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OverDrive eBooks October 2018
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"Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself." -- Virginia Woolf
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October is LGBT History Month
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Orlando : a Biography
by Virginia Woolf
Orlando doubles first as an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in an annotated edition of the classic novel that examines sex roles and social mores.
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The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
Forced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple. By the best-selling author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith.
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Days Without End : a Novel
by Sebastian Barry
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.
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The Danish Girl : a Novel
by David Ebershoff
A novel set in Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden in the 1920s introduces a man who discovers he is a woman, and the woman who will do anything for him, in a tale of love and marriage in the midst of fundamental crisis.
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Lord John and the Private Matter
by Diana Gabaldon
Returning from Scottish exile in 1757, Lord John Grey pursues a traitor through London and across the seas, an endeavor that is complicated by a delicate family affair and his memories of the Jacobite Rising. By the author of Outlander.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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The Dog Lived (and So Will I) : a Memoir
by Teresa J. Rhyne
Recounts the author's journey nursing her adopted beagle Seamus through his cancer treatment as she learned to deal with medical situations, unknowingly preparing herself for her own later triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis.
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I'm Just a Person
by Tig Notaro
The popular comedian and cast member on "Transparent" traces a wrenching year in her life marked by a debilitating rare illness, her mother's sudden death, a romantic breakup, and her diagnosis with breast cancer.
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The Foremost Good Fortune : a Memoir
by Susan Conley
A co-founder of Maine's Telling Room non-profit writing center describes the experiences she shared with her family while living in Beijing before her cancer diagnosis forced confrontations with challenging cultural and mortality issues.
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Survival Lessons
by Alice Hoffman
The New York Times bestselling author imparts her wisdom in this inspirational book that shows us how to reclaim our lives from this day forward, teaches us how to choose what matters most and inspires us to find beauty in the world even during the toughest times.
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Refuge : an Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Tempest Williams
The author of Leap describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer.
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