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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
700.1 D
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700.1 D
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
700.1 D
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North Side Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
700.1 D
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"In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?" Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the...
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"A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, longs to be truly seen. A young businesswoman attempts a great leap in her company -- and an even greater one in her love life. A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether she should uphold her family's politics or be true to her heart. In her debut collection, internationally acclaimed writer Bolu Babalola retells the most beautiful...
4) Temple folk
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Bilal, A.
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Bilal, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Bilal, A.
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Bilal, A.
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"A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America"--
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
813 G9859
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813 G9859
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
813 G9859
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813 G9859
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
813 G9859
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813 G9859
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
813 G9859
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813 G9859
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"Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.Jill Gutowitz's life-for better and worse-has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game...
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Thompson-Spires, N.
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Thompson-Spires, N.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Thompson-Spires, N.
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Thompson-Spires, N.
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Thompson-Spires, N.
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Thompson-Spires, N.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Thompson-Spires, N.
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Thompson-Spires, N.
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"Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Diaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original...
7) Friday black
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once." -- George Saunders "This book is dark and captivating and essential...A call to arms and a condemnation. Adjei-Brenyah offers powerful prose as parable. The writing in this outstanding collection...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Hauser, C.
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B Hauser, C.
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South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hauser, C.
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B Hauser, C.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
B Hauser, C.
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B Hauser, C.
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"CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Philyaw, D.
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Philyaw, D.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Philyaw, D.
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Philyaw, D.
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Philyaw, D.
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Philyaw, D.
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"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
10) Inheritors
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Serizawa, A.
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Serizawa, A.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Serizawa, A.
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Serizawa, A.
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Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, these interconnected stories contest assumptions and illuminate the complicated ways we experience, interpret, and pass on our personal and shared histories. A retired doctor is forced to confront the horrific moral consequences of his wartime actions. An elderly woman subjects herself to an interview, gradually revealing a fifty-year...
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Lahiri, J.
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Lahiri, J.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Lahiri, J.
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Lahiri, J.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Lahiri, J.
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Lahiri, J.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in the New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
814 M834s
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814 M834s
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Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
814 M834s
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814 M834s
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
814 M834s
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814 M834s
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Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades. The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.908 D
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305.908 D
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Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.908 D
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305.908 D
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"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.908 D
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305.908 D
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.908 D
1 available
305.908 D
1 available
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Evans, D.
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Evans, D.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Evans, D.
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Evans, D.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Evans, D.
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Evans, D.
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"The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Packer, Z.
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Packer, Z.
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