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The 6th Lamentation

Author: William Brodrick

Reader: Graeme Malcolm

Format: 7 CDs (Abridged)

An edgy exploration of history's legacies and the way time changes memory. Long-ago events in wartime France intersect with present-day England, and the lives of a Nazi criminal and a dying woman gradually, shockingly converge. A well-readstaff member says, "It's one of the those wonderful few that are hard to put down." "Malcolm's beautiful baritone voice, draped in a crisp British brogue, artfully drifts through a textured quilt of European accents."—Booklist

Item #: M7Z782 ISBN: 9781565117822

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Alibi

Author: Sydney Bauer

Reader: Bill Ten Eyck

Format: 14 CDs (Unabridged)

Jessica Nagoshi, the beautiful heiress to her father's billion dollar empire, is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate.

Item #: M9N7102 ISBN: 9781743107102

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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Author: Jack Kerouac

Reader: Ray Porter

Format: Playaway (Unabridged)

The legendary unpublished collaboration between Kerouac and Burroughs, a hard-boiled crime novel about a murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation. In 1944, a mutual friend killed another and dropped the body into the Hudson River. The writers tell of bohemian New York during WWII, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence. "[Porter's] tone and attitude evoke a sense of grittiness inherent in the text... [His] convincing and consistent vocal characterizations keep the performance lively and engaging."—Publishers Weekly

Item #: MP6547 ISBN: 9781433256547

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Angelica

Author: Arthur Phillips

Reader: Susan Lyons

Format: 11 CDs (Unabridged)

Terrified, Constance is convinced that supernatural evil is threatening her and her daughter. She calls upon a spiritualist to help her, but she becomes even more distraught. The author of The Egyptologist tells this tale from four points of view: wife, husband, seer, and daughter. Nothing here is as it seems. "A spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness."—The New Yorker

Item #: M9X478 ISBN: 9781428124783

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Backseat Saints

Author/Reader: Joshilyn Jackson

Joshilyn Jackson

Format: 11 CDs (Unabridged)

Rose is trapped in a marriage thick with love and sick with abuse. When a fortuneteller warns that her husband will kill her – unless she kills him first – Rose takes off, hunting for her missing mother and the answer to familysecrets. She realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate: death by marriage. "Absorbing and rewarding... Rose's salvation, when it comes, is positively breathtaking."—Booklist

Item #: M8W222 ISBN: 9781607882220

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Beautiful Malice

Author: Rebecca James

Reader: Justine Eyre

Format: 6 CDs (Unabridged)

Desperate to erase her past and keep her secrets, Katherine runs to a new town and changes her name, hoping to disappear. But instead of anonymity, she finds a friend: a girl who's the center of attention. But Alice has secrets, too – darker than anyone can imagine. And when Katherine lets her guard down at last, she discovers the darkest of them all. "Impressive... unflinching exploration of psychological manipulation."—Publishers Weekly

Item #: M7M815 ISBN: 9781400118151

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Bent Road

Author: Lori Ray

Reader: Marguerite Gavin

Format: 8 CDs (Unabridged)

For 20 years Arthur has hidden from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when Detroit's 1967 riots frighten him more than his past, he and his family return to his small Kansas hometown and confront the past. "Outstanding...melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place."—Publishers Weekly

Item #: M9B060 ISBN: 9781441780607

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Blackberry Winter

Author: Sarah Jio

Reader: Tara Sands

Format: 9 CDs (Unabridged)

Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and departs to work the night-shift at a local hotel. She emerges to discover that a May-Day snow has blanketed the city, and that her son has disappeared. Seattle, 2010. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, assigned to cover the May 1 "blackberry winter" storm and its twin, learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth. Are she and Vera linked in unexpected ways?

Item #: M8N7352 ISBN: 9781469217352

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The Brave

Author: Nicholas Evans

Reader: Michael Emerson

Format: 9 CDs (Unabridged)

Tom has a violent past, but he's put it behind him – along with his family. But when his estranged son is charged with murder, Tom confronts his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away. As the two struggle to understand one another, they also learn the true meaning of bravery. "The master of intense and complex relationships."—Booklist

Item #: M9W6297 ISBN: 9781607886297

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Bringing out the Dead

Author: Joe Connelly

Reader: Campbell Scott

Format: 2 Cassettes (Abridged)

*Follow the intense life of a brash EMS medic during two days of working the streets of Hell's Kitchen. Addicted to the thrill, he is also drowning in five years' worth of grief and guilt. The movie stars Nicholas Cage.

Item #: M2R2227 ISBN: 9780375402227

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