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Fiction Future
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[2018] | Library of America | xxi, 530 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
East - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Future Richland Park - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Future |
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"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark...
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The Trueba family spans three generations and a century of social change. A crisis causes the family patriarch and his granddaughter to be at opposite ends of political allegiances during a revolution and counterrevolution that threatens to tear apart their country and their family.
3) Passing
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Irene's charmed Harlem life is shaken when she happens upon a childhood friend who is passing herself as a white woman and keeping her true identity hidden. Originally published in 1929, "Passing" explores issues of race, gender, deception and identity.
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Fiction Sackvil
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Fiction Sackvil
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Fiction Sackvil
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2017. | First Vintage Classics edition. | Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 169 pages ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Sackvil Hermitage - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Sackvil Main Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Sackvil |
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2017 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself. Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade...
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A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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After Constance Blackwood has been acquitted of the murders of her relatives living on the family estate, she returns home under the watchful eye of her sister Merricat. But when ghostly cousin Charles shows up Constance appears to be facing even greater danger.
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A poor black Southern woman named Celie befriends two women who help her overcome the brutality of her father and husband.
8) Cane
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction 1 available
Fiction Toomer
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Fiction Toomer
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Fiction Toomer
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2019. | Penguin Books | xxxiv, 178 pages ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Hermitage - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Toomer Southeast - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Toomer | |
[1975] c1923 | Liveright | xxv, 116 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Toomer Main Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Toomer |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media | English | Available Online
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"The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through...
9) Quicksand
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction 1 available
Fiction Larsen
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Fiction Larsen
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Fiction Larsen
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2002, ©1928. | Penguin Books | xxxvii, 154 pages ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bellevue - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Larsen Bordeaux - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Larsen Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Larsen |
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2002 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Born to an indifferent white mother and an absent black father, and scorned for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a...
10) The street
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[1946] | Houghton Mifflin | 435 p. 21 cm. | On Shelf
Main Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Petry | ||
2020. | Second Mariner Books edition. | Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | xii, 378 pages ; 21 cm |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2013 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies"--
11) Middlemarch
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1994 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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Examines nineteenth-century English provincial life as technology and culture threaten to change everything.
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African-American Janie Crawford leaves her nanny's plantation shack to find herself and "gather in the great fishnet of her life." She experiences great loves, joys, and sorrows, but finally returns home in peace.
13) My cousin Rachel
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction 1 available
Fiction DuMauri
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Fiction DuMauri
Green Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
Fiction DuMauri
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[2009] | Sourcebooks Landmark | 387 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Bellevue - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction DuMauri Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction 2 available Fiction DuMauri Green Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction DuMauri | ||
2001 | Common Reader ed. | Akadine Press | 348 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Richland Park - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction DuMauri | |
1968, c1951 | Victor Gollancz | 352 p. ; 19 cm. | On Shelf
Main - Upon Request - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Du Maur |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of lust, suspicion, and obsession that inspired major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows to love Ambrose's grand estate as much as he does. But the cozy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip...
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows to love Ambrose's grand estate as much as he does. But the cozy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip...
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction 1 available
Fiction Spark
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Fiction Spark
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1984, c1961 | New American Library | 187 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Hermitage - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Spark Main Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Spark | ||
2009 | 1st P.S. ed. | HarperPerennial ModernClassics | 137 p., 16 p. ; 21 cm. |
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2006 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Checked Out
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"A perfect book"—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune).
"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to...
"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to...
15) Beloved: a novel
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Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio. Her past continues to haunt her eighteen years later and the arrival of a girl exposes Sethe's terrible secret.
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1996 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning story of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800's, focusing on a handsome young lawyer who cannot decide between passion and propriety in his women.
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2006 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, a black man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.
18) Jane Eyre
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1998 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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2019 | Odilo | Reading Time | 600 pages | Español | Available Online
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2007 | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : digital, multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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De Jane Eyre (1847), ciertamente una de las novelas más famosas de estos dos últimos siglos, solemos conservar la imagen ultrarromántica de una azarosa historia de amor entre una institutriz pobre y su rico e imponente patrón, todo en el marco truculento y misterioso de una fantasmagoría gótica. Y olvidamos que, antes y después de la relación central con el abismal, sardónico y volcánico señor Rochester, Jane Eyre tiene otras...
19) The awakening
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Tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother living in Victorian-era New Orleans. On a summer vacation, she meets and falls in love with a young man, leading to a series of unexpected, escalating events as she acts upon her deepening feelings.
20) Mrs. Dalloway
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction 1 available
Fiction Woolf
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Fiction Woolf
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[1981] | Harcourt, Inc | xiv, 197 pages ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Woolf | |
1993 | Distributed by Random House | xxviii, 219 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Bellevue - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Woolf Inglewood - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Woolf |
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook 1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Woolf
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CD AUDIO Fiction Woolf
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2010 | Naxos AudioBooks | 6 sound discs (7 hr., 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook 1 available CD AUDIO Fiction Woolf Main Library - Adult Audiobook 1 available CD AUDIO Fiction Woolf |
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2010 | OverDrive | Naxos AudioBooks | Available Online
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2011 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | Checked Out
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2005 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive | Interactive Media | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | Available Online
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....