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Bookish Celebrations August
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The house of the spirits : a novel
by Isabel Allende
The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.
Available in print (English and Spanish) and on Overdrive
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Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende
Raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, after being abandoned as a baby, a pregnant Eliza follows her lover, Joaquin Andieta, to California at the height of the Gold Rush and finds adventure and adversity on her road to independence and love.
Available in print (English and Spanish) and on Overdrive
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The soul of a woman : on impatient love, long life, and good witches
by Isabel Allende
The best-selling author of A Long Petal of the Sea describes her lifelong commitment to feminism, her fight to provide for her children, the gender and race obstacles that challenged her goals and her international successes as a writer.
Available in print (English and Spanish) and on Overdrive
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Roots : the saga of an American family
by Alex Haley
The author shares the saga of an African American family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Roots /
Tells the story of an African slave sold to colonial America and his descendants
Available on DVD
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Making Roots : A Nation Captivated
by Matthew F Delmont
Examines how Alex Haley's 1976 book became a culture-shifting phenomenon that changed the way Americans viewed slavery.
Available on eReadIllinois
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The way to cook
by Julia Child
Blending French cooking techniques with free-style American cuisine, this lavishly illustrated cookbook features step-by-step directions for creating a rich variety of delectable dishes.
Available in print
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
by Julia Child
A two-volume set of classic cookbooks collects 524 of the best recipes by a world-renowned chef, still relevant today, as evidenced by her being featured in the film Julie and Julia.
Available in print
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My Life in France
by Julia Child
Julia’s unforgettable story—struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe—unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia’s success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America’s most endearing personalities.
Available in print and on audiobook CD and Overdrive
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.
Available in print (English and Spanish) and on audiobook CD, Overdrive, and eReadIllinois
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Something wicked this way comes
by Ray Bradbury
Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Dandelion wine
by Ray Bradbury
In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928.
Available on Overdrive
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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
by Barack Obama
The son of an African father and white American mother discusses his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life accomplishments.
Also read this to celebrate Barack Obama's birthday on August 4!
Available in print, on Overdrive, and on eReadIllinois
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Angela's ashes : a memoir
by Frank McCourt
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.
Available in print
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