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Walk the Blue Fields [electronic resource] : by Keegan, Claire.aut; CloudLibrary;
AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Exquisite . so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.'GUARDIAN 'Pure magic.' COLM TÓIBÍN 'Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Short Stories (single author);
© 2013., Faber & Faber,
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The sweet blue distance / by Donati, Sara,1956-author.;
"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne, and Savard relatives weighs heavily. In time Carrie finds footing as a midwife and nurse, but she never feels at ease in the city. So when, a decade later, she receives an invitation from a doctor in Santa Fe to join him at his practice, she readily accepts. The trip across the country is long and often dangerous, but she travels the last leg on horseback with men who have been hired to see her safely through the Native nations fighting the westward flood of colonizers. On that journey she makes friends who will be with her for all her life: Eva, a young widow; and Eli, an experienced surveyor. Once Carrie is established in Santa Fe, it becomes clear that her employer is not everything she was led to believe, and she is forced to face far more challenges and responsibilities than she anticipated. But she dedicates herself to the work and the women, providing health care, delivering babies, and earning the trust of her patients. In the course of that first summer in New Mexico, determined to make a life for herself in a new kind of wilderness far beyond her imagination, Carrie finds friendship, support, and even love where she least expected"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Novels.; Midwives; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wild women and the blues / by Bryce, Denny S.,author.;
"1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Cafe is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper's daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. Dreamland offers a path to the good life, socializing with celebrities like Louis Armstrong and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. But Chicago is also awash in bootleg whiskey, gambling, and gangsters. And a young woman driven by ambition might risk more than she can stand to lose. 2015: Film student Sawyer Hayes arrives at the bedside of 110-year-old Honoree Dalcour, still reeling from a devastating loss that has taken him right to the brink. Sawyer has rested all his hope on this frail but formidable woman, the only living link to the legendary Oscar Micheaux. If he's right-if she can fill in the blanks in his research, perhaps he can complete his thesis and begin a new chapter in his life. But the links Honoree makes are not ones he's expecting ... Piece by piece, Honoree reveals her past and her secrets, while Sawyer fights tooth and nail to keep his. It's a story of courage and ambition, hot jazz and illicit passions"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African Americans; Nightclubs; Nineteen twenties; Women dancers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Blue shoes and happiness / by McCall Smith, Alexander,1948-;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization); Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Mystery fiction;
© c2006., A.A. Knopf,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Little Blue Truck valentine / by Schertle, Alice.; McElmurry, Jill.; Joseph, John,1985-;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Trucks; Valentine's Day; Friendship; Toy and movable books;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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A sky-blue bench / by Rahman, Bahram,1984-; Collins, Peggy,1975-;
Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. Includes a sensitive author's note describing the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines.LSC
Subjects: Artificial legs; Children with disabilities; Resilience (Personality trait); Schools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gaston's Blue Willow : identification & value guide / by Gaston, Mary Frank;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266) and indexes.
Subjects: Willowware;
© c2004., Collector Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Blue bus, red balloon : a book of colors / by Biggs, Brian.;
"Newborn-4"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Colors;
© c2013., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pink, blue, and you! : questions for kids about gender stereotypes / by Gravel, Elise.; Blais, Mykaell.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged."An easy-to-grasp picture book, exploring questions relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexism."--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; Gender identity; Sexual orientation; Sexism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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If everything were blue / by Eliot, Hannah.; Lalalimola.;
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Subjects: Blue; Toy and movable books; Rebuses.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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