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"A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to a small town and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear. In 2013, Dr. Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in...
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Non-Fiction
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
362.17 GAWANDE
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362.17 GAWANDE
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
362.175 GAWANDE
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362.175 GAWANDE
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
HEALTH GL 100 G 2014
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HEALTH GL 100 G 2014
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Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
305.897 KIMMERER
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305.897 KIMMERER
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
305.897 KIMMERER
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305.897 KIMMERER
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An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC RUTLEDGE, L.
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FIC RUTLEDGE, L.
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"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes ... ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...
26) Midwives
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC BOHJALIAN, C.
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FIC BOHJALIAN, C.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC BOHJALIAN, C.
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FIC BOHJALIAN, C.
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The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.
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Non-Fiction
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
940.5373 KIERNAN
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940.5373 KIERNAN
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Nonfiction
940.5373 KIERNAN
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940.5373 KIERNAN
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This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. All knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret...
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP 364.16 JOHNSON
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LP 364.16 JOHNSON
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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC HAWKER, O.
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FIC HAWKER, O.
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC HAWKER, O.
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FIC HAWKER, O.
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Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to...
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC CALLAHAN, P.
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FIC CALLAHAN, P.
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"From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called 'my whole world.' When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis - known as Jack - she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet...
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"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly...
32) Anxious people
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC BACKMAN, F.
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FIC BACKMAN, F.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC BACKMAN, F.
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FIC BACKMAN, F.
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC BACK
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CDB FIC BACK
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP FIC BACKMAN, F.
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LP FIC BACKMAN, F.
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
LP FIC BACKMAN, F.
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LP FIC BACKMAN, F.
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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After a pilot dies in the crash of an airliner, his wife discovers he was a bigamist. A face-to-face follows between the legal wife, Kathryn of Boston by whom he had one child, and the other woman, Muire, who lives in England with their two children. By the author of The Weight of Water.
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Non-Fiction
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
636.70092 KERASOTE
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636.70092 KERASOTE
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB 636.7092 KERA
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CDB 636.7092 KERA
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While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog--a Labrador mix--who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and in. This portrait of a remarkable dog and his relationship with the...
35) Killing raven
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
MYS COEL, M.
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MYS COEL, M.
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Park Co. Library - Mystery Collection
MYS COEL, M.
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MYS COEL, M.
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Park Co. Library - Paperback Collection
PBK C
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PBK C
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The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Reservation has Father John O'Malley trying to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the newly opened Great Plains Casino--with Vicky Holden as its in-house counsel--is fighting for its life against an angry group of protesters. And when Vicky stumbles across some disturbing evidence about the murder, she's suddenly caught in a dangerous game--with her own life at stake.
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC KIDD, S.
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FIC KIDD, S.
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FIC KIDD, S.
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FIC KIDD, S.
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC KIDD SECR
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CDB FIC KIDD SECR
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Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black...
37) In our time
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A collection of short stories and vignettes by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1925, marking his American debut.
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Park Co. Library - Fiction
FIC BROWN, D.
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FIC BROWN, D.
2 available
Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Main collection
FIC BROWN, D.
1 available
FIC BROWN, D.
1 available
Park Co. Library - Powell - Fiction
FIC BROWN, D.
1 available
FIC BROWN, D.
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Park Co. Library - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC BROW DA VI
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CDB FIC BROW DA VI
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Park Co. Library - Meeteetse - Audio Visual Collection
CDB FIC BROW DA V
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CDB FIC BROW DA V
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Park Co. Library - Large Print Collection
LP FIC BROWN, D.
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LP FIC BROWN, D.
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Park Co. Library - Powell - Large Print Collection
LP FIC BROWN, D.
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LP FIC BROWN, D.
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
362.19699 WILLIAMS
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362.19699 WILLIAMS
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Park Co. Library - Nonfiction
BOOK CLUB KIT: REFUGE
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BOOK CLUB KIT: REFUGE
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In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, the Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in...