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2009 Road Trip: Family Listening for Adults and Young Adults |
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Adult
AUDIO BOOKs ~ Fiction
Adult
AUDIO BOOKs ~ Nonfiction
Young Adult AUDIO BOOKs on CD ~ Fiction
(Available on the Mezzanine)
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Wintergirls
Laurie Halse Anderson
Best friends Lia and Cassie compete in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie’s demons finally overpower her, Lia feels haunted by her friend's restless spirit. |
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Peter Cameron
Eighteen-year-old James lives in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother and struggles desperately to find a purpose for his life. |
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City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare
Sixteen-year-old Clary is attempting to sort out changing events and relationships in her life. When she becomes involved with the Shadowhunters, she uncovers frightening truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon. |
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Attack of the Fiend
Joseph Delaney
When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom the Spook and Alice head for dangerous Pendle Hill in hopes of preventing the witch clans from bringing forth the age of darkness. |
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Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Following days of interrogation by the Department of the Homeland Security in the wake of a San Francisco terrorist attack, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into a police state and decides to use computer hacking skills to set things right. |
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In Search of Mockingbird
Loretta Ellsworth
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin is presented with her deceased mother's diary, which reveals that she also cherished Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and wanted to be a writer. Thrilled by this information, Erin hastily takes the Greyhound from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama to visit the reclusive author. |
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The Devil's Breath
David Gilman
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father is discovered missing while working in Namibia, Max becomes the target of an assassination attempt at his school in England. Convinced that he alone can protect his father from certain death, Max journeys to Africa in search of him.
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Paper Towns
John Green
Dressed as an avenging ninja, Margo Roth Spiegelman summons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night. He follows her unquestioningly after a lifetime of loving and admiring Margo from afar. But Quentin’s happiness and joy are fleeting as Margo vanishes with the dawn. |
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Get Well Soon
Julie Halpern
When her parents commit her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenaged girl who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend. |
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Crank
Ellen Hopkins
Junior Kristina Snow is a good student, but when her drug-dealing father introduces her to crystal meth (‘crank’), Kristina assumes a drug addicted alter ego named Bree, who is bold, sexy, and fearless. Bree's insatiable need for crank involves her in dangerous situations. This free verse novel mirrors Ellen Hopkins' experience with her own daughter. |
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Genius Squad
Catherine Jinks
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is forced into foster care and is constantly monitored by police to protect him from the evil Prosper. An offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad with his friend Sonja becomes an opportunity for both teens to destroy an evil corporation. |
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Cybele's Secret
Juliet Marillier
Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father travel from Transylvania to Istanbul in order to purchase an ancient pagan relic, rumored to possess sacred power. Others, however, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and a messenger from Wildwood also desire the magical treasure.
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers
Robin Perry, born and reared in Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003, as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion. Myers’ book narrates profound changes Perry experiences during his tour of duty. |
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Ghost Medicine
Andrew Smith
Still mourning the death of his mother and trying to find direction for his life, seventeen-year-old Troy reveals the events of the previous summer in this tender, yet realistic coming-of-age narrative.
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