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Audiobooks are a great way to learn language pronunications and inflections. LIstening to an audiobook while reading the book can be another way to both see and hear words. Below is information on how to access audibooks at the COD Library as well as some audiobook/book combinations.
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Audiobok/Book Combinations
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning, flashing past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stopping at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. Their life, as she sees it, is perfect ... until she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but now everything is changed. Rachel goes to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?
Meet Ove. Curmudgeon. The kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines-- and a short fuse. People think him bitter-- and he thinks himself surrounded by idiots. One November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, shaking up Ove's well-ordered, solitary world, changing Ove-- and those he meets-- in this comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship-- and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul.
Ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, they die, and before the weekend is out, there will be none.