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1) Temple folk
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2023 National Book Award for Fiction - Shortlist
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Bilal, A.
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Bilal, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Bilal, A.
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Bilal, A.
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"A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America"--
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2023 National Book Award for Fiction - Shortlist
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Harding, P.
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Harding, P.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
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2023 National Book Award for Fiction - Winner
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Torres, J.
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Torres, J.
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East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Torres, J.
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Torres, J.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Torres, J.
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Torres, J.
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"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
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2023 National Book Award for Fiction - Shortlist
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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Adjei-Brenyah, N.
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
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2023 National Book Award for Fiction - Shortlist
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Pylvainen, H.
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Pylvainen, H.
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"In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something...
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East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Phillips, J.
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Phillips, J.
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"In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands that ConaLee introduce herself as her mother's nurse--not...
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"Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening chasm between who is is - trans, electrically so - and the blank canvas his girlfriend, Baby, wants him to be. Cut to Berlin. Ponyboy sinks deeper into drugs and falls for Gabriel, all the while purused by a photographer hungry for the next hot thing. As his relationships crumble, he overdoses. Cut to...
8) Loot
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
James, T.
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James, T.
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"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets...
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Power, M.
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Power, M.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories...
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East Side Library - New Fiction - Adult
Watkins, L.
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Watkins, L.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Watkins, L.
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Watkins, L.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - Display
Watkins, L.
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Watkins, L.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Watkins, L.
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Watkins, L.
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"In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something--hope, reconciliation, freedom. In "Cutting Horse," the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In "Holler, Child," a mother is forced into an impossible position when...