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11 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
2) Pachinko
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Central Library - Fiction - Adult
Lee, M.
1 available
Lee, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Lee, M.
1 available
Lee, M.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Lee, M.
1 available
Lee, M.
1 available
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
McDermott, A.
1 available
McDermott, A.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
McDermott, A.
1 available
McDermott, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
McDermott, A.
1 available
McDermott, A.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
McDermott, A.
1 available
McDermott, A.
1 available
Description
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Mathis, A.
1 available
Mathis, A.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Mathis, A.
1 available
Mathis, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Mathis, A.
1 available
Mathis, A.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Mathis, A.
1 available
Mathis, A.
1 available
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In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Wilkerson, C.
2 available
Wilkerson, C.
2 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Wilkerson, C.
1 available
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past -- a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...