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The Resource The Help
The Help
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The item The Help represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The Help represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town..
- Isbn
- 9781440697661
- Label
- The Help
- Title
- The Help
- Summary
- The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town..
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stockett, Kathryn
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Literature
- Historical Fiction
- African American Fiction
- Fiction
- Label
- The Help
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:f750e2ca-2d38-4cc8-a74d-0517751cd2c9
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781440697661
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Help
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:f750e2ca-2d38-4cc8-a74d-0517751cd2c9
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781440697661
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
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Chevy Chase LibraryBorrow it5625 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20015, US38.9651433 -77.07510599999999
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Cleveland Park LibraryBorrow it3310 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20008, US38.9338203 -77.05791820000002
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Tenley-Friendship LibraryBorrow it4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016, US38.9476208 -77.0799279
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