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Oak Brook Public Library - Adult Biography
921 ANGELOU, M.
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921 ANGELOU, M.
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Oak Brook Public Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA ANGELOU
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YA ANGELOU
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Oak Brook Public Library - Adult Book On CD Non-Fiction
CD 921 ANGELOU
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CD 921 ANGELOU
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Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth in 1930s America is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors.
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Oak Brook Public Library - Nonfiction
305.56 EHR
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305.56 EHR
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Oak Brook Public Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 305.56 EHR
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YA 305.56 EHR
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Oak Brook Public Library - Adult Large Print Nonfiction
LP 305.69 EHR
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LP 305.69 EHR
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Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from...
23) Persepolis
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Oak Brook Public Library - Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA 921 SATRAPI (GRAPHIC)
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YA 921 SATRAPI (GRAPHIC)
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An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....
24) Lolita
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Everyman's library volume 133
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With an Introduction by Martin Amis. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love...
25) 1984
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"Written in 1948, [this book] was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while [the year] 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes...
26) Flamer
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Oak Brook Public Library - Young Adult Graphic Novels
YA CURATO (GRAPHIC)
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YA CURATO (GRAPHIC)
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"It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance."--Amazon.