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1) 1984
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Oliver La Farge - Media
MP3 CD spoken Fiction Orwell, G
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Orwell's classic novel of one man's nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but individual thought and memory.
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Fiction Alexie, S
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Fiction Alexie, S
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
Fiction Alexie, S
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Fiction Alexie, S
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Fiction Alexie, S
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Fiction Alexie, S
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Alice must choose between Patrick and Sam in this beloved series.
How can someone be in love with two people at the same time? It doesn't make sense to Alice-until Sam, her friend from Camera Club, starts to pay attention to her. Sam is quiet, gentle, and a terrific dancer, and Alice likes being with him. But Alice has been Patrick's girlfriend for almost two years-so why is she interested in another guy?
As Alice stumbles her way through the minefield...
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Audiobooks J
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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
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Main Library - Media
CD spoken Fiction Twain, M
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CD spoken Fiction Twain, M
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Follows the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Graphic Novels
Fiction Adventures
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Fiction Adventures
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Irrepressible friends George and Harold create a new comic book superhero, Super Diaper Baby.
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Main Library - Young Adult
Fiction Reynolds, J
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Fiction Reynolds, J
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Fiction Reynolds, J
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Fiction Reynolds, J
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
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Main Library - Young Adult
306.7662 Joh
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306.7662 Joh
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
306.7662 Joh
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306.7662 Joh
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306.7662 Joh
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306.7662 Joh
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
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Fiction Richardson, J
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Fiction Richardson, J
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Fiction Richardson, J
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Fiction Richardson, J
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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Zoey has returned from the Otherworld to her rightful place as High Priestess at the House of Night. Her friends are just glad to have her back, but after losing her human consort, Heath, will Zoey--or her relationship with her super-hot Warrior, Stark--ever be the same?
11) The awakening
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The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earlier American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It...
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Takes a humorous look at the normal way cats bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to bathe that way, and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water. Includes fun facts, glossary, and other information.
13) Beloved
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
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"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful...
15) Bless me, Ultima
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Fiction Anaya, R
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Fiction Anaya, R
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Fiction Anaya, R
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Fiction Anaya, R
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"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past -- a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...
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Main Library - Adult
Fiction Morrison, T
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Fiction Morrison, T
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Fiction Morrison, T
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Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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CD spoken Fiction Morrison, T
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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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Oliver La Farge - Children's Graphic Novels
Fiction Bone
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Fiction Bone
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Fiction Bone
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Fiction Bone
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Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn. In Out From Boneville, volume 1 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their...
18) Brave new world
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CD spoken Fiction Huxley, A
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CD spoken Fiction Huxley, A
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Oliver La Farge - Media
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No library's complete without the classics! This new audio collects the legendary masterpiece of Aldous Huxley.
More than ever, everybody interested in upholding the human spirit has to listen to and comprehend Aldous Huxley's timeless outstanding work.
"A masterpiece... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." Wall Street Journal
A profoundly significant work of world literature, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley presents a disturbing picture...
19) burned
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Oliver La Farge - Young Adult
Fiction Salinger, J
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Fiction Salinger, J
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Fiction Salinger, J
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Fiction Salinger, J
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"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...