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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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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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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life. As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.
5) Back roads
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Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned...
6) Becoming
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Biography
B OBAMA
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B OBAMA
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT B OBAMA
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LARGE PRINT B OBAMA
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AUDIO BOOK B OBAMA
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AUDIO BOOK 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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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 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....
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LARGE PRINT FIC QUINDLEN
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LARGE PRINT FIC QUINDLEN
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A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break.
10) 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...
11) The book of Ruth
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC HAMILTON
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LARGE PRINT FIC HAMILTON
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Ruth tries to hold her own in a small town where she can't escape poverty and hard knocks. When the household erupts in violence, Ruth is the only one who can piece the story together.
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"At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary...
13) Cane river
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Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
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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...
15) The corrections
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St. Charles Public Library District - New York Times
FIC FRANZEN
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FIC FRANZEN
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC FRANZEN
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AUDIO BOOK FIC FRANZEN
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"After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The...
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Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country...
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Raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of northern California, Chileans, including Joaquín, head north to seek their fortune. Eliza, pregnant with Joaquín's child, leaves behind everything she knows to follow her lover. In the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco,...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC MCBRIDE
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FIC MCBRIDE
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC MCBRIDE
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LARGE PRINT FIC MCBRIDE
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MCBRIDE
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MCBRIDE
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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"Watch your brother," Beth Cappadora tells Vincent, 7. Five minutes later she returns, "Where is Ben?" It is the moment every parent fears and it arrives to a mother of three in Chicago. The novel follows the family as year after year the hope of finding Ben recedes. Nine years later a boy knocks on their door looking for lawn work. It can't be. It is.
20) 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 - New York Times
FIC KINGSOLVER
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FIC 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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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 Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC KINGSOLVER
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AUDIO BOOK FIC 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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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...

