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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC BENNETT, B.
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FIC BENNETT, B.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC BENNETT, B.
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FIC BENNETT, B.
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC BENN
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CDB FIC BENN
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP FIC BENNETT, B.
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LP FIC BENNETT, B.
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC AUSTEN, J.
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FIC AUSTEN, J.
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC AUSTEN, J.
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FIC AUSTEN, J.
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When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance! As life pits them against each other again and again, Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth's wit and intelligence and Elizabeth begins to question her feelings about Darcy. But when Darcy saves her youngest...
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
629.409 SHETTERLY
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629.409 SHETTERLY
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
629.409 SHETTERLY
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629.409 SHETTERLY
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Nonfiction
629.409 SHETTERLY
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629.409 SHETTERLY
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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
4) Little women
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Park Co. Library - Juvenile Fiction
J ALCOTT
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J ALCOTT
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Park Co. Library - Juvenile Fiction
JR CLASSICS JI LITTLE
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JR CLASSICS JI LITTLE
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Juvenile Fiction
J ALCOTT
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J ALCOTT
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
BIO GINSBURG, R. CAR
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BIO GINSBURG, R. CAR
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"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court--with the fierce dissents to match--get to know RBG as never before. As the country struggles with the unfinished...
6) Circe
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP FIC MILLER, M.
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LP FIC MILLER, M.
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB BIO OBAMA, M.
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CDB BIO OBAMA, M.
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"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
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Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette - she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something" - detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan
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A collection of essays offers a humorous look at the ups and downs of being a woman of a certain age, discussing the tribulations of maintenance and trying to stop the clock, menopause, and empty nests.
11) Beloved
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC MORRISON, T.
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FIC MORRISON, T.
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC MORRISON, T.
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FIC MORRISON, T.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC MORRISON, T.
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FIC MORRISON, T.
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank's...
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
616.0277 SKLOOT
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616.0277 SKLOOT
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Nonfiction
616.0277 SKLOOT
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616.0277 SKLOOT
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This book examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned that doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
BIO MARIE ANTOINETTE FRA
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BIO MARIE ANTOINETTE FRA
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Biographical sketch of Louis XVI's Queen consort.
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
363.1799 MOORE
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363.1799 MOORE
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Nonfiction
363.1799 MOORE
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363.1799 MOORE
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
LP 363.1799 MOORE
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LP 363.1799 MOORE
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As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive -- until they began to fall...
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
BIO DIANA (PRINCESS) BRO
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BIO DIANA (PRINCESS) BRO
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"Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of Louvain, the young beauty whom the aging Henry I married to...
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC ATWOOD, M.
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FIC ATWOOD, M.
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC ATWOOD, M.
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FIC ATWOOD, M.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC ATWOOD, M.
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FIC ATWOOD, M.
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC ATWOOD, M.
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FIC ATWOOD, M.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Graphic Novels
GN A ATWOOD, M.
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GN A ATWOOD, M.
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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
19) Three women
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"Desire as we've never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it's all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored--until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six...
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC JONES, T.
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FIC JONES, T.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC JONES, T.
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FIC JONES, T.
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP FIC JONES, T.
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LP FIC JONES, T.
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Summary
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...