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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014. | First edition. | Harper Perennial | xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
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| 2014 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink-all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers...
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| OverDrive | Duke Classics | Available Online
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| OverDrive | Project Gutenberg | Available Online
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Regarded as one of the greatest novellas ever written, Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a nondescript law clerk, Bartleby, who takes a stand against the tyranny of modern life and makes an art form out of nonconformity in the process. A must-read for fans of classic American literature.
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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| 2007. | Random House Trade paperback edition. | Random House Trade Paperbacks | 294 pages : portrait ; 21 cm | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F MITCH | |
| 2006. | Random House | pages cm | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MITCH |
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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| 2006 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 5 available
305.896 BALDW
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.896 BALDW
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.896 BALDW
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 1993 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | 106 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 5 available 305.896 BALDW Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.896 BALDW Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.896 BALDW |
| Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
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F EVARI
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F EVARI
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F EVARI
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2019] | First Grove Atlantic edition. | Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic | 464 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F EVARI Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F EVARI Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F EVARI |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
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"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...
6) Hiroshima
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 1985. | New edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 196 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English |
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD 940.5425 HERSE
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2005?] | Recorded Books | 5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD 940.5425 HERSE |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | Available Online
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Recorded Books, Inc | Checked Out
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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The story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. The author follows the course of their lives hour by hour, day by day. The New Yorker Magazine of August 31, 1946 devoted all its space to this story and the immediate repercussions were vast. Almost four decades after the original publication of this book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told and records...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
306.7663 MACHA
Central - Adult Nonfiction 3 available
306.7663 MACHA
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
306.7663 MACHA
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2019] | Graywolf Press | 247 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.7663 MACHA Central - Adult Nonfiction 3 available 306.7663 MACHA Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 306.7663 MACHA |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Checked Out
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Graywolf Press | English | Checked Out
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In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure:...
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| c2014. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | x, 336 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
150.195 FRANK 2006
Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
150.195 FRANK 2006
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
150.195 FRANK 2006
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2006 | Beacon Press | xvi, 165 pages : portrait ; 22 cm | English | Available
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 150.195 FRANK 2006 Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 150.195 FRANK 2006 Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 150.195 FRANK 2006 |
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5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2006 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out
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In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished....
10) My losing season
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2003 | Bantam trade pbk. ed. | Bantam Books | 402 pages : portrait ; 23 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available B CONROY P |
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The author reflects on his days at a South Carolina military college. He recalls his love of basketball and its value to him as a means of self-expression, and shares experiences that shed new light on his novel "The Great Santini."
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Central - Adult Fiction 7 available
F WHITE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
Westover - Adult Fiction 4 available
F WHITE
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2019] | First edition. | Doubleday | 213 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 7 available F WHITE Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE Westover - Adult Fiction 4 available F WHITE |
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12 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
12 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.8292 SNYDE
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.8292 SNYDE
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.8292 SNYDE
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019. | Bloomsbury Publishing Inc | viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.8292 SNYDE Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.8292 SNYDE Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.8292 SNYDE |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Checked Out
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"[The author] explores America's epidemic of domestic violence and how it has been misunderstood, sharing insights into what domestic violence portends about other types of violence and what countermeasures are needed today."
"An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors. We call it...
13) Red at the bone
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WOODS
Central - Adult Fiction 7 available
F WOODS
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WOODS
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019. | Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 196 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F WOODS Central - Adult Fiction 7 available F WOODS Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F WOODS |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [1995] | HarperCollinsPublishers | viii, 390 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F BANKS |
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The education of Chappie Dorset, 14, thrown out of the house by his mother for stealing from her to buy pot. He drifts from gang to gang and ends up in Jamaica where he meets his drug-dealing father. A voyage of discovery at the end of which he decides to "get my shit together for the future."
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
302 BROOK
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
302 BROOK
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
302 BROOK
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2019] | First edition. | Random House | xxxiii, 346 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 302 BROOK Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 302 BROOK Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 302 BROOK |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| [2019] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xlix, 556 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 302 BROOK |
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In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to...
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| c1969 | Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence | xiii, 205 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F VONNE |
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2003] | Unabridged. | Caedmon/HarperCollinsPublishers | 5 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2003 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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| [1998] | G.K. Hall | 232 pages (large print) ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT SF VONNE |
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A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner or war.
17) Sula
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2004. | First Vintage Int. edition. | Vintage International | xvii, pages ; cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F MORRI |
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| [2002] | Thorndike Press | 240 pages (large print) ; 22 cm | English |
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their...
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Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F LERNE
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F LERNE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F LERNE
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 282 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F LERNE Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F LERNE Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F LERNE |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Checked Out
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Description
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Winner
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| 2017. | Workman Publishing | 92 pages ; 18 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 306.20973 GLADS |
| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Workman Publishing | English | Available Online
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Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day's events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls-and what so many of us can acknowledge having-"trouble with reality." Reality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was-there...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
324.623 WEISS
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
324.623 WEISS
| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018. | Viking | 404 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 324.623 WEISS Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 324.623 WEISS |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018. | Thorndike Press Large Print | 791 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 324.623 WEISS |
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Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the "Antis"--women...