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East Providence Weaver - Adult Fiction
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East Providence Riverside - Adult Fiction
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Fic See
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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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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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
2) Jane Eyre
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East Providence Weaver - Adult Fiction
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Fic Bro
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East Providence Riverside - Adult Fiction
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Fic Bro
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious,...
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East Providence Weaver - Adult Fiction
Fic Tow
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Fic Tow
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Fic Tow
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Fic Tow
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East Providence Riverside - Adult Fiction
Fic Tow
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Fic Tow
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4 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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East Providence Weaver - Large Print
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LP Tow
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East Providence Riverside - Large Print
LP Tow
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LP Tow
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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109 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
East Providence Riverside - Adult Fiction
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Fic Owe
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East Providence Weaver - Audiobook
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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East Providence Weaver - Large Print
LP Owe
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LP Owe
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East Providence Riverside - Large Print
LP Owe
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LP Owe
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Kya Clark is the "Marsh Girl" of Barkley Cove on the North Carolina coast. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist, she took life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. Drawn to two young men from town who were intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opened herself to a new and startling world-- until the unthinkable happens. When Chase...
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East Providence Weaver - Adult Fiction
Fic Lee
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Fic Lee
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East Providence Weaver - Storage
Fic Lee
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Fic Lee
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9 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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14 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Sibylla and her prodigy son Ludo love Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and this film prompts Ludo to try to find his father.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times).
Benji Cooper is one of the...
Benji Cooper is one of the...
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel about African Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages." --
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66 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"This book tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive...
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59 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
East Providence Riverside - Adult Fiction
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Fic Dia
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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East Providence Weaver - Large Print
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LP Dia
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East Providence Riverside - Large Print
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"Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to...
11) Siddhartha
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Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha, is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922. Set in India, Siddharthais the story of a young Brahmin's search...
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ-the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents,...