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Margaret A. Edwards Award (Alex Awards)
Author: Helen Grant | Narrator: Justine Eyre
Release Date: August 10, 2010
 Not since The Elegance of the Hedgehog has a book arrived in America from Europe on such wings of critical praise and popularity. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden is an unforgettable debut—at once chilling and endearing, haunting and ric...
Author: Aimee Bender | Narrator: Aimee Bender
Release Date: June 01, 2010
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted paren...
Author: Michael Lewis | Narrator: Grover Gardner
Release Date: September 26, 2006
In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; h...
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Author: David Mitchell | Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Release Date: April 11, 2006
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by T...
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Author: James Bradley and Ron Powers | Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that...
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro | Narrator: Rosalyn Landor
Release Date: April 12, 2005
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. As ...
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Author: Robert Kurson | Narrator: Campbell Scott
Release Date: June 29, 2004
New York Times Bestseller In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great histor...
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Author: Pat Conroy | Narrator: Jay O. Sanders
Release Date: October 15, 2002
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   During one unforgettable season as a C...
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Author: Jon Krakauer | Narrator: Philip Franklin
Release Date: January 07, 1997
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent fr...