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  • Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
    Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
    by Therese Anne Fowler
    Hardcover: Mar 2013
    Paperback: Mar 2014
     
    A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.
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  • Zane and the Hurricane
    Zane and the Hurricane : A Story of Katrina
    by Rodman Philbrick
    Hardcover: Feb 2014
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
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  • Zeitoun
    Zeitoun
    by Dave Eggers
    Hardcover: Jul 2009
    Paperback: Jun 2010
     
    The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
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  • The Zookeeper's Wife
    The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story
    by Diane Ackerman
    Hardcover: Sep 2007
    Paperback: Sep 2008
     
    A true story, as powerful as Schindler’s List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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  • Zorrie
    Zorrie
    by Laird Hunt
    Hardcover: Feb 2021
    Paperback: Nov 2022
     
    "It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew."
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  • Zorro
    Zorro : A Novel
    by Isabel Allende
    Hardcover: May 2005
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became Zorro, the masked man we all know so well.
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