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The Opioid Crisis & other drug addiction

8/28/2020

Nova: Addiction, DVD 611.81 ADD
Dignity, Chris Arnade, 362.5 ARN *
A House on Stilts, Paula Becker, 362.29 BEC
Overcoming Opioid Addiction, Adam Bisaga, 616.86 BIS *
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, GN BRU
If You Love Me, Maureen Cavanagh, 362.29 CAV
American Fix, Ryan Hampton, 362.29 HAM
When These Mountains Burn, David Joy, F JOY
Tightrope, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, 306.0973 KRI *ª
The Not Good Enough Mother, Sharon Lamb, 306.874 LAM
Dopesick, Beth Macy, 362.29 MAC *ª
American Overdose, Chris McGreal, 362.29 MCG *

Long Bright River, Liz Moore, F MOO *ª
Robert B. Parker's The Bitterest Pill, Reed Farrel Coleman, M PAR STO-18 *ª
Pharma, Gerald L. Posner, 338.4 POS
Dreamland, Sam Quinones, 362.29 QUI *
In Pain, Travis N. Rieder, 362.29 RIE *ª
Drug Warrior, Jack Riley, 363.25 RIL
The Woman Inside, E.G. Scott, F SCO *ª
The Addiction Solution, Lloyd I. Sederer, 362.29 SED
High, David and Nic Sheff, 616.86 SHE
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, DVD 362.29 UND
Smacked, Eilene Zimmerman, 362.29 ZIM *ª

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Award-Winning Fiction

8/19/2020

Laura here: I was recently asked about how to find award winners among the books in our adult Fiction collection. Here is a selection of books we own that are winners of some of the more high-profile prizes. Remember, there are many more awards than listed here, and most fiction genres have one or more awards of their own. Additionally, while over time, these prizes have become more diverse by awarding women and people of color, there is still a ways to go.

Continue reading for selections from among winners of: the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award for Fiction, the Booker Prize, and the Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

For lists before 2021:
Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.

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