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In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, 'Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.
2) Martyr!
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7 copies, 104 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 130 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 130 people are on the wait list.
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
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51 copies, 670 people are on the wait list.
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41 copies, 689 people are on the wait list.
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41 copies, 689 people are on the wait list.
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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26 copies, 342 people are on the wait list.
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27 copies, 403 people are on the wait list.
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27 copies, 403 people are on the wait list.
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"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
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"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
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"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers-or coyotes,...
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"A Pulitzer Prize winner's startling, intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission to build community, its heartbreaking crisis, and the future of faith in America"--
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Non Fiction Book
305.908 MANNE
1 available
305.908 MANNE
1 available
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"The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it-from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied...
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Corvallis Public Library - New Non Fiction
921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN
4 available
921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN
4 available
Monroe Community Library - New Non Fiction
921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN
1 available
921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN
1 available
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Corvallis Public Library - Adult Books on CD
CD-BOOK 921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN (5)
1 available
CD-BOOK 921 RUSHDIE, SALMAN (5)
1 available
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1 copy, 17 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 21 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 21 people are on the wait list.
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The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
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"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"--
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"In poems of rangy curiosity, sharp humor, and illuminating self-scrutiny, Modern Poetry investigates our time's deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean? "It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem," Seuss writes. "You can't hide / from what you made / inside what you made." What she finds there, finally, is a surprising but unmistakable love"--
12) Buffalo dreamer
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Corvallis Public Library - Juvenile Fiction Book
J DUNCAN, VIOLET
1 available
J DUNCAN, VIOLET
1 available
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When twelve-year-old Summer visits her family on a reservation in Alberta, Canada, she begins experiencing vivid dreams of running away from a residential school like the one her grandfather attended as a child and learns about unmarked children's graves, prompting her to seek answers about her community's painful past.
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Corvallis Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA GALARZA, JOSH
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YA GALARZA, JOSH
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Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal--and his deepest insecurities--online.
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Corvallis Public Library - Juvenile Books on CD
J CD-BOOK KELLY, ERIN (4)
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J CD-BOOK KELLY, ERIN (4)
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
15) Kareem between
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From failed football tryouts to helping the new Syrian refugee student, seventh-grader Kareem attempts to navigate the social complexities of seventh grade, which are further complicated when his mother is unable to return home from Syria due to an executive order.
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Corvallis Public Library - Young Adult Non Fiction
YA 818.609 SHANTE
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YA 818.609 SHANTE
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"Set in New York City in the '90s, Angela Shant�e's poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present. As Shant�e navigates the city through memory, this timeless book illuminates the places where Black girls are nurtured or boxed in, through stories and poems about expectations, exploitation, love, loss, and self-realization. Her poems center on pivotal moments of Black childhood, using...