Canyon Branch Grand Opening: Adult BooksLike this list

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• "A" Is for Alibi

  a Kinsey Millhone Mystery

  Grafton, Sue

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  Just like the Canyon Branch, there's a beginning for everything! Want to know more about the late great Sue Grafton? Here's an excerpt from Bowker Author Biography, "Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 24, 1940. She received a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dune

  Herbert, Frank

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  As the dawn of a new library branch has arrived, so has the daw of a new age: "A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Malala

  the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world” This is just as true for libraries as it is for the author herself.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  "I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free"

• Americanah

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  "To the women in the hair-braiding salon, Ifemelu seems to have everything a Nigerian immigrant in America could desire, but the culture shock, hardships, and racism she's endured have left her feeling like she has cement in her soul. Smart,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unbowed

  a Memoir

  Maathai, Wangari

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  “Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angela's Ashes

  a Memoir

  McCourt, Frank

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  "Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it."

• Waiting for Snow in Havana

  Confessions of a Cuban Boy

  Eire, Carlos M. N.

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  "Eire's complex, introspective memoir begins the day his world changed: when Castro's troops sent President Batista into exile far from Cuba in 1959. The son of a judge who believed himself to be Louis XVI reincarnated, Carlos, along with his older…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Game of Thrones

  the Noble Houses of Westeros, Season 1-5

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  "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."

• Night

  Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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  "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed."