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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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2021 | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Chronicle Books LLC | English | Available Online
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2020 | Chronicle Books LLC | English | Available Online
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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
3) Becoming
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Biography 1 available
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[2018] | First edition. | Crown | xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Biography 1 available BIO OBA |
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Crown | English | Available Online
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Biography 1 available
BIO PAC
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2021. | Sourcebooks | 540 pages: illustrations, 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Biography 1 available BIO PAC |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...
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"A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country since its inception"--
"A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our...
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Biography 1 available
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2021. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 239 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Biography 1 available BIO ZAU |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
9 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
23 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
23 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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2015 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure...
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[2018] | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 393 pages : map ; 25 cm | English |
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2018 | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"These twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays explore, up close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities, of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in New England today. The storytelling, and the mystery of Bernard's...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | St. Martin's Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2021 | St. Martin's Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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***AN INSTANT BESTSELLER!***
Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.
"A jewel box of a Gothic novel." —New York Times Book Review
"Delicious....
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Orbit | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Checked Out
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2021 | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Checked Out
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17-year-old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Simon & Schuster | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | Simon & Schuster | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
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"For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships-but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra"--
As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by presidential inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in...
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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A collection of both previously unpublished works and classic essays includes discussions of recent cultural and political events, social networking, libraries, and the failure to address global warming
"Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel, White Teeth, almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also as a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes...
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From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers...
19) Brave enough
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2015 | OverDrive/Libby | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2015 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"From the best-selling author of Wild, a collection of quotes--drawn from the wide range of her writings--that capture her wisdom, courage, and outspoken humor, presented in a gift-sized package that's as irresistible to give as it is to receive. Around the world, thousands of people have found inspiration in the words of Cheryl Strayed, who in her three prior books and in her "Dear Sugar" columns has shared the twists and trials of her remarkable...
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Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available
940.54 MUN
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2017. | First edition. | Hachette Books | xiv, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available 940.54 MUN |
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2017 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2017 | OverDrive/Libby | Hachette Books | English | Available Online
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2017 | Hachette Books | English | Available Online
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Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.