In the small town of Mitford, Father Tim and his wife Cynthia ponder their retirement plans and try to raise their young charge, Dooley, while a brash mayoral candidate is calling for development and "progress."

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John Peterson, a new manager in the credit department at a major big-box retailer, is struggling in his job. The people under him are not working as well or effectively as they need to, and his department is falling behind in meeting its goals. His only solution is to take on more work himself, burning the midnight oil and coming in most weekends to pick up the slack and keep his department above water. When one of the employees stays behind to help him-a young man who came to America from a small village in Africa-he learns of the ancient wisdom and hidden power of the African philosophy of Ubuntu. Before long, it begins to change the way he thinks about the people he works with, about himself, and about how he runs his department and his life.

Ubuntu! An Inspiring Story About an African Tradition of Teamwork and Collaboration (Unabridged)

Business & Money

Bob, Nelson

Stephen Lundin

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The Dilbert Principle

SCOTT ADAMS

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An American Plague

JIM MURPHY

History

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay Unabridged CD Audiobook (Dexter Series)

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Jeff-Lindsay

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Private collection, NOT ex-library copy, "All the Dead Lie Down" (Suspence Thriller) by Mary Willis Walker, read by C.J Critt, Unabridged, 9 cassettes, 12.25 hours of listening, Recorded Books, hardshell case and tapes are in like new condition

All the Dead Lie Down

Walker, Mary Willis

Mystery

The old witch wants a pumpkin pie. First she plants a pumpkin seed. She weeds and waters and waits. A tiny sprout pokes through the ground, and soon a small pumpkin appears. It grows, and it grows some more. When Halloween is only hours away, the witch decides it is finally time to bake the pie. But first she must somehow pull the huge pumpkin off the vine. With her fun-filled tale, popular children's author Erica Silverman teaches a gentle lesson in friendship and cooperation. Narrator John McDonough's lively portrayal of the old witch and each of her spooky companions will have youngsters laughing out loud. And beginning readers will enjoy the humorous illustrations as they follow along in the book.

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ERICA SILVERMAN

Any writer who makes a writer the protagonist of a novel is  just asking for trouble. If the protagonist in question is a young African  American woman in Paris, following in the footsteps of such well-known black  expatriates as Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, and James Baldwin, it's double jeopardy. And yet in Black Girl in Paris, Shay Youngblood  manages to avoid clichés even as she steers a course straight through  them. In the fall of 1986, Eden, 25 years old and anxious "to be the kind of  woman who was bold, took chances and had adventures," buys a ticket to Paris and arrives with $200, determined to re-create for herself the life of a bygone era. She finds the requisite cheap and dingy room--in the Latin Quarter, of course--and low-paying job that all American expatriate artistic wannabes from Hughes to Hemingway must have in order to live  the dream. She meets a circle of like-minded compatriots, has an affair  with a white jazz musician, and all the while keeps her eye on the prize: a meeting with Baldwin himself. What saves this novel from being a  retread of all the portraits of artists as young men and women in Paris that  have gone before is Youngblood's conscious invocations of Eden's predecessors, of the bohemian lifestyle, of Paris itself. These are  not, she suggests, the things themselves, but rather the romantic imaginings  of a young woman who has pinned her hopes and ambitions on stories she's  read and heard thirdhand.   The reality of Eden's Paris soon sets in, however. Terrorists have  besieged France; bombs are going off all over the city and the French don't seem quite as welcoming to people of color as they  were back in the '30s and '40s. In fact, this Paris is a violent, frightening place:  Policemen beat to death a twenty-year-old student Malik Oussekine at  the end of peaceful student demonstrations. I pray for the safety of my  artist friend Malik and the soul of the student who had been murdered. To  make the students seem dangerous and deserving of excessive force, the  police had stood by looking on encouraging thugs to loot stores and burn cars.  But Eden stays on, and everywhere she finds traces of James Baldwin in  the recollections of people who have met him. The hope that if she meets  him she'll "learn from him some kind of secret about love and life and  writing" keeps her going. Memories of the past mix with hopes for the future,  until in the novel's denouement, when Eden makes a surprising discovery about herself. Black Girl in Paris is both a loving homage to  Shay Youngblood's literary forebears, and a subtle reminder to her contemporaries that while we may learn from the past, we make our own future. --Sheila Bright

Black Girl in Paris

Literature & Fiction

Shay Youngblood

United States

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JOHN SANDFORD

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Kenneth Graham

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