- Browse
- » My Account
- » List
Author
Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction
306.81 FINKE
2 available
306.81 FINKE
2 available
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
306.81 FINKE
1 available
306.81 FINKE
1 available
Author
Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
362.175 GAWAN
1 available
362.175 GAWAN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
362.175 GAWAN
1 available
362.175 GAWAN
1 available
Shirlington - Recently Returned
362.175 GAWAN
1 available
362.175 GAWAN
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....
Author
Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction
128.5 TAYLO
1 available
128.5 TAYLO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
128.5 TAYLO
1 available
128.5 TAYLO
1 available
Description
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience--the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance--of knowing she will soon die. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account...
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Available
Central - Adult Fiction
F ATWOO
1 available
F ATWOO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ATWOO
1 available
F ATWOO
1 available
Available
Central - Adult Large Type
LT F ATWOO
1 available
LT F ATWOO
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type
LT F ATWOO
1 available
LT F ATWOO
1 available
Description
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
Author
6) Swing time
Author
Formats:
Available
Central - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
2 available
F SMITH
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
1 available
F SMITH
1 available
Description
"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never...
Author
Formats:
Available
Central - Adult Fiction
F KIM
1 available
F KIM
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F KIM
1 available
F KIM
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F KIM
1 available
F KIM
1 available
Description
"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Amazon.