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"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in...
2) Beloved
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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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Follow the story of Beyoncé as she finds her voice through trials and triumphs, and understand that you too can shine your light like Beyoncé.
4) Black cake
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
WILKERSON C.
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WILKERSON C.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP WILKERSON C.
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LP WILKERSON C.
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
920.72 CLINTON 2019
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920.72 CLINTON 2019
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them -- women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the...
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An illustrated biographical compilation of over fifty African American women from the 1700s through to the present day.
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime--from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
8) Circe
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
MILLER M.
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MILLER M.
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
576.5 ISAACSON 2021
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576.5 ISAACSON 2021
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD 576.5 ISAACSON 2021
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CD 576.5 ISAACSON 2021
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Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, Doudna and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. Isaacson explores the development of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for coronavirus will hasten our transition to...
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In this biography, young listeners will learn all about Elizebeth Friedman (1892-1980), the brilliant American code breaker who created the CIA's first cryptology unit.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
940.5486 MUNDY 2017
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940.5486 MUNDY 2017
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Nonfiction
940.5486 MUNDY 2017
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940.5486 MUNDY 2017
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Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP SF MAAS S.
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LP SF MAAS S.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Large Print Collection
LP SF MAAS S.
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LP SF MAAS S.
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"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever" --
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
HOFFMAN A.
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HOFFMAN A.
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In 70 CE, 900 Jews held out against armies of Romans on a mountain in Masada. According to an ancient historian, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic event, Hoffman weaves a tale of four bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path.
15) Eleanor
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Biography
B ROOSEVELT E.
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B ROOSEVELT E.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD B ROOSEVELT E.
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CD B ROOSEVELT E.
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Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Biography
B O'CONNOR S.
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B O'CONNOR S.
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"Based on exclusive interviews and access to the Supreme Court archives, this is the intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of America's first female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor--by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas. She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 973.3092 ROBERTS 2014
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J 973.3092 ROBERTS 2014
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 973.3092 ROBERTS 2014
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J 973.3092 ROBERTS 2014
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Brief portraits of women from the period of the Revolution and early United States.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
973.3092 ROBERTS 2004
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973.3092 ROBERTS 2004
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Nonfiction
973.3092 ROBERTS 2004
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973.3092 ROBERTS 2004
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Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate...
20) The four winds
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
HANNAH K.
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HANNAH K.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
HANNAH K.
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HANNAH K.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD HANNAH K.
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CD HANNAH K.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
PLAYAWAY HANNAH K.
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PLAYAWAY HANNAH K.
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...