Books on CD/Tape
Sorted by Call Number / Author.
ACD 811 ANG
Angelou, Maya. And still I rise. New York : Random House Audiobooks, 1996.
Kind of love, some say -- Remembrance -- Where we belong, a duet -- Refusal -California prodigal -- Willie -- One more round -- Woman work -- And still I rise -Ain't that bad? -- Life doesn't frighten me -- On aging -- Thank you, Lord. Read
by the author. Thirteen poems from Angelou's third book of poetry.
ACD 811 BRO
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-. Essential Brooks. Unabridged. Caedmon Audio, c2006.
(from A street in Bronzeville) 1. Kitchenette building -- 2. Obituary for a living
lady -- 3. Sadie and Maud -- 4. Matthew Cole -- 5. The vacant lot -- 6. Queen of
the blues -- 7. The mother -- 8. The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith -- (from Annie
Allen) 9. The parents : people like our marriage Maxie and Andrew -- 10. Do not
be afraid of no --11. "Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on alps" -- 12.
The rites for Cousin Vit -- 13. Leaves from a loose-leaf war diary -- 14. The
children of the poor -- (from the bean eaters) 15. My little 'bout-town gal -- 16.
The bean eaters -- 17. Old Mary -- 18. The lovers of the poor -- 19. A man of the
middle class -- 20. Kid Bruin -- 21. The ghost at the Quincy Club -- (from
Selected poems) 22. Garbageman : the man with the orderly mind -- 23.
Weaponed woman -- (from black expression) 24. Riot -- (from in the Mecca) 25.
Gang girls -- 26. The wall -- 27. The sermon on the warpland. Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Gwendolyn Brooks reads twenty-seven of her poems, including "Do
Not Be Afraid of No," "Riot," and "The Bean Eaters.". This recording of celebrated
poetry centers on the daily lives of black people in bleak cities, and bursts with
cutting observation and warm humor.
ACD 811 CLI
Clinton, Catherine. I, too, sing America : three centuries of African American poetry.
Unabridged. Middletown ; RI : Audio Bookshelf, 2000.
Performed by Ashley Bryan & Renee Joshua-Porter. A collection of 36 poems by
25 African-American writers, from Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century to
the recent poet laureate Rita Dove. Includes biographical introductions to the
authors.
ACD 811 GIO
Giovanni, Nikki. The Nikki Giovanni : poetry collection. Unabridged. New York :
HarperCollins, c2002.
Read by Nikki Giovanni.
ACD 943.086 BAR
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library,
p2006.
Read by Kathrin Kana with the author. Takes a look at the youth organizations
Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends,
presenting profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people
who opposed the Nazis. Includes more than fifty archival photos.
ACD 973 THR
The three documents that made America : the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights and additional amendments.
Unabridged. Northport ; ME : Audio Bookshelf, 2004.
(Disc 1) General introduction -- Introduction -- Declaration of Independence -Introduction -- Constitution of the United States -- (Disc 2) Introduction -- Bill of
Rights -- Additional amendments. Documents read by Terry Bregy, with
introductions written and read by Sam Fink. Presents a reading with introductions
of the United States' founding documents: the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
ACD F AUS
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. Abridged. Franklin, TN : Naxos
AudioBooks, c1996.
Read by Jenny Agutter. In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young
woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic
entanglements of her four sisters.
ACD F BAC
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship breaker. Unabridged. Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio,
p2010.
Performed by Joshua Swanson. In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges
copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached
clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the
ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
ACD F BRA
Bray, Libba. Rebel angels. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, c2005.
Read by Josephine Bailey. Gemma and her friends are looking forward to a
holiday from the Spence Academy to spend time with friends, attend balls and
dally with handsome men, but the enchanted world that Gemma takes her friends
to is not all fun. Gemma must bind the magic and face her greatest foe Circe.
ACD F DIC
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. A Christmas carol. Unabridged. Franklin ; TN : Naxos
Audiobooks, c2004.
Read by Anton Lesser. A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three
ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
ACD F DON
Donnelly, Jennifer. Revolution. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, p2010.
Read by Emily Janice Card and Emma Bering. An angry, grieving seventeen-yearold musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels
to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the
French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned
little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
ACD F DON
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-. Room : a novel. Unabridged. New York : Hachette Audio,
p2010.
Read by Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Suzanne Toren & Robert Petkoff. Fiveyear-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his
mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous
fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to
question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
ACD F ELI
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Silas Marner. Unabridged. Auburn ; CA : Audio Partners,
1999.
Read by Andrew Sachs. A bitter man living alone with his hoard of gold learns
about the power of love when his riches are stolen and a beautiful child is left on
his doorstep.
ACD F HIA
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, p2002.
Read by Chad Lowe. Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes
involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a
proposed construction site.
ACD F JOH
Johnson, Angela, 1961-. The first part last. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library,
2004.
Read by Khalipa Oldjohn with Kolé Kristí as Nia. Sixteen-year-old Bobby finds out
that he is going to become a father and suddenly all the things that seemed
important to him before are insignificant as he and his girlfriend, Nia, try to sort
out the situation and decide what to do.
ACD F KID
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees : a novel. Unabridged. Minneapolis ; MN :
HighBridge, c2001.
Read by Jenna Lamia. Fourteen-year-old Lily and Rosaleen, the African-American
woman who has loved her like a mother since she was four, flee their home after
Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers and find a safe haven in Tiburon,
South Carolina, at the home of three eccentric beekeeping sisters.
ACD F KIN
King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-. Please ignore Vera Dietz. Unabridged. New York :
Listening Library, p2011.
Read by Lynde Houck, with Mark Deakins, Ryan Gesell, and Arthur Morey. When
her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under
mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets
that could help clear his name.
ACD F KNO
Knowles, John, 1926-. A separate peace. Unabridged. Northport ; ME : Audio
Bookshelf, 2002.
Narrated by Scott Snively. Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War
II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New
Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an
event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
ACD F LON
London, Jack, 1876-1916. The call of the wild. Unabridged. Old Saybrook ; CT :
Tantor Media, c2003.
Performed by Patrick Lawlor. Buck, a dog that has been forced into the harsh life
of a sled dog, befriends a man seeking his fortune in the Klondike gold fields, and
must ultimately decide whether to stay with his master or obey his instinct to join
the wolves.
ACD F LOW
Lowry, Lois. Messenger. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, 2004.
Read by David Morse. Unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue" in
the story of Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty,
who conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
ACD F Mye
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. All the right stuff. Unabridged. Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books, p2012.
Narrated by Brandon Gill. The summer after his absentee father is killed in a
random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to
lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and
mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on
a basketball scholarship.
ACD F MYE
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Monster. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, 2000.
Performed by a full cast with an introduction by the author. While on trial as an
accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences
in prision and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to
terms with the course his life has taken.
ACD F MYE
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Shooter. Unabridged. New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
Performed by Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerney, and Michelle Santopietro.
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three
troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
ACD F PAO
Paolini, Christopher. Eldest. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, c2005.
Read by Gerard Doyle. After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is
adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to Ellesméra to finish his Dragon Rider
training--a thrilling adventure, but he must watch his back at every exciting turn,
for betrayal is never far behind him.
ACD F PAO
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, c2003.
Read by Gerard Doyle. In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage
called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate
tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, populated with dragons, elves, and
monsters.
ACD F REI
Reinhardt, Dana. A brief chapter in my impossible life. Unabridged. New York :
Listening Library, 2006.
Read by Mandy Siegfried. Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life
changes in unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make contact with
her biological mother, an agnostic from a Jewish family who is losing her battle
with cancer.
ACD F ROS
Rosoff, Meg. How I live now. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, 2005.
Read by Kim Mai Guest. To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York
City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins,
with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family
while devastating the land.
ACD F SAE
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. Unabridged. New York :
Listening Library, 2006.
Read by Robert Ramirez. As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of
Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy
Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the
Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.
ACD F SED
Sedgwick, Marcus. Revolver. Unabridged. Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, c2010.
Performed by Peter Berkrot. Fourteen-year-old Sig is stranded at a remote cabin
in the Arctic wilderness with his father, who died just hours ago after falling
through the ice, when a terrifying man arrives, claiming Sig's father owes him a
share of a horde of stolen gold and that he will kill Sig if he does not get his
money.
AT F ALM
Almond, David, 1951-. Kit's wilderness. Old Greenwich ; CT : Listening Library, 2000,
c1999.
Performance by Charles Keating. Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his
grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds
both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
AT F AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. Old Greenwich ; CT : Listening Library, 2000.
Performance by Mandy Siegfried. A traumatic event near the end of the summer
has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
AT F Bro
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre. Unabridged. Auburn, CA : Audio Partners
Publishing, p1984.
Read by Maureen O'Brien. When a penniless governess falls in love with the
brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.
AT F COO
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The last of the Mohicans. Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books, p1989.
Reader: Larry McKeever. Retells the romantic adventure of two women in
eighteenth-century colonial America, in the hostile and dangerous wilderness of
northern New York, when war breaks out between the Huron and Iroquoi Indians.
AT F HIN
Hinton, S. E. The outsiders. Prince Frederick ; MD : Recorded Books, 1993.
Reader: Spike McClure. Three brothers struggle to stay together after their
parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of
their adolescent society.
AT F SAC
Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Holes. Unabridged. New York : Listening Library, 1999.
Read by Kerry Beyer. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they
attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish
correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a
treasure, and a new sense of himself.
AT F STE
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Of mice and men. St. Paul : Penguin HighBridge Audio,
c1992.
Lenny, a mentally retarded child-man, and his lifelong friend George, dream of
having their own ranch some day, until unintentional violence brings tragic
consequences.
AT F STE
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. The pearl. Unabridged. St. Paul, MN : PenguinHighBridge Audio, c1994.
Read by Hector Elizondo. Kino is a Mexican pearl-fisher in the Gulf of California.
When he and his wife, Juana, have a baby, their joy is complete, until the infant
is bitten by a scorpion.
AT F WEL
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. The invisible man. Charlotte Hall, MD :
Recorded Books, p1986.
NARRATOR: Vicki Morgan. When a chemist discovers a formula which makes him
invisible, he lets the power of his position go to his head. Part science-fiction,
part horror, part comic story.
AT F/ Ste
Steinbeck,John. The Pearl. New York: Viking Penguin, c1999.
Kino is a Mexican pearl-fisher in the Gulf of California. When he and hiswife,
Juana, have a baby, their joy is complet...until the infant is bitten by a scorpion.