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"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Young Adult Fiction
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Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a ... story of courage and redemption.
24) Pachinko
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F LEE
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"PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through...
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The tale of Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at womanhood just in time to see the Civil War sweep away the life for which her upbringing has prepared her.
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
F WHI
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F WHI
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F WHI
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F WHI
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning, National Book Award-winning, Oprah-anointed, #1 New York Times bestselling novel that explores America's troubled racial past as only he can now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood where even greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has...
27) memoirs of a geisha
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F REI
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F REI
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
F OWE
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F OWE
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F OWE
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F OWE
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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CD F OWE
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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"For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild, unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
31) The four winds
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
CD F HAN
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CD F HAN
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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LT F HAN
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"[A]n epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with...
32) Circe: a novel
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy
SF MIL
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SF MIL
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy
SF MIL
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SF MIL
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy
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With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Mark of the lion volume 1
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Inspirational
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Inspirational
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Inspirational
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The holy city of Jerusalem has fallen. By the mercy of God, Hadassah, a young Christian girl survives famine, the deaths of her entire family, and unspeakable atrocities. And in Germania, a heroic young chieftain named Atretes battles the Romans with unmatched fury. It is prophesied tha Atretes will drive the Romans from his lands, and someday meet a dark complexioned woman from an exotic land whom he will come to love.
36) War horse
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John & Judy Gay Library - Juvenile Fiction
J F MOR
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J F MOR
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Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
37) pillars of the earth
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38) Beloved
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
F MOR
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F MOR
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F MOR
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F MOR
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F ALL
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F ALL
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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LT F ALL
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
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F MOY
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John & Judy Gay Library - Adult Fiction
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...