AudioBooks for the October Holiday Weekend
Long road trip planned? Even if you're staying in town, don't forget to swing by Raether Library and grab a few AudioBooks for the October Holiday weekend.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and read by Christopher Hurt--In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read.
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers and read by J.D. Jackson--A two-time Newbery Honor-winning author looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he had brought to the Vietnam War of his classic, "Fallen Angels."
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and read by various narrators--In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie and read by the author--Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers and read by J.D. Jackson--A two-time Newbery Honor-winning author looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he had brought to the Vietnam War of his classic, "Fallen Angels."
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and read by various narrators--In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie and read by the author--Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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