Lawrence's Staff Picks

 

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1. A Doll's House

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Author:
Ibsen, Henrik Johan, 1828-1906
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction has 4
839.8 IBSEN

2. Kindred

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Author:
Butler, Octavia E.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...

3. The nickel boys: a novel

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Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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48 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
East Regional - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Fiction
WHITEHEA
Description:
Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

4. Sea of Tranquility

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Author:
Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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112 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
MANDEL
Cary Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
MANDEL
Duraleigh Road - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
MANDEL
Description:
The "author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--

5. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Author:
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec D'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her fated child; and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands.

6. Things fall apart

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Author:
Achebe, Chinua
Series:
African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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19 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Athens High Reference
ACHEBE 6CDs
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
ACHEBE
Green Road Community - Adult Fiction
ACHEBE
Description:
The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man.