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by
Marie-Helene Bertino
(6,461)
Summary: On the streets of Philadelphia, on the night before Christmas Eve, three people will discover the potential for their hopes and happiness.
BOOK
Call #: F BERTINO
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 21
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![A 2nd helping of chicken soup for the soul [large print] : 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/10790@2x.jpg)
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(1,714)
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 158.1 SEC
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![8 habits of love [large print] : open your heart, open your mind](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/70793@2x.jpg)
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by
Ed Bacon
(214)
Summary: Having dedicated his life to helping others, Ed Bacon has seen firsthand the transformative power of love. Through illuminating stores and invaluable advice, he now reveals how we can create full and...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 241.4 BAC
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Cami Walker
(2,914)
Summary: "At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by an intensified struggle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that left her debilitated and depressed. Then she received an uncommon...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 155.232 WAL
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Karen Thompson Walker
(81,391)
Summary: "Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time....
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F WALKER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
details
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![All creatures great and small [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/174640@2x.jpg)
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by
James Herriot
Series:
All Creatures Great And Small
(111,124)
Summary: For over thirty years, generations of readers have thrilled to James Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 636.089 HER
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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![American wife [large print] : love, war, faith, and renewal](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/130460@2x.jpg)
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by
Taya Kyle
(4,057)
Summary: The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B KYLE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(244,643)
Summary: "Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ADICHIE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 15
details
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![Americanah [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/157004@2x.jpg)
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by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(244,027)
Summary: "Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ADICHIE LP
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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![Angela Lansbury [large print] : a life on stage and screen](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/87022@2x.jpg)
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by
Rob Edelman
(33)
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B LANSBURY
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
David Vann
(3,949)
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 school,...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F VANN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 20
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by
Chad Harbach
(102,436)
Summary: "At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F HARBACH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
details
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by
Garth Stein
Summary: Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F STEIN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Jan Karon
Series:
Mitford Series - #1
(57,742)
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.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KARON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Lucy Grealy
(23,828)
Summary: At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 155.916 GRE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
details
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by
Joshua Hammer
(8,290)
Summary: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 025.82 HAM
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
details
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![The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu [large print] : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/169704@2x.jpg)
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by
Joshua Hammer
(8,315)
Summary: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 025.82 HAM
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 2 of 2
details
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by
Barbara Kingsolver
(133,466)
Summary: "Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KINGSOLVER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 7 of 15
details
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by
Jess Walter
(154,901)
Summary: A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F WALTER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 17 of 17
details
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![Because I said so! [large print] : the truth behind the myths, tales, and warnings every generation passes down to its kids](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/70795@2x.jpg)
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by
Ken Jennings
(3,059)
Summary: Ken Jennings wants to find out if mother and father always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television (you'll hurt your eyes!) or swallow your gum (it stays...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 031.02 JEN
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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![Becoming [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/199039@2x.jpg)
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by
Michelle Obama
(484,812)
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B OBAMA
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 2
details
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![Before your dog can eat your homework, first you have to do it [large print] : life lessons from a wise old dog to a young boy](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34183@2x.jpg)
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by
John O'Hurley
(100)
Summary: After years of parenting pets, O'Hurley became a father to his first child. Along with the joy, there's a new set of challenges-- and it was a wizened Maltese who pointed the way.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 636.7 O'HU
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Barbara Robinson
Summary: The six horrible Herdmans, the worst children in the history of the world, take over the annual Christmas pageant.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB J F ROBINSON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
details
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![The body [large print] : a guide for occupants](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/218400@2x.jpg)
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by
Bill Bryson
(25,204)
Summary: Bill Bryson takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 612 BRY
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ann Hood
(13,296)
Summary: "An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart,...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F HOOD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
details
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(54,100)
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...
more »
BOOK
Call #: F RICHARDSON
Locations: Book Club Sets, New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 19
details
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![The book woman of Troublesome Creek [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/213023@2x.jpg)
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(16,175)
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...
more »
Note: The Lunchtime Lit is meeting to discuss this book on 3/19/20. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F RICHARDSON LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
details
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![Boom! [large print] : voices of the sixties](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/30511@2x.jpg)
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by
Tom Brokaw
(1,951)
Summary: Longtime NBC Nightly News anchor and political commentator Tom Brokaw offers his own take on the infamous events of the 1960s, as well as on his own life during that arduous period.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 973.92 BRO
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Trevor Noah
(356,443)
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
copies in: 0 of 22
details
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by
Michelle Hoover
(1,040)
Summary: At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland-the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover-follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F HOOVER
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
details
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Staff Pick
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by
Daniel Brown
(211,083)
Summary: "Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 797.123 BRO
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 11 of 17
details
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![Brain on fire [large print] : my month of madness](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/104765@2x.jpg)
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by
Susannah Cahalan
(160,890)
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 616.832 CAH
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Susannah Cahalan
(159,277)
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk,"...
more »
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 616.832 CAH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
details
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by
Evie Dunmore
Series:
League Of Extraordinary Women Novels - #1
(21,397)
Summary: England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In...
more »
Note: The Thursday Night Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 3/12/2020. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F DUNMORE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
details
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![Bringing down the duke [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/217092@2x.jpg)
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by
Evie Dunmore
Series:
League Of Extraordinary Women Novels - #1
(18,796)
Summary: England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F DUNMORE LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
details
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![Adams vs. Jefferson [large print] : the tumultuous election of 1800](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/14640@2x.jpg)
![An affair to remember [large print] : the remarkable love story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/78525@2x.jpg)
![Always a reckoning, and other poems [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/89587@2x.jpg)
![The best of Catherine Marshall [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/176@2x.jpg)
![Brothers in battle, best of friends [large print] : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of Brothers tell their story](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34141@2x.jpg)