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From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign—ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.
It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Castro, V.
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Castro, V.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Castro, V.
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Castro, V.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Castro, V.
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Castro, V.
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"A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel"--
Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra...
3) Fire rush
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Crooks, J.
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Crooks, J.
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Crooks, J.
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Crooks, J.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Crooks, J.
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Crooks, J.
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"Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating power of music Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the "Tombstone Estate gyals," at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in their industrial town on the outskirts of London. Raised by her distant father after her mother's disappearance when she was a girl, Yamaye...
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Terminal List volume 0
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Carr, J.
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Carr, J.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Carr, J.
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Carr, J.
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Carr, J.
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Carr, J.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Carr, J.
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Carr, J.
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"In 1980, a freshman congressman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later. Now, with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control. And with the world's most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Dimon, H.
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Dimon, H.
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South Side Library - On Order - New Books
Dimon, H.
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Dimon, H.
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Jillian Moorewood, the oldest child of a con man and an heiress, returns home after thirty-nine months in prison and discovers her scheming family ignored her go-legit-or-else ultimatum, and confronts them with demands to clean up their act while she attempts to get her own life in order.
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Central Library - New Science Fiction - Adult
Sterling, M.
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Sterling, M.
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East Side Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Sterling, M.
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Sterling, M.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Sterling, M.
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Sterling, M.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Sterling, M.
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Sterling, M.
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South Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Sterling, M.
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Sterling, M.
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Medina, N.
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Medina, N.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Medina, N.
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Medina, N.
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"A young girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself in this heart-pounding thriller with a mythological twist, from debut author Nick Medina. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino... and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on...
8) Silver alert
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Smith, L.
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Smith, L.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Smith, L.
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Smith, L.
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Smith, L.
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Smith, L.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Smith, L.
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Smith, L.
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"Herb has a secret: he's not quite the man he once was. And when his children learn of this, they decide it is time to move him and his wife, Susan, who is slipping into early Alzheimer's herself out of their Key West home and into assisted living. But curmudgeonly Herb—annoyed with his kids and unsettled by the ever-changing world—is not going quietly. He has one trusted friend, a young woman named Renee who has been helping to care for Susan....
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Brashears, M.
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Brashears, M.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Brashears, M.
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Brashears, M.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Brashears, M.
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Brashears, M.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Brashears, M.
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Brashears, M.
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"Magnolia Brown is nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, her predatory landlord, and the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around with a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. She accepts. But despite things...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
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958.104 Z
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"When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author, academic, and champion for women's liberation, Homeira had achieved celebrity in her home country by winning custody of her son in acontentious divorce, a rarity in Afghanistan's patriarchal society. Homeira tried and failed to escape with her family through the turmoil...