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Eight New Diversions Collection Books, Including "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and "Girls Gone Mild"
Posted October 01, 2007
The Library’s featured Diversions books for this week include What You Have Left; Seafaring Women; A Thousand Splendid Suns; Absent; Girls Gone Mild; Half of a Yellow Sun; Heart in the Right Place; and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
What You Have Left by Will Allison (PS3601.L4484 W47 2007)
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Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors’ Wives by David Cordingly (G540.C685 2007)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (PS3608.O832 T46 2007)
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Absent by Betool Khedairi; translated by Muhayman Jamil (PJ7842.H685 G4313 2005)
Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good by Wendy Shalit (HQ1229 .S46 2007)
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (PR9387.9.A34354 H35 2006)
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Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan (CT275.J88 A3 2007)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (DT516.828.B43 A3 2007)
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These recently published works, selected for your reading pleasure, may be borrowed for 14 days.
The Diversions Collection is located on Level One of the Beatley Library, near the Circulation Desk.
To request an book that is currently checked-out, find it in the on-line catalog, then click the “REQUEST” button.
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