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1. The book woman of Troublesome Creek: a novel

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Author:
Richardson, Kim Michele
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1.
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"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...

2. The glass ocean: a novel

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Author:
Williams, Beatriz
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
WILLIAMS
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WILLIAMS
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
WILLIAMS
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"A ... historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner RMS Lusitania"--

3. Heads you win

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Author:
Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-
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When Alex's father is assassinated by the KGB, he and his mother flip a coin to decide whether to flee to America, or Great Britain. This epic tale spans thirty years, as we follow Alex's struggle to conquer his new world as an immigrant, and his eventual decision to face the past in Russia.

4. A single thread

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Author:
Chevalier, Tracy
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"1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a 'surplus woman,' one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home...

5. The storm of the century: tragedy, heroism, survival, and the epic true story of America's deadliest natural disaster : the great Gulf hurricane of 1900

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Author:
Roker, Al, 1954-
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East Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
976.413 ROKER
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976.413 ROKER
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Non-Fiction
976.413 ROKER

6. Transcription

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Author:
Atkinson, Kate
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BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong finds herself targeted by dangerous individuals from her past as a World War II espionage monitor for MI5.

7. The women of the copper country: a novel

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Author:
Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
RUSSELL
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RUSSELL
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In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle.