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1. Clockwork angel

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Author:
Clare, Cassandra
Series:
Infernal devices volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook
Description:
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.

2. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest...

3. The four winds

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Book Club Kit, Hoopla eAudiobook, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...

4. Kindred

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Author:
Butler, Octavia E.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
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"Dana, a 1970s black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether...

5. The lost wife: a novel

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Author:
Moore, Susanna
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...

6. March: Book one

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Author:
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Series:
March volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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GCP Carbon Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC 323.1 LEW v.1
GCP Glenwd Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC 323.1 LEW v.1
GCP Parachute Young Adult
YA GRAPHIC 323.1 LEW v.1
Description:
This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...

7. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, Adult Literacy Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations,...

8. The woman they could not silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear

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Author:
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...

9. The women

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Book Club Kit, Hoopla eAudiobook, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the...