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LP 305.569 BOO 2012
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Annawadi is a settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are filled with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees ₃a fortune beyond counting₄ in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power...
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Playaways - Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
SMP 304.8 WIL
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Playaways - Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
SMP 304.8 WIL
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus...
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 364.1523 GRANN 2017
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NF 364.1523 GRANN 2017
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 974.7043 LEBLANC 2003
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NF 974.7043 LEBLANC 2003
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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always...
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LP 305.800973 COATES 2015
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LP 305.800973 COATES 2015
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LP 305.800973 COATES 2015
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LP 305.800973 COATES 2015
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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ADULT
NF 299.936 WRIGHT 2013
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"Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his ... investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its vast, secret...
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Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers". Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find secret documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain. They know that Jane Finn had the documents when she disappeared five years ago. What they don't know is that a killer is targeting...
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NF 364.152 KEEFE 2019
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"A narrative about a notorious killing that took place in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and its devastating repercussions to this day"--
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where [they had twelve chidlren] ... In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins, ... and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: ... by the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after the other, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How...
12) The tiger rising
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
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J DIC
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Junior - Fiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
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Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 306.095 DEMICK 2010
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NF 306.095 DEMICK 2010
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Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
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LP 796.3570691 LEWIS 2003
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LP 796.3570691 LEWIS 2003
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LP 796.3570691 LEWIS 2003
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LP 796.3570691 LEWIS 2003
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Author Michael Lewis explores the secret of success in baseball.
15) The forever war
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Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 1
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First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
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The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand, despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away.
Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard...
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Tenth anniversary edition.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 364.973 ALEXAND 2020
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NF 364.973 ALEXAND 2020
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 363.73 GRISWOL 2018
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NF 363.73 GRISWOL 2018
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"Tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia--and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based...
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NF 947.086 GESSEN 2017
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NF 947.086 GESSEN 2017
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LP 947.086 GESSEN 2017
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LP 947.086 GESSEN 2017
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LP 947.086 GESSEN 2017
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Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 289.33 KRAKAUE 2003
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NF 289.33 KRAKAUE 2003
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First Anchor books edition.
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LP 289.33 KRAKAUE 2003
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LP 289.33 KRAKAUE 2003
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LP 289.33 KRAKAUE 2003
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LP 289.33 KRAKAUE 2003
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Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
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Examines the legacy of slavery by highlighting the continued preservation of monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.