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The goose girl [playaway]
Shannon Hale.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Princess Anidori, on her way to marry a prince she has never met, is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity. Dramatization.
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The great Gatsby [playaway]
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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Hamlet [playaway]
William Shakespeare.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Presents Shakespeare's "Hamlet," about a Danish prince who seeks to avenge his father's murder.
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Harry the dirty dog and other animal stories [playaway]
Gene Zion.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Hoot [playaway] Carl Hiaasen.
Hiaasen, Carl.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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How do dinosaurs say good night?-- and other dinosaur tales [playaway]
Jane Yolen, Peter McCarty & Syd Hoff.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Contains four dinosaur stories, including "How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon," "How Do Dinosaurs say Goodnight?" "T is for Terrible," and "Danny and the Dinosaur."
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The iliad [playaway]
Homer.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
An epic poem about Achilles vengeance against Agamemnon and the city of Troy at the end of the Trojan War.
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In the company of the courtesan [playaway] : a novel
by Sarah Dunant.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice. Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan's court. But Fiammetta and Bucino's greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all.
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Interpreter of maladies [playaway] : stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Contains nine short stories which chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the borders of nations and generations.
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James Marshall's Favorite Fairy Tales [playaway]
by James Marshall.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Contains four stories by James Marshall, including "Red Riding Hood," "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "The Three Little Pigs," and "Hansel and Gretel," and features a fifth story by Barbara Karlin "Cinderella."
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The kite rider [playaway]
Geraldine McCaughrean.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
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The last juror [playaway] : a novel
John Grisham.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
In 1970s Mississippi, nine years after receiving a life sentence for rape and murder, the son of a brutally powerful bootlegging family is paroled and jurors start turning up dead.
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