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Under the wide and starry sky : a novel / Nancy Horan  (2014 fiction, F Horan)

Imagines the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, who after meeting in late-19th-century rural France take refuge from their respective unhappy lives and embark on two shared decades of international turbulence.

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The eagle huntress / Sony Pictures Classics  (2017 non-fiction DVD, DVD 305.235 Eagle)

Follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.

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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel / Kathleen Rooney (2017 fiction, F Rooney)

Embarking on a walk across Manhattan on New Year’s Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish recalls her long and eventful life, which included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America, whose career was cut short by marriage and loss.

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