12/13: New at the library this week

Audiobooks:

A prairie home companion 20th anniversary collection / Garrison Keillor
To mark the anniversary, here are 15 of Garrison Keillor’s finest, funniest “News from Lake Wobegon” monologues (11 of them previously unreleased) — “O Captain, My Captain,” “The Pastors on the Pontoon Boat,” “Buddy Holly and the Pharaohs of Rhythm,” “Thanksgiving,” “Commencement Day,” “The Protestant Dog,” “The Lake Superior Canyon project,” and more — along with songs and comedy. (cassette)

Gospel birds and other stories of Lake Wobegon / Garrison Keillor
Originally released in 1985, Gospel Birds is a collection of nine classic and very funny monologues from the early years of A Prairie Home Companion. (cassette)

News from Lake Wobegon / Garrison Keillor
This is the original collection of Garrison Keillor monologues. Funny and touching, these 20 stories from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion follow the seasons in Lake Wobegon. (cassette)

More news from Lake Wobegon / Garrison Keillor
this collection of Garrison Keillor monologues includes 16 stories, grouped by theme: Love, Faith, Hope, and Humor. All are from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. (cassette)

Lake Wobegon USA / Garrison Keillor
A portrait of small-town life emerges in a novel of humor, sadness and tenderness, songs and poems. (cassette)

12/10: New at the library this week

Audiobooks:

• Mount Vernon love story: a novel of George and Martha Washington / Mary Higgins Clark — The novel charts the course of George’s tentative courtship of the young widow Martha Custis. (read an exerpt)
• Little altars everywhere / Rebecca Wells — The story unfolds in the alternating voices of Vivi and her husband, Big Shep, along with Sidda and her siblings, as well as the almost-but-not-quite family Chaney and Willetta. Wells embraces nearly thirty years of life on the Walker plantation in Thornton, Louisiana, where the cloying air of the bayou and a web of family secrets at once shelters, traps, and defines this utterly original community of souls. (read a sample chapter)
• A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith — The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg. (read a sample chapter)
• Balance of power / Richard North Patterson — President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancée, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington–the Sons of the Second Amendment (SSA). (read an exerpt)