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by
Jinger Vuolo
(12,164)
Summary: Growing up in the public eye -- a reality star in the Duggar family documentaries -- Vuolo grew up believing the Bible was primarily a rulebook and that faith was about executing God's laws to...
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BOOK
Call #: B VUOLO
Locations: Adult Biographies, Hot Picks
copies in: 3 of 3
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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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by
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
details
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![The life we bury [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/149651@2x.jpg)
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by
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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by
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
details
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![The great alone [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/181273@2x.jpg)
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by
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F HANNAH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![I will send rain [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191150@2x.jpg)
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by
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F MEADOWS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![The queen's gambit [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/236616@2x.jpg)
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by
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...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK F TEVIS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![I am the messenger [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/146106@2x.jpg)
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by
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
details
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![The hate u give [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/169596@2x.jpg)
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by
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
details
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![Hillbilly elegy [CD book] : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/166186@2x.jpg)
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by
J. D. Vance
(391,312)
Summary: From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK 305.562 VAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![I'll be gone in the dark [CD book] : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State killer](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/186376@2x.jpg)
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by
Michelle McNamara
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB CD BOOK 364.1532 MCN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
J. Ryan Stradal
(35,639)
Summary: Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F STRADAL
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 12 of 18
details
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![The lager queen of Minnesota [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/270669@2x.jpg)
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by
J. Ryan Stradal
(34,903)
Summary: Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F STRADAL LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
details
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by
Walter S. Tevis
(101,018)
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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F TEVIS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 19 of 19
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by
Helene Tursten
(20,596)
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F TURSTEN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 8 of 19
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by
Glendy Vanderah
(169,846)
Summary: After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F VANDERAH
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 19 of 19
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by
David Vann
(4,576)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother -- a docker at the local container port -- in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F VANN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
details
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![Black cake [large print] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/270695@2x.jpg)
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by
Charmaine Wilkerson
(100,192)
Summary: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKERSON LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
details
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(27,398)
Summary: What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 18
details
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![American spy [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/226914@2x.jpg)
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(27,275)
Summary: What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Eley Williams
(8,403)
Summary: Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary -- violating and subverting the dictionary's authority -- in an attempt to assert some sense of...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F WILLIAMS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 18 of 19
details
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![The liar's dictionary [large print] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/251605@2x.jpg)
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by
Eley Williams
(9,150)
Summary: Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary -- violating and subverting the dictionary's authority -- in an attempt to assert some sense of...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILLIAMS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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by
Gabrielle Zevin
(257,859)
Summary: When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ZEVIN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
details
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![The storied life of A.J. Fikry [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/238703@2x.jpg)
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by
Gabrielle Zevin
(254,211)
Summary: A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died; his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history; and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ZEVIN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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![An elderly lady is up to no good [Playaway]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/266026@2x.jpg)
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by
Helene Tursten
(20,607)
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has...
more »
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB PLAYAWAY F TURSTEN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Let's take the long way home [Playaway] : a memoir of friendship](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182604@2x.jpg)
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by
Gail Caldwell (read by Joyce Bean )
(11,657)
Summary: In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: BK CLUB PLAYAWAY 302.34 CAL
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Angie Thomas
(813,939)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 14 of 16
details
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![The hate u give [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/239194@2x.jpg)
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by
Angie Thomas
(800,150)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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by
Markus Zusak
(151,863)
Summary: Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB YA F ZUSAK
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Cheryl Strayed
(89,355)
Summary: Brings the best of Cheryl Strayed's published and never-before-published online columns in one place and includes a new introduction by Steve Almond. Life can be hard, life can be great. For years,...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 170.44 STR
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 16 of 16
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by
J. D. Vance
(392,635)
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 305.562 VAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
details
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![Hillbilly elegy [large print] : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/207507@2x.jpg)
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by
J. D. Vance
(392,689)
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 305.562 VAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 3
details
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by
Gene Weingarten
(2,992)
Summary: On New Year's Day 2013, author Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 973.927 WEI
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 18
details
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![The Alamo (2004) [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/14664@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ALAMO
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Alvarez Kelly [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42159@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In this Civil War tale, a cattle-driver sells his herd to the Yankees, then is kidnapped by a rebel who wants him to steal cattle for the South. Includes original theatrical trailer.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ALVAREZ
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Angel and the badman; John Wayne on film [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11215@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A notorious gunslinger learns the ways of peace from a beautiful Quaker girl.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ANGEL
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Appaloosa [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39771@2x.jpg)
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Summary: 1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN APPALOOSA
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/31424@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ASSASSINATION
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Bury my heart at Wounded Knee [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/113264@2x.jpg)
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Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN BURY
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![The daughter of Sherlock Holmes [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/229157@2x.jpg)