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ALICIA THOMSEN
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION * WINNER OF THE WRITERS' TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE "Absolutely spellbinding." -- The New York Times The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural...
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French Conversation Circle
"French Conversation Circle at Central Library is every Thursday from 5:00 - 6:00pm"
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war and is...
The untold story of one Acadian family: their experiences following their expulsion and their determination to find home. Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn't fully aware of his family's Acadian roots — until a chance...
