Tantor Media
41) Beast: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Audio [a division of] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This short, shocking, and exhilarating novel is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage,...
42) The awakening
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
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In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...
Author
Series
Templar novels (Paul Christopher) volume 4
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In Rome, the assassination of the Pope on Christmas Day sets off a massive investigation that stretches across the globe. But behind the veil of Rex Deus--the Templar cabal that silently wields power in the twenty-first century--the plot has only just begun. When retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday uncovers the true motive behind the pontiff's murder, he must unravel a deadly design to extend the Templar influence to the highest levels of power....
44) Telex from Cuba
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom, three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dream-world, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of grown-ups around them -- the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Provides a portrait of the life of Mormon leader, Brigham Young, who after the murder of Mormon founder, Joseph Smith, gathered those Latter-day Saints who were willing and led them across the Rocky Mountains to Utah, where under his leadership the Church of Latter-day Saints brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, fought the U.S. Army, defended plural marriage, and had a lasting effect on both the church and the history of the...
Author
Series
Anna Curtis novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
As a newly minted assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Anna Curtis has already developed a thick skin to help her deal with the unsettling brutality she encounters daily with her overflowing stack of domestic violence cases. Yet when Laprea Johnson walks into Anna's life-battered by her boyfriend on the morning after Valentine's Day-there's something about this particular case that Anna can't quite shake, something that reminds the prosecutor...
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at The Cracked Spine in the heart of town. She's recently befriended a few medical school students after they came into the shop to sell some antique medical tomes. But when one of the students' friends is found murdered outside in the alley, Delaney takes it upon herself to help bring the murderer to justice. During her investigation,...
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 10
Publisher
Tantor Audio, [a division of] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married and a father, he would like to focus his efforts on improving Imagisle and making it more self-sufficient. However, a crisis is brewing in Solidar, causing the High Holders to call for repeals on the Codex Legis. Once again, Alastar must maintain a careful balance, but he can't avoid the involvement of the Collegium when someone begins killing students. Trying to protect...
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Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Purely imagined, beautifully written, Turtledove offers listeners yet another novel of history untold in this twelve-story collection. Titles include Audubon in Atlantis; The Catcher in the Rhine; The Daimonl; The Horse of Bronze; The Scarlet Band; and more.