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Central - Adult Fiction
F GROFF
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F GROFF
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction - NEW
F GROFF
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F GROFF
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction - NEW
F GROFF
2 available
F GROFF
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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"Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well...
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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A young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death as she and her community are tested by one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall England. This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village", in the rugged mountain spine of England in 1666.
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"Two epic poems, the love songs of fugitive slaves, set in 17th-century Brazil"--
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"Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HARGR
2 available
F HARGR
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HARGR
1 available
F HARGR
1 available
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After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GROFF
2 available
F GROFF
2 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F GROFF
1 available
F GROFF
1 available
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD F GROFF
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CD F GROFF
1 available
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A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries. Yet Florida-- its landscapes, climate, history, and state of mind-- becomes the gravitational center as Groff writes about loneliness, rage, family, and...