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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult AV
CD Audiobook Atwood, Margaret
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CD Audiobook Atwood, Margaret
1 available
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Batavia Public Library District - Large Type
LARGE PRINT FIC Atwood, Margaret
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LARGE PRINT FIC Atwood, Margaret
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In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples. References to 20th-century...
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Batavia Public Library District - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC Austen, Jane
1 available
YA FIC Austen, Jane
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eBook
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult AV
Digital Audiobook Austen, Jane
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Digital Audiobook Austen, Jane
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Pride and Prejudice is a story set in the English countryside outside of London during the early 19th century which centers on the life of Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five sisters who are all unmarried. When a wealthy and sociable young gentleman, Charles Bingley, rents the nearby manor of Netherfield Park the opportunity to find husbands presents itself. While attending a ball the Bennets meet Charles Bingley and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy...
3) Jane Eyre
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC Brontë, Charlotte
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FIC Brontë, Charlotte
4 available
Batavia Public Library District - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC Brontë, Charlotte
1 available
YA FIC Brontë, Charlotte
1 available
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult AV
CD Audiobook Brontë, Charlotte
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CD Audiobook Brontë, Charlotte
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC Lee, Harper
1 available
FIC Lee, Harper
1 available
Batavia Public Library District - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC Lee, Harper
3 available
YA FIC Lee, Harper
3 available
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eBook
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Batavia Public Library District - Large Type
LARGE PRINT FIC Lee, Harper
1 available
LARGE PRINT FIC Lee, Harper
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"Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much." --
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Biography
B Frank, Anne
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B Frank, Anne
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Batavia Public Library District - Juvenile Biography
JB Frank, Anne
1 available
JB Frank, Anne
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"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
6) The Iliad
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
883 HOM
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883 HOM
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
883.01 HOM
4 available
883.01 HOM
4 available
eBook
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When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)-critics lauded it as “a revelation” (Susan Chira, New York Times) and “a cultural landmark” (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer’s...
7) Frankenstein
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En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su médico Polidori en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar una velada tormentosa, decidieron que cada uno inventaría una historia de fantasmas. La más callada y reservada, Mary Shelley, dio vida así a quien sería su personaje más famoso: el doctor Frankenstein. Al cabo de un año completaría la novela,...
8) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
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Miss Peregrine volume 1
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Batavia Public Library District - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC Riggs, Ransom
1 available
YA FIC Riggs, Ransom
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eBook
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off teh coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They...
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Nancy Drew (Dynamite Entertainment) volume 1
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Batavia Public Library District - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 741.5 THO
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YA 741.5 THO
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"Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything... Especially solving crimes. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies, and who exactly is trying to kill her... and (hopefully) stop them before they succeed." -- back cover.
11) Monster
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Batavia Public Library District - Young Adult Fiction
YA FIC Myers, Walter Dean
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YA FIC Myers, Walter Dean
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.