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... point of pride. But these days, with a toddler, a full time job, and a pandemic level attention span, this librarian has a new found appreciation for the novella. Rich characters, ... and sense of purpose right now. Dex is a tea monk, whose job sounds pretty amazing. They travel between outlying ...

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... campaigns to support the wars. Library staff members added new materials to the collection and publicized war-related ... Fats to Make Explosives" "Preparedness through Books" "War Jobs for Women" "Handbook of First Aid" "The Consumer and ... has an increasing share in the educational program. A new job at Badger Ordnance Works? Quick instruction is in order. ...

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... woman struggles to be taken seriously at her job as a technology reporter in Silicon Valley, and after following her white boyfriend to Ithaca, New York, she feels even more isolated. Christie, Michael.  ... Majumdar, Megha.  A Burning . After a poor Muslim woman, new to social media, witnesses a horrifying terrorist attack ...

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... history, and more. Related Resources explore madison view newspapers websites view local history tag view Explore Madison Newspapers and Magazines Local History Websites All Madison ...

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... Belt town in Pennsylvania in the 1990's, a young woman, new in town, meets three men who work in their father's ... Maura.  Acts of Forgiveness .   A Black journalist in New York City is called back to her Philadelphia home to ... years after his death; they struggle financially, at their jobs, and within their own relationship. Robinson, Roxana.  ...

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... sets out to find both a date for her cousin's wedding and a new job, in a hurry, while her large traditional family worries ... Vladimir . A middle-aged English professor at a small New York college, whose husband, the chair of her ...

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... Davis diet and health books in 1966; and the underground newspaper Take Over in the 1970s. The library board and ... The proposal to build a Vaudeville house near the new library in 1906 produced a hostile reaction from the ... "Is Ford Really Frankenstein?" "Hey Hippie - Get a Job?" "Stop, Plop, Poop, & Pen. The Best of Women's ...

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... salvation, growing up on the reservation in the rugged New Mexico countryside. Raised by strong-willed women, ... she craved at home, Rita retreats into the only photography job she can get with the Albuquerque PD. Erma’s ghost is ... wits. Like her protagonist, Ramona Emerson grew up Diné in New Mexico, and now makes her living as a writer and ...

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... Recommendations Previous Issues Alexie, Sherman. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories . This is a collection of 30 darkly comic stories, some new and some previously published, many of them focusing on ... War, an African-American man, formerly a slave, leaves his job in Philadelphia and goes south to try to find his wife ...

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... leads him to assume a false identity, and he starts a new life and family in New York. Doshi, Tishani.   Small Days and Nights .   When ... Olin.   Barn 8 .   After a rebellious teenager takes a job in Iowa as an auditor for an egg producer, she and a ...

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...   Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir .  Dyja, Thomas.   New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and ... Sarah.   Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone .  Kolbert, ...

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... family disowned her when she came out as a lesbian, makes a new family for herself in Portland, Oregon, in the late ... .  Five childhood friends who grew up together in Buffalo, New York, are reunited fifteen years later after the suicide ... herself after meeting a famous feminist; after she gets a job working for the feminist’s foundation, she begins to ...

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... and Lizbeth makes a living as a hired gun who takes on jobs for those who need protection. Oh and there are Russian ... second book in the series and Lizbeth has been hired onto a new crew for a job that seems to be relatively straightforward. She and her ...

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... call for help, which means you'll have to start over with a new account. Gmail offers higher storage limits and may be ... (ISPs), see your local yellow pages or check your local newspaper ads. Make sure the provider you choose covers the ...

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... disclosure of a dark secret ended their friendship, gets a job in the same laboratory she works in.  Arthurs, Alexia. ... Turkish husband loses his residency status, abandons her job in San Francisco, and takes her daughter with her to a ... stories centers on a family from Sri Lanka, who settle in New Jersey during their homeland’s violent civil war. Li, ...

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... describes the experiences of five members of a mixed-race New Orleans family during Hurricane Katrina and its ... fired from the latest in a series of menial landscaping jobs, sets out to find success and his true self. Haig, ... move to Tucson to train as a boxer. Winnette, Colin.   The Job of the Wasp .  In this gothic thriller, a boy whose ...

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... bad-ass experience that way. A friend suggests she get a job on The Glorious Fool, a ship that has seen a lot of ... much to my delight. Devi is initially pretty bored in her new job and isn't sure she'll make it a whole year if all she ...

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... abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can ... and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this ... the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. Katherine May Wintering: The Power of Rest and ...

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... its down time consuming pop culture - while also doing the job it was assigned, guarding a team of scientists on a survey mission to a new planet. So far that job has been super-boring so MB has plenty of time to catch ...

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... of everyday life.  Every day (I mean, night ) features a new topic with three related math challenges at different ... Parents read the introductory information to learn about a new topic, then kids can choose which level of question ... are never simple flashcards, but instead do a nice job of working a math question into a story-like scenario.  ...

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Sera Fleece is recently divorced, out of a job and at extreme loose ends. Her only emotional outlet is ... and loneliness. When Rachel suddenly stops posting new episodes and there are no new updates on her social media, Sera is thrown for a loop. ...

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... life has been turned upside down. She’s lost her job, witnessed a murder, possibly committed a few felonies ... London’s Soho has always been home, but the lack of a job and entanglement in a murder offer little choice but to board the Queen Mary for New York. But first class on the luxury liner is no safe ...

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Though Ann Leckie's new novel involves larger issues of political intrigue and ... from the home (and even the planet). They give Enae a job to do that will take hir out into the universe. Enae is ... where he comes from. He keeps his head down and does his job, but knows there's something missing. When he's ...

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... memory, emotion, and time. Dirty Computers are feared in New Dawn, a totalitarian regime where thoughts are a ... memories: happy, sad, good or bad. This seems like a cool job, but the idea that whoever controls our memories ... dystopian novels like  The Handmaid's Tale , Brave New World , Fahrenheit 451 , and 1984  where the government ...

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... Things .   In this novel set in early Twentieth Century New York, a young woman, who is displayed by her father as a ... life in Germany during World War II, a young teacher, newly married to a military surgeon, struggles to keep her ... food writer and restaurant critic, a young woman gets a job as an assistant at a food and cooking magazine in New ...

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... at the height of and in the epicenter of the epidemic, 1988 New York City. Kevin Doyle lost his beloved partner, ... funeral, of one of his closest friends, Kevin loses his job and then drinks himself into the hospital. Now he's ... face his feelings and figure out how to start to build a new life without Francesco. The pain and rage of Kevin and ...

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... Popular audiobook narrator and actress Julia Whelan's new novel is about a famous audiobook narrator and actress ... all too well. But really, the universal need to adjust to new realities is something we all face in different ways.  ... back to Los Angeles and finds out that she's landed the job of a lifetime duet narrating the "lost" books of a ...

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... man as part of a business transaction and moves with him to New York City.  Danticat, Edwidge.   Everything Inside .  ... the lives of migrants from Haiti. Ellmann, Lucy.   Ducks, Newburyport .   This large stream-of consciousness novel is ... novel, an Indian-American pharmaceutical rep loses his job, renames himself after Don Quixote, and uses his old ...

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... historical mystery set in 1921, a white woman escapes from New York City with a gunshot wound and a large pile of cash; ... even more racist, is an African-American man who lands a job as an attorney at a powerful law firm and fears for the ... young woman from urban Bangalore, India loses her job and moves to a rural area in Kashmir to find an old ...

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... and nervous about  An Easy Death  the first in a brand new trilogy. Would my old Harris excitement return? Or the ... is back. An Easy Death  introduces readers to a whole new world and time and a great set of characters, centering ... of her team, killed on her last assignment, she takes the job. And the shootouts ensue (interspersed with magic and ...

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... on the moon where he's currently living. He's taken a job as a barrista and though he sings along to the music of ... Dyesi convinces him to enter the competition to become a new god. Phex is skeptical, but figures he's got nothing to ... as Phex ventures out of his taciturn shell to not only form new connections but find his own strength as a leader was ...

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... them both safely home to South Africa. Cook, Diane.  The New Wilderness .   In this dystopian novel, a couple whose ... finds himself in financial trouble, and takes on one last job to try to pay off his bills. Dimaline, Cherie.  Empire ... tells the story of a suicidal young writer who takes a job as a personal assistant to a famous Hollywood actress ...

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... and each poppy seed on her cake, but she also had a job she liked - teaching grade schoolers - and she even ... way she meets Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (19 letters), finds a new place in her family and a new role in life. This charming, bittersweet novel hit all ...

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... to Princeton, 1775-1777 .  Bazelon, Emily.   Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass ... Crisis and Its Lessons .  Bilefsky, Dan.   The Last Job: The “Bad Grandpas” and the Hatton Garden Heist . ... Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us . The Stonewall Reader .  Ed. by New York Public Library. Thompson, ...

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... tune into business and technology trends, or explore new software, this collection--created and curated by ... 900+ books from the "For Dummies" series 150 titles for job-seeking and career development Hundreds of books and ...

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... she’s a shaman, she is immediately called upon to use her newfound powers of oneness with the City to rescue it from a ... description to get me started. Sharon is a pretty brand-new shaman who is still struggling to understand just what ... but unsure just how to go about such a thing. Her day job as a barrista certainly doesn't fulfill her (especially ...

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Anne Capestan knew she’d be punished for her itchy trigger finger, but ... the Parisian police commissaire was lucky to still have her job, but is stunned when she learns that she is to lead a ... for an American audience. Translator Sam Gordon does a fine job rendering the original into comprehensible English while ...

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... pages (one of whom was celebrating her first day on the job), assisting patrons until into the early morning ... of our staff’s response - their willingness to face new challenges and commitment to their communities, even ...

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... library works with partners to offer classes for: business, job skills, and technology. We also host service providers ...

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... Auschwitz by a Polish boxer. Hansen, Ron. She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories . This is a collection of 19 short ... Moyes, Jojo. Me Before You . A young Englishwoman takes a job as caretaker for a recently paralyzed man, and throws ... . In this intricate mystery, a graphic designer who takes a job as a night clerk at a mysterious bookstore discovers ...

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... boy loses his mother, a 28-year-old man loses his job, and a 48-year-old man, who has been mute for many ... novel, which spans more than two centuries, begins in New York state in the 1830s, when a young girl loses her ... also lost the ability to speak. In the hope that studying a new language may help, she signs up for a class in Greek, ...

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... novel narrated by a writer from Sri Lanka serving time in a New York prison, who edits an in-house magazine which has ... who is unexpectedly given extra vacation leave at her job, decides to travel to visit four old friends she has not ... from a disadvantaged background works her way up to a good job at a cable news network, but her success is threatened ...

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... a loveless future? The Duchess Deal launches Tessa Dare’s new Girl Meet Duke series on a solid note. Dare takes the ... liked both Emma and Ash as people, Dare doing an excellent job drawing out their spirited natures underneath the insecurities. The story is hardly new or surprising and there’s a bit of silliness about ...

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... . A struggling theatrical set-designer in Chicago lands a job that could be her big break, but then an unexpected act ... is a man who, after his wife leaves him and he loses his job, delivers a load of marijuana for his brother, with ... to fame as an inventor of minimalist nouvelle cuisine. Newitz, Annalee.   The Future of Another Timeline . In this ...

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... the constant racism and harassment she experiences on her job.   Ebook Cash, Wiley.   When Ghosts Come Home .  In ... of realism and the supernatural, the appearance of a new bright light in the night sky sets off a series of ... which has been hired to evaluate the special effects in a new science fiction film.   Miller, Nathaniel Ian. The ...

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From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My ... black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement ... the complexion of America and provided black people with new economic opportunities, it also disconnected them from ...

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This 1986 classic has found a new audience through a popular adaptation on Hulu. This is ... of Offred, one of the unfortunate "Handmaids" under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent ...

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