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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![The Lost Tomb: [and Other Real-life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668640784/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
The Lost Tomb: [and Other Real-life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder]
Douglas Preston brings together a collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
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![Wellness: [a Novel]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593863374/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
Wellness: [a Novel]
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number Nine. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.
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23 1/2 Lies
23 1/2 lies: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths.
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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier
Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life, immediately. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. And along the way, they share hard-earned wisdom from their own lives and careers as well as the witness of regular people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. Equipped with the tools of emotional self-management and ready to build your four pillars, you can take control of your present and future rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve.
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![In the Form of A Question: [the Joys and Rewards of A Curious Life]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797163376/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
In the Form of A Question: [the Joys and Rewards of A Curious Life]
Amy Schneider made history with her forty-game winning streak on Jeopardy!, blazing a trail for queer and transgender people worldwide. Now, she shares her journey to becoming an unlikely icon and hero to millions.
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Meditations
A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, an essential book on character, leadership, and how to live a fulfilling life.
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Astor: The Rise and Fall of An American Fortune
The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story, of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family's story.
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![Collision of Power: [Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250335869/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
Collision of Power: [Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post]
Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency. Now, the capital's newspaper, owned by one of the world's richest men, was tasked with reporting on a president who had campaigned against the press as the "lowest form of humanity." Pressures on Baron and his colleagues were immense and unrelenting, having to meet the demands of their new owner while contending with a president who waged a war of unprecedented vitriol and vengeance against the media. In the face of Trump's unceasing attacks, Baron steadfastly managed the Post's newsroom. Their groundbreaking and award-winning coverage included stories about Trump's purported charitable giving, misconduct by the Secret Service, and Roy Moore's troubling sexual history. At the same time, Baron managed a restive staff during a period of rapidly changing societal dynamics around gender and race
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The Armor of Light
The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters' lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war.
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![Everywhere An Oink Oink: [an Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood]](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797166193/MC.GIF&client=sepup&type=sepup&oclc=)
Everywhere An Oink Oink: [an Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood]
David Mamet went to Hollywood on top, a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evans, and Sue Mengers. Over the next forty years, Mamet wrote dozens of scripts, was fired off dozens of movies, and directed eleven himself. He revels of the taut and gag-filled professionalism of the film set. He depicts the ever-fickle studios and producers who piece by piece eat the artist alive. And he ponders the art of filmmaking and the genius of those who made our finest movies. With the bravado and flair of Mamet's best theatrical work, this memoir describes a world gone by, some of our most beloved film stars with their hair down, and how it all got washed away by digital media and the woke brigade.
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