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"The hero-narrator of this novel is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he...
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Beartown volume 1
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Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION MORRIS Tattooist of Auschwitz #1
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FICTION MORRIS Tattooist of Auschwitz #1
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC MOR
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SCD FIC MOR
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
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Haltom City Public Library - Mystery
MYSTERY MORIARTY
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MYSTERY MORIARTY
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC MOR
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SCD FIC MOR
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"A murder... . . . a tragic accident... . . . or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yoga new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten...
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION MORIARTY
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FICTION MORIARTY
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC MIC
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SCD FIC MIC
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8 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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Haltom City Public Library - Large Print
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LP FIC MIC
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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC LEE
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SCD FIC LEE
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
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Haltom City Public Library - Children/Juvenile Nonfiction
CHILDRENS SOCIAL GENERAL REYNOLDS
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CHILDRENS SOCIAL GENERAL REYNOLDS
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"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book...
10) Hair Love
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Haltom City Public Library - Children/Juvenile Picture Books
PICTURE FAMILY CHERRY
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PICTURE FAMILY CHERRY
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Publisher Annotation: Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her -- and her hair -- happy. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair -- and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.
11) Harry's trees
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Harry Crane is an analyst for the US Forest Service, until his wife dies suddenly and he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains. Determined to lose himself, he takes up residents in the woods. Oriana and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragedy. Oriana roams the forest searching for answers, and she...
12) Rainwater
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION BROWN
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FICTION BROWN
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In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION DIAMANT
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FICTION DIAMANT
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The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman.
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION SEE
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FICTION SEE
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Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure.
15) The wedding
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After more than twenty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane's heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again.
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I believe we were put on this earth to enjoy lives of joy and abundance, and that is what I want for you and for me. It's not my intention to give people advice on how to solve their problems (I leave that to my husband). But I've had my share of struggles over the years, and I know a thing or two about what has worked for me. I have chosen to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator, and in so doing I have chosen how to be a woman,...
18) The help
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION STOCKETT
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FICTION STOCKETT
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC STO
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SCD FIC STO
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Haltom City Public Library - Large Print
LP FIC STO
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LP FIC STO
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC OWE
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SCD FIC OWE
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
SCD FIC OWE 2018
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SCD FIC OWE 2018
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Haltom City Public Library - Large Print
LP FIC OWE
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LP FIC OWE
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
20) Ready player one
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Ready player novels volume 1
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Haltom City Public Library - Science Fiction
SCIFI CLINE Ready Player #1
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SCIFI CLINE Ready Player #1
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Haltom City Public Library - Books on CD
CDBOOK SCIFI CLINE Ready Player #1
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CDBOOK SCIFI CLINE Ready Player #1
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"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people...