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In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB 797.123 BROW BOYS
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CDB 797.123 BROW BOYS
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Audio Visual Collection
CDB 797.123 BROW
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CDB 797.123 BROW
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
LP 797.123 BROWN
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LP 797.123 BROWN
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"The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic Games in Berlin....
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC HAYS, K.
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FIC HAYS, K.
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist - and confidante - most in demand to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own... Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips...
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"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
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"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC PARI, S.
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FIC PARI, S.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC PARI, S.
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FIC PARI, S.
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP PARI, S.
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LP PARI, S.
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"Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished. Caught in the middle is their mother, Shireen, torn between her fierce love...
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"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian -- born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness -- is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations -- looking, listening, touching, and asking -- something a man can never do with a female...
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC GARMUS, B.
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FIC GARMUS, B.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC GARMUS, B.
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FIC GARMUS, B.
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC GARM
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CDB FIC GARM
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC TOWLES, A.
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FIC TOWLES, A.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC TOWLES, A.
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FIC TOWLES, A.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC TOWL
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CDB FIC TOWL
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
LP FIC TOWLES, A.
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LP FIC TOWLES, A.
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A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaugher. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother,...
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Park Co. Library - Juvenile Fiction
J DICAMILLO
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J DICAMILLO
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - School Collection
J DICAMILLO
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J DICAMILLO
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Juvenile Fiction
J DICAMILLO, KATE
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J DICAMILLO, KATE
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
JCDB FIC DICA
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JCDB FIC DICA
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Audio Visual Collection
JCDB FIC DICA MIRA
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JCDB FIC DICA MIRA
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Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
13) Never lie
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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LP FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Large Print Collection
LP FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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LP FIC MCFADDEN, F.
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"A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker! Sometimes the truth kills... Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace years ago. But when a violent winter storm traps them at the estate, the house begins...
14) New kid
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2020 Audie Awards® Finalist—Middle Grade
Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature, and an Audie Award finalist!
An original full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft, performed by the author with Jesus Del Orden, Nile Bullock, Robin Miles,
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but still has plenty of living to do. She lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital....
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"It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. Haunting, mysterious, and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock...
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
LP FIC ADAMS, S.
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LP FIC ADAMS, S.
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Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
18) Refugee
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Park Co. Library - Juvenile Fiction
J GRATZ
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J GRATZ
1 available
Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - School Collection
J GRATZ
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J GRATZ
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
JCDB FIC GRAT
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JCDB FIC GRAT
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
JMP3 FIC GRAT
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JMP3 FIC GRAT
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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- Provided by publisher.
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC ERDR
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CDB FIC ERDR
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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...

