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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
709.2 A2882o
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Southeast - Adult Non-Fiction
709.2 A2882o
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"In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei--one of the world's most famous artists and activists--tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as "the most important artist working today" by the Financial Times and as "an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom" by The New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir...
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
973 S6253
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973 S6253
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
973 S6253
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973 S6253
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East - Adult Non-Fiction
973 S6253
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973 S6253
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
973 S6253 Large Type
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973 S6253 Large Type
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
973 S6253
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973 S6253
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
973 S6253
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973 S6253
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East - Adult Non-Fiction
973 S6253
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973 S6253
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
973 S6253 Large Type
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973 S6253 Large Type
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Guanzon
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Fiction Guanzon
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Guanzon
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Fiction Guanzon
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Southeast - Adult Fiction
Fiction Guanzon
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Fiction Guanzon
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For Henry and his 8-year-old son, Junior, days are measured in dollars and cents. Evicted from their trailer, they now call Henry's F-250 home. Today is Junior's birthday; tomorrow Henry has a job interview. To celebrate, they have a fast food dinner and spend the night at a cheap motel. But when Henry has a altercation and in the parking lot and Junior falls ill with a fever, can they make it through to the day to come? -- Adapted from back cover....
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The Brown sisters volume 3
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hibbert
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Fiction Hibbert
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hibbert
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Fiction Hibbert
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Southeast - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hibbert
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Fiction Hibbert
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In USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert's newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard--literally. Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong--so she's given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line....
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Nolan
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Fiction Nolan
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Nolan
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Fiction Nolan
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The female narrator falls completely into the power of a male writer. When he suddenly rejects her, she resolves to hang on to him and his love at all costs ... even if it destroys her.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction So
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Fiction So
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction So
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Fiction So
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction So
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Fiction So
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"A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction"--
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction So
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Fiction So
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction So
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Fiction So
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction So
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Fiction So
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"A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life-immersive and comic, yet unsparing-that marks the arrival of an indisputable new talent in American fiction"--
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B O979a
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B O979a
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Green Hills - Adult Biography
B O979a
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B O979a
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"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
10) Against silence
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 B584a
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811.54 B584a
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 B584a
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811.54 B584a
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"An urgent new collection from Frank Bidart, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget"--
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
305.42 Z216a
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305.42 Z216a
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
305.42 Z216a
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305.42 Z216a
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Madison - Adult Non-Fiction
305.42 Z216a
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305.42 Z216a
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"A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her...
12) AI 2041
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"In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years? AI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. Though the term has been around for half a century,...
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How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times
Long...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times
Long...
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Edgehill - Adult Non-Fiction
306.362 M6437a
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306.362 M6437a
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Hadley Park - Adult Non-Fiction
306.362 M6437a
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306.362 M6437a
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Looby - Adult Non-Fiction
306.362 M6437a
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306.362 M6437a
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"Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter,...
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Spoiler alert volume 2
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dade
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Fiction Dade
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Thompson Lane - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dade
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Fiction Dade
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Alexander Woodroe has a starring role as Cupid on TV's biggest show, Gods of the Gates. But the showrunners have wrecked his character, he's dogged by old demons, and his post-show future remains uncertain. When all that reckless emotion explodes into a bar fight, the tabloids and public agree: his star is falling. Enter Lauren Clegg, the former ER therapist hired to keep him in line. Watching over handsome but impulsive Alex shouldn't be especially...
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B D686a
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B D686a
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B D686a
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B D686a
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Inglewood - Adult Biography
B D686a
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B D686a
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Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany.
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Inglewood - Teen Comic/Graphic
YA Graphic Fiction Walden
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YA Graphic Fiction Walden
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Richland Park - Teen Comic/Graphic
YA Graphic Fiction Walden
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YA Graphic Fiction Walden
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Southeast - Teen Comic/Graphic
YA Graphic Fiction Walden
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YA Graphic Fiction Walden
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"In her first collection of short comics stories, Tillie Walden opens windows into strange new worlds with works such as 'The End of Summer,' 'I Love This Part,' 'A City Inside,' and never-before collected sketches, webcomics, and short comics for magazines"--
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A Best Book of the Year at The Atlantic
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
"[An] absorbing and revealing book. . . . nestling in the fruitful terrain between memoir and criticism." —Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage
Blending memoir and cultural criticism, Matthew Specktor explores family legacy, the lives of artists, and a city that embodies
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Amari volume 1
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Looby - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Alston
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JUV Fiction Alston
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Madison - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Alston
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JUV Fiction Alston
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Main - Upon Request - Kids Book Club in a Bag
Book Club in a Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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Goodlettsville - Kids Audiobook
Playaway JUV Fiction Alston
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Playaway JUV Fiction Alston
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Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor African American girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 H6662a
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305.8 H6662a
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 H6662a
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305.8 H6662a
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 H6662a
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305.8 H6662a
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" 'If you want to understand the massive antiracist protests of 2020, put down the navel-gazing books about racial healing and read America on Fire.' -Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Library Journal "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era. What began in spring...