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362.19888 W45 2020
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362.19888 W45 2020
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET WELLS
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET WELLS
7 available
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In the spring of 1970, seventeen (mostly) young women set out from Vancouver. It was called the Abortion Caravan. Five thousand kilometres later, they led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. In an era when there was no social media and no one could afford long distance phone calls, they pulled off a national campaign. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in Canada were dying from back street abortions, it pulled...
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Apollo murders volume 1
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FICTION HADFIELD
2 available
FICTION HADFIELD
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1 copy, 24 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 50 people are on the wait list.
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"NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it. But even as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident reveals that not everyone involved is quite who they...
3) Becoming
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BIO OBAMA
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BIO OBAMA
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET OBAMA
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET OBAMA
7 available
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13 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 23 people are on the wait list.
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment,...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment,...
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6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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303.569 B6
2 available
303.569 B6
2 available
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BOOK CLUB SET BOO
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET BOO
7 available
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LP 305.569 B66
1 available
LP 305.569 B66
1 available
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Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
6) Birdie
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FICTION LINDBERG
1 available
FICTION LINDBERG
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET LINDBERG
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET LINDBERG
7 available
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A darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet that come to her in her dreams, but also driven by the leftover teenaged desire...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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FICTION RICHARDSON
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FICTION RICHARDSON
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BOOK CLUB SET RICHARDSON
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET RICHARDSON
9 available
eAudiobook
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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In 1936, Bluet is the last of the Kentucky Blues. In the dusty Appalachian hills of Troublesome Creek, nineteen and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for "respectability" and a marriage bed. Instead, she joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading material to the poor hill communities of Eastern Kentucky.
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BOOK CLUB SET WILKERSON
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET WILKERSON
7 available
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3 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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"'As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not.' In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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363.379092 W55 2017
1 available
363.379092 W55 2017
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET WILLIAMS
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET WILLIAMS
7 available
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"Chasing Smoke is an enthralling insider-account of how a fire season unfolds. Experienced firefighter Aaron Williams offers a tangible window into the intensely physical, high-adrenalin lifestyle shared by his crew of eccentrics, all eager to be on the front line. . . . From the "curated gauntlet of abuse" that makes up rookie week, until the last length of hose is rolled up at the end of the burn season, Williams chronicles the seasonal existence...
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Naomi Cottle novels volume 1
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Fiction (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
FICTION DENFELD
1 available
FICTION DENFELD
1 available
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Audiobook Fiction - Audiobook Corner
AUDIOBOOK FICTION
1 available
AUDIOBOOK FICTION
1 available
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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET DENFELD
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET DENFELD
7 available
eAudiobook
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A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under snow? Or-is it possible-you are still alive?"
Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's...
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2 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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"A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"-- Publisher.
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An extraordinary novel set in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Madeleine Thien's new novel takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations - those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments...
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BOOK CLUB SET BEATON
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET BEATON
9 available
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With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie Beaton heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush--part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in their hometown. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. This is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian...
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FICTION PATCHETT
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FICTION PATCHETT
1 available
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Audiobook Fiction - Audiobook Corner
AUDIOBOOK FICTION
1 available
AUDIOBOOK FICTION
1 available
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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET PATCHETT
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET PATCHETT
7 available
eAudiobook
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12 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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1 copy, 39 people are on the wait list.
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LP FICTION PATCHETT
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LP FICTION PATCHETT
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Set over the course of five decades, this novel is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they're together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they've lost with humour and rage. But when at last they're forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother...
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BIO WESTOVER
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BIO WESTOVER
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AUDIOBOOK BIO WESTOVER
1 available
AUDIOBOOK BIO WESTOVER
1 available
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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET WESTOVER
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET WESTOVER
7 available
eBook
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4 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her fathers junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and...
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Non-Fiction (Adult) - Non-Fiction Shelves
338.376151 K44 2021
1 available
338.376151 K44 2021
1 available
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1 copy, 42 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 31 people are on the wait list.
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"The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of SAY NOTHING. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers...
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Quincunx cycle (Andre Alexis) volume 2
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FICTION ALEXIS
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FICTION ALEXIS
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BOOK CLUB SET ALEXIS
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET ALEXIS
7 available
eAudiobook
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An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.
WINNER OF CANADA READS 2017
WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2015 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2015 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS
— I wonder, said Hermes, what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.
—I'll wager a year's servitude, answered Apollo,
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BOOK CLUB SET GOOD
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET GOOD
9 available
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eBook
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2 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the...
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Non-Fiction (Adult) - Non-Fiction Shelves
522.109 S63 2016
1 available
522.109 S63 2016
1 available
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Audiobook Non-fiction - Audiobook Corner
522.109 S63 2016
1 available
522.109 S63 2016
1 available
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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET SOBEL
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET SOBEL
7 available
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"The little-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by a group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s"--Publisher.
20) The great alone
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Audiobook Fiction - Audiobook Corner
AUDIOBOOK FICTION
1 available
AUDIOBOOK FICTION
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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET HANNAH
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET HANNAH
7 available
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6 copies, 78 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 65 people are on the wait list.
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"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face theultimate test of the human spirit"-- Publisher.