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[2018] | Library of America | xxi, 530 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available at another branch
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"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark...
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2015. | MackinVIA | First Washington Square Press ebook edition. | Washington Square Press | 1 online resource (697 pages) | English | Available Online
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The Trueba family spans three generations and a century of social change. A crisis causes the family patriarch and his granddaughter to be at opposite ends of political allegiances during a revolution and counterrevolution that threatens to tear apart their country and their family.
3) Passing
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[2016] | MackinVIA | Dover Publications | 1 online resource (v, 93 pages) | English | Available Online
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Irene's charmed Harlem life is shaken when she happens upon a childhood friend who is passing herself as a white woman and keeping her true identity hidden. Originally published in 1929, "Passing" explores issues of race, gender, deception and identity.
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2017. | First Vintage Classics edition. | Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 169 pages ; 20 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2017 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself. Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade...
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[2013] | MackinVIA | Vintage Books | 1 online resource (151 pages) | English | Available Online
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A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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[2018] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Blackstone Audio] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (5 hr., 32 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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After Constance Blackwood has been acquitted of the murders of her relatives living on the family estate, she returns home under the watchful eye of her sister Merricat. But when ghostly cousin Charles shows up Constance appears to be facing even greater danger.
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2011. | MackinVIA | Open Road Integrated Media | 1 online resource (256 unnumbered pages) | English | Available Online
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A poor black Southern woman named Celie befriends two women who help her overcome the brutality of her father and husband.
8) Cane
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[1975] c1923 | Liveright | xxv, 116 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
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2019. | Penguin Books | xxxiv, 178 pages ; 20 cm. | Available at another branch
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media | English | Available Online
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"The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance, and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature because of its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through...
9) Quicksand
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2002, ©1928. | Penguin Books | xxxvii, 154 pages ; 20 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2002 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2002 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Born to an indifferent white mother and an absent black father, and scorned for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a...
10) The street
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[1946] | Houghton Mifflin | 435 p. 21 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Fiction 1 available F PET | ||
2020. | Second Mariner Books edition. | Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | xii, 378 pages ; 21 cm |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2013 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies"--
11) Middlemarch
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[2016] | MackinVIA | Modern Library | 1 online resource (ix, 799 pages) | English | Available Online
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1994 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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Examines nineteenth-century English provincial life as technology and culture threaten to change everything.
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | 1 online resource (xviii, 219, 16 pages) | English | Available Online
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African-American Janie Crawford leaves her nanny's plantation shack to find herself and "gather in the great fishnet of her life." She experiences great loves, joys, and sorrows, but finally returns home in peace.
13) My cousin Rachel
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[2009] | Sourcebooks Landmark | 387 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Fiction 1 available F DU | ||
2001 | Common Reader ed. | Akadine Press | 348 p. ; 22 cm. | Available at another branch
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1968, c1951 | Victor Gollancz | 352 p. ; 19 cm. | Available at another branch
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of lust, suspicion, and obsession that inspired major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows to love Ambrose's grand estate as much as he does. But the cozy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip...
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows to love Ambrose's grand estate as much as he does. But the cozy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip...
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2009 | 1st P.S. ed. | HarperPerennial ModernClassics | 137 p., 16 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
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1984, c1961 | New American Library | 187 p. ; 21 cm. | Available at another branch
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2006 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Checked Out
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2012 | Open Road Media | English | Checked Out
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"A perfect book"—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune).
"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to...
"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!" So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to...
15) Beloved: a novel
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[2013] | MackinVIA | Vintage International | 1 online resource (xix, 321 pages) | Available Online
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Alfred A. Knopf | 1 online resource (275 pages) | Available Online
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Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio. Her past continues to haunt her eighteen years later and the arrival of a girl exposes Sethe's terrible secret.
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[2015] | MackinVIA | Xist Publishing | 1 online resource (388 pages). | Available Online
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c2012 | MackinVIA | Mackin Educational Resources | 1 online resource (445 p.). | Available Online
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1996 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning story of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800's, focusing on a handsome young lawyer who cannot decide between passion and propriety in his women.
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Mackin Educational Resources | 1 online resource (795 pages). | English | Available Online
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2006 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, a black man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.
18) Jane Eyre
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1998 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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2019 | Odilo | Reading Time | 600 pages | Español | Available Online
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2007 | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : digital, multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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De Jane Eyre (1847), ciertamente una de las novelas más famosas de estos dos últimos siglos, solemos conservar la imagen ultrarromántica de una azarosa historia de amor entre una institutriz pobre y su rico e imponente patrón, todo en el marco truculento y misterioso de una fantasmagoría gótica. Y olvidamos que, antes y después de la relación central con el abismal, sardónico y volcánico señor Rochester, Jane Eyre tiene otras...
19) The awakening
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[2021] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Author's Republic] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (5 hr., 10 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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2014. | MackinVIA | Open Road Integrated Media | 1 online resource (302 pages) | English | Available Online
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Tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother living in Victorian-era New Orleans. On a summer vacation, she meets and falls in love with a young man, leading to a series of unexpected, escalating events as she acts upon her deepening feelings.
20) Mrs. Dalloway
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[1981] | Harcourt, Inc | xiv, 197 pages ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Maplewood High - Teen Fiction 1 available LIT F WOO | ||
1993 | Distributed by Random House | xxviii, 219 p. ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
McGavock High - Teen Fiction 1 available F WOO | ||
2010 | Aziloth Books | 120 p. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction 3 available F WOO | ||
2012 | New ed. | Urban Romantics | 168 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction 1 available F WOO | |
c2005 | 1st ed. / | Harcourt | lxviii, 225 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Fiction 1 available F WOO | |
2021. | Penguin Classics deluxe edition. | Penguin Classics | xlix, 179 pages : map ; 22 cm | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction 1 available F WOO | |
2021. | Annotated edition. | Penguin Classics | 1vii, 179 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Fiction 1 available F WOO |
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2010 | Naxos AudioBooks | 6 sound discs (7 hr., 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2011 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | Checked Out
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2010 | OverDrive | Naxos AudioBooks | Checked Out
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OverDrive | Duke Classics | Available Online
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2005 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | Available Online
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2012 | OverDrive | Interactive Media | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | Checked Out
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....