LLC Recorded Books
21) Legacy: a novel
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English
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This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown. Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a noblewoman...
22) Magic rises
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English
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In exchange for a medicine that will help the Pack's shapeshifting children survive into adulthood, mercenary Kate Daniels and her mate, Curran, agree to arbitrate a dispute on behalf of the dubiously trustworthy medicine makers.
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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18 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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25 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.): digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000-5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed cultural and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China plain, in the Indus Valley, in the Nile Valley, on Aegean...
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2001
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12 sound discs (approx. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An introductory course on Greek and Roman mythology. Surveys some of the leading theoretical approaches to understanding myth in general and classical myth in particular.
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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6 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Professor Vandiver makes it clear why, after almost 3,000 years, the Homeric epics remain not only among the greatest adventure stories ever told, but also two of the most compelling meditations on the human condition ever written. Questions include, why does Odysseus long so powerfully to go home? What are the limits of our freedom? Who or what shapes our actions and our ends? What holds people together and keeps them going--or drives them apart...
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
24 sound discs (24 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks.
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English
Description
In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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25th Anniversary Edition
"A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time." --St. Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the...
29) Among the hidden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another third convinces him that the government is wrong.
30) The fiery cross
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English
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The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in a series written by Diana Gabaldon about Clare Fraser, who can travel through time by touching stones (think Stonehenge). The first time she time traveled, it was an accident. She traveled two-hundred years backward to the 1740s and met the love of her life, Jamie Frasier, a Scottish highlander. Their love story has developed through out each of the books as Gabaldon details the historical setting that surrounds...
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English
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The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger ratchets up the tension as sports agent Myron Bolitar gets mixed up in some international intrigue in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
With an early morning phone call, an old flame wakes Myron Bolitar from sleep. Terese Collins is in Paris, and she needs his help. In her debt, Myron makes the trip, and learns of a decade-long secret: Terese once had...
With an early morning phone call, an old flame wakes Myron Bolitar from sleep. Terese Collins is in Paris, and she needs his help. In her debt, Myron makes the trip, and learns of a decade-long secret: Terese once had...
32) Love's encore
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Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
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5 sound discs (6 hr., 2 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Camille just got her dream job renovating a large Mississippi estate, unaware that the heir to the estate is Jack Prescott--a man Camille shared a passionate night with two years before.
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2001
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12 sound discs (720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
This 24-lecture course is intended to help you analyze and appreciate the long poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) known as the Divine Comedy.
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English
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In this Hugo Award–winning alternative history classic—the basis for the Amazon Original series—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West.
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In this world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When club-hopping bad girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her Manhattan apartment, police lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers the killing has all the earmarks of a vampire attack.
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Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2008
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (10 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
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The authors make recommendations for promoting optimal health and longevity after age thirty in a reference that likens the aging process to the maintenance of city systems.
39) Day shift
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English
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There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know that she's beautiful and dangerous. Psychic Manfred Bernardo finds out just how dangerous when he goes on a working weekend to Dallas and sees Olivia there with a couple who are both...
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[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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12 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Professor Mark Leary offers journey into the complex heart of who you are, using the latest theories and research from psychology and other behavioral sciences to find answers--many of them startling--to provocative questions about a variety of rather ordinary (but often quite puzzling) aspects of human behavior.