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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Hazel Green Branch - Science Fiction
SF JEM
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FAN JEM
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FAN JEM
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SF JEM
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SF JEM
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Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent,...
2) Gilead
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Gilead novels volume 1
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F ROB
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F ROB
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
LF ROB
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LF ROB
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F ROB
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F ROB
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New Hope Branch - Large Print
LF ROB
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LF ROB
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LF ROB
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LF ROB
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In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition. Reverend Ames tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his best friend's wayward...
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The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity.
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Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry A landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton's career-Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman-as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Lucille Clifton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection...
5) Jane Eyre
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F BRO
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F BRO
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F BRO
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F BRO
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F BRO
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F BRO
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Downtown Branch - Young Adult Fiction
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Madison Branch - Audiovisual
MP3-CD F BRO
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Downtown Branch - Young Adult Fiction
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YA DIGI BRO
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"Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr. Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them"--Publisher.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F ISH
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F ISH
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F ISH
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F ISH
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SF ISH
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
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"Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life" is an 1871 novel by English author George Eliot. Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, the story revolves around the lives of its inhabitants in the years leading up to the Reform Act in 1832, particularly those of Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, Nicholas Bulstrode, and Mary Garth. The novel deals with a variety of themes and issues including marriage, religion, hypocrisy, education, political...
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Everyman's library volume no. 216
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Downtown Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA MOR
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YA MOR
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F MOR
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F MOR
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Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his heritage.
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African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1
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Hazel Green Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA F ACH
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YA F ACH
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F ACH
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F ACH
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Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F ACH
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F ACH
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First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F OYE
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F OYE
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F OYE
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F OYE
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F OYE
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F OYE
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The stories collected here are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits...
12) Whereabouts
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F LAH
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F LAH
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F LAH
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F LAH
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F LAH
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"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...