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OverDrive eBooks November 2018
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"Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is." -- Tim O'Brien
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The Gendarme
by Mark Mustian
Seen by those around him as a virtually senile nonagenarian, Emmet Conn is haunted by vivid memories of a past he and others deliberately worked to forget, a situation that compels him to seek out the love of his life to beg her forgiveness.
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The Watch : a Novel
by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Approached by a solitary Afghan woman who is demanding the return of her brother's body for traditional burial, a group of beleaguered soldiers wonders if the woman is sincerely a mourning family member or if she is harboring a more sinister purpose, in a story that places a Middle-Eastern spin on the classic myth of Antigone. By the author of The Gabriel Club.
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Paco's Story
by Larry Heinemann
This National Book Award-winning novel focuses on Paco Sullivan, the traumatized lone survivor of a massacre by the Viet Cong in Vietnam, who travels back to the United States, becomes a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant, and is haunted by the ghosts of the men killed in battle.
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Mudbound : a Novel
by Hillary Jordan
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not—charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion.
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A Test of Wills
by Charles Todd
Back home after serving in World War I, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge returns to work and must solve the murder of a retired military officer, a crime in which the main suspect is a highly decorated war hero.
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November is Native American History Month
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Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
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. A New York Times best-seller and National Book Award finalist.
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The First Thanksgiving : A Selection from Mayflower
by Nathaniel Philbrick
A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England challenges popular misconceptions, discussing such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the fragile working relationship between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors, and the devastating impact of the King Philip's War. By the author of Sea of Glory.
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1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to the European arrival in 1492 describes how the latest research of archaeologists and anthropologists has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, revealing that not only was the population of the hemisphere greater than previously known but that the cultures were far older and more advanced.
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