A debut novel about a daughter grappling with the legacy of her famous and imposing cellist father, the secrets he has hidden from her, and the fate of his great Stradivarius cello. Alexander Feldmann is a revered and sought-after performer whose prodigious talent, striking good looks, and worldly charm prove irresistible to all who hear and encounter him. After years of searching, he acquires a glorious cello, the Silver Swan, a rare Stradivarius masterpiece long lost to the world of music. Mariana is Alexander's only child and the maestro has large ambitions for her. By the age of nineteen she emerges as a star cellist in her own right, and is seen as the inheritor of her father's genius. There are whispers that her career might well outpace his. Mariana believes the Silver Swan will one day be hers, until a stunning secret from her father's past entwines her fate and that of the Silver Swan in ways she could never have imagined.

The Silver Swan

Literature & Fiction

Delbanco, Elena

Literary

Author's Republic

[Read by Melissa Chambers] Headstrong journalist Anna Rothman knows what suicide looks like -- her own husband killed himself five years earlier. When Elly Swift, an agitated passenger beside her on a train, leaves a locket in Anna's bag before jumping onto the tracks, Anna starts asking awkward questions. But everything points to suicide and the police close the case. Anna, however, believes Elly's fears for Toby, her young nephew, missing since being snatched from St. Stephen's church six months ago, fail to explain the true reason behind Elly's distress. Through a series of hidden messages Elly left behind, Anna embarks on a dangerous crusade to track down Toby and find Elly's killer. But nothing is as it seems and Anna opens a can of worms that throws into question even her own husband's suicide -- before the threads of the mystery converge in an astonishing conclusion.

Girl on a Train

Waines, A J

Now available in audio for the first time! Darrell Huff's celebrated classic How to Lie with Statistics is a straight-forward and engaging guide to understanding the manipulation and misrepresentation of information that could be lurking behind every graph, chart, and infographic. Originally published in 1954, it remains as relevant and necessary as ever in our digital world where information is king--and as easy to distort and manipulate as it is to access. A precursor to modern popular science books like Steven D. Levitt's Freakonomics and Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to full rather than to inform. Critically acclaimed by media outlets like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, How to Lie with Statistics stands as the go-to book for understanding the use of statistics by teachers and leaders everywhere.

How to Lie with Statistics

Business & Money

Huff, Darrell

Education & Reference

[*Read by Alison Larkin]Award-winning narrator Alison Larkin's reading of Agatha Christie's second novel, The Secret Adversary, set in London in 1919, received glowing reviews.. Publishers Weekly said ''her performance captures that sense of carefree enthusiasm for life before the crash. Her reading is champagne bubbly and engaging throughout. A jaunty, jolly good listen.'' Audiofile Magazine said ''Alison Larkin's crisp, clear narration helps to conjure up the feeling of a bygone era when the class system was at the core of British society. The result is an easy listen of a classic tale of detection.'' The Great War is over, and the roaring '20s are just on the horizon in London. Tommy and Tuppence are charming, broke and in desperate need of work. They decide to set up Young Adventurers Ltd. -- ''willing to do anything, go anywhere.'' They are soon caught up in a dastardly plot to overthrow the government.

The Secret Adversary

CHRISTIE,AGATHA

Classics

The Birthday Dinosaur

Alison Larkin

Mythology & Folk Tales

My Fight / Your Fight

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

[*Read by Alison Larkin]Jane Austen's most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice is brought to sparkling new life in this ''wonderful, unforgettable'' recording from AudioFile Earphones award-winning narrator Alison Larkin.Always a witty and original voice, Alison Larkin follows her narration of Pride and Prejudice with songs from Regency England, to give the listener a sense of what after dinner family entertainment might have sounded like in Jane Austen's time.Recorded in a drawing room not unlike the Bennets', a young lady who sounds suspiciously like Mary Bennet sings The Lonely Ash Grove, Ye Banks and Braes, and Down by the Salley Gardens, making up in vocal enthusiasm what she lacks in polish.

Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency England

Austen., Jane

United States

[*Read by Alison Larkin]Catherine Morland, a clergyman's daughter, longs for the kind of romantic adventures she has read about in her favorite Gothic novels. After spending a season mingling with fashionable high society in Bath, she is invited to stay at Northanger Abbey where nothing is what it seems.

Northanger Abbey and the History of England by Jane Austen

A Christmas Carol and the Night Before Christmas

Dickens Charles Charles

Moore., Clement C

A Christmas Carol and "The Night before Christmas" are as different as England and America themselves. And yet almost two centuries later these iconic works remain the most famous Christmas stories ever told and a beloved part of Christmas tradition all over the world. Now they are brought together for the first time in this very special holiday recording. Derek Perkins is an Audie Award and AudioFile Earphones award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks and an AudioFile Magazines "Best Voice." Alison Larkin is an AudioFile Earphones award-winning narrator of over 150 audiobooks, an internationally acclaimed comedienne, and the bestselling author of The English American.

A Christmas Carol and the Night Before Christmas Lib/E

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