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The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
BACKMAN F.
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BACKMAN F.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
BACKMAN F.
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BACKMAN F.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD BACKMAN F.
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CD BACKMAN F.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP BACKMAN F.
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LP BACKMAN F.
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
CALLAHAN P.
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CALLAHAN P.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP HENRY P.
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LP HENRY P.
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"From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called 'my whole world.' When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis - known as Jack - she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Health and Wellness Collection
WELLNESS 362.175 GAWANDE 2014
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WELLNESS 362.175 GAWANDE 2014
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD 362.175 GAWANDE 2014
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CD 362.175 GAWANDE 2014
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Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
SULLIVAN M.
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SULLIVAN M.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Audio Visual Collection
CD SULLIVAN M.
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CD SULLIVAN M.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Storage. See librarian for assistance.
LP BOOK CLUB KIT
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LP BOOK CLUB KIT
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
BOOK CLUB DISPLAY BOOK LP SULLIVAN M.
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BOOK CLUB DISPLAY BOOK LP SULLIVAN M.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP SULLIVAN M.
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LP SULLIVAN M.
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move...
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An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
BOOK CLUB DISPLAY BOOK HONEYMAN G.
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BOOK CLUB DISPLAY BOOK HONEYMAN G.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
STAFF PICKS HONEYMAN G.
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STAFF PICKS HONEYMAN G.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
HONEYMAN G.
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HONEYMAN G.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Storage. See librarian for assistance.
BOOK CLUB KIT
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BOOK CLUB KIT
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP HONEYMAN G.
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LP HONEYMAN G.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
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This coming of age tale chronicles the life of Zach Nance, a young man struggling to find his place in an ever-shifting world, and the zany cast of local characters who help him come to an understanding of himself and the secret he harbors.
10) Fates and furies
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"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
STAFF PICKS 364.16 JOHNSON 2018
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STAFF PICKS 364.16 JOHNSON 2018
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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
TOWLES A.
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TOWLES A.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
TOWLES A.
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TOWLES A.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. [...] A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
HOLSINGER B.
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HOLSINGER B.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
HOLSINGER B.
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HOLSINGER B.
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"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
940.53 KIERNAN 2013
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940.53 KIERNAN 2013
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Nonfiction
940.53 KIERNAN 2013
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940.53 KIERNAN 2013
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This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. All knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret...
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, Butler's haunting and powerful stories blend Vietnamese folklore and contemporary American realities, creating a vibrant panorama that is epic in its scope. This new edition includes two previously uncollected stories...
16) The hate u give
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
STAFF PICKS YA THOMAS A.
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STAFF PICKS YA THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA THOMAS A.
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YA THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
R YA THOMAS A.
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R YA THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Audio Visual Collection
YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP HYDE C.
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LP HYDE C.
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"Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
297.092 VIRJI 2019
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297.092 VIRJI 2019
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"A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to a small town and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear. In 2013, Dr. Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in...
19) Midwives
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
BOHJALIAN C.
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BOHJALIAN C.
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The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.
20) Necessary lies
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
CHAMBERLAIN D.
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CHAMBERLAIN D.
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After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her sister's mental illness and her own epilepsy, Ivy realizes they might need more than she can give. Jane Forrester, Grace County's newest social worker, doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. Drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the dark secrets of the...