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F QUINN, KATE
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F QUINN, KATE
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"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her 'little problem' taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to...
2) Americanah
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F ADICHIE
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F ADICHIE
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F ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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F ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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LARGE PRINT ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in...
3) Becoming
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Biography
B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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CD B OBAMA, MICHELLE
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Large Print
LARGE PRINT OBAMA
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LARGE PRINT OBAMA
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F NESBIT, TARASHEA
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F NESBIT, TARASHEA
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"Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough."--Back...
5) Beloved
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Everyman's library volume 268
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F MORRISON, TONI
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F MORRISON, TONI
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Biography
B BERNARD, EMILY
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B BERNARD, EMILY
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"These twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays explore, up close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities, of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in New England today. The storytelling, and the mystery of Bernard's...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
305.488 BER 2020
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305.488 BER 2020
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"A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country since its inception"--
"A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our...
8) Blue ticket
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F MACKINTOSH, SOPHIE
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F MACKINTOSH, SOPHIE
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"Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back.But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F MORRISON, TONI
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F MORRISON, TONI
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The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
10) Brave enough
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"From the best-selling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive. Around the world, thousands of people have found inspiration in the words of Cheryl Strayed, who in her three prior books and in her "Dear Sugar" columns has shared the twists and trials of her remarkable...
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Fletcher Free NNE Branch - 2nd Floor - On Display
F KUPERSMITH, VIOLET
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F KUPERSMITH, VIOLET
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''Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. 2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past...
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"Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in...
13) Circe: a novel
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F MILLER, MADELINE
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F MILLER, MADELINE
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity, and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft. When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia. There she learns to harness her...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 940.548 MUN 2017
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LARGE PRINT 940.548 MUN 2017
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Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
15) The color purple
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F WALKER, ALICE
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F WALKER, ALICE
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CD F WALKER
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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown,...
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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"For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships-but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra"--
As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the...
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"From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror--The Death of Jane Lawrence. "Intense and amazing! It's like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak." -BookRiot Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 OLI 2017
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811.54 OLI 2017
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet"...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Oversized Materials Shelves
OVERSIZE B PARTON, DOLLY
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OVERSIZE B PARTON, DOLLY
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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...