A feed of recently purchased adult audiobooks in the last 7 days. Updated daily at Howard County Library System

Your deceptive mind a scientific guide to critical thinking skills /

Author: Novella, Steven.
ISBN: 1598038265;9781598038262
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/18/2013
Subjects: Critical thinking. - Thought and thinking. - Talking books.
Call number: CD 153.4N

How to read and understand Shakespeare

Author: Conner, Marc C.,
ISBN: 9781598039290;1598039296
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/18/2013
Summary: For over 400 years, Shakespeares plays have enthralled, moved, and enriched each new generation of readers and theatergoers. How to Read and Understand Shakespeare builds the skills that allow you to reach your own understanding of the plays, to deeply comprehend Shakespeares transcendent poetic language, the spellbinding world of his great characters and stories, and his revelatory reflections on human experience. The tools you learn are yours for years of enjoyment of these monumental treasures of our culture. -- Publisher website.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, - Criticism and interpretation. - Study and teaching. - Talking books.
Call number: CD 822.33C

Instructions for a heatwave

Author: O'Farrell, Maggie,
ISBN: 9780804120692;0804120692
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: A portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back.
Subjects: Children of disappeared persons - Fiction. - Heat waves (Meteorology) - London (England) - Talking books. - Love stories.
Call number: CD F O'FA

The dog stars a novel /

Author: Heller, Peter,
ISBN: 9780449013137;0449013138
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life, something like his old life, exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return, not enough fuel to get him home, following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face, in the people he meets, and in himself, is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.
Subjects: End of the world - Fiction. - Survival - Talking books. - Dystopias.
Call number: CD F HEL

Mexico

Author: Michener, James A.
ISBN: 1415904235;9781415904237
Year: 1993
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: Moving between past and present, ranging from the arid plains of Mexico to the baroque estancias of Spain, Mexico searches the lives of men and nations working out their destinies. Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrives in Mexico to report on the duel between two celebrated matadors, also to learn about his family's past. He digs into the story of his Mexican ancestors and finds the dramatic history of a nation - brilliant and brutal native cultures, Spain's struggle to win souls and silver, the modern state born in bloodshed and revolution.
Subjects: Mexico - Fiction. - Talking books. - Epic fiction. - Historical fiction.
Call number: CD F MIC

Hawaii

Author: Michener, James A.
ISBN: 1415904200;9781415904206
Year: 1991
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: European explorers imagined the Pacific islands might be home to Rousseau's "noble savage." But all disappointed, save one ... Hawaii. It was the Polynesians who gave Hawaii its special flavor. Their ethos, alive and well two centuries after coming to terms with an invasion of Anglos and Asians, sets the tone in our 50th state.
Subjects: Hawaii - Fiction. - Hawaiians - Immigrants - Missionaries - Talking books. - Historical fiction.
Call number: CD F MIC

Alaska

Author: Michener, James A.
ISBN: 1415903956;9781415903957
Year: 1994
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: A stirring portrait of a community, set against the background of Alaska's emotional and at times violent history.
Subjects: Historical fiction. - Talking books. - Alaska - History - Fiction.
Call number: CD F MIC

Island girls a novel /

Author: Thayer, Nancy,
ISBN: 9780307939609;030793960
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: Charming ladies' man Rory Randall dies with one last trick up his sleeve: His will includes a calculating clause mandating a summer-long reunion for his daughters, all from different marriages-- that is, if they hope to inherit his posh Nantucket house. Relations among the three sisters are sour thanks to long-festering jealousies, resentments, and misunderstandings. Arden, a successful television host in Boston, hasn't been back to the island since her teenage years, when accusations of serious misbehavior led to her banishment. College professor Meg hopes to use her summer to finish a literary biography and avoid an amorous colleague. And secretive Jenny, an IT specialist, faces troubling questions about her identity while longing for her sisters' acceptance.
Subjects: Sisters - Fiction. - Inheritance and succession - Talking books. - Love stories.
Call number: CD F THA

Ladies' night [a novel] /

Author: Andrews, Mary Kay,
ISBN: 9781427230812;1427230811
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: Rising media star and lifestyle blogger Grace Stanton's own life gets torpedoed after she drives her cheating husband's pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool in a fit of anger. Soon she's locked out of her own palatial home, checking account, and blog, forced to move in with her widowed mother who lives above, and owns, The Sandbar, a rundown beach bar. Attending court-mandated weekly "divorce recovery" therapy sessions with a group of three other women, marital misfits whose only common denominator is betrayal, Grace and the women soon ditch their therapist and move their Wednesday "Ladies' Night" sessions to The Sandbox. They begin to help each other, walking a fine line between revenge and justice, as each one finds closure in ways previously unimagined. Can Grace figure out a new way home and how strong she needs to be to get there? Told with Mary Kay Andrews's unique blend of humor, heart, and unpredictable plot twists, Ladies' Night will have you raising a glass and cheering these characters on.
Subjects: Divorced women - Fiction. - Divorce therapy - Revenge - Friendship - Talking books.
Call number: CD F AND

Choke point

Author: Pearson, Ridley.
ISBN: 9781455854684;1455854689
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a 'knot shop' that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down.
Subjects: Journalists - Fiction. - Child slaves - Sweatshops - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Talking books.
Call number: CD F PEA

Limits of power

Author: Moon, Elizabeth.
ISBN: 9781469263076;1469263076
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/17/2013
Summary: The unthinkable has occurred in the kingdom of Lyonya. The queen of the Elves, known as the Lady, was murdered by former elves twisted by dark powers. Now the Lady's half-elven grandson must heal the mistrust between elf and human before their enemies strike again. Yet as he struggles to make ready for an attack, an even greater threat looms across the Eight Kingdoms.
Subjects: Paksenarrion (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Imaginary wars and battles - Betrayal - Conspiracies - Elves - Women soldiers - Talking books. - Fantasy fiction. - Epic fiction.
Call number: CD 320.973B

After the rain

Author: White, Karen
ISBN: 9781470339463;1470339463
Year: 2013
Date added: 06/13/2013
Summary: Freelance photographer Suzanne Paris has been on her own since the age of 14, and she has no intention of settling down in tiny Walton, Georgia. But to her surprise, Walton residents have a way of making even reluctant guests feel right at home. And the new connections she builds come in handy when a dark figure from her past returns, determined to ruin her life.
Subjects: Women photographers - Fiction. - Georgia - Talking books. - Love stories.
Call number: CD F WHI

Touching the sky

Author: Peterson, Tracie.
ISBN: 9781455894376;1455894370
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/13/2013
Summary: Caught in the dangerous undertows of the Civil War, will Laura have to choose between protecting her Confederate sister and the Union officer she loves?
Subjects: Texas - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction. - Talking books. - Christian fiction. - Love stories. - Historical fiction. - Western stories.
Call number: DAB F PET