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New Audiobooks

                                Recent Additions to The Ferguson Library Collection

All selections below are unabridged versions of the original books on compact disc or Playaway portable audiobook.  For downloadable audiobooks, please visit the Library's digital media page.

 

Brown, Dan
Inferno
FIC BROWN

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of the last two days. He's surprised to find himself in Florence, Italy, and even more shocked to discover that someone is trying to kill him for what he knows.  Source: Library Journal, May 17, 2013

Chevalier, Tracy
The Last Runaway
FIC CHEVALIER

English Quaker Honor Bright wants nothing more than to lead a simple and righteous life, but when her engagement to her childhood sweetheart is broken, Honor sails for America and the great unknown of the Ohio frontier.  Source: Library Journal, Dec 01, 2012


Oates, Joyce Carol
The Accursed
FIC OATES
 
High-strung and ambitious Woodrow Wilson is the president of Princeton, an elite WASP enclave that finds itself caught in the grip of inexplicable terror.  This is a lush, arch, and blistering fusion of historical fact, supernatural mystery, and devilish social commentary.  Source: Booklist, Dec 15, 2012


Block, Lawrence
Hit Me
FIC BLOCK

Stamp collector Keller has done well rehabbing homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. But the Great Recession has flattened his business, and Keller, somewhat reluctantly, returns to his lucrative but lethal former trade.  Source: Booklist, Dec 15, 2012 


Sandberg, Sheryl
Lean In:  Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
658.4 S213l

Sandberg's experience as a woman in the workforce began with her time as an early employee at Google before she held the position of chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department and FaceBook.com. A lively story on a topic relevant to all working women.  Source: Library Journal, April 01, 2013 

 

Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Brothers Emanuel: Memoir of an American Family
977.311043 E531b

The oldest of three boys, Ezekiel  recalls growing up in Chicago in the 1960's and 70's with his brothers, Rahm and Ari, their pediatrician father Ben, and activist mother Marsha.  A beautiful portrait of growing up Jewish in an era of profound social change.  Source:  PW Annex Reviews, April 08, 2013


Angelou, Maya
Mom & Me & Mom
809 A584m

When Angelou was three her parents separated and sent both Maya and her brother to live with their grandmother. When Angelou was reunited with her mother ten years later, the initial relationship was difficult, though eventually they formed a strong bond.  Source:  Library Journal, March 15, 2013

 

 

Lehr, Dick
Whitey: the Life of America’s Notorious Mob Boss
364.1 B933L

This biography examines the  forces in in Whitey Bulger’s  criminal education, from the streets of his boyhood South Boston to his cell in Alcatraz to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI.  Here is the  emergence of one of the most powerful crime bosses of the 20th century.  Source: From the Publisher