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1) Great circle
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SHIPS
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F SHIPS
12 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SHIPS
2 available
F SHIPS
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F SHIPS
2 available
F SHIPS
2 available
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
4 available
F EGAN
4 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
1 available
F EGAN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
2 available
F EGAN
2 available
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F EGAN
1 available
LT F EGAN
1 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT F EGAN
1 available
LT F EGAN
1 available
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Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
3) June
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"Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family's crumbling mansion in rural St. Jude, Ohio, mourning the loss of the woman who raised her--her grandmother, June. But a knock on the door forces her out of isolation... Cassie has been named the sole heir to legendary matinee idol Jack Montgomery's vast fortune. How did Jack Montgomery know her name? Could he have crossed paths with her grandmother all those years ago? What other shocking...
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In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
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West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
1 available
F MCLAI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
1 available
F MCLAI
1 available
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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GILBE
2 available
F GILBE
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F GILBE
1 available
F GILBE
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F GILBE
2 available
F GILBE
2 available
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...