New Audiobooks

The Telling
Beverly Lewis

Lettie Byler continues her private quest to find the missing piece of her life. As clues take her from state to state, Lettie is increasingly torn between the family she has left behind and the yearning for her long-lost child.

The Aloha Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #5)
Jennifer Chiaverini

Bonnie's quilting shop goes out of business just as her divorce approaches. But Bonnie gets a chance to escape when her old friend Claire invites her to Hawaii to help launch a new quilter's retreat at a charming bed and breakfast.




The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson

Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. Set to face trial for three murders, Lisbeth must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse.

Spoken From the Heart
Laura Bush

In a captivating and compelling voice that ranks with many of our great memoirists, Laura Bush tells the story of her unique path from dusty Midland, Texas, to the world stage and the White House.




Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet
Stephanie Cowell

Struggling artist Claude Monet's life was irrevocably changed when he met the beautiful and mysterious Camille Doucieux. Through years of painting, misunderstanding, and love, they carve out a life together, but can Camille ever escape her past?




The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee
Sarah Silverman

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne comes a memoir that is at once shockingly personal, surprisingly poignant, and still laugh-out-loud funny. With her signature taboo-breaking humor, Silverman writes on everything from her epic struggle with hairy arms (there's not enough wax in the world) to the death of her infant brother.




Deliver Us From Evil
David Baldacci

Shaw and Katie James from "The Whole Truth" are reunited in a deadly dual of nerve and wits against a surprising, secretive enemy and lead around the world at a breakneck pace, in Baldacci's most explosive thriller to date.




Innocent
Scott Turow

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller "Presumed Innocent, Innocent" continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, 20 years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match.

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick

From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "In the Heart of the Sea" and the award-winning "Sea of Glory" comes this chronicle of the Battle of Little Bighorn.




Blue-Eyed Devil
Robert B. Parker

After the new chief of police in Appaloosa begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch. But the guns-for-hire are thorns in the side of the power-hungry chief. There will be a showdown, but who'll be left standing?




Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
Charlaine Harris

The latest book in the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series--the basis for HBO's "True Blood." After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the Faery War, Sookie is hurt and angry. Worst of all, there are still some Fae on the human side--and one of them is very angry at Sookie.

Summer Reading @ MPL!

Summer Reading Begins June 7!

New Mysteries for Teens (& Teens at Heart)

Case Closed
Gosho Aoyama

Nothing can keep high-school mystery fan Shin'ichi Kudo from solving a case -- that is, until he's transformered into a puny grade schooler! Kudo finds a home with an eccentric inventor who promises to cure him -- and, in the meantime, joins his friend Ran to help her incompetent private detective father on all his toughest murder mysteries.




Fallen
Lauren Kate

Seventeen-year-old Luce -- accused of murdering her boyfriend -- is sent to a Georgia reform school ... where she meets two strange boys and learns the truth about her own life.




A Spy in the House
Y.S. Lee

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls -- where she will be trained to be an investigator and a spy ...




The Big Dip
Melanie Jackson

Joe Lumby, track star extraordinaire, was only breaking his curfew to take a quick ride on a roller coaster. But when a man is shot right in front of him -- and the man's dying words involve Joe in the mystery of the Margaret rose -- there can be no turning back from the unexpected twist his life has taken.




Jonas
Eden Maguire

Something strange is happening at Darina's high school. Four students have died in the past year, and rumors of ghosts and strange happenings are swirling through the town. Then the ghost of her boyfriend appears to Darina ... and tells her that only she can right the wrong linked to the death of their friend Jonas ...




A Thousand Cuts
Simon Lelic

Recommended for older teens, A Thousand Cuts tells the story of Detective Inspector Lucia May, hired to investigate a murder at the local high school -- only to discover that she has more in common with the killer than she ever could have imagined.




Ghost in the Machine
Patrick Carman

Stuck in the house after an eerie accident, Ryan continues to investigate the weird occurances in Skeleton Creek, keeping his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by his fellow detective Sarah.

(You can follow the clues along with Ryan at SarahFincher.com!

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New Non-Fiction Audiobooks

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Marilyn Johnson

Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing profession.

Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

Mosab Hassan Yousef

The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas, reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, unveils the truth about his own role in the organization, and explains his dangerous decision to make his newfound Christian faith public.

Making Toast: A Family Story
Roger Rosenblatt

When his daughter, Amy, died suddenly of a heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and their three young grandchildren. His story tells how a family makes the possible out of the impossible.

The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down
Andrew Young

The underside of modern American politics---raw ambition, manipulation, and deception---are revealed in detail by Andrew Young's riveting account of a presidential hopeful's meteoric rise and scandalous fall.

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 until 2009 and former CEO of Goldman Sachs, provides an insider's account of the race to save the world's financial institutions from certain disaster.

No Apology: The Case for American Greatness

Mit Romney

Recent presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Romney charts a dramatic new course to confront the most critical issues facing America.

Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat

David Rosa

Heartfelt, inspiring, and sometimes funny, Making the Rounds with Oscar allows us into a world we rarely see as a doctor looks at family and companionship through the life lessons of the elderly and one remarkable cat.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory.

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, "Game Change" is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.

An Education

Lynn Barber

A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary life, this is a classic of English memoir and the full story behind the authors article that inspired the award-winning motion picture that has been nominated in three categories for an Academy Award.

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight

Karl Rove

Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's presidency, recounts his controversial journey through Republican politics and into the White House.

Welcome to New @ MPL!

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