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99 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Sudbury - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / KOBABE
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / KOBABE
1 available
Sudbury - Teen
TEEN GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / Kobabe
1 available
TEEN GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / Kobabe
1 available
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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46 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Sudbury - Teen
TEEN SOCIETY & POLITICS / IDENTITY / JOHNSON
1 available
TEEN SOCIETY & POLITICS / IDENTITY / JOHNSON
1 available
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.
A New York Times Bestseller!
Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories
From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea
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4 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's...
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152 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Sudbury - Teen
TEEN FICTION / THOMAS A
1 available
TEEN FICTION / THOMAS A
1 available
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Sudbury - Teen - Large Print
TEEN LARGE PRINT FICTION / THOMAS A
1 available
TEEN LARGE PRINT FICTION / THOMAS A
1 available
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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144 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
Sudbury - Teen
TEEN FICTION / LEE H
1 available
TEEN FICTION / LEE H
1 available
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19 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Sudbury - Large Print
LARGE PRINT FICTION / LEE H
1 available
LARGE PRINT FICTION / LEE H
1 available
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7 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
eAudiobook
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30 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views...
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150 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Sudbury - Adult
FICTION / HOSSEINI K
1 available
FICTION / HOSSEINI K
1 available
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8 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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Overview: A deluxe collector's edition of the phenomenally bestselling The Kite Runner, filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has shipped over four million copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban, The Kite...
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98 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
Sudbury - Adult
MEMOIR 362.82 / WALLS
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MEMOIR 362.82 / WALLS
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8 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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This story is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned to...
9) Beloved
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104 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Sudbury - Adult
LIBRARIANS' CHOICE / MORRISON
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LIBRARIANS' CHOICE / MORRISON
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8 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
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96 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. 2 copies on order.
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious...
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17 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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The author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
"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...
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15) Go ask Alice
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"It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life"--Amazon.com.
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While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway?s craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway?s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated...
18) Catch-22
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Catch-22 volume 1
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83 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Sudbury - Adult
FICTION / HELLER J
1 available
FICTION / HELLER J
1 available
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9 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
19) As I lay dying
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Traces the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
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6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that all animals are created equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution...