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BOOK CLUB SET GARMUS
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET GARMUS
9 available
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109 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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LP FICTION GARMUS
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LP FICTION GARMUS
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Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. It's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers). The only man who ever treated her-- and her ideas-- as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward,...
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338.2728 B43 2022
1 available
338.2728 B43 2022
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET BEATON
1 available
BOOK CLUB SET BEATON
1 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 (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
FICTION MARSHALL
1 available
FICTION MARSHALL
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET MARSHALL
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET MARSHALL
9 available
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5 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
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29 copies, 134 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 77 people are on the wait list.
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An investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In the richest, most technically advanced, most health-obsessed society ever, all is not well. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic illnesses were on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure....
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BOOK CLUB SET MAYR
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET MAYR
9 available
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9 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter...
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9 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
A CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEAR
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
A CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEAR
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets...
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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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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET KEEFE
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET KEEFE
9 available
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1 copy, 39 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 24 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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Book Club Set - Circulation Desk
BOOK CLUB SET MANDEL
8 available
BOOK CLUB SET MANDEL
8 available
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BOOK CLUB SET MANDEL
1 available
BOOK CLUB SET MANDEL
1 available
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3 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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"From the #1 bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted The Glass Hotel and the internationally bestselling Station Eleven comes a new novel of dazzling imagination. In this captivating new novel of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people -- a British exile on the West coast of Canada in the early 1900s, the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic, who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour...
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BIO POLLEY
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BIO POLLEY
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BOOK CLUB SET POLLEY
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET POLLEY
9 available
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2 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all of those qualities along with her exquisite storytelling chops to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallability of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person you...
10) Women talking
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BOOK CLUB SET TOEWS
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET TOEWS
9 available
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A major work by one of our most beloved and esteemed writers, the novel is based on real events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and raped in the night by what they were told were "ghosts" or "demons." Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. It takes place over 48 hours, as eight women hide in a hayloft while the men are in a nearby...
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FICTION MANUEL
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FICTION MANUEL
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BOOK CLUB SET MANUEL
7 available
BOOK CLUB SET MANUEL
7 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that...
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Non-Fiction (Adult) - Non-Fiction Shelves
616.890092 W66 2018
1 available
616.890092 W66 2018
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET WONG
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET WONG
9 available
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"In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"-Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects;...
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Non-Fiction (Adult) - Non-Fiction Shelves
305.897071 W46 2021
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305.897071 W46 2021
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET WENTE
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET WENTE
9 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"One of Canada's most prominent Indigenous voices uncovers the lies Canada tells itself and the power of narrative to prioritize truth over comfort. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian. Not Anishinaabe or Ojibwe, but seen as a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed...
14) The night swim
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Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
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Fiction (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
FICTION GOLDIN
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FICTION GOLDIN
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BOOK CLUB SET GOLDIN
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET GOLDIN
9 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Adult Paperback - Fiction Spinner
PAPERBACK FICTION
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PAPERBACK FICTION
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"In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last...
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Fiction (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
FICTION TOWLES
2 available
FICTION TOWLES
2 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 TOWLES
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET TOWLES
9 available
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1 copy, 48 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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Large Print Fiction - Large Print Shelves
LP FICTION TOWLES
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LP FICTION TOWLES
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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616.85882 D66 2016
1 available
616.85882 D66 2016
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET DONVAN
9 available
BOOK CLUB SET DONVAN
9 available
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"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with...
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Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Draws on up-to-date research and engaging forester stories to reveal how trees nurture each other and communicate, outlining the life cycles of "tree families" that support mutual growth, share nutrients, and contribute to a resilient ecosystem.
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2 copies, 32 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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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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Fiction (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
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, 12 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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2 copies, 27 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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Apollo murders volume 1
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Fiction (Adult) - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HADFIELD
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FICTION HADFIELD
1 available
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BOOK CLUB SET HADFIELD
8 available
BOOK CLUB SET HADFIELD
8 available
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1 copy, 24 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 38 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...