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Winter Lived Experiences (Adult)

Winter Reading 2024-25
 

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1. It's kind of a funny story

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Author:
Vizzini, Ned, 1981-2013
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A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.

2. The lion women of Tehran

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Author:
Kamali, Marjan
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In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in...

3. Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

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Author:
Land, Stephanie, 1978-
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"A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them." -- Publisher

4. The sun does shine: how I found life and freedom on death row

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Author:
Hinton, Anthony Ray
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In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years...

5. There there

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Author:
Orange, Tommy, 1982-
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"Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen Orvil, coming to perform...