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Staff PickCleanness2020
Summary: A queer American teacher describes a series of intimate encounters with lovers, friends, and students in and around Sofia, Bulgaria.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWhen no one is watching : a thriller2020
Summary: Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, for sale signs are popping up overnight, and the... more »- place hold (1)
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Staff PickThe vanishing half2020
Summary: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWorld of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments2020
Summary: From award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction -- a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe boy, the mole, the fox and the horse2019
Summary: A modern, illustrated fable for readers of all ages that explores life's universal lessons.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBreak it up : secession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union2020
Summary: The novel and fiery thesis of this book is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickAristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe2012
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe kite runner2003
Summary: Hosseini's debut novel opens in Kabul in the mid-1970s. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, but his best friend is Hassan, the son of one of his father's servants. His father encourages the friendship... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickPurple hibiscus : a novel2012
Summary: In the city of Egunu, Nigeria, fifteen year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a somewhat cloistered life. Their father is a wealthy businessman, they live in a beautiful home, and attend... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickFifty words for rain : a novel2020
Summary: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe deviant's war : the homosexual vs. the United States of America2020
Summary: In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda2015
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity -- and that of his pen pal -- will be revealed"--- place hold (0)
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Staff PickSaving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began2016
Summary: A memoir from Alex Cooper, who knew "she was holding a secret that could shatter her family, her church community, and her life. Yet when this secret couldn't be hidden any longer, she told her... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe bluest eye1994
Summary: Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBeloved : a novel1987
Summary: Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe girl on the train : a novel2015
Summary: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning, flashing past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stopping at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe handmaid's tale1986
Summary: "This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe handmaid's tale2017
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... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe moon is a harsh mistress2018
Summary: "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic--and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe fountainhead2005
Summary: Here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet... more »- place hold (0)
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