05089cam a2200421 4500 240399971 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780804167055 0804167052 7965d9c8-2bae-4580-836b-06d3f244d5ab OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1322963 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Carleson, J.C. The Tyrant's Daughter [Bridges Audiobook]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 235MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 235MB. HTML:From a former CIA officer comes a riveting account of a royal Middle Eastern family exiled to the American suburbs THERE: In an unnamed country, fifteen-year-old Laila has always lived like royalty. Her father is a dictator of sorts, though she knows him as King--just as his father was, and just as her little brother Bastien will be one day. Then everything changes: Laila's father is killed in a coup. HERE: As war surges, Laila flees to a life of exile in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Overnight she becomes a nobody. Even as she adjusts to a new school and new friends, she is haunted by the past. Was her father really a dictator like the American newspapers say? What was the cost of her family's privilege? Far from feeling guilty, her mother is engineering a power play--conspiring with CIA operatives and rebel factions to gain a foothold to the throne. Laila can't bear to stand still as yet another international crisis takes shape around her. But how can one girl stop a conflict that spans generations? An author's note delves into J.C Carleson's experiences undercover in Iraq and a bonus commentary by RAND researcher and president of ARCH International, Dr. Cheryl Benard, sheds more light on conflict in the region. Recommendations for further reading are also included. From the Hardcover edition.. What's it like to be caught between cultures? The author, a former CIA agent, knows. So will listeners after hearing Meera Simhan's portrayal of 15-year-old Laila, who immigrates to the U.S. from an unnamed Middle Eastern country after her father is murdered in a coup. Simhan reads with lightly accented precision, balancing Laila's conflicting emotions at being "a girl divided"--relief at proffered friendship, horror at discovering her father's tyranny, worry about her mother's irresponsibility and her brother's delusion of becoming king, and, worst of all, confusion about who she really is. Simhan's involving narration catches listeners in Laila's web. This audio production includes an author's note and a commentary by Cheryl Benard, a researcher dedicated to social activism. S.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. HTML:"This story is important on so many levels. It invites readers to contemplate paradox and contradictions in ways that few books do: how a friend's loyalty trumps her annoying habits; how you can love your country and still be honest about its shortcomings; how betrayal might be justifiable. But mostly it's a touching, suspenseful story about two children who don't belong anywhere. Every American should read this book. It's an eye-opener.". HTML:Suzanne Fisher Staples, Newbery Honor-winning author of Shabanu. "It's a story both foreign and familiar, global and intimate. A tense chess game where you'll think you know the final moves only to learn you've been outsmarted.". HTML:Dana Reinhardt, award-winning author of The Things a Brother Knows. Young Adult Literature. Young Adult Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Best Fiction for Young Adults. Earphones Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-09 14:24:47. Simhan, Meera. Benard, Cheryl. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=7965d9c8-2bae-4580-836b-06d3f244d5ab http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1322963-TheTyrantsDaughter.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1322963-TheTyrantsDaughter.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7965D9C8-2BAE-4580-836B-06D3F244D5AB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/1322963-TheTyrantsDaughter.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1322963-TheTyrantsDaughter.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7965D9C8-2BAE-4580-836B-06D3F244D5AB&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)