Playaway Digital Audio
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (20 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Frodo Baggins and his companion Sam Gamgee, set off along the same road down which Bilbo the Hobbit had accompanied Thorin Oakenshield and his dwarves all those years ago. Much danger and many strange encounters await them.
282) To paradise
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English
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Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness.
"In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a...
283) Sun house
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English
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"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
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English
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
285) Yonder: a novel
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English
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"The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century"--
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths,...
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English
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Willie Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, the late Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen. The collection includes: Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie Town, and Big Medicine.
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Three women disappear: When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other.
288) The Morningside
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tigers Wife and Inland, a magical novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and myths both old and new Theres the world you can see. And then theres the one you cant. Welcome to the Morningside. After being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-so-distant future, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in a place...
289) Table for Two
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as the bestselling novelist now turns to shorter fiction, in a collection of six stories and a novella featuring all the storytelling magic that has delighted his fans. In stories all set in New York City, an elderly, widowed man secretly tapes concerts in Carnegie Hall, until the investment banker sitting next to him turns him in; a lawyers unadulterated joy in roller-skating in Central Park...
290) A Stroke of the Pen
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author and creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trovefeaturing charming woodcut illustrationsis a must-have for Pratchett fans of all ages and includes a foreword by Neil Gaiman. These rediscovered tales were written by Terry Pratchett under a pseudonym for...
291) The Husbands
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? (A time-bending gemGabrielle Zevin; Kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny." Claire Lombardo) When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. Theres only one problemshes not married. Shes never seen this man before in her life. But according to her...