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It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance...
2) Kindred
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The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us-along with her Black female hero-through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana...
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.152320 CEP
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First edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Biography
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First large print edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Biography
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"The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel--a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined. Willie Maxwell was a Baptist reverend in Alabama; he also happened to be a serial killer. Between 1970 and 1977, his two wives and brother all died under suspicious circumstances -- each...
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Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.
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From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Second Vintage International edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Modern Library edition.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The Sound and the Fury “I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” —from The...
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Kitchen house volume 1
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Atria Paperback edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Large print edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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"A dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War ... Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength...
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Nonfiction
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First Vintage Books edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
10) The kite runner
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First Riverhead essential editions edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Abridged.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
12) Miracle Creek
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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F KIM
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First edition.
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A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son.
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John & Judy Gay Library - 100 Great Reads
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - 100 Great Reads
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"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
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The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers),...
15) Beloved
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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First Vintage International edition.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics 75th anniversary edition.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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An autobiographical novel concerning a young daughter of German immigrants growing up in the slums of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the early 20th century.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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John & Judy Gay Library - Juvenile Fiction
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John & Judy Gay Library - Juvenile Fiction
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Writer Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her childhood in free verse.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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ARachel Kalama was quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa-- and forced to give up her daughter at birth. Ruth is taken to the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, and adopted by a Japanese couple who raise her on a farm in California. During World War II Ruth and her husband suffer internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp. After the war, she receives a letter from Rachel. As the two meet and come to love one...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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-- Year of WondersThe Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.