Audiobook Update - August 2, 2012
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Thursday, August 2, 2012 This newsletter consists of new audiobooks on CD purchased by the library. While it will contain some updates on the Digital Download Center powered by OverDrive, those of you who are interested mostly in downloadable content may also want to subscribe to our new eBook Update which focuses more on updates in eBook publishing related to public libraries as well as highlighting new eBook and audiobook titles. View more from Audiobook Update: Blog View | Archived Newsletter View | Insider You can unsubscribe using the link below. Questions? Email madtech @ scls.lib.wi.us |
 The Book of Madness and Cures Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients. She sets out across Europe to find where and why he has gone. Following clues from his occasional enigmatic letters, Gabriella crosses Switzerland, Germany and France, entering strange and forbidding cities to probe the mystery of her father's flight. Read by Katherine Kellgren. |
 The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers A tart and sweet, touching and laugh-out-loud funny story about goats, mud, homemade soap, approaching middle age, and finding new depths of love and commitment. Read by Johnny Heller. |
 City of Whispers "Private eye Sharon McCone receives an email asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half-brother, Darcy Blackhawk, but he fails to reply to her response. As Sharon digs deeper, she discovers that Darcy sent his message from an Internet café in San Francisco, a city he's never been to before. Sensing that Darcy is in terrible danger, McCone begins a search for him throughout the city. The investigation leads her to the body of a woman at the Palace of Fine Arts, where a witness told her Darcy was headed. As her search widens, Sharon uncovers a connection to an unsolved murder of a young woman who was heiress to a multi-million dollar banking fortune." -- from publisher's web site. Narrator: Laura Hicks. |
 Come Home Jill Ruspolis is moving forward with her life after a devastating divorce. Her work as a doctor is hectic but fulfilling, she's newly engaged to a kind and loving medical researcher, and her daughter is finally happy again and doing well in school, in the aftermath of losing her stepfather in the divorce. But when Jill's distraught ex-stepdaughter Abby shows up on her doorstep with the news of her ex-husband's death from an apparent overdose, her life is thrust into turmoice once again. Read by Maggi-Meg Reed. |
 A Conspiracy of Friends Life at Corduroy Mansions, nestled in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, is as lively as ever. While Berthea Snark scribbles a scathing biography of a Parliament member--her son!--William French frets that his own son will never leave home. And to no one's surprise, clever terrier Freddie de la Hay has sniffed his way into a heap of trouble. Read by Simon Prebble. |
 Drift Identifying what the author believes to be a battle between the priorities of civilian life and the war, the host of the critically acclaimed The Rachel Maddow show explains that today's focus on national security is actually compromising national stability, tracing the historical events and contributing factors that have promoted a deeply militarized American culture. Read by the author. |
 The Eighty-Dollar Champion The Eighty-Dollar Champion tells the dramatic odyssey of a horse called Snowman, saved from the slaughterhouse by a young Dutch farmer named Harry. Together, Harry and Snowman went on to become America's show-jumping champions, winning first prize in Madison Square Garden. Set in the mid to late 1950s, this book captures the can-do spirit of a Cold War immigrant who believed--and triumphed. Read by Bronson Pinchot. |
 The Emotional Life of Your Brain Richard J. Davidson gives readers a new model for understanding emotions, as well as practical strategies to change them. Personality is composed of six basic emotional 'styles, ' including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. He explains the brain chemistry that underlies each style to give a new model of the emotional brain, one that will go so far as to affect the treatment of autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies to change ones brain and emotions if they so desire. Read by Arthur Morey. |
 Enemies "Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI as the most formidable intelligence force in American history. Here is the hidden history of America's hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it deemed subversive-- and sometimes American presidents." -- from publisher's web site. Read by Stefan Rudnicki. |
 Gone Missing Chief of police Kate Burkholder is called upon to assist when an Amish teenager disappears without a trace. When a body turns up and another young girl goes missing, fear spreads through the community like a contagion. Kate delves into the lives of the missing teens and discovers links to cold cases that may go back years. But will she piece together all the parts of this sinister puzzle before it's too late, or will she find herself locked in a fight to the death with a merciless killer? Read by Kathleen McInerney. |
 Just My Type: A Book about Fonts A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, "What does your favorite font say about you?". Narrator: Gildart Jackson. |
 Red House Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process. Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over. Read by Maxwell Caulfield. |
 The Third Gate Porter Stone is leading a team of archaeologists on a search for King Narmer's tomb in the Sudd, a hellish swamp in northern Sudan. The dig, itself, is a nightmare, but the tomb's true horrors have yet to be fully revealed. When several disturbances lead the team to believe they have unleashed a centuries-old curse, Professor Jeremy Logan is called in to investigate. Read by Johnathan McClain. |
 This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief,.... From the author of 'Running With Scissors' comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books. Read by the author. |
