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Monroe County's Top Audiobooks - From January 2012
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Steve Jobs: A Biography             
by Walter Isaacson

Also available in hardback, large print

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

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The Aspen Institute
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Explosive Eighteen
By Janet Evanovich

Also available in hardback, large print, downloadable audiobook, eBook

Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she's flying back to New Jersey solo, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he's dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying. Only one other person has seen the missing photograph--Stephanie Plum. Now she's the target, and she doesn't intend to end up in a garbage can.

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V is for Vengeance
by Sue Grafton

Also available in hardback, large print, downloadable audiobook

California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiance, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.

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March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks

Also available in hardback, large print, downloadable eBook, book club kit

As the North reels under a series of defeats during the first years of the Civil War, Mr. March from leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will change his marriage and challenge his ardently held beliefs.

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The Best of Me
by Nicholas Sparks

Also available in hardback, large print, downloadable audiobook

Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last met.

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Author’s official website
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The Drop
By Michael Connelly

Also available in hardback, large print, downloadable audiobook

Detective Harry Bosch investigates a cold case and the murder of a city councilman's son. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.

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Inheritance
by Christopher Paolini

Also available in hardback, downloadable audiobook, eBook

Eragon Dragon Rider and Spahira have come further than anyone dared to hope in ridding their land of tyranny. But can they topple the evil king Galbatrorix and restore justice to Alagaesia? and if so, at what cost?

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11/22/63 : a Novel
by Stephen King

Also available in hardback, large print

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.

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