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Books for the iPod
In 2006, we added iPod Nanos and iPod audiobooks to our collection. IPod audiobooks have the same lending periods as our books--3 weeks. We load the content for you, free of charge. Interested? Here's all you have to do:
- Bring your iPod to the Reference Desk. You can also borrow one of ours (we have 3 Nanos).
- If you bring in an iPod other than a Nano, clear its content.
- Please have your iPod charged.
- Choose from our list of iPod audiobook(s) below. If the book is “on shelf” in the catalog, it's available. Ipod books have the same loan periods as our books--3 weeks at a time.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions for audiobook purchases.
iPod Book Title List
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The 5th Horseman by James Patterson
When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at San Francisco Medical Center, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace, landing them in what could be the most terrifying situation they have yet to encounter. (Volume 5 in the Women's Murder Club series) Time: 8:06
Abarat by Clive Barker
Thrust into a fantastical world far away from her home in Minnesota, Candy Quackerbush must make sense out of her new surroundings as she is sent to the island of Abarat in the Sea of Izabella where she is given a warning that the evil Lord Carrion is eagerly looking for her. (Young Adult) Time: 11:29
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. (Volume 1 of the Border Trilogy) (Young Adult) Time: 10:01
Animal Farm by George Orwell
A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government. (Young Adult) Time: 3:12
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent a catastrophe. (Book 5 in the Artemis Fowl series) (Young Adult) Time: 8:24
At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
A Massachusetts D. A. who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, using a twenty-year-old murder in Tennessee as the first guinea pig case, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator is not so sure it is a random event. Time: 4:19Return to top of page
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Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell
The discovery of the decomposed body of a stowaway aboard a cargo ship arriving in Richmond from Belgium leads Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta on a perilous international odyssey from Virginia to Paris on a mission that could destroy her career and threatens her own life and the lives of everyone she loves. (Volume 10 in the Kay Scarpetta mystery series) Time: 12:27
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe and her able assistant, Grace Makutsi, launch an investigation into local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who somehow may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office, while Grace confronts her own troubles with her greedy uncles and her wealthy fiance, Phuti Radiphuti. (Number 7 in the Ladies Detective Series) Time: 8:15
Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
Struggling to start over again after being divorced and widowed while still in her twenties, Sydney tutors the daughter of a wealthy couple during a New Hampshire summer but finds herself caught up in a bitter family squabble involving her charge's two grown brothers. Time: 7:31
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Leaving the small desert town where he has spent his life, Odd Thomas, a hero who lives between the living and the dead, seeks the solitude of an isolated monastery, but he soon finds himself confronting a killer stalking his sanctuary's halls. (Volume 3 in the Odd Thomas series) Time: 9:26Return to top of page
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A fat New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly, gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt. (Pulitzer Prize winner) Time: 13:33
Cross by James Patterson
Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved and still haunts him, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner, John Sampson, who wants his help in tracking a serial rapist stalking Georgetown, a case that reveals a startling connection to Maria's death. (Volume 12 in the Alex Cross series) Time: 7:27
Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly
Examines the cultural war in America between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to transform America into a "secular-progressive" nation, discussing such topics as the media, the War on Terror, religion, and self-interest. (Non-fiction) Time: 6:02Return to top of page
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Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society. (Volume 2 in the Robert Langdon series) Time: 17:00
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
An angry rebel who dropped out of school to enlist in the Army, John meets Savannah, the girl of his dreams, discovering a mutual love that is threatened by the events of September 11, John's decision to re-enlist, and Savannah's falling in love with and marrying another. Time: 9:21
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
Documents the events surrounding the early 1960s serial murder case of the Boston Strangler, recounting how an innocent African-American housekeeper was hastily convicted and how the actual killer, carpenter Albert DeSalvo, eventually confessed. (Non-fiction) Time: 8:17
Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the editor from hell. Time: 14:11
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
A chance encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--at the Baltimore airport, as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American while the lives of the two families intertwine over the years. Time: 8:34
Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline
A tough-minded, sexy federal judge, Cate Fante finds her own double life coming to light when the defendant in a high-profile lawsuit ends up dead, revelations that threaten not only her future on the bench but also her very life when the killer comes after her. Time: 10:28
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Charlie Asher, a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, confronts the challenges of being a widower and a single parent when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born. Time: 11:50
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
In a collection of essays, the Rooster gets married at an uproarious wedding, an estrangement occurs over a rubber vs. plastic debate, and the author gets the upper hand during a slumber party game of strip poker. (Non-fiction) Time: 6:18
The Dunwich Horror & The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology established a gateway between the known universe and an ancient dimension of otherworldly terror, whose unspeakable denizens and monstrous landscapes--dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, the Plateau of Leng, the Mountains of Madness--have earned him a permanent place in the history of the macabre. Time: 3:30Return to top of page
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Einstein by Walter Isaacson
A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account that describes his two marriages, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance. (Non-fiction) Time: 21:31
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire. (Volume 2 in the Inheritance series) (Young Adult) Time: 20:54
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
In AlagaFesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. (Volume 1 in the Inheritance series) (Young Adult) Time: 16:23Return to top of page
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture Non-fiction Time: 6:01Return to top of page
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Gone by Jonathan Kellerman
Psychologist Alex Delaware and L.A.P.D. detective Milo Sturgis investigate the bizarre case of two students whose claims of abduction are revealed to be a hoax, a case that takes an odd turn when one student is found murdered and the other vanishes. (Volume 20 in the Alex Delaware series) Time: 11:47
Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott
A follow-up to the best-selling Plan B examines the ways in which people are caught up by such challenges as work, parenting, and politics, in a collection of essays that describes her struggles with faith in the face of her son's teen years, today's headlines, and an obstinate carpet salesman. (Non-fiction) Time: 5:25
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married. Time: 4:44Return to top of page
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors. As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort society, The Order of the Phoenix, begins meeting again. (Volume 5 in the Harry Potter series) Time: 26:30
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. (Volume 1 in the Hitchhiker series) Time: 5:52
Holes by Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune attributed to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. (Young Adult) Time: 4:30
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Unfortunately, Roy's first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn't been sinking his thumbs into Roy's temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from the school bus, carried no books, and-here's the odd part-wore no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy sets himself on the boy's trail. The chase introduces him to potty-trained alligators, a fake-fart champion, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes with unnaturally sparkling tails. Roy has most definitely arrived in Carl Hiaasen's Florida. (Young Adult) Time: 6:26
The House by Danielle Steel
A workaholic attorney, Sarah Anderson finds her life transformed by an inheritance from an elderly client and by a magnificent mansion, built in the 1920s by a wealthy Frenchman, a legacy that leads Sarah to architect Jeff Parker. Time: 10:00
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately. (Non-fiction) Time: 10:28
How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot
After the Super Big Gulp incident, Steph Landry, now known as the town screw-up, discovers a little book called "How to Be Popular," which propels her into a world of popularity with hilarious--and romantic--results. (Young Adult) Time: 5:34
How to Get Rich by Donald Trump
The author describes the secrets of his success and offers advice on such topics as investments, hiring and firing employees, and negotiation, and includes reflections on his television program "The Apprentice." (Non-fiction) Time: 4:53Return to top of page
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I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
A collection of essays offers a humorous look at the ups and downs of being a woman of a certain age, discussing the tribulations of maintenance and trying to stop the clock, menopause, and empty nests. (Non-fiction) Time: 3:51
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Nine science fiction stories explore the development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations. Time: 8:21
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A perilous journey into the lethal but luscious Land Down Under is filled with news and knowledge about the Aborigines, exiled British convicts, careless prime ministers, eating snakes the size of catcher's mitts, avoiding killer seashells, and preparing for cyclones. (Non-fiction) Time: 11:55
Innocent Man by John Grisham
Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown. Time: 12:30
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Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes-frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems. Time: 18:53
Lost in My Own Backyard by Tim Cahill
Traces the author's lifetime of exploring the natural wonders of Yellowstone National Park, journeys during which he visited its geyser, thermal pools, and glacier, and encountered a vast range of wildlife. (Nonfiction) Time: 2:55Return to top of page
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The March by E. L. Doctorow
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war, in a richly textured, evocative historical novel that captures the full experience of the diverse characters caught up in the struggle. Time: 11:01
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. (Volume 1 in the Maximum Ride series) (Young Adult) Time: 4:20
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. (Young Adult) Time: 2:36
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme
A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as "The French Chef." Time: 11:18Return to top of page
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Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen
Honey Santana, the bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes," has plans to give Boyd Shreave and his mistress a lesson in civility, unaware that she is being followed by her obsessed ex-employer and her one-time drug runner ex-husband. Time: 11:29
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods. Time: 9:41
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Having begun a most unlikely romance, Bella and Edward are together and on the run in the forest of Fork as dangerous wolves and the revenge of a female vampire track them down at every turn, in the exciting fantasy sequel to Twilight. (Volume 2 in the Twilight series) (Young Adult) Time: 14:51
Next by Michael Crichton
The best-selling author of Jurassic Park journeys inside the world of bioengineering and genetics, in a chilling, provocative novel of near-future science run amok, in which a family finds itself in dire straits because of the genes in their bodies. Time: 13:52
Night by Elie Wiesel
The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity. Time: 4:18
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week. (Volume 1 in the No. l Ladies' Detective Agency series) Time: 8:05Return to top of page
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
This counterculture classic records the escapades of members of the beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. Time: 10:16Return to top of page
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
The author of Take the Cannoli and contributing editor for public radio's "This American Life" shares her perspective on such topics as the 2000 election, present-day civil rights activists, and the relationship between the United States and Canada. (Non-fiction) Time: 5:17
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Hired to investigate a mysterious video collection that has been appearing on the Internet, market research consultant Cayce Pollard realizes that there is more to the assignment when her computer is hacked. Time: 10:23
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the coming-of-age trials of a high-schooler named Charlie. (Young Adult) Time: 6:23
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life. (Young Adult) Time: 6:13Return to top of page
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Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
In the early days of his career, Jack Ryan accepts a first assignment as freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and becomes embroiled in a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II. (Volume 3 in the Jack Ryan and John Clark series) Time: 26:22
Reversible Errors by Scott Turow
Corporate lawyer Arthur Raven defends the reopened case of a death-row inmate who may be innocent, while prosecuting attorneys Muriel Wynn and Larry Starczek fight for a conviction they still believe is deserved. Time: 14:37Return to top of page
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S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Thirty-four years after Violet Sullivan's unexplained disappearance, Daisy--the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter she left behind--enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth. (Volume 19 in the Kinsey Millhone mysteries series) Time: 12:09
Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Embarking on a mystery seminar cruise during the holiday season, amateur sleuth Alvirah, private detective Regan, and their family members find their voyage overshadowed by a ghost spotting, the disappearance of a fan, and an unexpected storm. Time: 6:18
Shadowland by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Suze Simon can mediate between the living and the dead, and she hopes her move to California will be a fresh start, but a hot ghost named Jesse haunts her bedroom and another ghost is bent on vengeance at school. (Volume 1 in the Mediator series) (Young Adult) Time: 5:59
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
As they part for the summer, four friends, Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget, embark on a journey of self-discovery when they decide to share an old pair of worn jeans that were purchased from a thrift shop and form the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (Volume 1 in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series) (Young Adult) Time: 6:36
Slay Ride by Chris Grabenstein
Complaining about a reckless limousine driver he encountered at the beginning of a Christmas season business trip, executive Scott Wilkinson finds himself targeted by the mentally unstable and vengeful driver when the latter embarks on a quest for vengeance. Time: 8:00Return to top of page
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The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
When the ghost of his murdered fourteen-year-old daughter identifies her boyfriend as her killer, an overprotective father with a secret past decides to take the law into his own hands, a choice that takes him from a small New England community into the wilds of the Alaskan bush. Time: 13:14
Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. Time: 11:44
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer. (Non-fiction) Time: 11:55
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
An introduction to the Tipping Point theory--first presented in a series of articles in "The New Yorker"--explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in one's immediate environment can alter group behavior. (Non-fiction) Time: 8:34
To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan
Poses controversial observations about the rituals and rites of passage that shape women's lives in the twenty-first century, from lavish weddings and modern sex to housekeeping and work-life imbalances. (Non-fiction) Time: 5:41
Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters
In 1922, as her husband Emerson unsuccessfully tries to persuade his rival Howard Carter to turn over digging rights in the Valley of the King to him, Amelia Peabody and her family head for Luxor to search for the long-lost tomb of King Tut, only to become embroiled in a dangerous web of kidnapping, betrayal, and intrigue that may involve Emerson's charming half-brother. (Volume 18 in the Amelia Peabody mysteries series) Time: 13:44
Twain's Humor: A Collection by Mark Twain
A collection of 23 of Twain's funniest stories. Time: 5:32Return to top of page
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Union 1812 by A. J. Langguth
A narrative of the War of 1812 links its events to the War of Independence and American beliefs about Manifest Destiny, in an account that documents key battles while evaluating the contributions of such figures as Thomas Jefferson, Dolley Madison, and Davy Crockett. (Non-fiction) Time: 13:06Return to top of page
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Velocity by Dean Koontz
A series of communications from a deranged killer in which he is offered a number of devastating choices and deadlines draws Bill Wile into a confrontation with pure evil as his life becomes a downward spiral into a nightmare in which he must risk everything in a desperate race against time. Time: 9:17
Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
An account of the five years that English naturalist Charles Darwin spent traveling around the world on the HMS Beagle, a voyage that led him to develop his theory of the evolution of the species. (Non-fiction) Time: 16:36Return to top of page
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Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. Time: 11:28
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions. (Volume 4 in the John Corey series) Time: 18:48
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st century (abridged) by Thomas L. Friedman
Offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India. (Non-fiction) Time: 6:20
Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded. (Volume 1 in the High Seas trilogy) (Young Adult) Time: 5:45Return to top of page
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