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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
324.623 WEISS
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324.623 WEISS
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
324.623 WEISS
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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...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MACHA
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F MACHA
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F MACHA
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F MACHA
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F KUNDE
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F KUNDE
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F KUNDE
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F KUNDE
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Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals--while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything...
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"Told in simple but powerful prose, and illustrated by the author in a wash of brilliant watercolor, Tyler Clark Burke's Where Are You Now? is a beautiful small book about change, death and transformation. As the tenth anniversary of her mother's death approached, Tyler Clark Burke set about creating a picture book to share her mother's memory--and more poignantly, her death--with her two young children. The result is a picture book that communicates...
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Central - Kids Nonfiction
J 398 HALEY
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J 398 HALEY
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Westover - Kids Nonfiction
J 398 HALEY
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J 398 HALEY
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Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories."
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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Courthouse - Adult Nonfiction
973.932 OBAMA
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973.932 OBAMA
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
303.848 STEVE
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303.848 STEVE
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
303.848 STEVE
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303.848 STEVE
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
303.848 STEVE
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303.848 STEVE
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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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"In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, arecent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. Arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, the two young men set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately led...
12) The rough patch
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Aurora Hills - Kids Picture Books
JP LIES
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JP LIES
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Shirlington - Kids Picture Books
JP LIES
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JP LIES
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A breathtakingly beautiful and luminescent book that is pitchperfect for anyone of any age who has experienced any type of loss or disappointment, from New York Times-bestselling picture book creator Brian Lies.
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Columbia Pike - Teen Fiction
YF EMMIC
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YF EMMIC
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Westover - Teen Fiction
YF EMMIC
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YF EMMIC
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Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar after a chance encounter with Connor just before his suicide leads others to believe Evan was his only friend.
When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously...
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"Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service; or caretaking for others or ourselves, overwhelm impacts our ability to show up and make our way through the world in many ways. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship, takes on the state of overwhelm engulfing so many people in our local and global communities and offers Overwhelmed...
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"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
16) 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.
-Edición especial limitada con prólogo de
...17) Grow
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Aurora Hills - Kids Picture Books
JP PLATT
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JP PLATT
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Westover - Kids Picture Books
JP PLATT
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JP PLATT
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"A young girl's seed of an idea to clean up an abandoned inner city lot grows into something big when neighbors to work together to create a garden full of color and life"--