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Chosen: A House of Night Novel
P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast, Edwina Wren
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Bolinda Audio, Sept. 1, 2009)Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the gripping third installment of this highly addictive series, in which Zoey's mettle will be tested like never before. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Just when it seems things couldn't get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely reflects the truth.
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Carter's Big Break
Brent Crawford, Nick Podehl
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Brilliance Audio, May 10, 2011)Fourteen-year-old Will Carter's summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up.
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Notes from the Midnight Driver
Jordan Sonnenblick, Peter Berkrot
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Brilliance Audio, Feb. 20, 2011)After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
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Chime
Franny Billingsley, Susan Duerden
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Random House, March 22, 2011)In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
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172 Hours on the Moon
Johan Harstad, Casey Holloway
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Little, Brown Young Readers, April 17, 2012)A terrifying thriller for young adult fans of The Martian and paranormal space adventure that will be devoured in one heart-pounding sitting. It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space--and change their lives forever. It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space...no one is coming to save them. In this chilling adventure set in the most brutal landscape known to man, highly acclaimed Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad creates a vivid and frightening world of possibilities we can only hope never come true.
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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Jennifer E. Smith, Casey Holloway
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Hachette Audio, Jan. 2, 2012)Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
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Pie
Sarah Weeks, Kate Rudd
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Brilliance Audio, Oct. 1, 2011)When Alice's aunt Polly, The Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous piecrust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo, and thenleaves Lardo in the care of Alice. Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner, and it's making them pie-crazy. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Family. And the pleasure of doing something for the right reason.
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson, Will Patton
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Scholastic Audio, Feb. 1, 2009)A fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
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The Dark and Hollow Places
Carrie Ryan
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Random House, March 22, 2011)Annah cannot bear the loss when her brother disappears and takes up with Catcher, but Catcher harbors his own dark secrets.
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Icefall
Matthew J. Kirby, Jenna Lamia
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Scholastic Audio, Oct. 1, 2011)Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.
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Invasion
Jon S. Lewis, John Haag
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Oasis Audio, Jan. 4, 2011)After his parents are killed in an automobile accident, sixteen-year-old Colt McAllister moves to Arizona where he is recruited by a secret organization to join the battle against malevolent, supernatural creatures from another world.
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The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare, Full Cast
Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, Jan. 1, 2009)Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket. Antonio falls into bad fortune and finds he cannot repay Shylock: a dramatic trial ensues to decide his fate.