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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Scharer
1 available
Fiction Scharer
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Scharer
1 available
Fiction Scharer
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Scharer
1 available
Fiction Scharer
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Scharer
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Scharer
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Scharer
2 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Scharer
2 available
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Hermitage - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Scharer
1 available
Playaway Fiction Scharer
1 available
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A novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial surrealist, Man Ray.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
2 available
Fiction Morriso
2 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 9 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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"In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin. Out of the ranks...
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Lilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings...
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Fiction Tademy
1 available
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Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides,...
7) Costalegre
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Maum
1 available
Fiction Maum
1 available
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Maum
1 available
Fiction Maum
1 available
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An American heiress and modern art collector offers safe passage to a resort in Mexico to European artists under threat from the Nazis, while her emotionally unstable daughter chronicles their wartime experiences.
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sopinka
1 available
Fiction Sopinka
1 available
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sopinka
1 available
Fiction Sopinka
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
362.88 R895f
1 available
362.88 R895f
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
362.88 R895f
1 available
362.88 R895f
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
362.88 R895f
1 available
362.88 R895f
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Explores the lives of the five women Jack the Ripper murdered--Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Mary Jane, and Catherine--fighting back against the untruth perpetuated by newspapers that "the Ripper" only preyed on prostitutes. Explores the historical context of each of the women's lives and what it was like to be a woman in the Victorian Age in England.
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Kopp sisters novels volume 1
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Stewart
1 available
Fiction Stewart
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Stewart
1 available
Fiction Stewart
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Stewart
1 available
Fiction Stewart
1 available
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Stewart
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Stewart
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Stewart Large Type
1 available
Fiction Stewart Large Type
1 available
Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction Stewart Large Type
1 available
Fiction Stewart Large Type
1 available
Richland Park - Adult Large Print
Fiction Stewart Large Type
1 available
Fiction Stewart Large Type
1 available
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesn't quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters from city to country fifteen years ago. When a powerful, ruthless factory...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
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6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Main Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Alvarez
1 available
Fiction Alvarez
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Alvarez
1 available
Fiction Alvarez
1 available
Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Alvarez
1 available
Fiction Alvarez
1 available
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Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Alvarez
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Alvarez
1 available
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Alvarez
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Alvarez
1 available
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The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
13) Indigo
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
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Watkins Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan's Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love. When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn't hesitate ... even after she is told about the price on his head. The man in question is the great conductor known as the "Black Daniel" a vital member of the North's...
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Amateur astronomer Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised. Then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. But when their shared interest in the...
15) Paris, 7 a. m
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wieland
1 available
Fiction Wieland
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Wieland
1 available
Fiction Wieland
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Wieland
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Wieland
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Wieland
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Wieland
1 available
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East - Adult Large Print
Fiction Wieland Large Type
1 available
Fiction Wieland Large Type
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction Wieland Large Type
1 available
Fiction Wieland Large Type
1 available
Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction Wieland Large Type
1 available
Fiction Wieland Large Type
1 available
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of A Watch of Nightingales imagines in a sweeping and stunning novel what happened to the poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II. June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with her college roommates. They are in search of an escape, and...
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In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Schwart
1 available
Fiction Schwart
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Schwart
1 available
Fiction Schwart
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"Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the notorious tyrannical leader of the USSR, abruptly abandoned...
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Fiction Sexton
1 available
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In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine's family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine's descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just...
19) Rodham: a novel
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sittenf
1 available
Fiction Sittenf
1 available
East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sittenf
1 available
Fiction Sittenf
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sittenf
1 available
Fiction Sittenf
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
Fiction Sittenf Large Type
1 available
Fiction Sittenf Large Type
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction Sittenf Large Type
1 available
Fiction Sittenf Large Type
1 available
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"In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and...
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Moore
1 available
Fiction Moore
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Moore
1 available
Fiction Moore
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Moore
1 available
Fiction Moore
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Moore
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Moore
1 available
Inglewood - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Moore
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Moore
1 available
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Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him. When the three meet in the settlement of Monrovia, their gifts...