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Eric Cervini
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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...
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Call #: 306.766 CER
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Becky Albertalli
(298,573)
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"--
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Call #: YA F ALBERTALLI
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Alex Cooper
(1,741)
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...
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Call #: 306.766 COO YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Toni Morrison
(179,780)
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...
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Call #: F MORRISON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Toni Morrison
(331,352)
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...
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Call #: F MORRISON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Paula Hawkins
(2,165,172)
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...
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Call #: F HAWKINS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Margaret Atwood
Series:
Handmaid's Tale
(1,494,648)
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...
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Call #: F ATWOOD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Margaret Atwood
Series:
Handmaid's Tale
(1,482,211)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F ATWOOD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 20
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Robert A. Heinlein
(117,064)
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...
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Call #: YA F HEINLEIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ayn Rand
(299,417)
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...
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Call #: F RAND
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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