WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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1. The colony

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Author:
Magee, Audrey
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
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Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
MAGEE
Description:
"A novel examining the long, complicit aftermath of colonialism, told through the summer of 1979 and a remote island in the west of Ireland, one of the last places where people speak everyday Irish, and two men who come to experience it"--

2. The grapes of wrath

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Author:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Description:
Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.