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Lunar New Year
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2021-2022 (Adult)
Women's History Month
Lunar New Year
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2021-2022 (Adult)
Women's History Month
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In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, or "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The two women exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchieves using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, sharing their experiences, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart....
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There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innoncence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a...
4) Tinkers
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An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth.
5) Grace
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An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
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"Ori's holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave's latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving, grandmother of Dave's fourth wife, and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth's in the 1950s. And, of course, she hates being condescended to by beautiful, popular Sloane and her latest handsome pre-med or pre-law boyfriend. But...
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"To spotkanie zmieni życie Monique. Młoda dziennikarka dostaje propozycję przeprowadzenia wywiadu z Evelyn Hugo - aktorką, która ma za sobą imponującą karierę w Hollywood. Warunek jest jeden: ta rozmowa nie może zostać opublikowana przed śmiercią artystki. Evelyn opowiada o tym, jak wyrwała się z biedy i trafiła do wymarzonego świata kina. Sława, pieniądze, skandale i blask reflektorów... W Hollywood nikt nie jest bez grzechu....
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