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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Barry, Q.
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Barry, Q.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Barry, Q.
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Barry, Q.
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"Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza (whose bleached blond "Claw" sees and knows all), the Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport and, more importantly, friendship."--Provided by publisher.
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Forest Ave. Library - Teen Graphic Novels - Teen
Leong, S.
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Leong, S.
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North Side Library - Teen Graphic Novels - Teen
Leong, S.
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Leong, S.
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Ren almost forgot there was a time she didnt know Luna. Even though theyve only been friends since the beginning of summer, theyve been inseparable. But the most important friendship in Rens life is cut short when Luna suddenly moves back to Oahu and stops answering Rens messages. Years go by. And then Luna returns to LA, acting like nothing happened. Shes ready to step back into their friendship, but Ren isnt. Ren would rather pretend Luna never...
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Jen, G.
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Jen, G.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Jen, G.
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Jen, G.
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North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Jen, G.
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Jen, G.
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An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
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Central Library - Children's Biographies - Children
B Manley, E.
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B Manley, E.
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Forest Ave. Library - Children's Biographies - Children
B Manley, E.
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B Manley, E.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Children's Biographies - Children
B Manley, E.
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B Manley, E.
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"The true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and her ownership role in the Negro Leagues leading up to the integration of Major League Baseball"--
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Hooper, E.
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Hooper, E.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hooper, E.
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Hooper, E.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hooper, E.
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Hooper, E.
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This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Fifield, R.
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Fifield, R.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Fifield, R.
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Fifield, R.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Fifield, R.
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Fifield, R.
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"Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim, where The Dirty Shame--the only bar in town--refuses to serve mixed drinks (too much work), where the locals hate the newcomers (then again, they hate the locals, too), and where the town softball team has never even come close to having a winning season. Until now. Rachel Flood has snuck back into town after leaving behind a trail of chaos...
7) Fast pitch
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Central Library - Children's Fiction - Children
Stone, N.
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Stone, N.
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East Side Library - Children's Fiction - Children
Stone, N.
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Stone, N.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Children's Fiction - Children
Stone, N.
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Stone, N.
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Forest Ave. Library - Children's Chapter Read-Along - Children
Stone, N.
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Stone, N.
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"Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever"--
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Adrian, E.
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Adrian, E.
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"Ruth Devon starred for Georgetown Basketball back in college--until she injured her knee, married her coach, and found a new career calling games on the radio. Twenty years later, Ruth and her now-ex-husband, Lester, are two of the most famous faces in sports media. When Lester decides to retire from the announcers' booth, Ruth goes after his job. If she gets it, she will be the first woman to call NBA games on national television. For now, Ruth...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.48 H
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305.48 H
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"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
306.768 Sn
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306.768 Sn
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
306.768 Sn
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306.768 Sn
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The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. C. Riley Snorton identifies...
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Nancy Astley, a fishmonger in Whitstable, becomes smitten by male impersonator Kitty Butler and attends shows until the star notices her, which leads to the two becoming partners in romance and performance until societal pressures drive the two into situations that embrace the ambiguity of sexual preference and gender roles.
12) Pulp
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"Suspenseful parallel lesbian love stories deftly illuminate important events in LGBTQ history" in the New York Times–bestselling author's YA novel (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It's not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women,...
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It's not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women,...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
White, E.
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White, E.
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Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high school's star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, she'll join the Pittsburgh Pirates - Class A Short Season team . . . but not everyone is happy to have her there. On top of the pressure heaped on every pitcher, Jill must deal with defying conventions and living up to impossible expectations, all while living...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
796.357 Or
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796.357 Or
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"This fully illustrated history tells the story of women's first "league of their own," the All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League (1943-1954), as told through the engaging voices of the people who knew it best: the players! Author Anika Orrock has collected a range of funny, charming, wince-worthy and heart-warming vignettes as told by the players themselves from their various experiences playing in the AAGBPL, from the very first tryouts...
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Central Library - Teen Graphic Novels - Teen
Frasier, C.
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Frasier, C.
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East Side Library - Teen Graphic Novels - Display
Frasier, C.
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Frasier, C.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Teen Graphic Novels - Teen
Frasier, C.
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Frasier, C.
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"Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeBe is a people-pleaser, a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life in order to maintain their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro-aggressions...