Blackstone Audio
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
At the onset of World War II, nearly 5000 Americans remained in Paris, despite Nazi occupation. Many of them believed that their country's neutrality would shield them from persecution. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Here, Charles Glass compiles letters, diaries, and documents to reveal the full extent Americans played during the occupation.
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Language
English
Description
Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat's single mother warned her that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother's fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Marrying into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree has all a woman could ever dream: a loving lawyer husband, two talented young teenage daughters, a new baby boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world. Until the day Bree awakens and...
3) Red queen
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Series
Red queen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
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Language
English
Description
Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destination of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart--and who helps Annie fix up her rental cottage by the sea; Mellie, the reclusive,...
Author
Series
Carolina heirlooms volume 2
Language
English
Description
Successful New York editor, Jen Gibbs, is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing -- until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped by dangerous men in the turn of the century Appalachia. A risky hunch may lead to The Story Keeper's hidden origins and its unknown author, but when the trail...
Author
Series
Atlee Pine volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six. She is being pressured to end her investigation into Mercy's disappearance when she gets her most promising breakthrough yet: the identity of the kidnapper, Ito Vincenzo. Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum race to Vincenzo's last known location in Trenton, New Jersey-- and unknowingly stumble straight into military investigator John Puller's high-stakes...
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Language
English
Description
Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin stepkids are moving in, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated. Lillian is convinced...
Author
Language
English
Description
Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any moment, Jodie knows she stands to lose everything. It's...
9) Echo Lake
Author
Series
Swift River Valley volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the scenic backdrop of a New England winter, Echo Lake is a captivating tale of family, friends, and the possibility of new love.
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Language
English
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Description
"This sweeping story, set during the tumultuous final decades of the twentieth century, begins in 1973, when the Ericksons of Grenada, Iowa, gather for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Anita. Even as they celebrate, the fault lines in the family emerge. The bride just wants to raise a family in her hometown while her brother, Ryan, plans his escape. He is joined by their cousin Chip, an unpredictable, war-damaged loner who will show Ryan both...
13) The red thread
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey toward...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier,10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly, begins to hear strange sounds in the night coming from the ocean, and she seeks answers from the...
15) Devote yourself to the public reading of scripture: the transforming power of the well-spoken word
Author
Publisher
Christianaudio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
How would your church be transformed if reading Scripture was a highlight of your services? Grounded in both solid theology and communication theory, this book will teach listeners how to present Scripture in a compelling way. The comprehensive approach includes simple delivery skills, how to build a culture that values public reading, group reading, and how to prepare yourself spiritully, mentally, and emotionally for public reading.
16) Wild Storm
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Series
Derrick Storm thriller volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Derrick Storm, the guy the CIA calls on when it wants something investigated domestically, is thirty-three thousand feet in the air, returning from a rock climbing vacation in the Swiss Alps, when the plane spirals into a nosedive. Storm uses his climbing gear to tether himself to the wing and heroically save the plane and all the people on board. Sadly, Storm is not available to come to the aid of the three other planes that have crashed under similar...
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Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and restored order. With the ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not five owl kingdoms--as has been thought since time immemorial--but six. Coryn and the Chaw of Chaws set off to find this unknown land and, in a landscape...
18) Chain of gold
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Series
Last hours volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows-- with demons waiting in the dark. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. James and Lucie Herondale have listened to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London-- along with a remorseless and inescapable plague. James believes he has found love in the mysterious Grace Blackthorn....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
Description
Hitler's forces had pressed in on the small Belgian town in a desperate offensive designed to push back the Allies, starting the Battle of the Bulge. So far, the US soldiers had managed to repel waves of attackers and even a panzer onslaught, but as their ammunition dwindled, the weary paratroopers of the 101st Airborne could only hope for a miracle--a miracle in the form of General George S. Patton and his Third Army. More than a hundred miles away,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Big Hero 6 features brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion--a robot named Baymax--Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city.