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c2011., General, Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Tre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1913, a young girl leaves her grandparents' farm in Saskatchewan, to reunite with her mother who abandoned her five years earlier. As she travels to Montreal by train, she makes three stops, and at each of them, a female relative is awaits her. Each reveals to her, one of the roles to which women of the time were confined: the spinster, the mother or the prostitute.
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2018., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Tok Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time.
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c2014., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ladies of Lantern Street novel Volume: 3Summary Note: Barely escaping a would-be abductor who has left a trail of victims in his wake, world traveler Miss Amity Doncaster discovers that her attacker has become obsessed with gossip that ties Amity to scientist Benedict Stanbridge, a spy for the throne who resolves to bring the killer to justice.
