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Hooksett - Fiction - Adult Room
FIC WINGATE, L
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FIC WINGATE, L
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STACK FIC WINGATE, L
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STACK FIC WINGATE, L
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15 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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Hooksett - Fiction - Adult Room
FIC HANNAH, K
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FIC HANNAH, K
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Hooksett - Fiction - Lower Level - Village Room
FIC HANNAH, K
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FIC HANNAH, K
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Hooksett - Fiction - Storage - Ask at Desk
STACK FIC HANNAH, K
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STACK FIC HANNAH, K
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Hooksett - Large Print Books - Lower Level - Village Room
LP FIC HANNAH, K
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LP FIC HANNAH, K
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58 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 86 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 86 people are on the wait list.
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"Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight...
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"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in...
4) The help
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Hooksett - Fiction - Adult Room
FIC STOCKETT, K
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FIC STOCKETT, K
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Hooksett - Fiction - Storage - Ask at Desk
STACK FIC STOCKETT, K
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STACK FIC STOCKETT, K
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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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Hooksett - Fiction - Lower Level - Village Room
FIC LICO ALBANESE, L
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FIC LICO ALBANESE, L
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow...
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Connie Goodwin novels volume 1
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Connie Goodwin should be spending her summer doing research for her Ph. D. dissertation in American History. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she's compelled to help. While exploring the dusty bookshelves, Connie discovers an ancient key containing a brittle piece of paper on which is written two words: Deliverance Dane. And Connie begins to do some research... (Bestseller)
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Hooksett - Fiction - Storage - Ask at Desk
STACK FIC MOYES, J
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STACK FIC MOYES, J
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4 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
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Hooksett - Fiction - Lower Level - Village Room
FIC FRANKLIN, E
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FIC FRANKLIN, E
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7 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861,...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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Hooksett - Fiction - Adult Room
FIC RICHARDSON, K v.01
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FIC RICHARDSON, K v.01
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Hooksett - Audiobooks - Adult Room
AB RICHARDSON, K v.01
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AB RICHARDSON, K v.01
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"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
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Hooksett - Movies & TV - Adult Room
VID TV GILDED s.01 3 DISC SET
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VID TV GILDED s.01 3 DISC SET
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A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the...
11) Orphan train
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Hooksett - Large Print Books - Lower Level - Prescott Room
LP FIC KLINE, C
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LP FIC KLINE, C
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"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
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Hooksett - Fiction - Lower Level - Village Room
FIC CULLEN, L
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FIC CULLEN, L
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"She gave up everything--and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds...
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Hooksett - Fiction - Lower Level - Village Room
FIC FREDERICKS, M
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FIC FREDERICKS, M
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"When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household--Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world...
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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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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Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page.When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father...
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Two star-crossed lovers--Enzo and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I.
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The numerous adventures of a friendly staff at a country veterinarian practice in 1930s to 1940s Yorkshire.
17) Homegoing
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
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5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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Hooksett - Fiction - Adult Room
FIC CLEETON, C v.02
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FIC CLEETON, C v.02
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Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...