The Longest Night by Andria Williams

April 29, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Rebecca Lowman, Hillary Huber, and MacLeod Andrews. Random House, 2016. 13 hours, 42 minutes. Library copy.  On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor in the small Idaho town of Idaho Falls melted down. It is the only nuclear disaster on U.S. soil to result in a fatality — three, actually — and yet the event has been largely overshadowed by the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979. Williams’ fictional […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Audiobook, Fiction, North America, United States • Tags: Andria Williams, Hillary Huber, MacLeod Andrews, Rebecca Lowman

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

March 4, 2016 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra. Listening Library, 2013. 8 hours, 56 minutes. Library copy. After living on the couch of her mother’s best friend for a year, Eleanor’s step-father, Richie, has finally allowed her to back into the family home with her mother and four younger siblings. The whole family walks around on tiptoes around Richie — afraid of being hit, afraid of being banished from the house — and as much as Eleanor hates her step-father, she […]

Categories: 2016 Reads, Audiobook, Fiction, Young Adult • Tags: Rainbow Rowell, Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra