Barbara Caruso

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1) A wrinkle in time

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 1
Fiction on cassette

Language

English

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Back to School Reads - JF
Banned Book Week
Science Fiction - JF
Womens History Month - JF

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD

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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

2) Under the Tuscan sun: at home in Italy

Author

Mayes, Frances

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD

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A beautiful memoir capturing time spent in the Italian countryside with the restoration of an ancient villa and the discovery of the tastes and simple pleasures of life in a foreign country.

3) Henry Huggins

Author

Cleary, Beverly

Series

Henry Huggins volume 1

Language

English

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Back to School Reads - JF

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD

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When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.

4) In a blue room

Author

Averbeck, Jim

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book with Audio

Description

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Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.

5) The cricket in Times Square

Author

Selden, George

Series

Chester Cricket volume 1
Macmillan young listeners

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD

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The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.

6) The age of innocence

Author

Wharton, Edith

Series

Recorded Books classics library
Penguin twentieth-century classics

Language

English

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Adult Classics

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Book, Audiobook on CD

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When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...

7) When joy came to stay

Author

Kingsbury, Karen

Series

Recorded Books inspirational

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

Description

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When Joy Came to Stay illustrates the miraculous power of faith to overcome even the most debilitating suffering. Maggie Stovall has a successful career and a happy marriage, but she also bears the crippling weight of a secret from her past. As she slips farther and farther into depression, her only hope lies in God's loving forgiveness.