Popular Books on CD for Adults
Hundreds of books are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most popular Books on CD for adults.
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![Romney: [a Reckoning]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797168807/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
Romney: [a Reckoning]
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Based on dozens of exclusive interviews with Romney, his family, and his inner circle as well as hundreds of pages of his personal journals, this book offers a rare, portrait of a politician who in recent years has been at the center of our nation's most defining political dramas.
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Absolution
Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's altruistic machinations, and discovering as they do how their own lives as women on the periphery, of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions, have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia.
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Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed Story of America
America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights, after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as well as the work of pioneering Black historians, scholars, and journalists, Harriot removes the white sugarcoating from the American story, placing Black people squarely at the center. With incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, subverting conventional historical narratives with little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans. From the African Americans who arrived before 1619 to the unenslavable bandit who inspired America's first police force, this long overdue corrective provides a revealing look into our past that is as urgent as it is necessary.
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![All the Beauty in the World: [the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797146768/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
All the Beauty in the World: [the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me]
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
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![Killers of the Flower Moon: [the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307747464/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
Killers of the Flower Moon: [the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI]
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. The book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long.
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The Black Echo
A Vietnam veteran-turned-detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an attractive FBI agent, hunts for the murderers on a trail leading back to Saigon.
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French: The Complete Course. V, Part B
It's now possible to speak and understand a foreign language effortlessly. The world-famous Pimsleur Method combines well-established research, most-useful vocabulary and a completely intuitive process to get you speaking right from the first day. All Pimsleur courses feature real-world context and flexible vocabulary enabling you to learn your new language in a fluid, natural way. It's the simplest way to start speaking a new language today. French is an official language in 44 countries. It is spoken by 55 million people in France, 3 million in Belgium, 1.5 million in Switzerland, 6.5 million in Canada, and 5 million in former French and Belgian colonies. It is also an official language of the U.N. Learn French today with Pimsleur.
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Pimsleur Language Programs: French I A : the Complete Course
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![How Not to Die: [discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781427268105/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
How Not to Die: [discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease]
From the founder of NutritonFacts.org, a vital, empowering guide to the foods proven to help prevent the fifteen leading causes of disease related death.
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