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New This Month from Axis360April 2018
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Axis360 eBooks
Axis360 is one of several eBook services available through NHCPL. Unlike North Carolina Digital Library, which NHCPL shares with a number of other public library systems across the state, the Axis360 eBooks are available to NHCPL borrowers only.
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Varina
by Charles Frazier
Forced by limited prospects to marry much-older widower Jefferson Davis, teenaged Varina Howell finds her expectations as the wife of a Mississippi landowner upended by his appointment as the leader of the Confederacy, a situation that renders her and her children fugitives in a divided and increasingly hostile nation. By the author of Cold Mountain.
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The bishop's pawn
by Steve Berry
Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone uncovers a disturbing link between a case from his past and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that risks innocent lives and threatens the legacy of the Civil Rights movement's iconic martyr.
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The female persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend.
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No time to spare : thinking about what matters
by Ursula K. Le Guin
No Time to Spare, published just before Ursula K. Le Guin's death in January of this year, collects the best of Ursula's blog -- always adroit, often acerbic -- presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches from the last great frontier of life, old age. on what mattered to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it. On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of? " On her new cat: "He still won't sit on a lap." Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Her voice -- sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical -- still shines.
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