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Memoir
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Heart Berries: A Memoir
TERESE MAILHOT - Counterpoint
Format: Book
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Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest.
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Short Story Collection
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Feel Free: Essays
Zadie Smith - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant... |
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Five-Carat Soul
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017"A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best." - New York Times Book ReviewExciting new fiction from James McBride, the first... |
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks - Knopf
Format: Book
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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
Lesley Nneka Arimah - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Time Magazine, Elle, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Millions, Nylon, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Electric LiteratureA dazzlingly accomplished debut... |
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Travel Category
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So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam
Karin Esterhammer - Prospect Park Books
Format: Paperback
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After job losses and the housing crash, the author and her family leave L.A. to start over in a most unlikely place: a nine-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into windows, generously share their barbecued rat,... |
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Van Life: Your Home on the Road
Foster Huntington - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Book
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Showcasing hundreds of funky vehicles, awe-inspiring landscapes, and cleverly designed interiors in tiny spaces from around the world, Van Life is perfect for who anyone daydreams about living on the open road.
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Fiction set in Florida and NonFiction about Florida.
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Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports
MIKE MCINTIRE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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Using the Florida State Seminoles, one of the most successful teams in NCAA history, as an example, McIntire details a system that exploits athletes for profit, enables players to violate academic standards and, in some cases, shields them from criminal prosecution.
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Cocoa Beach: A Novel
BEATRIZ WILLIAMS - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Beatriz Williams transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel - an enchanting blend of love, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach.
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Florida
Lauren Groff - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestseller Lauren Groff returns with a new book as bold and consuming as her novel Fates and Furies. Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Florida-- her first new book since her "clear the ground triumph" Fates and Furies... |
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The Pope of Palm Beach: A Novel
Tim Dorsey
Format: Book
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Tim Dorsey’s 21st comic novel featuring eccentric murderer Serge Storms, set in Riviera Beach, Florida.
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Historical Fiction
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Carnegie's Maid: A Novel
Marie Benedict - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor... |
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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
George Saunders - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe "devastatingly moving" (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln,... |
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The Taster
V S ALEXANDER - Kensington
Format: Paperback
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Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined - one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship . . . In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents... |
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Classic Literature. The following titles also fulfill the challenged or banned category.
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Book
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1987 Pulitzer Prize.
Beloved tells the story of Sethe, a former enslaved woman who has resettled on the outskirts of Cincinnati with her daughter, Denver.
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: eBook
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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Format: Book
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Now a Hulu Original Series.The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, originally published in 1985, set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian, Christian theonomy that has overthrown the United States government.
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Fiction set in another country or land.
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The Painted Queen: A Novel
ELIZABETH PETERS - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Egypt, 1912 - Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins.
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The Queen of Blood
Sarah Beth Durst - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a 2017 ALA Alex Award!A Tor.com Best of 2016 pick!Set in the magical world of Renthia, The Queen of Blood is Sarah Beth Durst's ambitious entry into adult epic fantasy. With the danger of Peter Brett's The Warded Man, heart of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, and lyricism of Patrick Rothfuss'... |
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Salt Houses
Hala Alyan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home.
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