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18 copies, 49 people are on the wait list.
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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"Crapalatcha is a portrait of Scott McClanahan's formative years, coming of age in rural West Virginia, during a stretch of time where he was deeply influenced by his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy."--Cover flap.
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Glencarlyn - Adult Biography
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B MURPHY F
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Shirlington - Adult Biography
B MURPHY F
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B MURPHY F
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A long-haul trucker reflects on the changing realities of the working class as witnessed during journeys ranging from the I-95 Powerland and the Florida Everglades to the truck stops of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains.
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When...
The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
323.1196 ANDER
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323.1196 ANDER
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Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
323.1196 ANDER
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323.1196 ANDER
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"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage,' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WEISS
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F WEISS
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F WEISS
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F WEISS
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"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
362.293 QUINO
2 available
362.293 QUINO
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
362.293 QUINO
1 available
362.293 QUINO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
362.293 QUINO
1 available
362.293 QUINO
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
362.293 QUINO
2 available
362.293 QUINO
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
362.293 QUINO
1 available
362.293 QUINO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
362.293 QUINO
1 available
362.293 QUINO
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.
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New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner lives of working-class characters, Campbell illustrates the desperation...