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On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
362.290973 MACY
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362.290973 MACY
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Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis.
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305.569 BOO
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305.569 BOO
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305.569 BOO
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305.569 BOO
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD 305.569 BOO
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CD 305.569 BOO
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People
“A tour de force of...
“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People
“A tour de force of...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 BOO
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305.569 BOO
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Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction
305.569 BOO
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305.569 BOO
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD 305.569 BOO
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CD 305.569 BOO
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People
“A tour de force of...
“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People
“A tour de force of...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
305.8009 ROTHS
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305.8009 ROTHS
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305.8009 ROTHS
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305.8009 ROTHS
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection
One of Bill Gates' "Amazing Books" of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction
Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)
Finalist • Los Angeles Times
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
339.46 DESMO
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339.46 DESMO
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339.46 DESMO
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339.46 DESMO
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339.46 DESMO
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339.46 DESMO
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LT 339.46 DESMO
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LT 339.46 DESMO
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"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...
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Amgash novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Fiction
F STROU
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F STROU
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F STROU
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F STROU
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"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
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25 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong....
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD F DOERR
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CD F DOERR
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CD F DOERR
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CD F DOERR
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20 copies, 82 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 88 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 88 people are on the wait list.
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Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT F DOERR
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LT F DOERR
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Westover - Adult Large Type
LT F DOERR
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LT F DOERR
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F OTSUK
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F OTSUK
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F OTSUK
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F OTSUK
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F OTSUK
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F OTSUK
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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination, both physical and emotional, of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view, the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train ride to the camp;...
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD 940.5317 REEVE
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CD 940.5317 REEVE
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Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans,...
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Central - Adult Biography
B WARD J
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B WARD J
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B WARD J
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B WARD J
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B WARD J
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B WARD J
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South by the author of Salvage the bones.
14) Americanah
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Una original historia sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de una estudiante de literatura nigeriana.
Americanah ha sido galardonada con el National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 y seleccionada por los ciudadanos de Nueva York como el libro ganador de la campaña «One Book, One New York» 2017.
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F BEATT
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F BEATT
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F BEATT
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F BEATT
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"Set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, this collection of stories explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging"--
16) The sportswriter
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Frank Bascombe novels volume 1
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F FORD
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F FORD
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F FORD
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F FORD
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F FORD
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F FORD
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Richard Ford won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his modern classic Independence Day (C2951). In this first volume of his Frank Bascombe trilogy, Bascombe is a sportswriter attempting to cope with his failed marriage and the death of his son. Unable to establish true connections with people, Bascombe drifts into and out of various relationships, but retains an introspective eye that allows him to transcend life's obstacles.
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In Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken Jane Austen's novella, Lady Susan, and transformed it into a vivid and richly developed novel of love lost and found—and the complex relationships between women, men, and money in Regency England.
Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica, are left penniless and without a home after the death of Sir Frederick Vernon, Susan's husband. Frederick'...
Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica, are left penniless and without a home after the death of Sir Frederick Vernon, Susan's husband. Frederick'...