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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Benjami
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Fiction Benjami
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Benjami
1 available
Fiction Benjami
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Benjami
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Fiction Benjami
3 available
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Richland Park - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Benjami
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PLAYAWAY Fiction Benjami
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When Truman Capote gains access to New York high society, he builds an unlikely friendship with socialite Babe Paley.
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley and her friends, the alluring socialite Swans. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman, desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. Through Babe, Truman gains unparalleled access to the...
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
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Fiction Card
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
1 available
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"These Ghosts are Family centers on Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent....
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Porter
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Fiction Porter
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Porter
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Fiction Porter
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Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father's philandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, whuch is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia's mother--Agnes Miller Christie--is a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mathis
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Fiction Mathis
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mathis
1 available
Fiction Mathis
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mathis
1 available
Fiction Mathis
1 available
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North - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Mathis
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CD AUDIO Fiction Mathis
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Southeast - Adult Large Print
Fiction Mathis Large Type
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Fiction Mathis Large Type
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In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for...
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Fiction
Fiction Parmar
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Fiction Parmar
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Parmar
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Fiction Parmar
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East - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Parmar
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Parmar
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Parmar Large Type
1 available
Fiction Parmar Large Type
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction Parmar Large Type
1 available
Fiction Parmar Large Type
1 available
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"For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy...
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Goodwin
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Fiction Goodwin
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Goodwin
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Fiction Goodwin
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Goodwin
1 available
Fiction Goodwin
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Goodwin
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CD AUDIO Fiction Goodwin
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Hermitage - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Goodwin
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Goodwin
1 available
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Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction Goodwin Large Type
1 available
Fiction Goodwin Large Type
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Southeast - Adult Large Print
Fiction Goodwin Large Type
1 available
Fiction Goodwin Large Type
1 available
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"Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world. Surely she must rely on her mother and her venal advisor, Sir John Conroy, or her uncle, the Duke...
27) Women talking
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Toews
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Fiction Toews
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Toews
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Fiction Toews
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Toews
1 available
Fiction Toews
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Toews
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Toews
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Toews
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Toews
1 available
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction Toews Large Type
1 available
Fiction Toews Large Type
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Toews
1 available
Playaway Fiction Toews
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Toews
1 available
Playaway Fiction Toews
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Inglewood - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Toews
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Playaway Fiction Toews
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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to...
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
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Fiction Johnson
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
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Fiction Johnson
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Looby - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
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Fiction Johnson
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Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.