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OverDrive eBooks October 2017
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others." -- James Baldwin
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October is LGBT History Month
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Go Tell It On the Mountain
by James Baldwin
While his family struggles with guilt, bitterness, and spiritual issues, John Grimes experiences a religious conversion in the Temple of the Fire Baptised.
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Orlando
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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Edinburgh
by Alexander Chee
A gifted Korean-American man confronts the terrors of his past as an adult when he struggles to deal with the molestation he suffered at the hands of his choir director.
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The Kid
by Sapphire
After his mother dies when he is nine years old, Abdul Jones finds his way toward adulthood by overcoming the legacy of physical and sexual abuse he carries with him from his time in a foster home and at a boys' Catholic school.
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Hiss of Death
by Rita Mae Brown
After a hospital employee ends up dead, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen--along with her sleuthing animal companions Mrs. Murphy, Pewter and Tucker--must find the murderer, all while Harry deals with a health crisis herself.
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October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
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A Big Little Life : a Memoir of a Joyful Dog
by Dean R. Koontz
The author presents a tribute to his late golden retriever, Trixie, that describes his family's adoption of the retired service animal, the numerous lessons he learned throughout their relationship, and the family's grief upon her passing.
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Dogtown : Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption
by Stefan Bechtel
A companion to the hit show by the same name celebrates the bond between dogs and their caregivers at the Best Friends Animal Society and shares the inspiring rehabilitation stories of dogs from an array of disadvantaged backgrounds who responded to intervention after being dismissed as unadoptable by other shelters.
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Shelter Dogs : Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays
by Peg Kehret
The award-winning author of Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio tells the stories of eight stray dogs that were adopted from animal shelters and went on to become service dogs, actors, and heroes.
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The Lost Dogs : Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
by Jim Gorant
Traces the rescue story of dozens of dogs that survived NFL player Michael Vick's brutal dog-fighting operation, expanding on the author's Sports Illustrated cover story to describe the court case to bring Vick to justice and rehabilitate traumatized dogs, many of whom became participants in therapy programs.
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Novels for Italian American History Month
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All This Talk of Love : a Novel
by Christopher Castellani
The American-born daughter of an immigrant plots to bring her entire family back to Santa Cecilia, Italy, so that her grandmother can make amends with her estranged sister in this new novel from the author of A Kiss from Maddelena. Original.
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In Revere, in Those Days : a Novel
by Roland Merullo
Anthony Benedetto, a young boy in a large extended Italian-American family, describes growing up in the working-class community of Revere, Massachusetts, but his idyllic and charmed youth is changed forever by the tragic deaths of his parents, in a coming-of-age story.
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The Shoemaker's Wife : a Novel
by Adriana Trigiani
This intricately woven tapestry of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny follows star-crossed lovers Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who, after their first meeting in the Italian Alps, find their destinies inexplicably entwined as they build their lives in America.
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The Witch of Little Italy
by Suzanne Palmieri
"In Suzanne Palmieri's charming debut, The Witch of Little Italy, you will be bewitched by the Amore women. When young Eleanor Amore finds herself pregnant, she returns home to her estranged family in the Bronx, called by "The Sight" they share now growing strong within her. She has only been back once before when she was ten years old during a wonder-filled summer of sun-drenched beaches, laughter and cartwheels. But everyone remembers that summer except her. Eleanor can't remember anything from before she left the house on her last day there. With her past now coming back to her in flashes, she becomes obsessed with recapturing those memories. Aided by her childhood sweetheart, she learns the secrets still haunting her magical family, secrets buried so deep they no longer know how they began. And, in the process, unlocks a mystery over fifty years old--The Day the Amores Died--and reveals, once and for all, a truth that will either heal or shatter the Amore clan"
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