“The plot builds to a complex but satisfying solution. Cozy fans will hope Amy will return soon.” —Publishers Weekly
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- The Future of Food
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 1/19/21
Formats: Digital Audy
With global population numbers projected to increase by two billion by 2050, a veritable food crisis is on the horizon. In this audiobook we examine some of the complex factors involved in the coming “food crisis” and the innovative ideas and technologies designed to increase food production sustainably. We also examine current industry methods to increase production and the controversies surrounding them, including not only hot-button issues like genetically modified (or GM) and processed foods, but also food safety and the physical effects of the modern diet.
- The Future of Food
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 1/19/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Understanding Autism
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Introduction by Jeanene Swanson
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 11/24/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Autism is one of three diagnoses that the DSM-5 includes in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While our understanding of this condition has grown exponentially, research has been fraught with controversy. Autism appears to be on the rise, depending on how you define it, and its causes more complex than imagined. In Understanding Autism, Scientific American’s editors have gathered the most current information on autism, including how it’s diagnosed, risk factors, treatments, and therapies.
- Understanding Autism
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Introduction by Jeanene Swanson
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 11/24/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Bound for Murder
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 1/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn’t all peace and love among the “flower children” when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune.
Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber’s friend “Sunny” Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate’s closet. Sunny’s grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face criminal charges when human remains are found in their fields—and a forensic examination reveals that the death was neither natural nor accidental.
With Sunny’s mayoral hopes fading, Amy sets her wedding plans aside, says “not yet” to the dress, and uses her research skills to clear her best friend’s family. Any of the now-elderly commune members could have been the culprit. As former hippies perish one by one, Amy and her friends Richard, Aunt Lydia, and Hugh Chen pursue every lead. But if Amy can’t find whoever killed these “flower children,” someone may soon be placing flowers on her grave.
- Bound for Murder
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 1/07/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Confident Parents, Confident Kids
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 11/05/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Confident Parents, Confident Kids lays out an approach for helping parents—and the kids they love—hone their emotional intelligence so they can make wise choices, connect and communicate well with others (even when patience wears thin), and become socially competent, confident human beings.
How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding and having a mastery over our emotions—and helping our children do the same. Like learning to play a musical instrument, we can fine-tune our ability to skillfully react to those crazy, big, wonderful feelings that naturally arise from our child’s constant growth and change, moving from chaos to harmony. We want our children to trust that they can conquer any challenge with hard work and persistence, that they can love boundlessly, and that they will find their unique sense of purpose. We also want to trust that they will act wisely in a complex world. This book shows you how you can help it all happen.
With author and educator Jennifer Miller as your supportive guide, you’ll learn
- the lies we’ve been told about emotions, how they shape our choices, and how we can better align our parenting decisions with our deepest values;
- how to identify the temperaments your child was born with so you can support those tendencies rather than fight them;
- how to align your biggest hopes and dreams for your kids with specific skills that can be practiced, along with new research to support those powerful connections;
- about each age and stage your child will go through and the range of learning opportunities available at each;
- how to identify and manage those big emotions that only parenting can bring out and how to model emotional intelligence for your children;
- how to deal with the emotions and influences of your choir—the many outside individuals and communities who directly impact your child’s life,including friends, neighbors, extended family, school, and the digital world.
Raising confident, centered, happy kids, while feeling the same way about yourself, is possible with Confident Parents, Confident Kids.
- Confident Parents, Confident Kids
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 11/05/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Best Kept Secrets
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 10/08/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Best friends tell each other everything.
Even their deepest, darkest secrets—pinky promise.
Right?
Morgan Jewell and Fay Ramsey are enjoying their last summer together before college. Fay is shy, with a controlling mother, and Morgan is the perfect, wild, loud-mouthed yang to Fay’s ying. But when Fay is found dead, Morgan’s entire world crumbles.
Years later, Morgan is still haunted by the abrupt end to her best friend’s life. She knew Fay held a secret in those final days, but Morgan, now a homicide detective, has failed to make a picture out of the crooked puzzle pieces she left behind. Nothing makes sense. The leads have run dry—until she’s called to the scene of a murder: a woman whose body is left mangled, too similar to Fay’s to ignore.
Could it be? Morgan vowed to do right by Fay. This is the case she’s been waiting for to set her back on the killer’s trail. But the closer she gets, the harder it forces her to confront the memories of herself and her best friend. What was her secret? What got her killed? Maybe Morgan didn’t know her at all.
- Best Kept Secrets
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 10/08/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Witch to Remember
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 4/09/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Not even a witch can keep her secrets safe in the sizzling ninth installment of nationally bestselling author Heather Blake’s Wishcraft series.
Wishcrafter Darcy Merriweather’s enchanted wedding plans are put to the test when murder invites itself to her bridal luncheon …
The Enchanted Village always has a touch of magic about it, but the buzz of excitement over the wedding between wish-granting witch Darcy and police chief Nick Sawyer is positively electric. With every spellbinding detail planned to perfection, all that’s left is to sit back and let wishes come true. But Darcy’s dream wedding is threatened when the Divinitea Cottage, the tea room hosting her bridal luncheon, goes up in flames, revealing the strangled body of the owner, Leyna Noble.
Making vows to solve the crime without delaying the nuptials, Darcy focuses on her prime suspect, and number one nemesis, wicked witch Dorothy Hansel Dewitt, a notorious firebug. But when a psychic vanishes without a trace, Darcy’s investigation shifts to Leyna’s mysteriously bewitching past. Darcy must sort through mystical claims and old, vengeful grudges to find a killer before she is forced to forever hold her peace.
- A Witch to Remember
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 4/09/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Healthy Pregnancy Book
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By William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN, with Linda Holt, MD and B. J. Snell, PhD, CNM
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 3/12/19
Formats: Digital Audy
From America’s leading authorities in childcare comes the definitive guide to having a healthy pregnancy—and a healthy baby.
The Healthy Pregnancy Book guides expectant mothers and fathers through all stages of pregnancy from preconception through birth, focusing on how to enhance the health of mother and baby.
- How to grow a smarter and healthier baby
- How your baby is developing, and how you may be changing both emotionally and physically
- Eating right for two, with a helpful list of pregnancy superfoods
- Exercise and keeping fit during your pregnancy
- Concerns and questions you may have about test and technology, genetic counseling, and childbirth options
- How to protect the womb environment and recognize potential household hazards
- Advice on working while pregnant
- Choosing the right healthcare provider and childbirth class
- The transition into parenthood, and much more …
Written in the Searses’ trademark reassuring tone that makes their books long-term bestsellers—The Healthy Pregnancy Book is the must-have resource to fit the greater demands of today’s savvy parents.
- The Healthy Pregnancy Book
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By William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN, with Linda Holt, MD and B. J. Snell, PhD, CNM
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 3/12/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Baby Sleep Book
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By William Sears, MD; Robert Sears, MD; James Sears, MD; and Martha Sears, RN
Foreword by Dr. James McKenna
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 1/08/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Everything you need to know about getting your baby or toddler to sleep—from America’s foremost baby and childcare experts
For every parent deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now there’s hope. The Baby Sleep Book is the comprehensive, reassuring, solution-filled resource that every family will want to own.
Babies don’t automatically know how to sleep through the night; they need to be taught. The Sears family has learned from decades of pediatric practice, bolstered by their own parenting experiences, that different babies have different nighttime temperaments—and, of course, different families have different lifestyles. Instead of espousing the kind of “one method fits all” approach advocated in other baby sleep guides, the Sears family explains how you can create a sleep plan that suits the needs of your entire family.
With a sharp focus on practical tools and techniques, The Baby Sleep Book covers such topics as the following:
- The facts of infant sleep vs. adult sleep
- Figuring out where, when, and how your child sleeps best
- Fail-safe methods for soothing a crying infant
- How to make night nursing easier, and how to stop
- Nighttime fathering tips
- Whether co-sleeping makes sense for you
- Nap-time strategies that work
- Medical and physical causes of night waking
- Sleep habits in special situations such as traveling, teething, and illness
Like all books in the highly popular Sears Parenting Library, The Baby Sleep Book is clear, comforting, and uniquely authoritative. Its flexible sensitive approach to solving babies’ sleep problems distinguishes it as definitive—an unrivaled book that offers immediate results.
- The Baby Sleep Book
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By William Sears, MD; Robert Sears, MD; James Sears, MD; and Martha Sears, RN
Foreword by Dr. James McKenna
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 1/08/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Breastfeeding Book, Revised Edition
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By Martha Sears, RN and William Sears, MD
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 12/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
A fully revised edition of the Dr. Sears guide to breastfeeding, a perennial favorite for parents for nearly two decades
From pediatric experts Martha Sears, RN, and William Sears, MD, The Breastfeeding Book offers comprehensive, reassuring, authoritative information on
- how to start breastfeeding;
- increasing your milk supply;
- breastfeeding when working away from home;
- pumps and other technology associated with breastfeeding;
- making sure your nursing baby gets optimum nutrition, including the most recent information about the importance of omega-3 fatty acids and “milk-oriented microbiota”;
- nutrition and fitness for moms;
- nighttime breastfeeding;
- breastfeeding and fertility;
- toddler nursing and weaning;
- special circumstances; and
- much more.
Breastfeeding contributes to nurturing a smarter and healthier baby, and a healthier and more intuitive mommy. Isn’t that what every child needs, and every parent wants?
- The Breastfeeding Book, Revised Edition
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By Martha Sears, RN and William Sears, MD
Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 12/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- To Catch a Witch
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 8/07/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Wishcrafter Darcy Merriweather might be a witch with the ability to grant wishes for others, but wishing isn’t going to help her catch a killer …
When wishcrafter Darcy Merriweather’s personal concierge company is hired by elite runner Abby Stillwell to organize the Wicked Mad Dash, a competition that takes place in the Enchanted Village, Darcy is more than willing to help her friend. As blizzard conditions rage on the morning of the race, Darcy’s main concern is the terrible weather―until Abby goes missing … and is later found dead, buried in the snow.
As Darcy investigates her friend’s untimely death, she learns that she didn’t really know Abby well at all. And those closest to the woman―her secret fiancé, her roommate, her ex-boyfriend, and her coworkers at Balefire Sports―seem to have plenty to hide too. As Darcy digs deeper, she uncovers complicated relationships, a possible embezzlement scheme, and allegations of cheating against a top athlete.
Just when Darcy is convinced she’s hit a dead end in the case, a startling burglary and the hunt for Abby’s elusive ex send Darcy down a dark, dangerous trail. It will take the help from friends, family, and a little bit of magic for Darcy to stop a stone-cold killer from striking again.
- To Catch a Witch
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 8/07/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- All the Secret Places
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 9/12/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Gin Sullivan is back in her small hometown of Trumbull, Pennsylvania, on an extended leave from her job at the Chicago medical examiner’s office and rekindling an old flame with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Gin is readjusting to life at home when Jake receives harrowing news early one morning: the new housing development his construction firm is building has caught fire, and underneath one of the burnt homes is a dead body.
When the body is identified as a man who may very well be the violent offender who terrified Gin’s childhood town years ago, the pool of suspects broadens and it becomes a greater challenge to pinpoint his killer. Gin is determined to unearth old demons, hers included, but soon finds some people will kill to keep them buried.
Small-town secrets cast daunting shadows in All the Secret Places, Anna Carlisle’s riveting second Gin Sullivan mystery.
- All the Secret Places
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 9/12/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Hero
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 5/15/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Pediatrician and bestselling author Meg Meeker has a message: stop undervaluing fatherhood.
We live in a culture that hails motherhood as a woman’s crowning achievement yet defines men first and foremost by their professional accomplishments, treating fatherhood as almost incidental—a bonus. But from her years spent as a pediatrician listening to children’s needs and fears, Dr. Meeker understands just how crucial a father’s role is.
Hero is a powerful affirmation of fatherhood that shows men how being a strong, active father can be their greatest triumph.
- Hero
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 5/15/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Dark Road Home
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 7/12/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The summer after she graduated from high school, Gin Sullivan’s sister, Lily, went missing. Her family fell apart, not to mention her relationship with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Now, almost twenty years later, Gin is living in Chicago and working as a medical examiner when she gets the call that a body’s been found in the woods outside her small hometown. It’s Lily’s.
Confronting your past is never easy, but for Gin it means confronting Jake, who was the prime suspect in Lily’s disappearance. And as Gin examines her sister’s remains, she uncovers a shocking truth that could change everything—if it doesn’t kill her first.
Buried secrets come to light in Dark Road Home, Anna Carlisle’s sharp and simmering debut mystery.
- Dark Road Home
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 7/12/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Devil’s Share
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 7/07/15
Formats: Digital Audy
It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy—and low on funds—she agrees to act as a thief-for-hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're repatriated to their native country. But what's supposed to be a "give-up" robbery with few complications quickly turns deadly. Soon Crissa is on the run again, with both an ex-military hit squad and her own partners-in-crime in pursuit. And what should be the easiest job of her career—robbing a man who wants to be robbed—might just turn out to be the most dangerous.
- The Devil’s Share
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Read by Coleen Marlo
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Release Date: 7/07/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Thirty Years of Treason
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Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Excerpts by various authors
Read by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations
The testimony that Eric Bentley has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly dramatic and compelling collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record.
- Thirty Years of Treason
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Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Excerpts by various authors
Read by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy