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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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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Allende
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Fiction Allende
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Allende
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Fiction Allende
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Allende
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Fiction Allende
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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The Trueba family embodies strong feelings. This family saga starts at the beginning of the 20th century and continues through the assassination of Allende in 1973.
3) Passing
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"The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, as light-skinned as Clare, has chosen to remain within the African American community. Married to a successful doctor and the mother of two boys, Irene refuses...
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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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Bordeaux - Teen Non-Fiction
YA 812.54 H2492r 1994
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YA 812.54 H2492r 1994
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
812.54 H2492r 1994
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812.54 H2492r 1994
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Looby - Adult Non-Fiction
812.54 H2492r 1994
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812.54 H2492r 1994
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 812.54 H2492r
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CD AUDIO 812.54 H2492r
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 812.54 H2492r
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CD AUDIO 812.54 H2492r
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 812.54 H2492r
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CD AUDIO 812.54 H2492r
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever." The story tells of a Black family's experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jackson
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Fiction Jackson
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jackson
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Fiction Jackson
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods -- until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her from the curiousity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears. Only Merricat can see the danger,...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Walker
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Fiction Walker
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Walker
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Fiction Walker
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Walker
1 available
Fiction Walker
1 available
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Walker
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Walker
1 available
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9 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Walker
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Walker
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The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
8) Cane
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Toomer
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Fiction Toomer
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Toomer
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Fiction Toomer
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Toomer
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Fiction Toomer
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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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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Larsen
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Fiction Larsen
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Larsen
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Fiction Larsen
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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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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Petry
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Fiction Petry
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Petry
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Fiction Petry
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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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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Eliot
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Fiction Eliot
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Eliot
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Fiction Eliot
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Eliot
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Fiction Eliot
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3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Eliot
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PLAYAWAY Fiction Eliot
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Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and, the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hurston
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Fiction Hurston
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hurston
1 available
Fiction Hurston
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hurston
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Fiction Hurston
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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Hadley Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Inglewood - Adult Large Print
Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Fiction Hurston Large Type
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An African American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler. Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy...
13) My cousin Rachel
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction DuMauri
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Fiction DuMauri
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction DuMauri
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Fiction DuMauri
2 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction DuMauri
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Fiction DuMauri
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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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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Spark
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Fiction Spark
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Spark
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Fiction Spark
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Spark
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Fiction Spark
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A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorities because of her unorthodox teaching methods.
15) Beloved: a novel
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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11 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wharton
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Fiction Wharton
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Special Collections - Muirhead
Special Coll. Fiction Wharton
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Special Coll. Fiction Wharton
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Wharton
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CD AUDIO Fiction Wharton
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Young and aristocratic Newland Archer is engaged to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. But when May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, she turns their high-society New York world upside down. The young, successful Newland Archer and sweet socialite May Welland are the high society couple they were always meant to be. However, fresh on the heels of their engagement, they find their world upended by the scandalous arrival of May's...
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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...
18) Jane Eyre
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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Bronte
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JUV Fiction Bronte
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bronte
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Fiction Bronte
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Pruitt - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bronte
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Fiction Bronte
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Madison - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Bronte
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CD AUDIO Fiction Bronte
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Available Online
Always Available.
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Bronte
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Bronte
1 available
Main Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Bronte
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PLAYAWAY Fiction Bronte
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"Jane Eyre is poor, parentless and plain. Her future looks bleak. Jane's aunt and cousin detest her. Life at Lowood School is cruel and dangerous. What inner strength can the young Jane find? Seeking adventure and independence, Jane sets out alone. Is her new master, Mr Rochester, all that he seems? What secret does he keep locked in the third storey, where strange laughter haunts the nights? In her search for affection, Jane faces horror, cruelty,...
19) The awakening
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chopin
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Fiction Chopin
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chopin
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Fiction Chopin
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chopin
1 available
Fiction Chopin
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Chopin
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CD AUDIO Fiction Chopin
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Chopin
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CD AUDIO Fiction Chopin
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Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature begins to drop Edna succumbs to Robert's devotion. But in the thrall of this ever-strengthening desire Edna begins to realise the true extent of her psychological, social and sexual confinement and its devastating consequences for her future. This tender, brilliant, and seductive novel is...
20) Mrs. Dalloway
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woolf
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Fiction Woolf
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woolf
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Fiction Woolf
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woolf
1 available
Fiction Woolf
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Woolf
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Woolf
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4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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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....