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"In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley's survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language--including Rose's wish...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
320 LEV
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320 LEV
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AUDIO BOOK 320 LEV
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AUDIO BOOK 320 LEV
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"In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism's threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we're fully over that precipice and paying the price. In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC BELL
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FIC BELL
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC BELL
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC ALYAN
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FIC ALYAN
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"A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home"--
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 158.1 BRO
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AUDIO BOOK 158.1 BRO
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 158.1 BRO
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AUDIO BOOK 158.1 BRO
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"In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances--a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Biography
B WANG
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B WANG
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
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LARGE PRINT B WANG
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"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC ROONEY
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AUDIO BOOK FIC ROONEY
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
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LARGE PRINT FIC ROONEY
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC ROONEY
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AUDIO BOOK FIC ROONEY
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"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about...
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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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Global Icons volume 2
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 304.2 GOO
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AUDIO BOOK 304.2 GOO
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT 304.2 GOO
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LARGE PRINT 304.2 GOO
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Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, the book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC HUISMAN
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FIC HUISMAN
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Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. As the story of Catherine's own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC FERRIS
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FIC FERRIS
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Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Biography
B MERKEL
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B MERKEL
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"The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Spanish
SPANISH FIC DOERR
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SPANISH FIC DOERR
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Los jóvenes héroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que les rodea: Anna y Omeir se encuentran en lados opuestos de las magníficas murallas de Constantinopla durante el asedio de la ciudad en 1453; el idealista Seymour está inmerso en un atentado contra una biblioteca en el Idaho de la actualidad; y Konstance viaja a bordo de una nave espacial que se dirige a un nuevo planeta en el futuro. Todos ellos son soñadores que encuentran fuerza...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 576.5 ISA
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AUDIO BOOK 576.5 ISA
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"When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback, titled The Double Helix, on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the building blocks of life. Even though her high...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
839.813 DIT
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839.813 DIT
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"Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical trilogy about her troubled life in Copenhagen"--
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Kaldan and Schafer mysteries volume 1
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC HANCOCK
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AUDIO BOOK FIC HANCOCK
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"Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood. While the letters keep coming, they hint at a connection between Anna and Heloise. As Heloise starts digging deeper, she realizes that to tell Anna's story she...
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Court of thorns and roses volume 5
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"Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC MANNION
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FIC MANNION
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It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.
19) Crossroads
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Key to all mythologies volume 1
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
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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"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social...
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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...