Random House Audio Publishing
21) Rising strong
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brene Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to a...
22) Omen
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Series
Star Wars novels. Fate of the Jedi volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The late Jacen Solo's shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Order's influence within the Galactic Alliance.
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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An impeccably researched, definitive biography that for the first time captures Ted Kennedy's life, from the author of 4 New York Times bestsellers about the Kennedy family.
In his nearly fifty years in the United States Senate, Edward "Ted" Kennedy has earned admiration for his powerful oratory as well as his powerful ideals. But he has also earned a reputation as an alcoholic and philanderer. Klein seeks to reconcile...
In his nearly fifty years in the United States Senate, Edward "Ted" Kennedy has earned admiration for his powerful oratory as well as his powerful ideals. But he has also earned a reputation as an alcoholic and philanderer. Klein seeks to reconcile...
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Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History.
Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist...
Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist...
25) Swim back to me
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English
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Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
26) Annihilation
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English
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Joined by hot-headed smuggler Teff'ith, with whom Theron Shan has an inexplicable bond, and wise Jedi warrior Gnost-Dural, Darth Karrid's former master, Theron Shan must match wits and weapons with a battle-tested crew of the most cold-blooded dark side disciples. But time is brutally short.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
"Blending common sense and modern psychiatry, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times. How can we expect to find happiness and meaning in our lives when the modern world seems such an unhappy place? His Holiness the Dalai Lama has suffered...
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English
Description
“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red. It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful...
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Language
English
Description
In the years since the publication of Hawking's A Brief History of Time, readers have repeatedly told Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts. This is the reason for A Briefer History: his wish to make its content more accessible to readers--as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary...
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English
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.
“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington Post
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and
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Language
English
Description
From the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court comes this fascinating book about the history and evolution of the highest court in the land. Out of Order sheds light on the centuries of change and upheaval that transformed the Supreme Court from its uncertain beginnings into the remarkable institution that thrives and endures today. Justice O'Connor weaves together stories and lessons from the history of the Court, charting turning...
33) Belzhar
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hours) : digital ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of musings, observations, and life lessons, the author shares her thoughts about marriage, parenthood, friendship, faith, pet peeves, senior moments, and how to extricate oneself from potentially hairy situations.