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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
2) Gilead
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Gilead novels volume 1
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F ROBIN
1 available
F ROBIN
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F ROBIN
1 available
F ROBIN
1 available
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In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
3 available
F GYASI
3 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
1 available
F GYASI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
2 available
F GYASI
2 available
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5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F OBREH
1 available
F OBREH
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F OBREH
1 available
F OBREH
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F OBREH
1 available
F OBREH
1 available
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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F JILES
8 available
F JILES
8 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F JILES
1 available
F JILES
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F JILES
1 available
F JILES
1 available
Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F LALAM
1 available
F LALAM
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F LALAM
1 available
F LALAM
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F LALAM
2 available
F LALAM
2 available
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a...