blood dripping into read by Janine Birkett the water, he thinks his hostess is staging Driving home on a snowy night, a ‘murder’ for his benefit. But he soon Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sees realizes the man is really dying. Unrated. a car has skidded off the road in front of Commercial audiobook. 1946. her, its door left open. There is no driver, Mrs. McGinty’s Dead but a toddler is left behind. Taking the DB100913 6 hours 10 minutes child, Vera arrives at a house where a by Agatha Christie woman lies dead in the snow. Unrated. read by Hugh Fraser Commercial audiobook. 2020. Mrs. McGinty, who lived alone in a small Candy Slain Murder cottage except for a lodger, is found DB100912 7 hours 50 minutes dead in her bedroom from a sharp blow by Maddie Day to the back of her head. James Bently, read by Laural Merlington the lodger, is accused, found guilty, and A man raises eyebrows at Pans ’N sentenced. Poirot decides to investigate. Pancakes when he claims to be the long- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1951. lost half-brother of Robbie’s assistant. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Then a fire destroys the home of a con- DB100861 5 hours 23 minutes troversial anesthesiologist, exposing by Agatha Christie skeletal remains in his attic. Helplessly read by Hugh Fraser intrigued, all Robbie wants for Christmas When his dentist is murdered, Detective is to stop her winter wonderland from Hercule Poirot vows to solve the case. becoming a real nightmare. Unrated. The alarming number of suspects Commercial audiobook. 2020. involved—all patients—include a pow- Swamp Santa erful millionaire, a madcap actress, a DB97569 7 hours 49 minutes repulsive secret agent, and a beautiful by Jana DeLeon young heiress. Unrated. Commercial read by Theresa Conkin audiobook. 1940. When someone kills Santa during Taken at the Flood Sinful’s Christmas gala, PI Fortune and DB100862 6 hours 20 minutes her cohorts are disappointed they have by Agatha Christie to let the police do all the investigating. read by Hugh Fraser But then two criminal clients hire them Because Hercule Poirot arrives too to find out who dared to kill in their terri- late to head off the fate of a rich and tory. Some strong language. 2019. beautiful young widow, he is left with The Murder of Twelve the task of solving a maddening and DB100617 8 hours 5 minutes macabre mystery. Unrated. Commercial by Jessica Fletcher audiobook. 1948. read by Laural Merlington 12 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective At the Hill House hotel while her home murder of a classmate. Strong language, is being rebuilt, Jessica Fletcher is some violence, and some explicit descrip- sharing the space with a contentious tions of sex. Commercial audiobook. For wedding party when an unexpected senior high and older readers. 2020. blizzard hits. But the hotel guests have Bone to Be Wild bigger things to worry about, because DB98124 10 hours 57 minutes a murderer has shown up, vowing to by Carolyn Haines take them down one by one. Unrated. read by Kate Forbes Commercial audiobook. 2020. Sarah Booth attends the Black and A Time for Murder: A Murder, Orange Halloween ball in New Orleans, She Wrote Mystery planning to dance the night away to the DB100726 8 hours 34 minutes swinging tunes of her old flame Scott by Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land Hampton’s blues band. But just as the read by Elizabeth Rose party gets going, Scott receives a myste- Flashback to young teacher Jessica rious message that threatens his and his having her first murder investigation bandmates’ lives. Unrated. Commercial when the principal dies. Present-day audiobook. 2015. Jessica returns to the high school for a Bones and Arrows colleague’s retirement, only to have him DB98130 1 hours 44 minutes die in a way that links him to the first by Carolyn Haines case. 2019. read by Kate Forbes Troubled Blood Collection of stories featuring PI Sarah DB100548 31 hours 54 minutes Booth Delaney. In the title entry, Sarah by Robert Galbraith Booth reluctantly agrees to stay at read by Robert Glenister Tinkie’s chic Mississippi Delta costume PI Cormoran Strike is visiting his family party. But after all the guests are robbed, in Cornwall when he is approached by Sarah and Tinkie must wade through a woman asking for help finding her a sea of Roman gods and goddesses mother, who went missing in mysterious to unmask a cunning culprit. Unrated. circumstances in 1974. Strike—who Commercial audiobook. 2019. has never tackled a cold case before, Charmed Bones let alone one that is forty years old—is DB98127 11 hours 22 minutes intrigued. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Carolyn Haines book. 2020. read by Kate Forbes They Wish They Were Us The arrival of three sister witches— DB100505 9 hours 49 minutes who intend to open a Wiccan boarding by Jessica Goodman school—sets Zinnia, Mississippi, on read by Kristen Sieh its ear. When young hooligan Corey At an exclusive prep school on Long Fontana goes missing, his mother Island, Jill eagerly anticipates her role in believes the witches have abducted the school’s most elite clique, the Players, him, and hires Sarah Booth to prove it. until new evidence surfaces about the Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. 13 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective The Devil’s Bones One bitterly cold night in Zinnia, DB100494 10 hours 45 minutes Mississippi, Sarah Booth awakens to by Carolyn Haines the insistent ring of her doorbell. She read by Kate Forbes finds a newborn baby in a basket sit- When the newly pregnant Tinkie invites ting on her front porch, a pool of blood Sarah Booth and Cece on a girls’ trip to slowly seeping out from the basket, and Lucedale, Mississippi, to celebrate that a vehicle screeching away. Unrated. spring has officially sprung, Sarah Booth Commercial audiobook. 2016. can’t resist. But Easter morning has just Sticks and Bones dawned when the trio finds themselves DB98126 11 hours 11 minutes with a dead body at their feet. Unrated. by Carolyn Haines Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Kate Forbes Game of Bones Best-selling author Frangelica “Sister” DB98129 11 hours 17 minutes McFee is back in town, because of her by Carolyn Haines latest book—a memoir about the deaths read by Kate Forbes of her mother and brother. A film crew, Dr. Frank Hafner, an archeologist intent on telling the complete story, hires working on excavating a newfound Sarah Booth to discover the absolute truth Native American temple site in the about those deaths so many years ago. Mississippi Delta, discovers the ritual- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017. istic murder of one of his crew. When 1222 Sheriff Coleman Peters—who is Sarah DB100491 10 hours 41 minutes Booth’s boyfriend—suspects Hafner in by Anne Holt the murder, the doctor hires Sarah Booth read by Kate Reading to clear his name. Unrated. Commercial A train traveling to northern Norway audiobook. 2019. derails during a massive blizzard, A Gift of Bones 1,222 meters above sea level. The DB98128 8 hours 11 minutes passengers think they are safe after by Carolyn Haines finding shelter from the storm at an old read by Kate Forbes hotel—until one of them turns up dead. Cece Dee Falcon shows Sarah Booth a Now paralyzed, retired police inspector box that was just delivered by courier. It Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to inves- contains a lock of hair, a photograph of a tigate. Translated from the 2007 very pregnant young woman, and a note Norwegian edition. Unrated. Commercial demanding ransom for the teen’s return. audiobook. 2010. The kidnapped teen is the daughter And Now She’s Gone of Cece’s estranged cousin. Unrated. DB100983 11 hours 33 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2018. by Rachel Howzell Hall Rock-a-Bye Bones read by Je Nie Fleming DB98125 10 hours 50 minutes Isabel Lincoln is gone. But is she by Carolyn Haines missing? Although Grayson Sykes is read by Kate Forbes reluctant to track down a woman who 14 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective may not want to be found, her search while trying to find her twin in London. becomes more complicated and dan- Violence, strong language, and descrip- gerous with every new revelation about tions of sex. 2019. Isabel’s secrets. Unrated. Commercial Robert B. Parker’s Fool’s Paradise audiobook. 2020. DB100549 7 hours 43 minutes Inspector Alvarez, Books 33–34 by Mike Lupica DB100742 11 hours 44 minutes read by James Naughton by Roderic Jeffries When a body is discovered at the lake in read by Gabriella Cavallero Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is sur- Two mysteries, published in 2009 and prised to find he recognizes the murder 2010, featuring Enrique Alvarez, a police victim—the man had been at the same AA inspector in Mallorca, Spain. Includes meeting as Jesse the evening before. He Sun, Sea, and Murder and A Question isn’t a local, nor does he have ID on him. of Motive, in which a rich Englishman Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. is found dead at the foot of a steep wall Robert B. Parker’s Grudge Match of rock in Mallorca. Was it accident, DB100550 6 hours 33 minutes suicide, or murder? Strong language, by Mike Lupica some violence, and some descriptions of read by Kate Burton sex. 2010. When Sunny’s long-time gangster asso- Next to Last Stand ciate Tony Marcus comes to her for DB100910 7 hours 58 minutes help, Sunny is surprised—after all, she by Craig Johnson double crossed him on a recent deal. read by George Guidall But Tony figures Sunny owes him, and One of the most viewed paintings in Sunny’s willing to clear the slate. Tony’s American history, Custer’s Last Fight, trusted girlfriend and business partner was destroyed in a fire, in 1946. Or was has vanished, and he doesn’t know why. it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. an apparent heart attack, Walt Longmire Black Betty is called in to try to make sense of a DB100547 8 hours 38 minutes partial painting and a shoebox con- by Walter Mosley taining one million dollars. Unrated. read by Michael Boatman Commercial audiobook. 2020. Broke and single again, private inves- The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 tigator Easy Rawlins is living with his DB97389 17 hours 54 minutes two kids in West L.A. when he is hired edited by Jonathan Lethem to find a woman he admired as a young read by Richard Davidson boy: the sensual Black Betty. When The twenty stories in this edition were his investigation turns up corpses but chosen from more than three thousand. no Betty, Easy wants to know why the Includes Harley Jane Kozak’s fast-paced wealthy Cain family is so anxious to find Sherlockian entry “The Walk-In,” in their ex-housekeeper. Violence, strong which an American woman is plunged language, and some descriptions of sex. into a British intelligence scenario Commercial audiobook. 1994. 15 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective Devil in a Blue Dress victim, who has a surprising double DB100546 5 hours 38 minutes life, and the police accuse Easy’s friend by Walter Mosley Mouse. Violence, strong language, read by Michael Boatman and descriptions of sex. Commercial Los Angeles, 1948. Easy Rawlins, a audiobook. 1992. Black war veteran is out of work and in The Thursday Murder Club need of enough money to pay his mort- DB100981 12 hours 26 minutes gage. He agrees to help a shady white by Richard Osman mobster find a mysterious white woman read by Lesley Manville dressed in blue. Finding the woman is In a peaceful retirement village, four easy—she frequents Black jazz clubs— unlikely friends meet weekly to discuss but the information Rawlins uncovers in unsolved crimes. When a local developer his search puts his life in jeopardy. Some is found dead with a mysterious photo- descriptions of sex. Commercial audio- graph left next to the body, the Thursday book. 1990. Murder Club suddenly find themselves A Red Death in the middle of their first live case. Then DB100544 7 hours 30 minutes the bodies begin to pile up. Unrated. by Walter Mosley Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Michael Boatman Claw Back: A Louis Kincaid Novella It’s the early 1950s in Watts, and Easy DB100262 3 hours 35 minutes Rawlins is a Black, part-time private by P.J. Parrish investigator. When the IRS discovers read by Stephen Van Doren that he secretly purchased apartment Louis is desperate to wear a badge again. buildings with undeclared income, But there’s one big obstacle in his way— Rawlins reluctantly accepts a deal with his old nemesis Sheriff Lance Mobley. the government—no prison in exchange He’s willing to give Louis a shot, but for some unsavory detective work only if he proves himself on one of the for the FBI. Strong language, explicit weirdest cases he has ever worked— descriptions of sex, and some violence. finding a missing endangered Florida Commercial audiobook. 1991. panther in the steamy Everglades. Strong White Butterfly language and some violence. 2013. DB100545 7 hours 4 minutes The Eighth Detective by Walter Mosley DB100488 11 hours 18 minutes read by Michael Boatman by Alex Pavesi Easy Rawlins has backed off from pri- read by Emilia Fox vate investigating since his marriage Thirty years ago, Grant McAllister, to Regina, who knows little of his real a professor of mathematics, worked life. But the L.A. police need Easy’s ties out all the rules for murder mysteries to the Black community when a serial and wrote seven perfect detective sto- killer attacks bar girls. Easy doesn’t ries to demonstrate. Now editor Julia comply until the killer chooses a white Hart wishes to republish the reclusive

16 Adult Fiction—Mystery and Detective author’s stories—but she discovers that see them about? Unrated. Commercial she has a mystery to solve first. Unrated. audiobook. 2020. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Shadows in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel All the Devils Are Here DB100852 12 hours 2 minutes DB100484 14 hours 1 minutes by J.D. Robb by Louise Penny read by Susan Ericksen read by Robert Bathurst While Eve examines a fresh body in On their first night in Paris, the Gamache Washington Square Park, her hus- family gathers for a bistro dinner with band, Roarke, spots a man among the Armand’s godfather, the billionaire onlookers he’s known since his younger Stephen Horowitz. Walking home days on the streets of Dublin. A man who together after the meal, they watch in claims to be his half-brother. A man who horror as Stephen is knocked down kills for a living—and who burns with and critically injured in what Gamache hatred for Roarke. Unrated. Commercial knows is a deliberate attempt on the audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. elderly man’s life. Unrated. Commercial Downward Dog Mystery, Books 1–6 audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. DB97429 55 hours 50 minutes Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries, Books 1–6 by Tracy Weber DB97812 23 hours 12 minutes read by MacKenzie Beyer by Samantha Price Six mysteries, published 2014–2019, read by various narrators featuring yoga instructor and amateur Six mysteries, published in 2015 and sleuth Kate Davidson and her sidekick, 2016, featuring Amish Ettie Smith. In German shepherd Bella. Includes Murder Secrets Come Home, a body is found Strikes a Pose, A Killer Retreat, Karma’s under the floorboards of the house a Killer, A Fatal Twist, Pre-Meditated Ettie’s late friend left her. Also includes Murder, and Murder Likes It Hot. Some Amish Murder, Murder in the Amish strong language. 2019. Bakery, Amish Murder Too Close, Amish Choppy Water Quilt Shop Mystery, and Amish Baby DB100390 7 hours 27 minutes Mystery. 2016. by Stuart Woods Of Mutts and Men read by Tony Roberts DB100986 8 hours 48 minutes Stone Barrington and his friends by Spencer Quinn are vacationing in Maine when their read by Jim Frangione leisure is suddenly disrupted by When Chet the dog and his partner, PI extreme weather. To make matters Bernie Little of the desert-based Little worse, the inclement conditions allow Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting for a menacing adversary to sneak in with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they unnoticed and deliver a chilling mes- are in for a shocking sight: Wendell sage targeting one of Stone’s closest has come to a violent and mysterious companions. Unrated. Commercial end. What did the hydrologist want to audiobook. 2020.

17 Adult Fiction Occult and Horror, Political Themes, Religious Themes Occult and Horror The Oracle Midnight Sun DB97395 11 hours 51 minutes DB100438 25 hours 51 minutes by Jonathan Cahn by Stephenie Meyer read by J.P. Linton read by various narrators A spiritual searcher meets an oracle A retelling of Twilight (DB62066) from who reveals a mystery working behind vampire Edward’s point of view as he the scenes of life on Earth to bring meets and develops feelings for new things to their appointed end. The student Bella. Their intense and compli- oracle calls them the Jubilean mys- cated relationship comes with unfore- teries, and the searcher spends time seen dangers. Some strong language and trying to understand their meaning. some descriptions of sex. Commercial Bestseller. 2019. audiobook. For senior high and older Plain and Simple Miracles, Books 1–3 readers. 2020. DB97419 31 hours 24 minutes by Vannetta Chapman Political Themes read by various narrators Deep State Three Amish romances set in Oklahoma, DB98139 8 hours 54 minutes published in 2015 and 2016. In Anna’s by Chris Hauty Healing, Anna suffers a spinal cord read by Marin Ireland injury when a tornado strikes her In the midst of a controversial presidency Amish community. One day she with a high level of partisan conflict, wakes up and finds she is healed. Also the White House chief of staff is found includes Joshua’s Mission and Sarah’s murdered. Investigation into his death Orphans. 2016. uncovers an extensive conspiracy The Midwives, Books 1–3 in which many fall under suspicion. DB97393 36 hours 3 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Laurie Alice Eakes Religious Themes read by Cecelia Riddett Three novels of inspirational histor- The Harbinger II ical romance, published 2011–2013, DB100768 9 hours 26 minutes about midwives in nineteenth-century by Jonathan Cahn Virginia. In Lady in the Mist, midwife read by Mark Ashby Tabitha Eckles meets a British nobleman Nouriel from The Harbinger (DB76704) working as an indentured servant. Also has another encounter with the Prophet includes Heart’s Safe Passage and and is tasked to reveal more of God’s Choices of the Heart. 2013. secrets to believers. The revelations The Lady and the Highwayman unlock one by one as Nouriel and Ana DB97816 9 hours 7 minutes journey across the world to uncover by Sarah M. Eden them. Bestseller. 2020. read by Gabriella Cavallero

18 Adult Fiction—Religious Themes, Romance London, 1865. Elizabeth Black works as Amish lifestyle. She is intrigued by a school headmistress by day, and writes this new way to practice her faith, but penny dreadful novels under a pseud- fears her family will shun her. Unrated. onym by night. Former street urchin Commercial audiobook. 2020. Fletcher Walker is a rival author deter- The Solid Grounds Coffee Company: mined to uncover the truth behind this A Supper Club Novel up-and-coming new talent. 2019. DB100478 11 hours 18 minutes The Devoted by Carla Laureano DB100604 9 hours 17 minutes read by Teri Schnaubelt by Suzanne Woods Fisher Analyn Sanchez quits her job at a read by Rachel Botchan high-powered PR firm when she is asked Restless and adventurous, Ruthie to cover up a client’s misdeeds. An Stoltzfus is right on the cusp of leaving accident leaves Bryan Shaw, a former her Amish home. Secretly, she’s earned professional rock climber, similarly at her GED, saved her money—but she loose ends. He decides to buy a coffee can’t quite set her journey into motion. farm and offers Ana a job. Unrated. Just as everything falls into place, along Commercial audiobook. 2020. comes Patrick Kelly, a man who wants The Bridge of Peace: An Ada’s to become Amish. Unrated. Commercial House Novel audiobook. 2016. DB100974 12 hours 20 minutes A Bride of Convenience: The Bride Ships, by Cindy Woodsmall Book Three read by Cassandra Campbell DB100902 10 hours 12 minutes Lena Kauffman, a young Old Order by Jody Hedlund Amish school teacher with a birthmark, read by Esther Wane has been friends with school board Zoe Hart emigrated to British Columbia member Grey Graber her whole life, but in 1863 to find a better life and reunite their relationship begins to crumble amid with her brother. She helps local pastor unsettling deceptions, propelling each Abe Merivale with an abandoned baby, of them to finally face their own secrets. but when she considers marrying a miner Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2010. of questionable character to give the baby a home, Abe steps in. Commercial Romance audiobook. 2020. Someone to Romance Peace in the Valley DB100420 11 hours 27 minutes DB100231 9 hours 25 minutes by Mary Balogh by Kelly Irvin read by Rosalyn Landor read by Lauren Berst Lady Jessica Archer, sister to a duke, has When a wildfire races through her many qualified gentlemen who court her. small Amish community in Montana, Meanwhile, Gabriel Thorne has returned Nora stays with a family in a nearby to England from the New World to claim community that embraces a less strict a mysterious inheritance. Jessica doesn’t

19 Adult Fiction Romance consider Gabriel a possible suitor until The Heir he unexpectedly announces his intention DB100276 13 hours 43 minutes to wed her. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Catherine Coulter book. 2020. read by Elizabeth Rose Take Over at Midnight: The Night Justin Deverill, the Earl of Strafford, Stalkers is forced to wed his distant—and DB100278 10 hours 44 minutes rebellious—cousin, Arabella, in order by M.L. Buchman to receive his inheritance. But the mar- read by Elizabeth Rose riage starts off on shaky ground when Joining an elite helicopter special forces Justin believes Arabella betrayed him team is a dream come true for Lola before the wedding. Some violence, LaRue, especially given the childhood some strong language, and some explicit she overcame. While she and the other descriptions of sex. 1980. Night Stalkers race to prevent terrorists The Roommate from unleashing bioweapons, Lola fights DB100801 10 hours 48 minutes her attraction to her teammate. Violence, by Rosie Danan strong language, and some explicit read by various narrators descriptions of sex. 2013. When Clara impulsively moves to Los All Scot and Bothered Angeles to live with her longtime crush, DB100978 11 hours 46 minutes she instead winds up sharing a house by Kerrigan Byrne with Josh, a complete stranger who hap- read by Derek Perkins pens to be a porn star. They strike up a Cecelia Teague was an orphan facing a friendship, and Clara offers to help Josh rather dire future—until a secret bene- with a project. Unrated. Commercial factor from her mother’s scandalous audiobook. 2020. past provides an elite education. Her Well Played life changes when she inherits a London DB100841 10 hours 2 minutes school for girls that doubles as a gam- by Jen DeLuca bling den at night. Unrated. Commercial read by Brittany Pressley audiobook. 2020. Stacey has had a recurring summer No Offense fling with Dex, a performer at the local DB100423 8 hours 29 minutes Renaissance Faire. She contacts him by Meg Cabot online, and they begin a correspondence read by Piper Goodeve that seems to reveal his hidden depths. Molly Montgomery heads to the Florida But when the Faire begins, she realizes Keys for a job as a children’s librarian she was talking not to Dex, but his cousin. after a failed engagement. She argues Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. with grumpy single dad and local sheriff A Rogue of One’s Own John Hartwell when a baby is abandoned DB100480 16 hours 5 minutes at the library. Unrated. Commercial by Evie Dunmore audiobook. 2020. read by Elizabeth Jasicki

20 Adult Fiction—Romance Suffragette Lady Lucie Tedbury has Grey, has hired the brilliant Miss Norley bought shares in a London publishing for her scientific expertise in solving house in order to use it to fight against a troubling family mystery. Unrated. the Married Women’s Property Act. She Commercial audiobook. 2020. encounters opposition from fellow share- Suddenly Single: A Lake Haven Novel, holder Lord Tristan Ballentine, Lucie’s Book 4 childhood nemesis and a notorious rake. DB100738 5 hours 44 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Julia London Where Wind Meets Wave: A Prairie read by Maggy Stacy Hearts Novel, Book 6 After Jenny Turner catches her boyfriend DB100728 6 hours 14 minutes cheating on her, she winds up at a quaint by Caroline Fyffe inn on the north shore of Lake Haven read by Elizabeth Rose that is closed. With no place else to go, Newport, Oregon; 1883. Learning his Jenny must convince the hot, kilted saloon-girl mother has known all along innkeeper to let her stay. Strong lan- who sired him, Jake takes his fate into guage and some explicit descriptions of his own hands and travels away from sex. 2018. the only family he’s ever known. Jake You Lucky Dog discovers not only a dying father, but DB100539 11 hours 18 minutes a surprise that will change his life— by Julia London forever. 2016. read by Courtney Patterson Christmas in a Cowboy’s Arms Carly Kennedy’s life is in a spiral, yet DB97368 15 hours 39 minutes somehow Carly’s sister convinces her by Leigh Greenwood and others to foster Baxter—a basset hound rescue read by Theresa Conkin with a bad case of the blues. When her This anthology of holiday romances dogwalker accidentally swaps Baxter includes six authors known for their with another dog, she meets Max Western settings. Leigh Greenwood’s Sheffington, owner of a cheerful basset story “Father Christmas” features a man named Hazel. Unrated. Commercial searching for gold stolen by his mining audiobook. 2020. partner who instead finds himself a A Fool’s Gold Wedding family. Some strong language and some DB100240 2 hours 50 minutes explicit descriptions of sex. 2017. by Susan Mallery Who Wants to Marry a Duke read by Tanya Eby DB100809 8 hours 29 minutes Schoolteacher Abby Hendrix would do by Sabrina Jeffries anything to help with her beloved sister’s read by Beverley A. Crick wedding, even play tour guide to Joaquin, A past kiss with adorably bookish the gorgeous surgeon who is brother of Miss Olivia Norley should be barely a the groom. She needs his help to plan memory for Marlowe Drake, the Duke of a top secret surprise for the wedding. Thornstock. Now Thorn’s half-brother, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

21 Adult Fiction Romance Wind River Undercover It has always been Zoey’s dream to take DB100541 8 hours 37 minutes a vacation in Alaska. One day in the by Lindsay McKenna mountain town of Moose Springs and read by Johanna Parker she’s smitten with the town and grumpy For Anna Navaro, nothing is more satis- diner owner Graham. Graham hates fying than capturing drug traffickers. Just tourists, but Zoey might just make him as she’s beginning to yearn for some- change his mind. Unrated. Commercial thing more than her career, she’s given audiobook. 2020. an assignment with fellow DEA agent Girl Gone Viral Gabe Whitcomb. The drug lord they’re DB100903 9 hours 58 minutes after is the violent fugitive who killed by Alisha Rai her father. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by various narrators book. 2020. Former model-turned-investor Katrina The Christmas Keeper King becomes the focus of a viral DB100605 11 hours 6 minutes internet meme, threatening the quiet life by Jenn McKinlay she’s built to manage her panic attacks. read by Tara Sands Her longtime bodyguard, Jasvinder The second Joaquin Solis saw publi- Singh, offers her his family farm to cist Savannah Wilson, he knew she was get away from the media. Unrated. destined to be his wife. Unfortunately, Commercial audiobook. 2020. Savannah is focused on her career Winston Brothers, Books 6–7 and getting back to New York. At DB97805 22 hours 27 minutes Christmastime, he invites Savannah to by Penny Reid his ranch to help her career, even if it read by Mark Ashby means losing her. Unrated. Commercial In Beard with Me, fourteen-year-old audiobook. 2019. Scarlet St. James is the daughter of a Maybe This Christmas vicious motorcycle club president who DB100259 9 hours 50 minutes forms a connection with Billy Winston. by Sarah Morgan Years later in Beard Necessities, Billy read by Kristin Allison and Scarlet get a second chance at love. This winter, ex-skiing champion and Strong language, some violence, and single dad Tyler O’Neil has only one some explicit descriptions of sex. 2019. mission—making sure his daughter, Jess, Barefoot Bay, Books 2-4 has the best Christmas ever. The fact DB97197 37 hours 28 minutes that his best friend, Brenna, is sharing a by Roxanne St. Claire lodge with him is a delicious distraction. read by Theresa Conkin Some strong language and some explicit Three contemporary romances set in descriptions of sex. 2014. the beach community of Barefoot Bay, The Tourist Attraction Florida, published in 2012 and 2013. DB100805 11 hours 38 minutes In Barefoot in the Rain, Jocelyn is a by Sarah Morgenthaler life coach, embroiled in a scandal, who read by Elise Arsenault 22 Adult Fiction—Romance, Science Fiction returns to her hometown. Also includes Science Fiction Barefoot in the Sun and Barefoot by the Expeditionary Force, Books 3–4 Sea. Strong language and some explicit DB97800 36 hours 19 minutes descriptions of sex. 2013. by Craig Alanson Coming Home for Christmas read by various narrators DB100905 8 hours 18 minutes The third and fourth books in the by RaeAnne Thayne series, published in 2016 and 2017. In read by Vanessa Johansson Paradise, the UN Expeditionary Force Elizabeth Hamilton was trapped in a is trapped on a planet they have nick- tangle of postpartum depression and named “Paradise.” Also includes Black grief when a car accident stole away Ops. Sequel to Expeditionary Force, her memories. Now, seven years later, Books 1–2 (DB97575). Violence and her husband Luke discovers her in a strong language. 2017. nearby town and brings Elizabeth home Winds of Wrath to the family she loves, just in time for DB100510 24 hours 51 minutes Christmas. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Taylor Anderson book. 2020. read by P.J. Ochlan The Jackal Undermined by treachery on a global DB100595 11 hours 10 minutes scale, Matt Reddy and his crew must by J.R. Ward travel halfway around the world, read by Jim Frangione scraping up what forces they can in order When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to confront the world’s mightiest armada. to where her sister may still be doing Sequel to Pass of Fire (DB98971). time, she becomes determined to find the Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. secret subterranean labyrinth that houses Rise of the Jain, Books 1–2 a notorious prison camp. Embarking on a DB97188 39 hours 23 minutes journey under the earth, she learns a ter- by Neal Asher rible truth and meets The Jackal. Unrated. read by Carol Jacobanis Commercial audiobook. 2020. The first two books in the series, pub- A Cowboy to Remember lished in 2018 and 2019. In The Soldier, DB100845 10 hours 35 minutes Polity and the prador have placed a by Rebekah Weatherspoon human and AI hybrid in charge of a solar read by Lynnette R. Freeman system swarming with destructive living Chef Evie Buchanan is on the edge of technology. Also includes The Warship. stardom. But a fall lands Evie in the Violence, strong language, and descrip- hospital—with no memory of who she tions of sex. 2019. is. Scrambling to help, Evie’s assistant The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years contacts the only family Evie has left, of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels friends who run the luxury dude ranch in DB97198 45 hours 57 minutes California where Evie grew up. Unrated. edited by Gardner Dozois Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Jon Huffman

23 Adult Fiction Science Fiction A curated collection of short science problem: the pilot, Rhis, is still alive and fiction novels selected from across the intent on commandeering her ship. Some years. Includes stories from Greg Egan, violence, some strong language, and Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ian some explicit descriptions of sex. 2005. McDonald, Alastair Reynolds, Robert The Doors of Eden Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, and DB100509 18 hours 5 minutes others. Violence, strong language, and by Adrian Tchaikovsky descriptions of sex. 2007. read by Sophie Aldred The Relentless Moon: Lady Astronaut, When a government physicist con- Book 3 ducting extra-dimensional research DB100788 17 hours 38 minutes is attacked, MI5 agent Julian Sabreur by Mary Robinette Kowal investigates. He clashes with agents read by Mary Robinette Kowal serving an unknown power that may or As the climate disaster on Earth gains may not be human. Unrated. Commercial attention, tensions rise, threatening the audiobook. 2020. IAC’s goal of getting as many people Network Effect: The Murderbot Diaries off Earth as possible before it becomes DB100216 12 hours 50 minutes uninhabitable. Meanwhile, Elma travels by Martha Wells to Mars. Sequel to The Fated Sky read by Kevin R. Free (DB93286). Unrated. Commercial audio- Murderbot’s human associates that book. 2020. are definitely not its friends are cap- Seven Devils: Seven Devils, Book 1 tured, and another not-friend from its DB100783 16 hours 35 minutes past also requires urgent assistance, by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May leaving Murderbot no choice but to read by Eva Wilhelm take drastic action. Sequel to Exit The former heir to the ruthless Tholosian Strategy (DB93092). Commercial Empire, Eris faked her death to leave that audiobook. 2020. role. Recruited by a resistance organi- A Chain across the Dawn: The Universe zation, she and the pilot Cloelia embark After, Book 2 on an intelligence-gathering mission. DB100210 11 hours 55 minutes Violence, strong language, and some by Drew Williams descriptions of sex. 2020. read by Brittany Pressley Finders Keepers Esa and fellow agent Jane are traveling DB97563 14 hours 9 minutes in search of children who share Esa’s by Linnea Sinclair supernatural gifts when they learn they read by Madelyn Buzzard aren’t the only ones looking—a powerful Captain Trilby Elliot hopes her ter- being will stop at nothing to get hold of rible luck has changed when a high- the children they hope to save. Sequel to tech fightercraft crash lands nearby. The Stars Now Unclaimed (DB92257). Finders keepers. Except for one small Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

24 Adult Fiction—Spies and Espionage Spies and Espionage When Pope Paul VII dies, Gabriel is Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Evolution summoned to investigate the circum- DB100514 12 hours 23 minutes stances of his death. He uncovers a by Brian Freeman shadowy Catholic society that will stop read by Scott Brick at nothing to keep quiet a secret gospel Convinced that Treadstone is behind his being researched by the late Pope. Sequel wife’s death, Jason Bourne goes rogue, to The New Girl (DB96383). Unrated. leaving the agency behind to infiltrate and Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. expose anarchist group Medusa. When Hunter Killer: A Pike Logan Novel he is framed for an assassination, Bourne DB98141 11 hours 31 minutes finds himself alone and on the run. Sequel by Brad Taylor to The Bourne Initiative (DB92746). read by Rich Orlow Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Just as Pike Logan and the Taskforce are Total Power: A Mitch Rapp Novel preparing for a mission, a friend is killed DB100955 9 hours 31 minutes in an attack meant for Pike. When team by Kyle Mills members on the mission vanish, Pike read by George Guidall heads to Brazil to investigate and winds When ISIS operatives take down up tracking a crew of Russian assassins. America’s entire power grid, Rapp and Sequel to Daughter of War (DB93985). his team embark on a desperate search Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. for those responsible in hopes that they Near Dark can fix it. The search will be difficult, DB100394 11 hours 22 minutes however, with so much of America’s by Brad Thor infrastructure out of commission. Sequel read by Armand Schultz to Lethal Agent (DB97517). Unrated. When a bounty is placed on Scot, he must Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. outwit and outrun his enemies. In need The Executioner, Books 1–3 of help, he turns to a Norwegian intel- DB97371 17 hours 33 minutes ligence operative with a troubled past. by Don Pendleton Sequel to Backlash (DB96420). Unrated. read by Ray Foushee Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. The first three books in the series, pub- The Nemesis Manifesto: Evan Ryder, lished in 1969 and 1970. In War against Book 1 the Mafia, sniper Mack Bolan declares DB100513 14 hours 30 minutes war on the gang of Mafia thugs who by Eric Van Lustbader destroyed his father’s life. Also includes read by Lauren Fortgang Death Squad and Battle Mask. Violence When her fellow agents are systemati- and strong language. 1970. cally eliminated, black-ops field agent The Order Evan Ryder must investigate the matter DB100451 9 hours 58 minutes before she joins her colleagues on the by Daniel Silva kill list. In the process, she uncovers a read by George Guidall mysterious cabal known as Nemesis. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. 25 Adult Fiction Suspense Suspense Good and Valuable Consideration: The Revelators A Reacher/Heller Story DB100391 11 hours 50 minutes DB100269 0 hours 48 minutes by Ace Atkins by Lee Child and Joseph Finder read by MacLeod Andrews read by Joe Wilson After recovering from being shot up Jack Reacher sits down to watch a and left for dead, Sheriff Quinn Colson baseball game at a Boston bar, a Yankees has revenge on his mind. But someone fan in a Red Sox town. Reacher and is standing in his way: an interim a new acquaintance—Sox fan Nick sheriff, appointed by the newly elected Heller—find themselves drawn into Governor Vardaman, the man who Quinn a much less friendly rivalry when the is sure ordered his murder. Unrated. guy sitting between them at the bar Commercial audiobook. 2020. turns out to be a marked man. Some Thick as Thieves violence. 2014. DB100485 10 hours 9 minutes Blacktop Wasteland by Sandra Brown DB100242 11 hours 11 minutes read by Kyf Brewer by Shawn A. Cosby Twenty years ago, four individuals read by Adam Lazarre-White almost pulled off a half-million-dollar Bug Montage is an honest mechanic, a heist. But by daybreak, their plan had loving husband, and a hard-working dad. been shot to hell. One of them was in But Bug used to be the best wheelman the hospital, one in jail, and one dead. on the East Coast. He thought he’d left However, one got away—presumably all that behind him, but as his new life with the money. The now-grown begins to crumble, he finds himself daughter of that man decides to investi- drawn inexorably back into a world of gate. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. blood and bullets. Unrated. Commercial Bestseller. 2020. audiobook. 2020. The Wife Who Knew Too Much Playing Nice DB100554 10 hours 34 minutes DB100551 10 hours 59 minutes by Michele Campbell by JP Delaney read by Dylan Moore read by various narrators The first Mrs. Ford: beautiful, accom- Pete Riley answers the door one morning plished, wealthy beyond imagination. to Miles Lambert, a stranger, who breaks Married to a much younger man. And the devastating news that Pete’s son isn’t now, dead. The second Mrs. Ford: actually his child—he is the Lamberts’, waitress, small-town girl, married to a switched at birth two years ago by an man she never forgot, from a summer understaffed hospital while their real son romance ten years before. And now, was sent home with Miles and his wife. she’s wealthy beyond imagination. An investigation unearths some dis- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. turbing questions. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

26 Adult Fiction—Suspense The Safe Place The Wives DB100555 10 hours 34 minutes DB98148 9 hours 2 minutes by Anna Downes by Tarryn Fisher read by Anna Downes read by Lauren Fortgang Emily Proudman just lost her acting Imagine that your husband has two agent, her job, and her apartment in one other wives. None of you know each miserable day. Luckily, charismatic CEO other, and you can see your husband Scott Denny offers Emily a summer only one day a week. But one day, job as a housekeeper on his remote, while doing his laundry, you find an beautiful French estate. But Emily soon appointment reminder for a woman you realizes that the Dennys are hiding dan- realize is another of the wives. Unrated. gerous secrets, and the consequences Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. could be deadly. Unrated. Commercial The Searcher audiobook. 2020. DB100859 14 hours 35 minutes He Started It by Tana French DB100553 9 hours 51 minutes read by Roger Clark by Samantha Downing After a bruising divorce, veteran Chicago read by Karissa Vacker cop Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan hav- a bucolic Irish village would be the per- en’t all been together in years, but when fect escape. But when a local kid whose their wealthy grandfather dies, the sib- brother has gone missing arm-twists him lings must come together for a cross- into investigating, Cal uncovers layers country road trip. Time with family is of darkness beneath his picturesque hard, especially when at least one of retreat. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. you is a killer and there’s a body in the Bestseller. 2020. trunk. Unrated. Commercial audio- The Night Swim book. 2020. DB100392 10 hours 1 minutes His & Hers by Megan Goldin DB100552 10 hours 41 minutes read by various narrators by Alice Feeney While true crime podcast host Rachel read by various narrators Krall covers a controversial rape trial, When a woman is murdered in she finds herself drawn deep into the Blackdown, a quintessentially British small town’s dark past and a brutal village, newsreader Anna Andrews is crime that took place there years before. reluctant to cover the case. Detective Someone is stalking her, insisting Jack Harper is suspicious of her involve- Rachel find out what happened to her ment, until he becomes a suspect in his sister twenty-five years ago. Unrated. own murder investigation. Someone Commercial audiobook. 2020. isn’t telling the truth, and some secrets Imperfect Women are worth killing to keep. Unrated. DB100245 11 hours 0 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Araminta Hall read by Helen Keeley 27 Adult Fiction Suspense When gorgeous, wealthy Nancy Owen Pick is in his thirties and living Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind in his aunt’s spare bedroom. He has just two best friends, an adoring husband and been suspended from his job as a teacher daughter, and a secret lover whose iden- after accusations of sexual misconduct— tity she took to the grave. As the inves- which he strongly denies. Across the tigation flounders, dark details surface street from Owen lives the Fours family, that reveal to her friends how little they who have a bad feeling about him. knew Nancy, each other, and themselves. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Chaos The Hanging DB100486 13 hours 40 minutes DB100393 12 hours 7 minutes by Iris Johansen by Lotte Hammer and Soren Hammer read by Elisabeth Rodgers read by Michael Page When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the Two children find the naked bodies rules by breaking into a mansion in the of five men hanging from the gym middle of the night, she skillfully cir- ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad cumvents alarms and outwits guards to Simonsen and his murder squad to the find herself standing in billionaire Gabe school janitor, who may know more Korgan’s study—facing Korgan himself. about the killings than he is telling. And Now she must convince him to help her each of the murdered men had the same rescue kidnapped African schoolgirls. terrible secret. Translated from the 2010 Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Danish edition. Unrated. Commercial The Mist audiobook. 2013. DB100389 5 hours 50 minutes Squeeze Me by Ragnar Jónasson DB100606 11 hours 11 minutes read by Amanda Redman by Carl Hiaasen 1987. An isolated farm house in east read by Scott Brick Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut A prominent Palm Beach dowager is everybody out. But it didn’t. The couple found dead in a concrete grave. Kiki Pew should never have let him in. But they did. was an ardent fan of the Winter White An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not House resident, and a founding member all will survive the night. And Detective of the POTUSSIES. The President Hulda will be haunted forever. Translated declares that Kiki was the victim of ram- from the 2017 Icelandic edition. Unrated. paging immigrant hordes. Meanwhile, Commercial audiobook. 2020. there is an influx of huge, hungry Half Moon Bay pythons. Unrated. Commercial audio- DB100241 9 hours 38 minutes book. Bestseller. 2020. by Jonathan Kellerman and Invisible Girl Jesse Kellerman DB100991 9 hours 47 minutes read by Dennis Boutsikaris by Lisa Jewel Workers demolishing a local park read by various narrators have made a haunting discovery: the

28 Adult Fiction—Suspense decades-old skeleton of a child. But an affair with one of these friends. But whose? And how did it get there? No which one? Unrated. Commercial audio- sooner has Clay Edison begun to inves- book. 2020. tigate than he receives a call from a Cut and Run local businessman, wondering if the DB98147 7 hours 1 minutes body could belong to his sister. Unrated. by Fern Michaels Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Laural Merlington Whisper Me This It’s been three months since Countess DB97821 11 hours 35 minutes Annie de Silva slipped away from her by Kerry Anne King home before dawn, leaving a cryptic note read by MacKenzie Beyer and no clue as to her destination. That’s Maisey is shocked to learn that her an eternity for friends as devoted as the take-charge mother is in a coma and her Sisterhood. Now they’re desperate to gentle father is suspected of domestic track Annie down. Unrated. Commercial abuse. After returning to her hometown audiobook. 2019. with her twelve-year-old daughter, Truth and Justice Maisey learns even more startling infor- DB100540 7 hours 36 minutes mation about her family. Some violence by Fern Michaels and some strong language. 2018. read by Laural Merlington The Boy in the Field When Alexis Thorn and Joe Esposito DB100990 7 hours 51 minutes encounter a young woman sobbing by Margot Livesey alone in a restaurant, they learn that the read by Imogen Church woman’s husband was recently killed in One September afternoon in 1999, teen- action in Afghanistan. Before he reported agers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang for duty, Bella and her husband froze her are walking home from school when they eggs, but now she has discovered they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody are missing. Unrated. Commercial audio- and unconscious. Thanks to their inter- book. 2020. vention, the boy’s life is saved. In the The Less Dead aftermath, all three siblings are irrevo- DB100487 8 hours 6 minutes cably changed. Unrated. Commercial by Denise Mina audiobook. 2020. read by Katie Leung The Vacation The only silver lining to Margot’s DB100556 11 hours 5 minutes mother’s death is that Margot, who was by T.M. Logan adopted, can finally go looking for her read by Laura Kirman birth mother. But the only biological Kate and her three best friends are relative left is her mother’s older sister. spending a week with their families in Margot’s mother was murdered many the south of France. Soon after arriving, years ago, one of a series of sex workers Kate discovers a text on her husband’s killed in Glasgow. Unrated. Commercial cell phone, revealing that he’s having audiobook. 2020.

29 Adult Fiction Suspense The Glass Kingdom The Executioner, Books 13–15 DB100855 9 hours 24 minutes DB100773 12 hours 46 minutes by Lawrence Osborne by Don Pendleton read by Sura Siu read by Mark Ashby New Yorker Sarah Mullins arrives in Books thirteen to fifteen in the series, Thailand on the lam with a suitcase published in 1972 and 1973. In of purloined money. Her plan is to lie Washington I.O.U., Mack must prevent low and map out her next move in the a mob plan to infiltrate the US govern- Kingdom—a high-end apartment complex ment. Also includes San Diego Siege with a glass-fronted facade. But strange and Panic in Philly. Sequel to The disappearances begin to occur, and the Executioner, Books 10-12 (DB100308). residents become suspicious of everyone. Violence and strong language. 1973. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. The Woods Love and Theft DB100437 12 hours 13 minutes DB100243 7 hours 23 minutes by Vanessa Savage by Stan Parish read by Tamsin Kennard read by Angelo Di Loreto The only thing Tess can’t remember from When Alex and Diane meet at a party, her childhood is the one thing she wishes the chemistry between them is unde- she could. Ten years ago, Tess’s older niable. She’s a single mother who sister died. Ruled a tragic accident, the owns a successful catering company. sole witness was Tess herself, but she has He’s a single father—and leader of an never been able to remember what hap- armed-robbery crew that just pulled pened that night in the woods. Unrated. off a record-breaking, precision jewel Commercial audiobook. 2020. heist in Las Vegas. Neither realizes their The Dreamer: A Mike Daley/Rosie lives have overlapped before. Unrated. Fernandez Thriller Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100730 7 hours 0 minutes The Coast to Coast Murders by Sheldon Siegel DB100857 14 hours 20 minutes read by Doug Tisdale Jr. by James Patterson and J.D. Barker Mercy Tejada—a nursing student with read by various narrators Dreamer status—pays the bills by wait- Long-haul trucker Michael Fitzgerald and ressing for celebrity chef Carlos Cruz. his psychology major sister Megan share When she discovers him dying, she a terrifying past. Their parents—a clinical becomes the prime murder suspect. psychologist and a renowned psychia- Rosie and Mike take on her defense, with trist—brought up their adopted children the help of Mike’s PI brother Pete. Some in a rarefied, experimental environment. violence. 2020. When an L.A. detective and an FBI agent Dark August work a string of murders, the Fitzgerald DB100608 12 hours 21 minutes family comes to their attention. Unrated. by Katie Tallo Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. read by Piper Goodeve

30 Adult Fiction—Suspense When Augusta (Gus) Monet’s great energy, and love. After being friends grandmother dies, she inherits a dilap- for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess. idated house and stumbles across an Then in one moment, Liz is left ques- old trunk of cold case files that her late tioning everything she thought she knew police-detective mother obsessed over. about her friend—and about herself. The Then Gus spots a news story about the truth can’t come soon enough. Unrated. unearthing of a body linked to one of the Commercial audiobook. 2020. cases, and begins to investigate. Unrated. Don’t Look for Me Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100858 9 hours 54 minutes The Healer by Wendy Walker DB100431 5 hours 42 minutes read by Thérèse Plummer by Antti Tuomainen Molly Clarke’s car was abandoned miles read by Simon Shepherd from home, and a note found at a nearby People are fleeing climate catastrophes hotel. Her shattered family are told that in Helsinki. Struggling poet Tapani is it’s called a walkaway and happens all among the few still in the city. When the time: women disappear, desperate Tapani’s wife, Johanna, a journalist, to leave their lives behind and start goes missing, her disappearance seems over. But is that what really happened to be connected to a story she was to Molly Clarke? Unrated. Commercial researching about a serial killer known as audiobook. 2020. “The Healer.” Translated from the 2010 Hush Collection, Books 1–6 Finnish edition. Unrated. Commercial DB100270 8 hours 17 minutes audiobook. 2013. by Ruth Ware and others Confession on the 7:45 read by Maggy Stacy DB100987 12 hours 31 minutes Six stories in which deception can be by Lisa Unger a matter of life and death. Includes read by Vivienne Leheny Ruth Ware’s Snowflakes, Oyinkan Selena is commuting home when the Braithwaite’s Treasure, Laura Lippman’s train stalls out. She strikes up a con- Slow Burner, Jeffery Deaver’s Buried, versation with a beautiful stranger. The Alison Gaylin’s The Gift, and Lisa woman confesses that she’s been stuck Unger’s Let Her Be. Strong language, in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, some violence, and some descriptions of confesses that she suspects her husband sex. 2020. is sleeping with the nanny. Days later, One by One Selena’s nanny disappears. Unrated. DB100607 13 hours 10 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Ruth Ware Little Disasters read by Imogen Church DB100611 10 hours 55 minutes A French Alps trip for the team of a by Sarah Vaughan trendy London-based tech company read by various narrators starts out as a typical corporate retreat. She is a stay-at-home mother-of-three But as soon as one shareholder upends with boundless reserves of patience, 31 Adult Fiction Suspense, War, Westerns the agenda by pushing a buyout offer, stumbles into a bitter racial con- tensions simmer. When an avalanche flict. Also includes Dakota Gold and leaves them stranded, the group dwindles Staghorn. 1983. one by one. Unrated. Commercial audio- Titus Bass, Books 5–6 book. 2020. DB96954 54 hours 32 minutes Winter Counts by Terry C. Johnston DB100989 8 hours 19 minutes read by Joe Wilson by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Books five and six in the series, pub- read by Darrell Dennis lished in 1985 and 1988. In BorderLords, Virgil Wounded Horse is the local Josiah and Titus return to the Crow vil- enforcer on the Rosebud Indian lage for rest and healing. Also includes Reservation in South Dakota. When One-Eyed Dream. Sequel to Carry the justice is denied by the American legal Wind: Titus Bass, Book 4 (DB96671). system or the tribal council, Virgil is Violence, strong language, and descrip- hired to deliver his own punishment. But tions of sex. 1988. when heroin arrives on the reservation Blood Bond, Books 14–16 and Virgil’s own nephew overdoses, his DB97806 23 hours 36 minutes vigilantism becomes personal. Unrated. by William W. Johnstone and Commercial audiobook. 2019. J.A. Johnstone read by Mark Ashby War Books fourteen through sixteen in Greyhound the series, published 2010–2012. In DB100833 8 hours 24 minutes Moonshine Massacre, Matt and Sam by C.S. Forester travel to Kansas, and Sam is recruited by read by Jim Frangione the local sheriff. Also includes Arizona United States Navy Commander George Ambush and A Hundred Ways to Kill. Krause is ordered to escort a convoy Sequel to Blood Bond, Books 11–13 of thirty-seven merchant ships from (DB96877). Some violence and some America to England through the Nazi strong language. 2012. submarine-infested waters of the North Hell’s Half Acre, Books 1–3 Atlantic. Originally published as The DB97375 20 hours 3 minutes Good Shepherd. Source for 2020 movie by William W. Johnstone and of the same name starring Tom Hanks. J.A. Johnstone Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 1955. read by Jack Fox Westerns The first three books in the series, all Matt Tierney, Books 1–3 published in 2015. In Hell’s Half Acre, DB100385 20 hours 55 minutes Jess Casey becomes the new sheriff in by Tim Champlin Fort Worth and faces a gang-run empire read by Guy Williams of booze, prostitution, and slaughter. Books one through three of the series, Also includes Cold-Blooded and published 1981-1983. In Summer of The Butcher of Baxter Pass. Violence the Sioux, young reporter Matt Tierney and strong language. 2015. 32 Adult Fiction—Westerns Killer Take All They Came to Kill DB100212 8 hours 28 minutes DB100516 9 hours 33 minutes by William W. Johnstone and by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone J.A. Johnstone read by P.J. Ochlan read by J. Rodney Turner When railroad developer Jacob After the first patrol sent to clear a path Freemantle begins buying up land in for a transcontinental railroad through the cattle town of Chugwater, Duff Mexican territory is attacked by Apaches, MacCallister and the other settlers are the bigwigs in Washington hire Jamie on board at first. But Duff begins to sus- MacCallister to lead the way. MacCallister, pect Freemantle of devious motivations in turn, calls on Preacher for back-up. and dirty tactics. Sequel to Stranglehold Sequel to Frontier America (DB96745). (DB95360). Unrated. Commercial audio- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. book. 2020. The Comancheros Ride the Savage Land DB100256 8 hours 18 minutes DB100950 10 hours 17 minutes by Stephen Lodge by William W. Johnstone and read by David Hartley-Margolin J.A. Johnstone Charley’s grandson, Henry-Ellis, comes read by Jack Garrett to visit Charley’s West Texas ranch. Ace and Chance agree to lead five The journey, however, is far from brides-to-be through dangerous ter- smooth. Meanwhile, swindlers plot to ritory, but one of the women has a take Charley’s land. Sequel to Deadfall crazy ex-husband gunning for her. (DB93868). 2016. And that’s not to mention the clan of Heroic Hearts: The Devil’s Own, Book 4 backwoodsmen who hope to steal the DB97595 9 hours 48 minutes women for themselves—or the band by JD March of Comanche kidnappers. Sequel to read by Jake Williams Twelve Dead Men (DB100066). Unrated. Just as former gunfighter Johnny settles Commercial audiobook. 2020. into life on the Sinclair ranch, a new Texas John Slaughter, Books 1-3 minister arrives, stirring things up in DB97421 21 hours 27 minutes town. Meanwhile, Johnny investigates by William W. Johnstone and secrets in his brother’s life and fights J.A. Johnstone to save a local bordello from closing. read by various narrators Sequel to An Uneasy Alliance; The The first three books in the series, pub- Stacked Deck (DB93667). Violence and lished in 2014. In Texas John Slaughter, strong language. 2018. it’s up to tough lawman and new local Leaving Kansas; Reaching Colorado sheriff John Horton Slaughter to tame DB100765 8 hours 38 minutes the rustlers and outlaws of Tombstone, by Frank Roderus Arizona. Also includes Deadly Day read by Jack Fox in Tombstone and The Edge of Hell. Books one and two of the trilogy, pub- Violence and strong language. 2014. lished in 1983 and 1984. In Leaving 33 Adult Fiction Westerns Kansas, things come crashing Books four through six of the series, all down on Harrison Wilke when he published in 2020. In Moonlight and “borrows” money from his missing Mountains, Gabriel and Ezra face new uncle’s safe. Also includes Reaching challenges as they approach the Rocky Colorado. Strong language and some Mountains. Also includes Raiders of violence. 1984. the Rockies and Uncharted Territory. Stonecroft Saga, Books 1–3 Sequel to Stonecroft Saga, Books 1–3 DB100376 23 hours 47 minutes (DB100376). Some violence. 2020. by B.N. Rundell John Hawk, Books 2–3 read by Joe Wilson DB100380 15 hours 56 minutes The first three books in the series, all by Charles G. West published in 2020. In Escape to Exile, read by David Hartley-Margolin Gabriel and Ezra journey to the far Books two and three in the series, pub- wilderness of the west after a bloody lished in 2018 and 2020. In No Justice duel leaves a powerful man dead. Also in Hell, when John Hawk encounters includes Discovery of Destiny and three women fleeing from an outlaw he Westward the Wilderness. Some vio- vows to see them to safety. Also includes lence. 2020. Montana Territory. Sequel to Hell Hath Stonecroft Saga, Books 4–6 No Fury (DB88995). Violence and strong DB100386 23 hours 44 minutes language. 2020. by B.N. Rundell read by Joe Wilson

34 Adult Nonfiction—Animals and Wildlife, Arts, Astronomy, Biography Adult Nonfiction along with some replies. Letters include congratulations on his accomplishment, Animals and Wildlife interesting requests, and correspondence Max the Miracle Dog: The Heart- regarding interviews. 2020. Warming Tale of a Life-Saving Friendship Biography DB100368 6 hours 5 minutes I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir by Kerry Irving and Matt Wyman DB100954 7 hours 21 minutes read by Stephen Van Doren by Chasten Buttigieg Memoir of an English man and the dog read by Chasten Buttigieg that changed his life. Suffering from The husband of former mayor Pete severe neck and back injuries after a car Buttigieg reflects on growing up gay in injury, Kerry was unemployed and house- a small Midwestern town, discusses his bound, struggling with depression and relationship with Pete, and details his even thoughts of suicide. He was saved by hopes for America’s future. Unrated. the friendship of a dog named Max. 2020. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Arts Madness What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the DB100948 6 hours 34 minutes Built World by Catherine Cho DB100228 7 hours 14 minutes read by Catherine Cho by Sara Hendren Author recounts her experience being read by Sara Hendren separated from her newborn son and Artist examines considerations—or husband when she was involuntarily not—for disability when designing the committed to a psychiatric ward in New world around us including items like Jersey after a harrowing bout of post- furniture, tools, and city streets. Uses partum psychosis. Unrated. Commercial case studies to illustrate the ways the audiobook. 2020. body will adapt to conditions, innovative Everything Beautiful in Its Time designs to accommodate disabilities, and DB100952 5 hours 4 minutes fostering interdependent living commu- by Jenna Bush Hager nities. Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Jenna Bush Hager Astronomy The former first daughter and co-author of Sisters First (DB89560) shares per- Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First sonal anecdotes about both sets of grand- Man from All Mankind parents, including George and Barbara DB97814 12 hours 26 minutes Bush, through a series of essays. She edited by James R. Hansen discusses the lessons all four individuals read by Bill Wallace taught her and looks to the future and the Collects some of the thousands of letters lessons she hopes to teach her own chil- received by astronaut Neil Armstrong dren. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. between the time he was the first man to Bestseller. 2020. walk on the moon and his death in 2002, 35 Adult Nonfiction Biography, Blindness and Physical Disabilities Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Describes her upbringing in a conser- Empowerment, and Disability Pride vative town, her early work in radio, DB100967 11 hours 20 minutes her eventual move into television, by Nadina LaSpina her coming out as a lesbian, and the read by Jennifer Jill Araya impact of her career up through the Author recounts her journey with dis- early twenty-first century. Unrated. ability after contracting polio as a baby. Commercial audiobook. 2020. She describes the parallels between Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My her own personal growth and the Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced disability-rights movement and reflects My Greatest Challenge on finding her place in an ableist world. DB100964 8 hours 49 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Tammie Jo Shults Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir read by various narrators DB100576 9 hours 29 minutes Author describes her experiences as a by Heather Lanier pilot. Recounts the challenges of breaking read by Rebecca Lowman through gender barriers to become a Author recounts her experiences as a Navy fighter pilot. Also recalls a har- mother of a child with Wolf-Hirschhorn rowing landing years later as a domestic syndrome and how the diagnosis forced pilot. Includes supplemental material. her to confront her beliefs about cer- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. tainty, vulnerability, love, and faith. She Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir discusses the joys and challenges of daily DB100452 5 hours 12 minutes life, the many shapes of motherhood, by Natasha Trethewey and what it means to be human. Unrated. read by Natasha Trethewey Commercial audiobook. 2020. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of I Can’t See You, I’m Deaf: A Memoir Monument (DB94262) reflects on the DB97815 5 hours 23 minutes brutal murder of her mother by her by Woody Livingston former stepfather. She discusses her own read by Bill Wallace trauma, as well as her mother’s difficult Author recounts his experiences going blind upbringing in the segregated South as while already completely deaf, including a “child of miscegenation.” Unrated. attending college, traveling, playing Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. hockey, and piloting an airplane. Describes the discrimination he faced, his struggles Blindness and Physical with homelessness and unemployment, Disabilities and his decision to live by faith. 2019. Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Rachel Maddow: A Biography How Daring Dreams and Unyielding DB98145 5 hours 20 minutes Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness by Lisa Rogak into an Extraordinary Vision for Life read by Kirsten Potter DB100264 8 hours 54 minutes Examines the life and career of liberal by Sanford D. Greenberg cable news anchor Rachel Maddow. read by David Hartley-Margolin 36 Adult Nonfiction—Blindness, Business, Career, Cooking Author describes how losing his eye- Historian chronicles the development sight as a Columbia junior affected his of Disneyland from the time of Walt life trajectory. He went on to Harvard Disney’s first conceptualization of the and Oxford and—among many other amusement park and the acquisition of accomplishments—he invented a com- Anaheim farmland to its opening in July pressed speech machine which speeds up 1955. Discusses the logistical and artistic the reproduction of words from record- challenges faced to bring Disney’s ings without distorting any sound. The vision to life. Unrated. Commercial title reflects his long friendship with Art audiobook. 2019. Garfunkel. 2020. Traveling with Service Animals: By Air, Career and Job Training Road, Rail, and Ship across North America How to Lead: Wisdom from the World’s DB97385 9 hours 28 minutes Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game by Henry Kisor and Christine Goodier Changers read by Gary Tipton DB100664 13 hours 9 minutes A newspaper columnist and a travel by David M. Rubenstein writer, both seasoned travelers with ser- read by various narrators vice dogs, give advice for how best to Author of The American Story navigate the challenges of such travel. (DB97695) presents a collection of They share general guidance as well as interviews with leading business- specific regulations and service animal people, innovators, politicians, athletes, policies on planes, trains, cruise ships, entertainers, and nonprofit leaders about and more. 2019. what makes them successful in their Mrs. Beaton’s Question: My Nine Years chosen professions. Individuals inter- at the Halifax School for the Blind viewed include Oprah Winfrey, Yo-Yo DB100733 4 hours 6 minutes Ma, Jack Nicklaus, Renée Fleming, by Robert Mercer and Warren Buffett. Commercial audio- read by Bill Wallace book. 2020. Author recounts his struggles as a child Cooking living with low vision, especially his Anthony Bourdain Remembered difficulty with school. He describes the DB97430 1 hours 26 minutes impact that starting at the Halifax School by CNN for the Blind and the efforts of his read by Ryan Dalusung teacher, Mrs. Beaton, had on the trajec- Collection of reminiscences from col- tory of his life. 2019. leagues and fans of the late chef and Business and Economics world traveler Anthony Bourdain Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the (1956–2018). Included are memories of Invention of the Amusement Park That interactions, discussions of the impact he Changed the World had on careers, and expressions of love DB100585 12 hours 3 minutes and admiration. 2019. by Richard Snow read by Jacques Roy 37 Adult Nonfiction Crime, Education, Family, Government and Politics Crime for all students instead of having the The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a mindset that those who aren’t as cogni- Terrorized Community, and the Search tively talented don’t deserve as much of for Justice in California’s Central Valley an education. Discusses the harm done to DB100205 9 hours 34 minutes students and presents policies to address by Jessica Garrison the issue. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by various narrators book. 2020. Drawing upon decades of case files, Family interrogation transcripts, on-the-ground Parenting outside the Lines: Forget reporting, and the subject’s own hand- the Rules, Tap into Your Wisdom, and written journals, award-winning inves- Connect with Your Child tigative reporter Jessica Garrison traces DB100884 7 hours 16 minutes the life of merciless cartel assassin Jose by Meghan Leahy Martinez, the cops who chased him, read by Meghan Leahy and the families of his many poor, rural, Washington Post parenting columnist immigrant victims. Unrated. Commercial offers advice for caregivers feeling audiobook. 2020. overwhelmed by the stress and perfec- In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth tionism of overparenting culture. Argues behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation in favor of imperfect parenting and DB97187 15 hours 4 minutes focusing on common sense, empathy, by Tom Smart and Lee Benson and laughter. Unrated. Commercial read by Emily Ellet audiobook. 2020. The author, along with his journalist coauthor, details the kidnapping and Government and Politics rescue of his niece, Elizabeth Smart. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Abducted from her bed in her Utah home Lure of Authoritarianism at age fourteen in 2002, Elizabeth spent DB100396 5 hours 18 minutes the next nine months captive and brain- by Anne Applebaum washed by a married couple, while the read by Anne Applebaum investigation focused primarily on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Red wrong man. 2005. Famine (DB89645) examines the rise of Education populism and nationalism in the early twenty-first century. Theorizes why The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken some might find authoritarianism or one- Education System Perpetuates Social party rule appealing, particularly those Injustice who have not thrived in a meritocratic DB100218 8 hours 4 minutes or democratic system. Draws on inter- by Fredrik deBoer national reports and historical exam- read by Sean Patrick Hopkins ples. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Argument to restructure the educational Bestseller. 2020. system to focus on equitable outcomes

38 Adult Nonfiction—Government and Politics On War journey from youth to president of the DB97394 20 hours 53 minutes United States of America. He discusses by Carl Von Clausewitz his early aspirations, the trajectory of his read by George Holmes political career, landmark moments of his Treatise on the art of warfare as a part of first term, and reflections on American a coherent system of political thought, politics. Unrated. Commercial audio- written during a Napoleonic campaign book. Bestseller. 2020. by a Prussian soldier. Edited with an Blackout: How Black America Can Make introduction by Anatol Rapoport. 1831. Its Second Escape from the Democrat The Trump Century: How Our President Plantation Changed the Course of History Forever DB100958 6 hours 54 minutes DB100953 10 hours 46 minutes by Candace Owens by Lou Dobbs read by various narrators read by Lou Dobbs Political activist and social media Fox Business network television person- star presents her views on how the ality, author, and radio host reflects on Democratic Party’s policies hurt African the potential long-term impact of Donald American communities in the long run. Trump’s time in the White House. She recounts her own story of success Discusses the economy, foreign policy, and dissects specific policies, explaining and American security, and theorizes how she feels they do more harm than about President Trump’s agenda moving good. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. forward. Unrated. Commercial audio- Bestseller. 2020. book. 2020. The House of Kennedy In the Hands of the People: Thomas DB100060 10 hours 28 minutes Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship read by David Pittu DB100623 2 hours 38 minutes Bestselling novelist recounts the sto- edited by Jon Meacham ried history of the Kennedy family and read by various narrators describes the unique place the Kennedys Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Hope of have occupied in the American imag- Glory (DB98536) and Songs of America ination across decades and genera- (DB95573) presents a collection of tions. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. writings from Thomas Jefferson and Bestseller. 2020. others reflecting on citizenship and an Active Measures: The Secret History of individual’s role in the world. Unrated. Disinformation and Political Warfare Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100888 14 hours 48 minutes A Promised Land by Thomas Rid DB100966 29 hours 12 minutes read by Derek Perkins by Barack Obama Examines the many methods and uses read by Barack Obama of disinformation from the Cold War The first volume of Barack Obama’s through the early twenty-first century. presidential memoirs, recounting his 39 Adult Nonfiction Government and Politics Details a history of organized lying, hate of Sussex’s relationship and eventual campaigns, fake publishing empires, decision to step away from royal life. troll farms, and engineered polarization. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. How to Destroy America in Three Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and Easy Steps the Fight of Our Lives inside the Trump DB100573 6 hours 21 minutes White House by Ben Shapiro DB100572 8 hours 35 minutes read by Ben Shapiro by Sarah Huckabee Sanders The author of The Right Side of History read by Sarah Huckabee Sanders (DB95351) discusses a faction of Former White House Press Secretary American politics he refers to as “dis- for President Trump recounts her time integrationists,” who he feels wish to serving the administration. She dis- dissolve American foundations of beliefs cusses her faith, the challenges of being a and culture. He explains what problems working mother in such a high-pressure these individuals claim to see within job, her relationship with the press, and America and the dangers they might pose. her role in the fight between Trump and Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. his critics. Unrated. Commercial audio- Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the book. 2020. Dangerous Distortion of Truth Donald Trump v. The United States: DB100892 12 hours 44 minutes Inside the Struggle to Stop a President by Brian Stelter DB100672 15 hours 0 minutes read by Brian Stelter by Michael S. Schmidt A CNN correspondent examines the read by Michael S. Schmidt relationship between Fox News and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chron- President Trump, Trump’s extensive icles the many clashes that occurred viewing of the channel, and the impact between President Trump and White of its programming on American poli- House officials. Draws on FBI andWhite tics. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. House documents as well as confidential Bestseller. 2020. sources from within federal law enforce- It Was All a Lie: How the Republican ment and the West Wing. Unrated. Party Became Donald Trump Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100574 5 hours 40 minutes Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan by Stuart Stevens and the Making of a Modern Royal read by Dan John Miller Family Republican political consultant criti- DB100570 10 hours 32 minutes cizes the trajectory of the Republican by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand Party over the course of five decades, read by Omid Scobie beginning with the 1960s. Presents his Two royal reporters with behind-the- views on the rampant racism, hypocrisy, scenes access to the couple recount the self-delusion, and toxic rhetoric that have trajectory of the Duke and Duchess led the party to its current state. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. 40 Adult Nonfiction—Government and Politics, Hobbies and Crafts, Home Management The Folly and the Glory: America, Burning Down the House: Newt Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945–2020 Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the DB100629 10 hours 17 minutes Rise of the New Republican Party by Tim Weiner DB100207 13 hours 2 minutes read by Stefan Rudnicki by Julian E. Zelizer Pulitzer Prize-winning author of read by Robert Petkoff Enemies: A History of the FBI Historian argues that the actions of Newt (DB88854) and Legacy of Ashes: The Gingrich and his allies set America on History of the CIA (DB71592) traces the course to an era of aggressive partisan decades-long political warfare waged politics. He discusses the rhetoric and between Russia and America through tactics used to shape the Republican espionage, sabotage, diplomacy, and Party over the several decades that fol- disinformation. Unrated. Commercial lowed Gingrich’s rise to power. Unrated. audiobook. 2020. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady Hobbies and Crafts DB100957 11 hours 26 minutes Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff American Wool read by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff DB97428 6 hours 40 minutes Author discusses the long history of her by Clara Parkes friendship with Melania Trump, which read by Elizabeth Rose predated her marriage to the president. Knitwear designer chronicles the pro- Recounts the events and accusations that cess of turning wool into garments led to the disintegration of their relation- after buying a bale of wool from a ship. Includes behind-the-scenes insights sheep breeder. Discusses the harvesting into key moments of Melania’s tenure as of wool, the state of wool mills in First Lady. Unrated. Commercial audio- North America, production decisions, book. 2020. the dyeing process, and designing Rage knitwear. 2019. DB100633 13 hours 26 minutes Home Management by Bob Woodward An Edited Life: Simple Steps to read by Robert Petkoff Streamlining Your Life, at Work and The author of Fear: Trump in the White at Home House (DB91876) examines Trump’s DB97404 8 hours 59 minutes decision-making in the face of a global by Anna Newton pandemic, an economic disaster, racial read by Faith Potts unrest, and more in the time leading up Lifestyle influencer with online fol- to the 2020 presidential election. Draws lowing provides advice for streamlining on hundreds of hours of interviews, per- and decluttering every aspect of life— sonal letters, and participant records. including wardrobe, social life, exercise, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. food, home, beauty, and more. 2019.

41 Adult Nonfiction Inspiration, Literature, Medicine and Health Inspiration Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness a Mystery and Community DB100794 8 hours 10 minutes DB100867 6 hours 21 minutes by Wendy Lesser by Born This Way Foundation Reporters read by Kirsten Potter and Lady Gaga An in-depth and personal explora- read by various narrators tion of Scandinavian crime fiction as Stories of kindness, bravery, and resil- a way into Scandinavian culture at ience from young people all over large. For four decades, the author’s the world collected by the Born This primary source of information about Way Foundation and introduced by three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Lady Gaga. Commercial audiobook. Norway, and Denmark—was mystery For junior and senior high and older and crime novels, and she created a fic- readers. 2020. tional Scandinavia in her mind. Then she finally traveled there. Unrated. Literature Commercial audiobook. 2020. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde DB100743 8 hours 18 minutes Medicine and Health edited by Roxane Gay The Great Secret: The Classified World read by Eva Wilhelm War II Disaster That Launched the War Essays and poems by the author of A on Cancer Burst of Light (DB91119) exploring DB100649 11 hours 55 minutes being Black, a woman, a lesbian, and the by Jennet Conant intersection of those identities. Edited read by John Kroft by and includes an introduction from Describes how, in 1943, American Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist sailors ferrying mustard bombs died of (DB80463). Violence and strong lan- mysterious symptoms. Doctor and chem- guage. 2020. ical weapons expert Stewart Alexander’s The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays diagnosis of mustard gas exposure was DB97808 17 hours 23 minutes covered up, but the toxic effects of by D.H. Lawrence mustard on white blood cells caught read by Stephen Van Doren the attention of physician and research Thirty-six essays published between scientist Cornelius P. Rhoads, which led 1912 and 1930 by the author of Lady to chemotherapy. Unrated. Commercial Chatterley’s Lover (DB14901) that audiobook. 2020. examine the construction of books. Your Brain Needs a Hug: Life, Love, Includes book reviews, travel essays, Mental Health, and Sandwiches memoir pieces, and critical literature DB97388 5 hours 23 minutes theory. “Pornography and Obscenity” by Rae Earl from 1929, analyzes the differences in read by Jill Fox the concepts. 2019. Mental health guide provides advice on how to understand your diagnosis 42 Adult Nonfiction— Medicine and Health, Music and offers coping strategies. Also sug- up in the segregated South with a family gests ways to navigate social media and and church community that encouraged personal relationships without feeling her love of music. Also discusses some overwhelmed. Includes resources for of the musical pieces important to her additional help. For senior high and older and her experiences singing all over the readers. 2019. world. 2014. Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Peggy Lee: A Century of Song Hospital Diary DB100755 9 hours 15 minutes DB100854 3 hours 5 minutes by Tish Oney by Timothy Snyder read by Kerry Dukin read by Timothy Snyder Jazz composer and musicologist examines Historian’s condemnation of America’s the legacy of Peggy Lee (1920–2002) as coronavirus response and an urgent call a singer, composer, lyricist, and actress. to rethink health and freedom. Traces Details her journey from a North Dakota the societal forces that led us here and farm girl to star and highlights her con- outlines the steps he believes are needed tributions to jazz and popular music with to survive: enshrining healthcare as a interviews with Lee’s family, friends, and human right, elevating the authority music colleagues. 2020. of doctors and medical knowledge, Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway and planning for our children’s future. DB100775 11 hours 31 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Alyn Shipton read by Bob Moore Music Jazz critic sheds light on the life and Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the career of performer and bandleader Cab Family Band Calloway (1907–1994), explaining how DB100804 6 hours 59 minutes he traversed racial and social boundaries by Willie Nelson and others to become one of the country’s most read by various narrators beloved entertainers. Draws on first- Joint memoir of country music star hand accounts from Calloway’s family, Willie Nelson and his sister Bobbie. friends, and fellow musicians. 2010. Alternating chapters, they describe their Beethoven: The Man Revealed childhood being raised by grandparents DB100716 11 hours 12 minutes in Texas, who introduced them to their by John Suchet love of music. The siblings share stories read by Stephen Van Doren of their lives and struggles. Unrated. Music scholar and British radio host Commercial audiobook. 2020. explores the life of the famous German Stand Up Straight and Sing! A Memoir composer (1770–1827). Focuses on his DB97813 10 hours 6 minutes personal life and personality and how it by Jessye Norman shaped his music. Chronicles Beethoven’s read by Gabriella Cavallero difficult childhood, his struggle to find Memoir of renowned African American a wife, his emotional volatility, and his opera singer. Shares her story of growing challenging family dynamics. 2012. 43 Adult Nonfiction Nature and the Environment Nature and the Environment Uses information gathered in interviews A Life on Our Planet: My Witness with researchers, theologians, indige- Statement and a Vision for the Future nous healers, psychologists, and more. DB100970 6 hours 23 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by David Attenborough and Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays Jonnie Hughes DB100529 10 hours 24 minutes read by David Attenborough by Helen Macdonald Naturalist in his 90s reflects on his read by Helen Macdonald decades as a science communicator and Author of H Is for Hawk (DB81386) the changes to the planet he has wit- presents a collection of forty-one essays nessed since his early days in the field. ruminating on the natural world. Topics Presents policies for addressing issues include her decision as a young child like climate change and bettering the to become a naturalist, ants, the woods world to pass on to the next generation. in winter, farming ostriches, and the Commercial audiobook. 2020. cycle of life. Unrated. Commercial A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year audiobook. 2020. History of America’s Hurricanes The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the DB100663 10 hours 54 minutes Making of the Modern World by Eric Jay Dolin DB100409 6 hours 49 minutes read by Bob Souer by Edward D. Melillo Author of Leviathan (DBC02589), Fur, read by Kaleo Griffith Fortune, and Empire (DB74803), and Historian examines the impact of Brilliant Beacons (DB86622) presents insects and insect products on the ways a history of hurricanes and response the world has developed. Discusses to them in North America and the the industries of agriculture, fashion, Caribbean since European coloniza- international cuisine, and medicine to tion. Highlights the work of Jesuit priest illustrate points. Unrated. Commercial Benito Vines and the 1900 Galveston audiobook. 2020. hurricane. Unrated. Commercial audio- The Book of Humans: A Brief History book. 2020. of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with of Us Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and DB100590 5 hours 51 minutes Save Theirs by Adam Rutherford DB100593 11 hours 17 minutes read by Adam Rutherford by Richard Louv Author of Creation (DB80022) and read by Graham Winton A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Author of Last Child in the Woods Lived (DB89706) presents an over- (DB68579) and Vitamin N (DB88064) view of the evolution of homo sapiens presents an analysis of the impact of from the other great apes and what the bond between humans and animals defines us as human. Examines traits on our mental and spiritual health. thought to be human that are found in

44 Adult Nonfiction—Nature and the Environment, Philosophy, Psychology and Self-Help the animal world. Unrated. Commercial biology and sociology, to the body audiobook. 2018. through physiology and perception, and Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the to the mind through psychology and End of Air Pollution philosophy. 1984. DB100255 12 hours 4 minutes by Tim Smedley Philosophy read by Stephen Van Doren Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living Journalist chronicles efforts to reduce from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius air pollution across the world. Locations DB100976 10 hours 10 minutes examined include London, Beijing, by Ryan Holiday and Mexico City, and California. Discusses Stephen Hanselman common pollutants, impact on climate read by Ryan Holiday change, and effects on individuals. Creators of the website The Daily Stoic Presents potential governmental policies examine the lives of Stoic philosophers and personal actions to addressing the from the ancient world. Argue that it issue. Some strong language. 2019. continues to be a popular philosophy The Journeys of Trees: A Story about today due to its embrace of self-mastery, Forests, People, and the Future virtue, and indifference to that which we DB100220 7 hours 55 minutes cannot control. Unrated. Commercial by Zach St. George audiobook. 2020. read by Daniel Henning Psychology and Self-Help Journalist portrays the mechanics of Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic forest development and those who Journeys to Emotional Recovery research forests by highlighting five DB100840 13 hours 18 minutes trees—the giant sequoia, ash, black by Catherine Gildiner spruce, Florida torreya, and Monterey read by Deborah Burgess pine. Discusses the fossil records of Clinical psychologist describes five of forest migration, impact of climate her most memorable therapy patients. change, and conservation efforts. Each patient presents a mystery, one Some strong language. Commercial that will only be unpacked over years. audiobook. 2020. They seek Gildiner’s help to overcome Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of an immediate challenge in their lives, the Wind but discover that the source of their suf- DB97580 16 hours 27 minutes fering has been long buried. Unrated. by Lyall Watson Commercial audiobook. 2020. read by Bob Moore The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself Examines the natural history of wind. and the Others in Your Life Topics covered include the ways wind DB100366 14 hours 29 minutes relates to the earth in terms of physics by Helen Palmer and geography, to time through his- read by Kristin Allison tory and the future, to life through

45 Adult Nonfiction Psychology and Self-Help, Religion A guide to personality types based on Author of Unorthodox (DB74459) chron- Sufi teachings that divides people into icles her journeys—both mentally and one of nine basic groups called ennea- across the United States—to redefine grams. In addition to explaining the herself free of the expectations of her enneagram system, the author gives Hasidic Jewish upbringing. Discusses information on the characteristics, assets, her travels around Europe to trace her and pitfalls of each type. 1988. grandmother’s experiences during the Holocaust. Unrated. Commercial audio- Religion book. 2014. Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How Protestants and American Conservatism: It Works, and Why It’s Not Taking Over A Short History Our Country DB97382 15 hours 50 minutes DB100829 8 hours 47 minutes by Gillis J. Harp by Sumbul Ali-Karamali read by Kerry Dukin read by Samara Naeymi Historian reflects on the role of Attorney presents an overview to under- Protestant Christianity in American standing the religious rules and guides of conservative movements from colonial her Muslim faith—the misunderstanding times to the early twenty-first century. of which is frequently used to incite hate Questions what Protestant Christianity against practitioners. Examines the ways has done for conservatism, what allows these rules inform daily life, intersec- for their convergence in different tion with secular laws, and impact on periods, and what effects has each had on nonpractitioners. Unrated. Commercial the other. 2019. audiobook. 2020. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Supremacy in American Christianity Troubling Times DB100472 9 hours 7 minutes DB100666 7 hours 21 minutes by Robert P. Jones by Michael Curry and Sara Grace read by Holter Graham read by Michael Curry Theologian presents an examination Episcopal bishop shares the lessons of the relationship between American he has learned throughout his life, Christianity and white supremacy. focusing on faith, family, community, Discusses the theology and monu- and ancestors. Discusses his struggles ments to white supremacy in religious with his faith, racism, and choosing practices. Argues for white American love above all. Proposes works people Christians to confront the racist his- can do to propagate a loving, faith- tory of their religion and work toward filled life. Unrated. Commercial repairing the present and future. Unrated. audiobook. 2020. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Exodus: A Memoir The Penguin Book of Exorcisms DB100793 7 hours 30 minutes DB100895 10 hours 40 minutes by Deborah Feldman edited by Joseph P. Laycock read by Deborah Feldman read by Dennis Logan 46 Adult Nonfiction—Religion, Science and Technology Accounts of the practice of exor- Inventor examines a method of cre- cism through time and across cultures ativity that he fused using concepts from and religious practices. Represented fields in the arts and sciences and is cultures include the Assyrians, centered around a three-step cycle: ide- ancient Greeks, medieval Europeans, ation, experimentation, and exhibition. eighteenth-century Spanish mission- Discusses the influence of aesthetics on aries, ancient Jews, ninth-century Islam, the reception of ideas and the impact of early-twentieth-century India, and the culture in which you create. 2018. twenty-first century America. Describes Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of cultural hallmarks of demonic possession. Friendship and Physics Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. DB100896 6 hours 59 minutes God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom by Leonard Mlodinow and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador read by Dan John Miller DB97576 21 hours 43 minutes Coauthor of A Briefer History of Time by Kathryn T. Long (DB60679) reflects on his years of read by Catherine Byers friendship with physicist Hawking Historian studies the interactions of evan- (1942-2018), author of A Brief History gelical missionaries with the Waorani of Time (DB26996). Topics include indigenous group of Ecuador. Discusses Hawking’s grappling with philosophical the missionary legend of five men killed issues, living life while managing a dis- while trying to make contact, the women ability, and connecting with colleagues who came after them, life among the and friends. Unrated. Commercial audio- Waorani, conversions, and developing a book. 2020. written version of the language. 2019. The Smallest Lights in the Universe: Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life A Memoir Doesn’t Make Sense DB100225 9 hours 40 minutes DB97568 5 hours 53 minutes by Sara Seager by Paul David Tripp read by Xe Sands read by Jack Fox Astrophysicist recounts being widowed Pastor presents a meditation on the at forty by cancer with two small boys. meaning of suffering using his personal Discusses her development into an astro- story of loss, counseling experience, physicist, the ways her work helped and biblical passages. Provides ques- navigate the landscape of grief, finding tions for reflection at the end of every solace with other young widows, and chapter. 2018. finding love again. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Science and Technology Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car Creating Things That Matter: The Art & DB100832 9 hours 29 minutes Science of Innovations That Last by Anthony M. Townsend DB97818 7 hours 28 minutes read by Peter Lerman by David Edwards Scholar of the intersection of urbaniza- read by David Hartley-Margolin tion and digital technology examines the 47 Adult Nonfiction Science and Technology, Social Sciences role of driverless cars in the twenty-first and interrogates what he feels is needed century. Topics covered include the to bring about lasting change. Unrated. vision of the technology in the 1890s Commercial audiobook. 2020. and 1950s, transportation considerations Conversations in Black: On Power, in urban planning, and advancements Politics, and Leadership in artificial intelligence technology. DB100579 9 hours 3 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. by Ed Gordon read by various narrators Social Sciences A collection of essays by a radio and Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? television personality that draws on DB100712 5 hours 2 minutes his time interviewing prominent Black by Mumia Abu-Jamal leaders and influencers, including read by Jake Williams Maxine Waters, Joy Ann Reid, Angela A collection of the author’s radio com- Rye, Ben Crump, Bryan Stevenson, mentaries on the topic of racism and and others. Unrated. Commercial police violence in America. Examines audiobook. 2020. the history of policing in America and After the Last Border: Two Families and offers a Black perspective on what the Story of Refuge in America must be done in the face of racist DB100891 13 hours 24 minutes violence. 2017. by Jessica Goudeau Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist read by Soneela Nankani Discovers Her Superpower Recounts the experiences of two fam- DB100887 7 hours 0 minutes ilies of Syrian refugees who were set- by Brittney Cooper tled in Austin, Texas. Tracks the human read by Brittney Cooper impacts of America’s shifting policies Examines the stereotypes surrounding on refugees and the evolution of modern Black women’s anger as well as its refugee resettlement in America since power. Argues that feminism, friend- World War II. Unrated. Commercial ship, and faith can bring transforma- audiobook. 2020. tive change and explains her views on Being Heumann: An Unrepentant shaping the world. Unrated. Commercial Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist audiobook. 2018. DB100399 6 hours 40 minutes Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own read by Ali Stroker DB100947 7 hours 47 minutes Disability rights activist recounts her by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. lifelong battle to achieve acceptance and read by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. inclusion after being paralyzed from Princeton University professor reflects polio as a child. She describes the dif- on his disillusionment by the failure of ficulties she faced seeking education the civil rights movement to confront and work, as well as her many efforts America’s racial issues. Discusses his to seek protections that helped lead own transformation into a political writer 48 Adult Nonfiction—Social Sciences to the creation of the Americans with Separated: Inside an American Tragedy Disabilities Act. Unrated. Commercial DB100400 10 hours 42 minutes audiobook. 2020. by Jacob Soboroff Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in read by Jacob Soboroff the Story of Race NBC News and MSNBC correspon- DB100747 10 hours 35 minutes dent provides a report on the systematic by Debby Irving separation migrant families face at the read by Erin Jones American border as well as the living Author shares her uncomfortable conditions of the children in custody. The struggle to understand racism and dis- author examines how the policies leading cover her own internal biases, tolerances, to this were enacted as well as the long- and problematic if well-intentioned term human toll. Unrated. Commercial beliefs about race relations. She dis- audiobook. 2020. cusses how and why she’s changed how Big Friendship: How We Keep Each she talks about racism, approaches diver- Other Close sity, and understands the anti-racism DB100404 5 hours 36 minutes movement as a whole. Includes exercises by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman for readers. 2014. read by various narrators Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of The co-hosts of the Call Your Girlfriend Pregnant Women podcast recount the first decade of their DB100890 6 hours 48 minutes own friendship and discuss the joys by Lyz Lenz and pitfalls of long term friendship. read by Natalie Peyser The authors also examine how bonds A journalist examines the misogynistic are formed, challenged, and preserved. logic of many American cultural narra- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. tives surrounding pregnancy and reflects Bestseller. 2020. on her own experiences with pregnancy. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Search of Baseball’s Afterlife Stakes Is High: Life After the American DB100602 10 hours 0 minutes Dream by Brad Balukjian DB100624 3 hours 33 minutes read by Brad Balukjian by Mychal Denzel Smith Memoir of a man’s unusual baseball read by Mychal Denzel Smith quest. In 2015, the author tracked down Essays examining the shortcomings all fourteen players in a random pack and contradictions inherent in discourse of baseball cards from 1986. He inter- about American society and identity. viewed and spent time with the former Topics include racism, toxic masculinity, players in a trek across thirty states in capitalism, the justice system, politics, forty-eight days. Unrated. Commercial and more. Unrated. Commercial audio- audiobook. 2020. book. 2020.

49 Adult Nonfiction Sports and Recreation, Stage and Screen Sports and Recreation The Theory of Poker, Fourth Edition Elway: A Relentless Life DB100377 10 hours 27 minutes DB100800 13 hours 52 minutes by David Sklansky by Jason Cole read by Dwayne Glapion read by various narrators Gambling expert and multiple World Sportswriter examines the life and Series of Poker victor presents a guide to career of one of the NFL’s most cele- the fundamentals of the game, including brated quarterbacks. Follows his early all popular variations. Chapters on life, college years playing for Stanford, topics including bluffing, raising, the controversial entry into the NFL, long slow-play, the value of position, psy- career with the Denver Broncos, Super chology, heads-up play, game theory, and Bowl wins in 1997 and 1998, retirement, more. 1999. and personal life. Unrated. Commercial Stage and Screen audiobook. 2020. Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and DB100542 7 hours 41 minutes Their Brush with Baseball History by David Mikics DB100710 8 hours 50 minutes read by Steven Jay Cohen by Jacob Kornhauser Literary critic examines the life and read by Dwayne Glapion films of movie director Kubrick Chronicles the stories of eleven men (1928–1999). Focuses on the intense who played in just a single major league drive and perfectionism he brought to baseball game and how they responded his many influential films, including to the heartache of never making it back. Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Featuring exclusive interviews with each and A Clockwork Orange. Unrated. player, provides a look into the struggles Commercial audiobook. 2020. of being a professional ballplayer. Some Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and strong language. 2020. Dazzling Life of the World’s First Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and Superstar the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty DB100757 4 hours 17 minutes DB100975 16 hours 0 minutes by Catherine Reef by Jeff Pearlman read by Abigail Maupin read by Brian Hutchison Chronicles the life of Sarah Bernhardt Sportswriter looks at the Los Angeles (1844–1923), an international celeb- Lakers basketball team in the pivotal rity and one of the greatest performers years of 1996–2004. He focuses his of all time. Follows the transforma- attention on the rivalry and animosity tion of a French girl of humble ori- between Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe gins, born to a courtesan, who lived an Bryant, and how coach Phil Jackson eccentric and unconventional life. For managed the team that became a winning junior and senior high and older readers. dynasty. Unrated. Commercial audio- 2020. book. 2020.

50 Adult Nonfiction—Travel, US History Travel to the people and unite the nascent Walking to Jerusalem: Endurance and country. 2016. Hope on a Pilgrimage from London to My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters the Holy Land of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife DB97386 12 hours 4 minutes DB97811 5 hours 55 minutes by Justin Butcher by Ulysses S. Grant read by Barry Bernson read by Jake Williams Recounting of trip from London to Letters from famed Civil War general Jerusalem—primarily by walking—to Ulysses S. Grant to his wife, Julia Dent commemorate the hundredth anniversary Grant, ranging in time from their engage- of the Balfour Declaration. Founder of ment in 1844 until Union victory in the trip examines the history of British 1865. Provides insight into the general’s colonialism in the Middle East, discusses experiences and mental state, especially the areas they travel through, and shares during the Civil War. 2018. stories of his fellow travelers. 2019. Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an Braver than You Think: Around the American Outlaw World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) DB100403 8 hours 37 minutes Lifetime by Charles Leerhsen DB100268 11 hours 0 minutes read by Pete Simonelli by Maggie Downs Profiles infamous outlaw of the read by Gabriella Cavallero American West Robert Leroy Parker, Journalist chronicles her journey around better known as Butch Cassidy. the world as she travels to the destina- Describes Parker’s difficult childhood, tions her mother dreamed of visiting. career of crime, and ultimate flight Discusses managing and maintaining her to South America after pursuit by the relationship with her new husband as she Pinkerton Detective Agency. Unrated. travels alone, dealing with the death of a Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020. family member, and coming to an under- JFK: Coming of Age in the American standing of herself. Strong language. Century, 1917–1956 2020. DB100628 29 hours 30 minutes by Fredrik Logevall US History read by Mark Deakins George Washington’s Journey: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers President Forges a New Nation of War (DB78379) presents the first of DB100746 10 hours 16 minutes two volumes that attempt to contextu- by T.H. Breen alize President Kennedy in the American read by Gregory Maupin Century. This volume covers the first few Examines Washington’s efforts as a polit- decades of his life, discussing his child- ical strategist during his time in office. hood, rise to success, and decision to Discusses his journey to all thirteen run for president. Unrated. Commercial states to take the government directly audiobook. 2020.

51 Adult Nonfiction World History World History which was besieged early in the Syrian Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary Civil War. The author recounts how the People Became Nazis books inside were salvaged and scav- DB100379 18 hours 35 minutes enged. 2019. by Robert Gellately Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western read by Bill Wallace Pacific, 1944–1945 Examines Hitler and the Nazi Party’s DB100956 36 hours 50 minutes ideology and why the historical con- by Ian W. Toll text of that time made the nationalist read by P.J. Ochlan and socialist aspects of that ideology Author of Pacific Crucible (DB85019) appealing to so many. 2020. and The Conquering Tide (DB83785) Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and examines the final years ofWorld War Redemption in a Town under Siege II in the Pacific. Explores the combat DB97420 9 hours 58 minutes taking place in the air, sea, and beaches, by Mike Thomson while also discussing the formation read by David Hartley-Margolin of strategy and diplomacy decisions Describes a hidden library organized in in Washington and Tokyo. Unrated. 2013 in the war-torn town of Daraya, Commercial audiobook. 2020.

52 Books for Children Books and magazines are also available for Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket immediate download from the NLS Braille DB100641 6 hours 4 minutes and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site by Chris Grabenstein at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. To order books or read by Kirby Heyborne sign up for BARD, contact your local coop- A few lucky kids go on a scavenger hunt erating library. Regional library telephone inside Lemoncello Gameworks factory, numbers and email addresses are listed on where they compete for a chance to win the last pages of this magazine. a titanium ticket—the entrance to the Books are listed alphabetically within the final game. Sequel toMr. Lemoncello’s headings Children’s Fiction and Children’s All-Star Breakout Game (DB95232). Nonfiction by subject category, author Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. last name, and title. For example, the title 2020. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown Skyjacked would be listed in Children’s Fiction under DB97427 4 hours 0 minutes the Classics subject category and by the last by Paul Griffin name Brown. read by Doug Tisdale Jr. On their flight back to New York from Children’s Fiction a camping trip in Idaho, five teenagers realize that something has gone wrong. Adventure Their private plane has apparently The Canyon’s Edge been hijacked, and one of the teens has DB100926 3 hours 7 minutes become violently ill. For grades 5–8 and by Dusti Bowling older readers. 2019. read by Casey Holloway Mask: The League of Secret Heroes, A year after the death of her mother in a Book 2 restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling DB100562 5 hours 41 minutes to stay alive when a climbing trip with her by Kate Hannigan father goes terribly wrong. Commercial read by various narrators audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. Akiko, Mae, and Josie, also called the Twilight of the Elves: The Adventurers Infinity Trinity, spring into action after Guild learning that a spy is betraying secrets to DB98167 8 hours 20 minutes the Japanese military—and that Akiko’s by Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos mother may be involved. Commercial read by Johnny Heller audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. As tensions run high with the influx of Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure elf refugees, Queen Me’Shala, the leader DB100563 6 hours 2 minutes of the elves, approaches the Adventurers by Vashti Hardy Guild with a new request—to go on a read by Samuel Roukin covert mission to save her city. Sequel Twins Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm to The Adventurers Guild (DB89901). undertake a perilous journey to uncover Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. the truth about the death of their famous 2018. explorer father and his supposed sabotage 53 Children’s Fiction Adventure, Animals and Wildlife, Family of a competitor’s expedition. Commercial Animals and Wildlife audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2018. Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly DB100815 0 hours 13 minutes Adventure by Ben Clanton DB100567 1 hours 33 minutes read by various narrators by Jeff Kinney A happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving narwhal read by Christopher Gebauer and a cynical, no-nonsense jellyfish forge Roland and his best friend, Garg the an unlikely friendship and share adven- Barbarian, leave the safety of their vil- tures while exploring the ocean together. lage and embark on a quest to save Commercial audiobook. For grades K–3. Roland’s mom from the White Warlock. 2016. Sequel to Diary of an Awesome Friendly Peanut Butter and Jelly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal DB100817 0 hours 15 minutes (DB94774). Commercial audiobook. For by Ben Clanton grades 3–6 and older readers. 2020. read by various narrators The Dragon’s Tooth: Ashtown Burials, Zany escapades featuring a cheerful Book 1 narwhal and a cynical jellyfish. In one DB100932 13 hours 11 minutes adventure Narwhal learns all about by N.D. Wilson the delights of peanut butter cookies read by Thomas Vincent Kelly from Jelly. Commercial audiobook. For When their parents’ seedy old motel grades K–3. 2018. burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered Family in skeleton tattoos, siblings Cyrus, Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero Antigone, and Dan are introduced to an DB100636 5 hours 1 minutes ancient secret society, and discover that by Kelly J. Baptist they have an important role in keeping read by Adam Lazarre-White it alive. Commercial audiobook. For After his father’s death, young Isaiah grades 5–8. 2011. becomes the man of the house and takes Empire of Bones: Ashtown Burials, comfort from the superhero stories in Book 3 his father’s journal. When things go DB100934 12 hours 6 minutes from bad to worse, Isaiah searches for by N.D. Wilson a way to help his struggling family. read by Thomas Vincent Kelly Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. Hunted and on the run, siblings Cyrus 2020. and Antigone race to find the inheritance Fighting Words left to them by their benefactor, Billy DB100637 6 hours 34 minutes Bones, before rampaging transmortals by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley can descend on Ashtown and free their read by various narrators buried brothers. Commercial audiobook. Ten-year-old Della has always depended For grades 5–8. 2013. on her older sister Suki, who protected

54 Children’s Fiction—Family, Fantasy her when their mother went to prison Fantasy and their mother’s boyfriend committed The Shadow Crosser a terrible act. But when Suki attempts to DB100644 11 hours 43 minutes commit suicide, Della has to figure out by J.C. Cervantes what to do. Commercial audiobook. For read by Ozzie Rodriguez grades 5–8. 2020. When a few Mexica gods try to put their The Next Great Jane Maya counterparts out of commission, DB100745 5 hours 21 minutes it’s up to Zane and some godborns-in- by K.L. Going training to save the universe. Sequel to read by Abigail Maupin The Fire Keeper (DB96728). Commercial Jane, a budding writer and Jane Austen audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. fan, discovers the true secret to writing A Tale of Witchcraft . . . when a famous author and her cute, but DB100930 7 hours 44 minutes annoying, son come to her small coastal by Chris Colfer town. They play seemingly unwitting roles read by Chris Colfer in affecting the custody battle between Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen Jane’s Hollywood mother and marine has secured worldwide acceptance biologist father. For grades 5–8. 2020. for the magical community, but new The Tiny Mansion threats arise, including the centuries-old DB100645 5 hours 51 minutes Righteous Brotherhood that intends by Keir Graff to exterminate all magical life, begin- read by Kristen DiMercurio ning with Brystal. Sequel to A Tale of After being evicted, Dagmar and her Magic . . . (DB97720). Commercial blended family spend a summer living audiobook. For grades 5–8. 2020. off-the-grid in a tiny home parked in the The Artifact Hunters Northern California redwood forest, next DB100569 8 hours 18 minutes door to an eccentric tech billionaire and by Janet Fox his very unusual family. Commercial read by Ralph Lister audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020. After the Nazis invade Prague, Isaac A Game of Fox & Squirrels is sent to Rookskill Castle in Scotland. DB100744 5 hours 19 minutes There, Isaac trains with other gifted chil- by Jenn Reese dren who are learning to harness their read by Jill Fox magical powers to support the Allies’ After an incident shatters their family, cause. Companion to The Charmed eleven-year-old Samantha and her older Children of Rookskill Castle (DB83913). sister, Caitlin, are sent to live with an Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8 aunt they’ve never met. When Aunt and older readers. 2020. Vicky gives Sam a mysterious card The Silver Arrow game, Sam is swept up in the dangerous DB100929 3 hours 54 minutes quest, where the line between magic and by Lev Grossman reality grows thin. For grades 5–8. 2020. read by Simon Vance

55 Children’s Fiction Fantasy, Friendship Kate’s humdrum life is transformed Gustavo, the Shy Ghost when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings DB100442 0 hours 9 minutes her a colossal locomotive train, the by Flavia Z. Drago Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday read by Marisa Blake gift, leading her and her younger brother Gustavo is great at being a ghost, but on a mysterious quest. Commercial not so great at making friends. With the audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. Day of the Dead fast approaching, he Ikenga makes a plan to get the other monsters to DB100731 6 hours 29 minutes notice him. Commercial audiobook. For by Nnedi Okorafor preschool-grade 2. 2020. read by Dwayne Glapion Pavi Sharma’s Guide to Going Home In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old DB100923 5 hours 30 minutes Nnamdi is determined to avenge his by Bridget Farr police chief father, who was murdered read by Ariana Cordero while trying to rid the town of crimi- Pavi teaches other foster children how to nals. But Nnamdi feels powerless until navigate the system, so when she learns a he receives a magical object that gives young girl is being placed with a terrible him superpowers. Some violence. For foster family, she recruits friends to help grades 5–8 and older readers. 2020. save her. Commercial audiobook. For The Unready Queen: The Oddmire, grades 4–7. 2019. Book 2 Leif and the Fall DB100507 7 hours 13 minutes DB100822 0 hours 8 minutes by William Ritter by Allison Sweet Grant and Adam Grant read by Jonathan Todd Ross read by various narrators Fable, the half-human daughter of It is autumn and a very worried leaf the Queen of the Deep Dark, and her named Leif is afraid to fall. With the friends, the human and goblin brothers help of his friend Laurel, Leif uses the Cole and Tinn, discover that humans resources around him in hopes of soft- are destroying the Wild Wood and are ening his landing. Commercial audio- leading them to war. Commercial audio- book. For grades K–3. 2020. book. For grades 4–7. 2020. Seven Clues to Home DB100752 4 hours 19 minutes Friendship by Gae Polisner and Nora Raleigh Baskin Monster and Boy read by Jill Fox DB100758 0 hours 38 minutes Dreading her birthday and the reminder by Hannah Barnaby of her best friend’s senseless death a read by Jack Fox year ago, Joy plans to open the first clue When a monster, who lives under the bed, to their annual birthday scavenger hunt learns that the little boy in the room isn’t Lukas left for her the morning he died. afraid of monsters, he decides to surprise Joy just hopes the rest of the clues are the boy. But the situation quickly spirals still out there. For grades 4–7. 2020. out of control. For grades K–3. 2020. 56 Children’s Fiction—Friendship, Growing Up Something to Say A young Black boy celebrates everything DB100496 6 hours 43 minutes that makes him who he is. Commercial by Lisa Moore Ramée audiobook. For preschool-grade 2. 2020. read by Sisi Aisha Johnson Five Things about Ava Andrews Eleven-year-old Jenae, a happy introvert, DB100495 7 hours 31 minutes is surprised about her new friendship by Margaret Dilloway with Aubrey, an outgoing boy. But when read by Joy Osmanski the two are paired up for a class debate Nobody in her middle school knows about the proposed name change for their about Ava’s invisible disabilities: anxiety school, Jenae worries she can’t handle and a heart condition. When her writing the pressure. Commercial audiobook. For abilities impress her classmates and they grades 3–6. 2020. invite her to join their improv group, Ava The Day I Was Erased becomes determined to control her anx- DB100635 6 hours 51 minutes iety and discover a new side of herself. by Lisa Thompson Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. read by Alex Wingfield 2020. Twelve-year-old Maxwell, convinced Bedtime for Sweet Creatures his whole town hates him, wishes he DB100560 0 hours 7 minutes had never been born. But when Maxwell by Nikki Grimes realizes he actually is important, he read by Carra Patterson tries to get his life back with the help of A beloved and very sleepy little boy an elderly neighbor, Reg. Commercial resists his mother’s efforts to put him audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2019. to bed. Commercial audiobook. For Three Keys: A Front Desk Novel preschool-grade 2. 2020. DB100865 6 hours 13 minutes The Other Boy by Kelly Yang DB97817 4 hours 33 minutes read by Sunny Lu by M.G. Hennessey Mia Tang is excited about the new school read by Doug Tisdale Jr. year. Her family just purchased the Since Shane moved to a new town, he Calivista Motel and Mia gets to run the has been concealing the fact he is trans- front desk with her best friend Lupe in gender. But when one of his classmates her spare time! But as it turns out, sixth in the sixth grade learns Shane’s secret, grade is no picnic. Sequel to Front Desk Shane must deal with the reactions of his (DB91215). Commercial audiobook. For entire community. For grades 4–7 and grades 4–7. 2020. older readers. 2016. I Promise Growing Up DB100449 0 hours 7 minutes I Am Every Good Thing by LeBron James DB100558 0 hours 6 minutes read by Gloria James by Derrick Barnes Diverse group of students make prom- read by Joshua David Scarlett ises to each other and work to create

57 Children’s Fiction Growing Up, Historical Fiction, Humor, Mystery and Detective good habits. Commercial audiobook. For ultimately discovers what winning really preschool-grade 2. 2020. means. Commercial audiobook. For Antiracist Baby grades 4–7. 2020. DB100445 0 hours 12 minutes Tom Bites Back: Middle School Bites by Ibram X. Kendi DB100820 5 hours 29 minutes read by various narrators by Steven Banks Nine antiracist steps little ones and their read by Robbie Daymond parents can take to improve equity, Eleven-year-old Tom, a Vam-Wolf-Zom, such as opening our eyes to all skin meets the ancient vampire who bit him, colors and celebrating all our differ- and convinces her to teach him such ences. Commercial audiobook. For important things as how to fly and how preschool-grade 2. 2020. to hypnotize people. Sequel to Middle School Bites (DB98731). Commercial Historical Fiction audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. Letters from Cuba Team Spirit: Dave the Unicorn DB100506 6 hours 1 minutes DB100759 1 hours 31 minutes by Ruth Behar by Pip Bird read by Rebecca Soler read by Jill Fox In 1938, young Esther joins her father Mira and her unicorn, Dave, are strug- in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where gling during the Unicorn School Field they toil together to rescue the rest of Day when they discover a series of mis- their Jewish family from persecution haps that make them wonder if everyone in Poland. Commercial audiobook. For is playing fair. Sequel to Welcome grades 3–6. 2020. to Unicorn School (DB100336). For Brother’s Keeper grades 2–4. 2019. DB100446 7 hours 44 minutes Are You Eating Candy without Me? by Julie Lee DB100443 0 hours 7 minutes read by Cindy Kay by Draga Jenny Malesevic Twelve-year-old Sora and her younger read by Rachel L. Jacobs brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape Four children from four different fami- North Korea’s oppressive Communist lies imagine what wild and zany adven- regime on their own in 1950. tures adults do when they’re not with Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. them! Commercial audiobook. For 2020. preschool–grade 2. 2020. Humor Mystery and Detective Milo Moss Is Officially Un-Amazing Midnight at the Barclay Hotel DB100927 4 hours 36 minutes DB100640 4 hours 27 minutes by Lauren Allbright by Fleur Bradley read by James Fouhey read by January LaVoy Milo and his parents desperately want to JJ thought he was going to a run-of- win a Guinness World Record, but Milo the-mill ghost hunting experience at the 58 Children’s Fiction—Mystery and Detective, Scary Stories most haunted spot in town. But when Europe as Nancy becomes involved in a he arrives at the Barclay Hotel and his plot to smuggle refugee children across mother becomes a murder suspect, he the Austrian border. For grades 3–6. realizes his weekend is going to be any- 1981. thing but ordinary. Commercial audio- The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter book. For grades 3–6. 2020. DB100564 4 hours 24 minutes Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, by Aaron Reynolds Books 54–56 read by Christopher Gebauer DB100265 10 hours 32 minutes Cursed by a vintage game, sixth-grader by Carolyn Keene Rex Dexter uses his new ability to com- read by Kristin Allison municate with dead animals to investi- Three mysteries, published 1977-1979, gate the mysterious deaths of endangered featuring amateur sleuth Nancy Drew. zoo animals. Commercial audiobook. For While trying to recover a set of stolen grades 3–6. 2020. parchment paintings, Nancy becomes The Mystery of the Masked Medalist: involved in tracking a kidnapper and Kudo Kids extortionist in The Strange Message DB100823 5 hours 34 minutes in the Parchment. Includes Mystery of by Maia Shibutani and others Crocodile Island and The Thirteenth read by various narrators Pearl. For grades 3–6. 1979. While attending the 2020 Summer Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Olympics in Tokyo, siblings Andy and Books 60–62 Mika find themselves immersed in DB100373 9 hours 39 minutes OlympiFan, a game where people from by Carolyn Keene all over the world search the host city for read by Kristin Allison virtual medals and race to uncover clues. Three mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. Nancy Drew and her friends. In The 2020. Greek Symbol Mystery, the group inves- tigates two cases in Greece. Includes Scary Stories The Swami’s Ring and The Kachina Doll The Fear Zone Mystery. For grades 3–6. 1981. DB100503 5 hours 19 minutes Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, by K.R. Alexander Books 63–64 read by various narrators DB100734 7 hours 17 minutes When five kids are invited to a cemetery by Carolyn Keene at midnight, they think it’s just a prank. read by Laura Hatch But when they find a gravestone that In The Twin Dilemma, when a model instructs them to dig up a grave, they disappears, Nancy takes her place in a unleash an evil force that takes the shape benefit fashion show and helps track of their worst fears. Commercial audio- down a dress thief. In Captive Witness, book. For grades 4–7. 2019. trouble plagues a student tour through

59 Children’s Fiction Scary Stories, School, Science Fiction, Sports Stories The Last Kids on Earth and the Things Seen from Above Skeleton Road DB100561 5 hours 19 minutes DB100868 4 hours 26 minutes by Shelley Pearsall by Max Brallier read by various narrators read by Robbie Daymond Looking to escape the sixth-grade lunch Now wielding the Midnight Blade, Jack hour social scene, April volunteers for Sullivan and the gang are furiously the Buddy Bench at recess. Her per- searching for the villainous Thrull and spective shifts after she encounters and his skeleton army. But soon they are pur- observes Joey, a boy who wanders the sued by a new threat. Sequel to The Last playground and carries his own spe- Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade cial story. Commercial audiobook. For (DB97080). Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. grades 3–6. 2020. Paola Santiago and the River of Tears Science Fiction DB100642 10 hours 16 minutes Glitch by Tehlor Kay Mejia DB100444 8 hours 26 minutes read by Frankie Corzo by Laura Martin Silver Springs, Arizona. Her mother’s read by various narrators stories of the monstrous La Llorona Adversaries Regan and Elliot train are thrilling but unbelievable to together to become Glitchers—people science-loving Paola—until she and her who travel through time to preserve best friends take a walk through a cactus important historical events. But every- field near the Gila River. Commercial thing changes when they find a letter audiobook. For grades 5–8. 2020. from Regan’s future self, warning them about an impending disaster that School threatens them all. Commercial audio- How to Test a Friendship: The book. For grades 4–7. 2020. Magnificent Makers, Book 1 DB100762 0 hours 57 minutes Sports Stories by Theanne Griffith The Turnover read by Abigail Maupin DB100448 4 hours 53 minutes With the help of a fun, odd scientist, by Mike Lupica Violet, Pablo, and Deepak embark on an read by Ali Andre Ali adventure in the Maker Maze, a magical When a young basketball star decides to laboratory full of robots, zero gravity research his grandfather—and coach— chambers, and dancing plants. For for a school project, he uncovers a grades 2–4. 2020. decades-old scandal that changes every- thing he thought he knew about his grandfather. Commercial audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2020.

60 Children’s Fiction—Sports Stories, Westerns Before the Ever After Westerns DB100643 2 hours 17 minutes City of Gold by Jacqueline Woodson DB100447 5 hours 33 minutes read by Guy Lockard by Will Hobbs A novel in verse. ZJ’s friends Ollie, read by Donald Corren Darry and Daniel help him cope when Determined to recover his family’s his father, a beloved professional foot- mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined ball player, suffers severe headaches by his kid brother and Telluride’s noto- and memory loss that spell the end of rious marshal in pursuit of a rustler—all his career. Commercial audiobook. For the way to Butch Cassidy’s hideout! grades 5–8. 2020. Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020.

61 Children’s Nonfiction Animals, Biography, Career and Job Training Children’s Nonfiction sustained him. Commercial audiobook. For grades 6–9. 2019. Animals and Wildlife Finish the Fight! The Brave and The Superpower Field Guide, Books 2–4 Revolutionary Women Who Fought for DB100751 4 hours 34 minutes the Right to Vote by Rachel Poliquin DB100754 3 hours 52 minutes read by Theresa Conkin by Veronica Chambers and the staff of Explores the extraordinary character- the New York Times istics of three animals. In Moles, the read by Theresa Conkin velvety, potato-shaped mammal digs Profiles the unsung heroines of the wom- incredible tunnels in dirt. In Ostriches, en’s suffrage movement and includes the super-sized bird uses telescopic women of different races and sexual vision and toe claws of death! In Eels, orientations. Recounts their stories and the long fish use stealthy subma- trailblazing efforts that helped change the rine mode along the ocean floor. For fabric of America. For grades 4–7. 2020. grades 2–4. 2020. The Sound of Silence: Growing Up Biography Hearing with Deaf Parents DB97820 4 hours 53 minutes Joey: The Story of Joe Biden by Myron Uhlberg DB100439 0 hours 21 minutes read by Bill Wallace by Jill Biden and Kathleen Krull Memoir of award-winning author that read by Jill Biden tells the story of growing up as the Wife of former Vice President and pres- hearing son of deaf parents during the idential candidate Joe Biden recounts Great Depression and WWII. Details his childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, his life in a world that he found unac- his perseverance and leadership from countably beautiful, even as he longed his earliest years, his struggles to to escape it. For grades 3–6 and older overcome stuttering, his relation- readers. 2019. ships with his family, and his political career. Commercial audiobook. For Career and Job Training preschool-grade 2. 2020. Bee Fearless: Dream Like a Kid Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey DB100559 4 hours 56 minutes from World War II to Peace by Mikaila Ulmer and Brin Stevens DB100565 1 hours 19 minutes read by Mikaila Ulmer by Ashley Bryan Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur read by Dion Graham and one of Time Magazine’s Top 30 Memoir of celebrated author and illus- Most Influential Teens, Mikaila Ulmer, trator. Bryan recalls his time serving in shares her advice for life and business. the segregated army during World War Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8. II, and how love and the pursuit of art 2020.

62 Children’s Nonfiction—Government, Hobbies, Religion, Science and Technology Government and Politics Children begin to explore their faith as Guardians of Liberty: Freedom of the they look for God’s voice in the world Press and the Nature of News around them. Commercial audiobook. DB100761 4 hours 28 minutes For grades K–3. 2020. by Linda Barrett Osborne Science and Technology read by Theresa Conkin Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science Explores the essential and basic behind Your Favorite Monsters American ideal of allowing the press DB97583 6 hours 9 minutes to publish without previous censure or by Carlyn Beccia interference by the federal government. read by Eva Wilhelm Cites numerous examples demonstrating Presents the origins of eight scary crea- why the First Amendment is still imper- tures: Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, ative and valued today. For grades 6–9 zombies, King Kong, werewolves, the and older readers. 2020. kraken, Bigfoot, and Godzilla. Uses sci- Hobbies and Crafts ence to explain the myth and discusses Monsters & Creatures: A Young the events that led to the rise of the Adventurer’s Guide; Dungeons & beasts. For grades 5–8. 2019. Dragons Brains On! Presents . . . It’s Alive: From DB98259 2 hours 32 minutes Neurons and Narwhals to the Fungus by Jim Zub and others among Us read by Eva Wilhelm DB100924 4 hours 30 minutes Guide to the creatures role-players by Molly Bloom and others encounter in the world of Dungeons & read by various narrators Dragons. Grouped by locations, each The team from the kids’ science podcast beast profile includes a description of Brains On! provides a fun, fact-filled their traits, lair, special powers, and level look at biology from animals and plants of danger. For grades 4–7 and older to the human body and microorganisms. readers. 2019. Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2020. Religion Jefferson Measures a Moose God Speaks in Whispers DB100450 0 hours 18 minutes DB100824 0 hours 10 minutes by Mara Rockliff by Mark Batterson and read by Bronson Pinchot Summer Batterson Dailey Explores how Thomas Jefferson was able read by various narrators to prove through numbers that America was a nation worthy of investment. Commercial audiobook. For grades 2–4. 2020.

63 Children’s Nonfiction Science and Technology, Sports and Recreation The Big One: The Cascadia Earthquakes Sports and Recreation and the Science of Saving Lives LeBron James: G.O.A.T.; Making the DB100753 2 hours 36 minutes Case for the Greatest of All Time by Elizabeth Rusch DB100760 2 hours 55 minutes read by Theresa Conkin by Bob Gurnett Explores earth movement and plate tec- read by Jack Fox tonics, and the possibility of earthquakes Describes the life and career of LeBron at the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), James, from his career in high school to an area between British Columbia and his play as a forward in the NBA, along northern California. Includes informa- with statistics suggesting that he should tion on how to prepare for an earth- be considered one of the greatest basket- quake in your home and community. For ball players of all time. For grades 5–8. grades 5–8. 2020. 2019.

64 Foreign Language Español La Hija Olvidada (The Daughter’s Tale) DB97802 9 hours 36 minutes Los libros presentes en esta edición de por Armando Lucas Correa Talking Book Topics (Temas de Libros leído por Catherine Nunez Parlantes) se enviaron recientemente a las En 2015, en la Ciudad de Nueva York, bibliotecas de cooperación. La colección Elise Duval, de ochenta años, es visitada completa, que contiene una amplia gama de por una mujer que lleva mensajes de libros de ficción y no ficción, incluyendo su pasado muy lejano. En 1939 Berlín, biografías, clásicos, de vaqueros, misterios, Amanda Sternberg se ve obligada a y romancias, se puede encontrar en huir después de que su esposo Julius es www.loc.gov/nls. enviado a un campo de concentración. Los usuarios registrados también pueden En Francia, ella toma una decisión descargar de inmediato todos los títulos y inquietante. (In 2015 New York City, revistas del servicio de Descarga de Lectura eighty-year-old Elise Duval is visited en Braille y Audio del NLS (BARD) en by a woman bearing messages from https://nlsbard.loc.gov. La aplicación móvil her very distant past. In 1939 Berlin, de BARD está disponible en la App Store, Amanda Sternberg is forced to flee after Google Play, y en la Appstore de Amazon her husband Julius is sent to a concen- para leer audiolibros en su teléfono inteli- tration camp. In France, she makes a gente o su tableta personal. Para conocer haunting choice.) 2019. más sobre la colección o para registrarse La Historia de Mis Dientes (The Story of para utilizar BARD, comuníquese con My Teeth) su biblioteca de cooperación local. Los DB100772 3 hours 58 minutes números de teléfono y las direcciones de por Valeria Luiselli correo electrónico de las bibliotecas regio- leído por Aurelio Dominguez nales se encuentran en las últimas páginas Gustavo “Carretera” Sánchez Sánchez, de esta revista. residente de la Ciudad de México, es un Nota: Puede aparecer un aviso inmedia- coleccionista. Empezó como un humilde tamente a continuación de la descripción guardia de seguridad y llegó a ser un del libro para indicar escenas de violencia, subastador famoso, pero su pasión es lenguaje violento o descripciones de sexo. coleccionar dientes. Contiene algunas La palabra “algunas” antes de cualquiera de descripciones de índole sexual. (Mexico estos términos indica un hecho ocasional o City resident Gustavo “Highway” poco frecuente, como por ejemplo “lenguaje Sánchez Sánchez is a collector. He began violento poco frecuente”. Los audiolibros as a humble security guard and rose to comerciales de los cuales el NLS no tiene be a famous auctioneer, but his passion acceso al libro impreso, pueden presentar is collecting teeth. Some descriptions of el aviso “sin calificación”, lo que significa sex.) 2013. que el libro puede contener o no violencia, lenguaje violento o descripciones de sexo.

65 Foreign Language Tiende Tu Cama y Otros Pequeños La Isla de las Mujeres del Mar (The Hábitos Que Cambiarán Tu Vida y el Island of Sea Women) Mundo (Make Your Bed: Little Things DB100781 15 hours 46 minutes That Can Change Your Life . . . And por Lisa See Maybe The World) leído por Catherine Nunez DB100777 2 hours 14 minutes Mi-ja y Young-sook son las mejores por William H. McRaven amigas, aunque sus antecedentes son leído por Reynaldo Infante notablemente diferentes. Cuando llegan Un almirante retirado de la Marina de los a la mayoría de edad, se unen al colec- EE.UU. amplía el discurso de apertura tivo femenino de buceo de su pueblo, que dio y que se convirtió en un video dirigido por la madre de Young-sook. viral de YouTube. Comparte algunos de Sin embargo, el parentesco de Mi-ja la los principios que aprendió durante su marca por el desprecio y separa a las entrenamiento como SEAL de la Marina amigas mientras la guerra se avecina. que le han ayudado a lo largo de su vida. Algunas descripciones de violencia. (A retired US Navy admiral expands Traducido del inglés. (Mi-ja and Young- upon the commencement address he gave sook are best friends, even though their that became a viral YouTube video. He backgrounds are markedly different. shares some of the principles he learned When they come of age, they join their while training as a Navy SEAL that have village’s all-female diving collective, helped him throughout his life.) 2017. which is run by Young-sook’s mother. La Vida a Ratos (Life in Intervals) However, Mi-ja’s parentage marks her DB97798 15 hours 16 minutes for scorn and drives the friends apart as por Juan José Millás war looms. Some violence.) 2019. leído por Aurelio Dominguez Érase una vez la taberna Swan Es el diario de más de tres años de vida (Once Upon a River) de un personaje llamado Juan José Millás. DB97807 16 hours 40 minutes Las visitas a la psicoanalista, el taller de por Diane Setterfield escritura, los paseos por una ciudad que leído por María Pino no deja de colocarle ante situaciones sor- Inglaterra, 1887. En la taberna Swan a presivas, la familia, los amigos. . . todo es lo largo del río Támesis, la narración de normal hasta que, al volver una esquina cuentos es el intercambio comercial. Una de la realidad, aparece lo surrealista. (The noche, un hombre desconocido llega con diary of more than three years in the life el cuerpo sin vida de una niña pequeña. of a character named Juan José Millas. Cuando se despierta, tres familias la rec- The therapist visits, the writing workshop, laman. Pero antes de que se decida su the walks through a city that never stops identidad, los secretos deben ser reve- placing him in surprising situations, his lados. Traducido de la edición en inglés. family, his friends—everything is normal (England, 1887. At the Swan Inn along until, turning a corner from reality, the the River Thames, storytelling is the surreal appears.) 2019. stock-in-trade. One night, an unknown

66 Español man arrives with the lifeless body of a small girl. When she wakes, three fam- ilies claim her. But before her identity is decided, secrets must be revealed. Translated from the English edition.) 2019. El Atraco (The Heist) DB100941 14 hours 32 minutes por Daniel Silva leído por Fernando Solis Lara El legendario espía y restaurador de arte Gabriel Allon se entera de que su amigo, el tratante de arte Julian Isherwood, se ha topado con la escena de un ases- inato en el lago Como y está detenido como sospechoso. Para salvarlo, Gabriel debe encontrar al verdadero asesino y el cuadro desaparecido más famoso del mundo. Sin calificación. Audiolibro comercial. Traducido del inglés. (Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon learns his friend, art dealer Julian Isherwood, has stumbled upon a murder scene in Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. To save him, Gabriel must find the real killer and the most famous missing painting in the world. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.) 2014.

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68 Audio Magazines For a free subscription to these magazines, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (12 issues) contact your cooperating library or sub- Kiplinger’s Retirement Report (12 issues) scribe through BARD or BARD Mobile. Magazine of the Month (12 issues) Missouri Conservationist (12 issues) AARP Bulletin (10 issues) and AARP Muse (9 issues) The Magazine (6 issues) Musical Mainstream (4 issues) on one cartridge The Nation (35 issues) American History (6 issues) National Geographic (12 issues) Analog Science Fiction and Fact (6 issues) National Geographic Kids (10 issues) Asimov’s Science Fiction (6 issues) National Review (24 issues) The Atlantic (10 issues) The New Yorker (52 issues) Audubon (5 issues) The New York Times Book Review Das Beste aus Reader’s Digest (52 issues) (German; 12 issues) Oklahoma Today (6 issues) Bon Appétit (10 issues) Outdoor Life (4 issues) Consumer Reports (12 issues) People (52 issues) Contemporary Sound Track: A Review People en Español (Spanish; 9 issues) of Pop, Jazz, Rock, and Country Piano Technicians Journal (12 issues) (6 issues) QST: Devoted Entirely to Amateur Radio Cowboys and Indians (8 issues) (12 issues) Cricket (9 issues) Quarterly Music Magazine (4 issues) Diabetes Forecast (6 issues) Reader’s Digest (10 issues) Discover (10 issues) Rolling Stone (12 issues) The Economist (51 issues) Smithsonian (11 issues) Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (6 issues) Sound & Vision (10 issues) Essence (6 issues) Southern Living (13 issues) Foreign Affairs (6 issues) Spider (for children; 9 issues) France-Amérique (French; 12 issues) Sports Illustrated (27 issues) Good Housekeeping (12 issues) Sports Illustrated Kids (11 issues) Harper’s Bazaar Magazine (12 issues) Talking Book Topics (6 issues; also contains Health and Nutrition Newsletters NLS News, published in 4 issues) [includes Scientific American—Health Travel & Leisure (12 issues) after Fifty (12 issues), Mayo Clinic True West (10 issues) Health Letter, (12 issues) and Nutrition Vital Speeches of the Day (12 issues) Action Healthletter (10 issues)] The Week (48 issues) Horticulture (6 issues) Wired (12 issues) Humpty Dumpty (6 issues) The Writer (12 issues) Jack and Jill (6 issues) Yankee Magazine (6 issues)

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