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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Ellison, R.
1 available
Ellison, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Display
Ellison, R.
1 available
Ellison, R.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Ellison, R.
1 available
Ellison, R.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from...
2) Passing
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Larsen, N.
1 available
Larsen, N.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Larsen, N.
1 available
Larsen, N.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Display
Larsen, N.
1 available
Larsen, N.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Larsen, N.
1 available
Larsen, N.
1 available
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"Light-skinned Clare Kendry married a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage after deciding to 'pass' as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, chose to remain within the African American community, and is both allured and repelled by Clare's racial masquerade. Clare's own interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for the identity she abandoned and can never regain, and forces her...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
364.1523 C
1 available
364.1523 C
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
364.15 C
1 available
364.15 C
1 available
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Overview: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959,...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
363.738 C
1 available
363.738 C
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
363.738 C
1 available
363.738 C
1 available
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THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
FEATURED ON NETFLIX'S 3 BODY PROBLEM
"Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it."—Margaret Atwood
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that.
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Story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector Javert who dedicates his life to recapturing him.
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Shelley, M.
1 available
Shelley, M.
1 available
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Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Smith, D.
1 available
Smith, D.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Wharton, E.
1 available
Wharton, E.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Wharton, E.
1 available
Wharton, E.
1 available
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Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high society life she had before her marriage. Her family and former friends, however, are shocked by the idea of divorce within their social circle, and...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Forster, E.
1 available
Forster, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Forster, E.
1 available
Forster, E.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Forster, E.
1 available
Forster, E.
1 available
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A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make...
10) Crooked house
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In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Hurston, Z.
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Hurston, Z.
1 available
South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Hurston, Z.
1 available
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Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.
12) Giovanni's room
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Display
Baldwin, J.
1 available
Baldwin, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Baldwin, J.
1 available
Baldwin, J.
1 available
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Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.
With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
13) Mrs. Dalloway
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Woolf, V.
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Woolf, V.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Woolf, V.
1 available
Woolf, V.
1 available
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14) Fahrenheit 451
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Display
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Bradbury, R.
2 available
Bradbury, R.
2 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Bradbury, R.
1 available
East Side Library - Audiobooks
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
Bradbury, R.
1 available
Bradbury, R.
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Austen, J.
1 available
Austen, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Children's Fiction - Children
Austen, J.
1 available
Austen, J.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Austen, J.
1 available
Austen, J.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Austen, J.
1 available
Austen, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
Austen, J.
2 available
Austen, J.
2 available
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Mrs. Bennet is desperate to find rich husbands for her daughters, so the arrival of a charming new neighbor is welcome indeed. Sadly, the friend he brings with him is not. Mr. Darcy seems to have even more pride than money. Nobody likes him - least of all Elizabeth Bennet. But not everyone is who they seem.