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Summary: The author describes her twenty-year friendship with Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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Summary: Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BELVerdelle, A. J.
Summary: "The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precarious journey toward creativity that is the writer's life, and tells the compelling story of her relationship with Toni Morrison, painting an illuminating portrait of this towering yet enigmatic cultural icon. With the publication of her debut novel The Good Negress in 1995, A. J. Verdelle became an overnight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VERDELLE, A.J. VERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VERDELLE VERLerner, Betsy.
Summary: "A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LERNER, BETSY LERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LERNER LERSummary: Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HE'SCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HLambert, Joseph
Summary: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Annie Sullivan and her determined efforts to teach her young deaf and blind pupil, Helen Keller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAMBall, Donna.
Summary: Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget buy a run-down mansion, nestled in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. Over the course of a year, they ultimately learn that sometimes the best things can happen when everything goes wrong. --t.p verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2009
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Summary: Author Ann Patchett relates the story of her friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, and of Lucy's zest for life despite a long struggle with a disfiguring childhood cancer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 PATPatchett, Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 PATBell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BELRowe, Maggie
Summary: A successful television writer describes her friendship with a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who helps her confront her own issues with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy while coming to peace with the choices she has made.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWE, MAGGIE ROWVettese, Maria Alexandra
Summary: A year's worth of photographs, recipes, letters, and crafts explores the friendship between two women who live on opposite sides of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 VETLove, Dorothy
Summary: "A novel of enduring friendship based on the true-life account of Mary Anna Curtis Lee, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of General Robert E. Lee, and Selina Norris Gray, a slave girl who became Mary's housekeeper and confidante"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LOVClinton, Hillary Rodham
Summary: State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CLIAbeel, Erica
Summary: "Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Review Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABESummary: A mysterious German woman named Jasmin comes across a dilapidated motel and diner in the American desert. The diner's owner, Brenda, is initially taken aback by Jasmin's appearance and demeanor; but eventually the women find that there is a chemistry between them. Gradually, by using their unique individual skills, Jasmin and Brenda turn the once-fledgling diner into a thriving desert oasis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2013
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Summary: Four years have passed since best friends Cici, Bridget, and Lindsay left the suburbs for an old mansion in the Shenandoah Valley. They've survived broken plumbing, leaky roofs, and marauding sheep. They've faced fire, hail, snow, and financial setbacks. Yet somehow through it all they've managed not only to build a home, but a family. And now, much to their amazement, all their dreams seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Merle Pub. 2012
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Summary: Traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLGrillo, Christine
Summary: The year is 2023, and things are bad -- bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they're leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it's Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIMichaels, Fern.
Summary: The Sisterhood are now fugitives, with a vengeful FBI agent on their trail. But their lawyer and the judge who helped them evade prison need their help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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Summary: In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMcNees, Kelly O'Connor
Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNInclan, Jessica Barksdale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INCMcPhail, Diane C.
Summary: The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared. Desperate to make a living for herself and the child she carries, Alice leaves the bitter cold of Chicago far behind, offering sewing lessons at a New Orleans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books 2022