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Outlander novels volume 8
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In this eighth installment of the Outlander saga, time-crossed lovers Jamie and Claire Fraser are dramatically reunited in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia. Meanwhile, in 20th century Scotland, their daughter Brianna is being pursued by a man determined to learn her family's secrets.
2) Homesick
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It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an uneasy reunion. Fiercely independent, Vera has been on her own since running away at nineteen – first to the army, and then to Toronto. Now, for the sake of her young son, she must swallow her pride and return home after seventeen years. As the story gradually unfolds,...
3) Little women
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The classic story of the March family whose four daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s. Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters -- Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth -- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
4) Camanchaca
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A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family - a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death - occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. Camanchaca is the discretion that makes a lifelong grief possible. Sometimes, the silences are...
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West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant English cousin. Together they grow up in the dreamy grounds of the family's grand estate, Castle Deverill. Yet their peaceful way of life will soon be threatened by Ireland's struggle...
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When a ten-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets. From the author of 'Acts of Desperation' (a Dewey Diva pick), which won the Betty Trask award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. A Dewey Diva Pick.
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In 1924 South Carolina, Gertrude, a mother of four, must choose between saving her daughters from starvation or dying at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is a first-generation freed slave who is still employed by the Coles, who once owned her family. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family, is coming to terms with a terrible truth that ripped her family apart. These three women unite to stand up to the terrible injustices that have long plagued...
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In the years between the two world wars, Josef Tobak builds a quiet life in Vienna. Then comes the Anschluss in 1938, and Josef escapes to America with the help of his closest gentile friend, who joins the Nazi Party. After the war, Josef returns to Vienna with his family and tries to make sense of what remains.
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Trinity College, Dublin, 1978. Aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, marriage and motherhood come in quick succession. But for Maeve, with the joy of children also comes the struggle to hold on to the truest parts of herself. Decades later, on a small Irish island, the Moone family are poised for celebration but instead are struck by tragedy. Each family member must find solace in their own separate...
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Bibliotherapy - Friendship
Bibliotherapy: Inclusion
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Black History Month - Adults
Bibliotherapy: Inclusion
Bibliotherapy: New Beginnings
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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
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Martha Wallace came to Dublin from America to find her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the charming JP Deverill. Bridie Doyle, now Countess di Marcantonio and mistress of Castle Deverill, is determined to make the castle she used to work in her home. But her flamboyant husband Cesare has other ideas. Kitty Deverill has come to terms with her life with her husband Robert. But then Jack O'Leary, the love of her life, returns...
16) The war girls
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During one of the darkest periods of World War II, two Jewish sisters and a family friend living on the Aryan side of the Warsaw Ghetto form a trio called The War Girls who fight to rescue their loved ones, finding courage through sisterhood to keep hopealive.
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In 1967 Toronto, Selena, a school teacher from Wales emigrates to Canada and meets Aidan, a man who emigrated with his family from Sri Lanka in 1956 when he was sixteen. Salena is not conscious of their racial differences until they return to Wales to be married. Here she experiences her mother's response to Aidan's colour. She is shocked by the racism of her mother and of the teachers in the school where she starts to teach. She encourages Aidan...
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We know that we should be drinking at least eight glasses of water a day-that's a lot of water! People often substitute with coffee or tea, but do we really want all that extra caffeine and acid? Soft drinks have too many calories, and diet drinks are full of chemicals. The easy answer to staying healthy, hydrated, and happy is infused water.
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"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--Provided by publisher.
20) The love child
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Alice, a young adult from a well off family gives birth to a little girl. She's forced to give the child up for adoption. Little Irene ends up in a family of good standing, but throughout her childhood she's the odd one out. She survives, but the urge to belong drives her on a search for her birth mother.
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