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Top 10 Los Gatos Library Audio Books

This ranking is for the week of July 4-11, 2012.

In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

2. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries.

3. Modern economic issues, Robert Whaples

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The great courses: course on economics taught by Robert Whaples.

4. The broker, John Grisham

After being pardoned, a former Washington powerbroker is released from prison and smuggled out of the country, given a new identity, and hidden in a small town in Italy, but old enemies from the past are out to destroy him.

5. The power of positive thinking, Norman Vincent Peale

The Power of Positive Thinking is unparalleled in its extraordinary capacity for restoring the faltering faith of millions. In this unprecedented recording, Dr Peale offers the essence of his profound method for achieving happiness and success.

6. As the pig turns, M.C. Beaton

Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha--and the rest of the village--realize that things aren't as they seem.

7. Thanksgiving, Janet Evanovich   

When it comes to men, Megan Murphy has an aversion to "I do." Then she meets irresistible pediatrician Pat Hunter. Add in a cozy colonial cottage, the world's biggest turkey, two hopeful families and a skirt-chomping rabbit, and you've got a feast of fabulous fun.

8. Behind the wheel Spanish 3, Mark Frobose

Learn Spanish while driving.

9. Devil's gate, Clive Cussler

A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster- when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world?

10. The life and times of the thunderbolt kid, Bill Bryson

The author describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his remarkably normal 1950s family life.

 

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