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1) Becoming
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B OBAMA
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B OBAMA
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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
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LARGE PRINT FIC JONES
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LARGE PRINT FIC JONES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JONES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JONES
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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LARGE PRINT FIC WHITEHEAD
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LARGE PRINT FIC WHITEHEAD
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WHITEHEAD
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WHITEHEAD
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"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT 305.5 WIL
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LARGE PRINT 305.5 WIL
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 305.5 WIL
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AUDIO BOOK 305.5 WIL
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Oprah's book club volume 2019
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC COATES
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FIC COATES
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC COATES
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LARGE PRINT FIC COATES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC COATES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC COATES
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC CUMMINS
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LARGE PRINT FIC CUMMINS
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AUDIO BOOK FIC CUMMINS
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AUDIO BOOK FIC CUMMINS
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"Tambien de este lado hay sue?os. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC MBUE
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LARGE PRINT FIC MBUE
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When Jende Jonga journeys to New York City from Cameroon in 2004 on a visitors' visa in hopes of obtaining a green card, he's sure his life will only improve. After saving up enough money to bring over Jende's wife, Neni, and six-year-old son, the family moves into an apartment in Harlem. Then Jende hits the jackpot in 2007 when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a wealthy Lehman Brothers executive. But working for the Edwardses isn't...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 813.6 STR
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AUDIO BOOK 813.6 STR
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At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State -- and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little...
9) Olive, again
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC STROUT
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AUDIO BOOK FIC STROUT
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"Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade...
10) Finding me
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Biography
B DAVIS
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B DAVIS
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AUDIO BOOK B DAVIS
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AUDIO BOOK B DAVIS
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"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how...
11) Demon Copperhead
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Oprah's book club volume 2022
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St. Charles Public Library District - Book Discussion
SET KINGSOLVER
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SET KINGSOLVER
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC KINGSOLVER
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LARGE PRINT FIC KINGSOLVER
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SET KINGSOLVER
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SET KINGSOLVER
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC KINGSOLVER
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AUDIO BOOK FIC KINGSOLVER
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AUDIO BOOK FIC KINGSOLVER
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AUDIO BOOK FIC KINGSOLVER
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC MATHIS
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LARGE PRINT FIC MATHIS
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MATHIS
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MATHIS
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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...
13) Love warrior
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
306.893 MEL
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306.893 MEL
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Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out -- three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list -- her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she...
14) The bluest eye
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC MORRISON
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MORRISON
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Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dreams grow more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.--from...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Gallery Display
FIC JEFFERS
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FIC JEFFERS
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC JEFFERS
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LARGE PRINT FIC JEFFERS
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"The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans--the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and...
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DK illustrated classics
Great illustrated classics
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Comic classics
Modern Library classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Great illustrated classics. Titan editions
Oxford world's classics
Penguin classics deluxe edition
BBC radio collection
Running Press classics
Scholastic classics
Courage classics
Keith Jennison book
Nelson's Classics
Sterling classics
Cover to Cover classics
Collins classics
Collectible classics
New York Public Library collector's edition
Wordsworth Classics
Canterbury classics
Penguin drop caps
Everyman's library volume 56
Bantam classic
Townsend Library
Signet classic
Recorded Books classic library
World's best reading
Great illustrated classics (New York N.Y.)
Collectors' library (London England)
Arcturus classics
Library of literature volume 2
Dickens Collection volume 2
Timeless classics study guide
Dover thrift editions
Vintage classics
Evergreens
Barnes and Noble classics
Charles Dickens Children's Collection
Calico Illustrated Classics
Stepping Stones Classic
Books to Read Before You Die
Modern Library classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Great illustrated classics. Titan editions
Oxford world's classics
Penguin classics deluxe edition
BBC radio collection
Running Press classics
Scholastic classics
Courage classics
Keith Jennison book
Nelson's Classics
Sterling classics
Cover to Cover classics
Collins classics
Collectible classics
New York Public Library collector's edition
Wordsworth Classics
Canterbury classics
Penguin drop caps
Everyman's library volume 56
Bantam classic
Townsend Library
Signet classic
Recorded Books classic library
World's best reading
Great illustrated classics (New York N.Y.)
Collectors' library (London England)
Arcturus classics
Library of literature volume 2
Dickens Collection volume 2
Timeless classics study guide
Dover thrift editions
Vintage classics
Evergreens
Barnes and Noble classics
Charles Dickens Children's Collection
Calico Illustrated Classics
Stepping Stones Classic
Books to Read Before You Die
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AUDIO BOOK FIC DICKENS
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AUDIO BOOK FIC DICKENS
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"Great Expectations is among the most masterful of Charles Dickens's novels. Displaying extraordinary tragicomic range, Dickens blends an atmosphere of brooding violence and guilt with sharp and often disturbing humor to create a drama charged with the thrilling intensity of a detective story and the poignancy of a spiritual autobiography. Much of the novel's power comes from Dickens's unequaled skill at making even the most wildly eccentric of characters...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC POWERS
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LARGE PRINT FIC POWERS
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"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....
18) Nightcrawling
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC MOTTLEY
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FIC MOTTLEY
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WROBLEWSKI
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WROBLEWSKI
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Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly,...
20) Song of Solomon
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...

