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OverDrive eBooks August 2017
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"Truth never damages a cause that is just." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Swim to Me
by Betsy Carter
Desperate to compete with the newly opened Walt Disney World Resort, Miss Thelma Foote struggles to deal with the lack of business at Weeki Wachee Springs, while coping with the constant repairs, bills, and mischievous "mermaids," but everyone's luck takes a turn for the better when Delores Walker arrives from the Bronx to pursue her long-time dream of becoming a mermaid.
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Summer House With Swimming Pool : a Novel
by Herman Koch
When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he's not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high-profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever. It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meiers' extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean.
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Swim Back to Me
by Ann Packer
A volume of interlinked stories includes the tales of a wife who struggles to make sense of her husband's abrupt departure, a mother who mourns a teenage son through the music collection he left behind and a woman who reflects on her own broken family while attending a brother's wedding.
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Learning to Swim : a Novel
by Sara J. Henry
Witnessing a small boy being thrown into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot. A first novel.
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The Swimming Pool : a Novel
by Holly LeCraw
Seven years after the end of an affair with a married man culminated in the unsolved murder of his wife, Marcella Atkinson struggles with the decimation of her own family life before a chance discovery leads her into a relationship with her former lover's son.
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Swimming Home : a Novel
by Deborah Levy
A mysterious woman who suffers from mental illness suddenly appears at a vacation villa where two families are staying and her interactions with them reveal secret details about their past and tensions within their relationships with each other
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Indian Independence Day : August 15th
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Gandhi : a Manga Biography
by Kazuki Ebine
An award-winning Tokyo-based manga artist depicts the life of Mahatma Gandhi and his nonviolent struggle against the British Raj in the third installment of a new series of manga biographies.
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Incarnations : a History of India in Fifty Lives
by Sunil Khilnani
The author of The Idea of Indian presents an entertaining and provocative account of India¡s past via a series of portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titansùsome famous, some unjustly forgotten, but all important in the country's rich history.
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons : A Journey Among the Women of India
by Elisabeth Bumiller
In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller illuminates the many women's lives she shared--from wealthy sophisticates in New Delhi, to villagers in the dusty northern plains, to movie stars in Bombay, intellectuals in Calcutta, and health workers in the south--and the contradictions she encountered, during her three and a half years in India as a reporter for THE WASHINGTON POST. In their fascinating, and often tragic stories, Bumiller found a strength even in powerlessness, and a universality that raises questions for women around the world.
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Climbing the Mango Trees : A Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey
The best-selling author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking offers a charming memoir of growing up in Delhi, India, detailing life in a large family marked by dinners in which forty or more members of her extended family would enjoy the savory dishes of the region, recalling her childhood through the window of the food she experienced.
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Behind the beautiful forevers : Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
A first book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother of a prospective female college student and a young scrap metal thief, in an account that illuminates how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by regional religious, caste and economic tensions.
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