Staff Pick
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Trevor Noah
(617,091)
Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed." -- Amazon.com.
BOOK
Call #: B NOAH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 21
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Kelly Corrigan
(16,974)
Summary: A memoir that examines the bond -- sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine -- between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B CORRIGAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 6 of 15
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Hope Jahren
(64,539)
Summary: Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 19 of 19
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![Lab girl [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/162721@2x.jpg)
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Hope Jahren
(64,568)
Summary: Scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. This is...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Lab girl [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/239196@2x.jpg)
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Hope Jahren
(64,568)
Summary: Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy
Summary: This is the rollicking true story of a family of nine children growing up in the college town of Ames, Iowa in the '60s and '70s. Inspiring, full of surprises, and laugh-out-loud funny, this utterly...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B MCCARTHY
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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Cea Sunrise Person
(13,294)
Summary: Growing up off the grid amid multiple generations of dysfunction, former model Person chronicles her journey to reclaim her life on her own terms. Determined to abandon civilization for a...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B PERSON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Chuy Renteria
(102)
Summary: "Most agree that West Liberty is a special place. The first majority Hispanic town in Iowa, it has been covered by media giants such as Reuters, Telemundo, NBC, and ESPN. But Chuy Renteria and his...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B RENTERIA
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 19 of 19
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![Glitter and glue [CD book] : a memoir](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/103365@2x.jpg)
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Kelly Corrigan
(16,993)
Summary: When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK B CORRIGAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Did ye hear mammy died? [CD book] : a memoir](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/266024@2x.jpg)
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Seamas O'Reilly
(4,638)
Summary: Seamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK B O'REILLY
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The reading list [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/276801@2x.jpg)
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Sara Nisha Adams
Summary: Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F ADAMS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The handmaid's tale [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/177713@2x.jpg)
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Margaret Atwood (read by Claire Danes)
Series:
Handmaid's Tale
(1,889,187)
Summary: Margaret Atwood presents a chilling dystopic novel set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, after a radical theocratic revolution. In a time of declining birthrates, fertile women...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F ATWOOD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A man called Ove [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/162255@2x.jpg)
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Fredrik Backman (read by George Newbern )
(894,839)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F BACKMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![A land more kind than home [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/212482@2x.jpg)
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Wiley Cash
(26,363)
Summary: Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Halle is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F CASH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The murder of Roger Ackroyd [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/241646@2x.jpg)
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Agatha Christie
Summary: Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F CHRISTIE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The alchemist [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/21932@2x.jpg)
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Paulo Coelho (read by Jeremy Irons)
(2,793,544)
Summary: "An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F COELHO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Manhattan Beach [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/175683@2x.jpg)
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Jennifer Egan (read by Norbert Leo Butz)
Summary: "The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan,...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F EGAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The life we bury [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/149651@2x.jpg)
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Allen Eskens (read by Zach Villa )
Series:
Max Rupert Novels
(103,711)
Summary: An ordinary writing assignment for a college English class brings Joe face-to-face with a dying Vietnam veteran, who is also a convicted murderer.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F ESKENS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The Paris apartment [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/258885@2x.jpg)
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Lucy Foley
Summary: Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F FOLEY
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Less [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191517@2x.jpg)
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Andrew Sean Greer (read by Andrew Sean Greer)
(182,569)
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F GREER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The great alone [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/181273@2x.jpg)
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Kristin Hannah (read by Julia Whelan)
(643,042)
Summary: Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F HANNAH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/167977@2x.jpg)
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Gail Honeyman (read by Cathleen McCarron)
(1,097,749)
Summary: "Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F HONEYMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![It ends with us [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/240632@2x.jpg)
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Colleen Hoover
Summary: Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up -- she graduated from...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F HOOVER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Then she was gone [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/186336@2x.jpg)
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Lisa Jewell (read by Helen Duff )
(501,092)
Summary: "Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F JEWELL
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The henna artist [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/226844@2x.jpg)
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Alka Joshi
(150,950)
Summary: Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist -- and confidante...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F JOSHI
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![At home in Mitford [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/29095@2x.jpg)
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Jan Karon
Series:
Mitford Series - #1
(63,757)
Summary: A portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life introduces the small North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F KARON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The invention of wings [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/103267@2x.jpg)
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Sue Monk Kidd (read by Sue Monk Kidd)
(303,605)
Summary: On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next 35 years, as both strive for a life of their...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F KIDD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The bean trees [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11728@2x.jpg)
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Barbara Kingsolver
(147,465)
Summary: Taylor Greer hits the road and inherits a three-year-old Cherokee girl who manages to slowly wind her way into Taylor's heart.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F KINGSOLVER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![This tender land [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/210053@2x.jpg)
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William Kent Krueger
Summary: Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F KRUEGER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The brilliant life of Eudora Honeysett [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/260510@2x.jpg)
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Annie Lyons
Summary: Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At 85, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F LYONS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![I will send rain [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191150@2x.jpg)
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Rae Meadows (read by Emily Sutton-Smith)
(2,651)
Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F MEADOWS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Conviction [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/209755@2x.jpg)
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Denise Mina
(44,163)
Summary: A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F MINA
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Runaway [CD book] : stories](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/198428@2x.jpg)
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Alice Munro
(23,506)
Summary: "In Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." "The runaway of the...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F MUNRO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Everything I never told you [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/184555@2x.jpg)
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Celeste Ng (read by Cassandra Campbell)
(498,621)
Summary: "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F NG
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Small great things [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/157348@2x.jpg)
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Jodi Picoult (read by Audra McDonald)
(339,629)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F PICOULT
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The book woman of Troublesome Creek [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/213025@2x.jpg)
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Kim Michele Richardson
(182,795)
Summary: "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F RICHARDSON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The queen's gambit [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/236616@2x.jpg)
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Walter S. Tevis
(101,709)
Summary: Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F TEVIS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![I am the messenger [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/146106@2x.jpg)
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Markus Zusak (read by Marc Aden Gray)
(154,941)
Summary: After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F YA
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The hate u give [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/169596@2x.jpg)
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Angie Thomas
(792,609)
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F YA
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The daughter of Sherlock Holmes [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/229157@2x.jpg)