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| Orphans of the Carnival by Carol BirchAvailable on Hoopla. Dreaming of fame, Julia Pastrana leaves her home in Mexico's Sinaloa state at the encouragement of an American carnival promoter. Despite her talents as a singer and dancer, Julia is mostly dismissed as a sideshow spectacle due to the hair that covers her face and body, the result of a hereditary condition. Throughout her eventful life, Julia seeks recognition for her abilities, while longing for love and acceptance. |
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Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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On Turpentine Lane
by Elinor Lipman
Available on Hoopla. Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. Her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiancé is off on a crowd-funded cross-country walk, too busy to return her texts. And never mind her witless boss, or a mother who lives too close, or a philandering father who thinks he's Chagall.
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Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
By the New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove. People say Beartown is finished. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semifinals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
by W. Kamau Bell
A memoir and manifesto by the comedian, hit podcast host and star of United Shades of America shares intersectional progressive views on forefront issues ranging from race relations and law enforcement to right-wing politics and parenthood.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Now a Hulu Original Miniseries. Offred, a Handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
Available on Hoopla. Confined to a nursing home and about to turn one hundred, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant, and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
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America's First Daughter : A Novel
by Stephanie Dray
Available on Hoopla. The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph - a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy. After her mother's death, Patsy accompanies her father Thomas Jefferson to his posting in France, where she learns of her father's liaison with a slave girl and falls for his protégé.
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Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
Available on Overdrive. A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a cause of poverty in America, revealing how people are forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by legal systems. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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El Paso
by Winston Groom
After feared outlaw and revolutionary Pancho Villa kidnaps his grandchildren, railroad tycoon John Shaughnessy, known as the Colonel, ventures to El Paso with his adopted son and a band of hired cowboys on a rescue mission.
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