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[2015]., Hachette Audio Hachette Audio Call No: SC CD Fic Atk Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life after Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the twentieth century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy--would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather--as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.
![A God in ruins [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT78719.JPG "A God in ruins [CD] : a novel")
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2013., Adult, Findaway World, LLC Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again.
![Love in the time of cholera [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101452.JPG "Love in the time of cholera [eAudiobook]")
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2014., Blackstone Audio, Inc. Call No: CD Fic Fla Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings--until he receives a letter that will change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death, love, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age and prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
![The narrow road to the deep north [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT78525.JPG "The narrow road to the deep north [CD]")
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2013., Adult, Blackstone Audio, Inc. Call No: CD Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event. He is a committed cheater; she lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds; she likes to settle scores. He decides to play for keeps; she has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for catastrophe, concessions that can't be made, and promises that won't be kept.
![The silent wife [CD] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76061.JPG "The silent wife [CD] : a novel")
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[2015]., 1151, Blackstone Audio, Inc. Edition: Unabridged. Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.
![The story of a new name [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101004.JPG "The story of a new name [eAudiobook]")