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Nashville Reads 2023: Celebrating Our Freedom to Read!
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"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey,...
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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you,...
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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In Victorian England, thirteen-year-old Jessamine Grace works with her mother to scam wealthy clients into believing they're delivering messages from beyond the grave. Jess couldn't be more surprised to learn she actually does have powers to communicate with the other side. Now, she's joining forces with a secret society of children who possess their own otherworldly powers to defeat a negative force that threatens all of London.
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What seems like madness in one society may be accepted as normal behavior in another, but hearing voices or hallucinating has almost universally been considered a sign of insanity. What differs from one culture to the next is the way such aberrations are dealt with, depending on whether the voices come from God, the Devil, or a brain malfunction. This program explores historical ideas of mental illness and shows how early theories based on spirit...
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When her stubborn cow, Alfalfa, runs away, young dairymaid Begonia chases after her. Meanwhile, a couple of ancestral spirits decide to teach the twenty-one-year-old bully of an emperor a lesson, sending him fleeing his castle on an ostrich. Begonia encounters the emperor, whose bedraggled appearance makes him unrecognizable, as well as Key, a farmer boy who thinks he is a hero and Begonia is a damsel in distress. Before long, Begonia, Key, and the...
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Brought to Cuba as slaves, the Yoruba people of West Africa preserved their religion's heritage by disguising their gods as Catholic saints and worshipping them in secret. The resulting religion is known as Santeria, a blend of primitive magic and Catholicism now practiced by an estimated five million Americans. - Amazon.