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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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Boy in the striped pyjamas volume 2
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An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...
4) Shadow life
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Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko's well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it's not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping...
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Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker. But from the very moment they meet,...
7) Body swap
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"Hallie, dying to know whether her crush likes her, runs across a mall parking lot with her cell phone blocking her vision as 82-year-old Susan is backing out. The freak accident appears to cost both of them their lives. It's all Susan's fault, right? What business does she have still being behind the wheel at her age? The two find themselves transported to a strange fairground, and argue back and forth over whose fault the accident was. In order...
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BL metamorphosis volume 1
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"Ichinoi, a seventy-five-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a boys' love manga one day, and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there--Urara, a seasoned BL fan--notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help Ichinoi explore this whole new world of fiction, the two dive into the BL fandom together, and form an unlikely...
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BL metamorphosis volume 2
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"An elderly woman and a high school girl develop a beautiful friendship through their shared passion for Boys' Love. Ichinoi, a 75-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a Boy's Love manga one day ... and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there--Urara, a seasoned BL fan--notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help...
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BL metamorphosis volume 4
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"Under Ichinoi's watchful eye, Urara is diving headfirst into making her first manga! Their friendship began with a shared love of reading-how deep will it grow as they navigate the challenges of spinning a good yarn?!"--Amazon.
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BL metamorphosis volume 5
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"An elderly woman and a high school girl develop a beautiful friendship through their shared passion for Boys' Love manga... Comitia is well underway, but Ichinoi is getting overheated and they have yet to sell a single thing! Urara is just about to throw in the towel when a certain someone from the publishing industry shows up at her table! Can true friendship make dreams come true? Find out in the final volume of BL Metamorphosis!"--
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