Manchester City Library

Just in time for travel and/or multi-tasking season, below are new Audio Books on CD at Manchester City Library and Manchester West:

At Manchester City Library
Non-Fiction
1. Girls Like Us. By Sheila Weller. The life and tradition-breaking times of female singer songwriters Carole King, Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell

2. Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me. By Ben Karlin. Semi-insightful, hilarious life lessons from male writers and comedians who have been successfully calibrated.

3. I Was Told There’d Be Cake. By Sloane Crosly. Witty essays on first jobs, unpleasant weddings and long-forgotten friends that will leave you laughing.

Fiction
1. A Mercy. By Toni Morrison. A slave in 17th century Maryland offers her daughter to a Northern farmer as debt payment from their owner.

2. The Gargoyle. By Andrew Davidson. A man crashes into a ravine and suffers burns over much of his body. He is recovering at the hospital, awaiting the day he can commit suicide, when a beautiful sculptress of gargoyles appears at his bedside insisting they were once lovers in medieval Germany.

Classics Newly Available at Manchester City Library
Fiction
1. The Great Gatsby. By F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Steppenwolf. by Hermann Hesse
3. Roots. By Alex Haley
4. Revolutionary Road. By Richard Yates

Non-Fiction
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. By Abraham Lincoln

At Manchester West
Fiction
1. The Associate. By John Grisham
2. Plum Spooky. By Janet Evanovich
3. Very Valentine. By Adriana Trigiani.
4. Handle With Care. By Jodi Picoult
5. The Given Day. By Dennis Lehane
6. Hour I First Believed. By Wally Lamb.

Coming Soon to Manchester City Library on Audio Book CD
1. Slumdog Millionaire. By Vikas Swarup