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1) Americanah
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CD BOOK ADI
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CD BOOK ADI
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A powerful story of love, race and identity.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will...
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Biographies & Memoirs
MEMOIR KAMKWAMBA, W
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MEMOIR KAMKWAMBA, W
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Relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
CLASSIC ACHEBE, C
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CLASSIC ACHEBE, C
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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama
“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Things
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CD BOOK JON
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CD BOOK JON
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F RICHARDSON, K
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F RICHARDSON, K
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"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 Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
7) Rebecca
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier — winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century — is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid,...
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid,...
8) Dracula
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
CLASSIC STOKER, B
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CLASSIC STOKER, B
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Immerse yourself in a spine-chilling world of gothic horror and ancient evil. The enigmatic Count Dracula leaves his Transylvanian castle to spread his dark influence in Victorian England. As a group of intrepid individuals seeks to thwart the vampire's malevolent plans, a harrowing battle between good and evil ensues. With hauntingly atmospheric prose, Stoker weaves a tale of terror, seduction, and the struggle for survival. Brace yourself for a...
9) Frankenstein
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
CLASSIC SHELLEY, M
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CLASSIC SHELLEY, M
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Teen Room
Y HORROR SHELLEY, M
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Y HORROR SHELLEY, M
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10) Jane Eyre
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
CLASSIC BRONTE, C
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CLASSIC BRONTE, C
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
CLASSIC BRONTE, J
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CLASSIC BRONTE, J
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CD BOOK CLASSIC BRONTE, C
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CD BOOK CLASSIC BRONTE, C
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"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart--and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit...
13) Salt houses
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
14) Longbourn
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CD BOOK BAK
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CD BOOK BAK
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A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F SITTENFELD, C
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F SITTENFELD, C
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CD BOOK SIT
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CD BOOK SIT
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A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice...Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
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If you liked Jane Eyre, Bridgerton, or Downton Abbey, you'll love this best-selling novel of romance and social satire set in Regency era Britain.
Two handsome, single, and wealthy gentleman arrive in town and capture the attention of all the young ladies. A combination of pride and prejudice results in ironic twists and turns in this tale of young English women and their quest for love and security. Delve into the life of the fiercely independent...
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
CLASSIC SMITH, B
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CLASSIC SMITH, B
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Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK CLASSIC SMITH, B
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CD BOOK CLASSIC SMITH, B
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5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
18) My beloved world
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Biographies & Memoirs
MEMOIR SOTOMAYOR, S
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MEMOIR SOTOMAYOR, S
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Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK BIO SOTOMAYOR, S
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CD BOOK BIO SOTOMAYOR, S
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"An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...
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Wiggin Memorial Library - Biographies & Memoirs
MEMOIR NOAH, T
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MEMOIR NOAH, T
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Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK BIO NOAH, T
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CD BOOK BIO NOAH, T
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10 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
10 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"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.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a...
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MEMOIR COLEMAN, M
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MEMOIR COLEMAN, M
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Set on a rugged coastal homestead during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb young writer driven by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and connect anew with the beauty and vitality of the back-to-the-land ideal that shaped her early years. In the fall of 1968, Melissa Coleman's parents, Eliot and Sue-a handsome, idealistic young couple from well-to-do families-pack a few essentials into their VW truck and abandon...