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East Side Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Chin, C.
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B Chin, C.
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South Side Library - New Biographies - Display
B Chin, C.
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B Chin, C.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned...
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Eekhout, A.
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Eekhout, A.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Eekhout, A.
1 available
Eekhout, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Eekhout, A.
1 available
Eekhout, A.
1 available
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"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the...
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Central Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
613.042 B
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613.042 B
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
613.042 B
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613.042 B
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Arikawa, H.
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Arikawa, H.
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"In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa. Against the backdrop of changing seasons in Japan, we meet Spin, a kitten rescued from the recycling bin, whose playful nature and simple...
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Forest Ave. Library - New Biographies - Display
B Nguyen, V.
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B Nguyen, V.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Nguyen, V.
1 available
B Nguyen, V.
1 available
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"The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...
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Carrion City duology volume 1
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Central Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Khaw, C.
1 available
Khaw, C.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Khaw, C.
1 available
Khaw, C.
1 available
North Side Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Khaw, C.
1 available
Khaw, C.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in need of help. Keeping Sarah safe becomes top priority....
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Forest Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
616.89 L
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616.89 L
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
616.89 L
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616.89 L
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In this genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms, the author, after the death of her father, grapples with her bipolar disorder and sets out to interrogate the very notion of recovery through the lens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Mathis, A.
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Mathis, A.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Mathis, A.
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Mathis, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Mathis, A.
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Mathis, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Mathis, A.
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Mathis, A.
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From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
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Central Library - New Mysteries - New Books
McDorman, D.
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McDorman, D.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Mysteries - New Books
McDorman, D.
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McDorman, D.
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North Side Library - New Mysteries - New Books
McDorman, D.
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McDorman, D.
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
McDorman, D.
1 available
McDorman, D.
1 available
North Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
McDorman, D.
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McDorman, D.
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"An irresistible murder mystery set at a genteel private club where everyone is a suspect, including the erratic detective on the scene-a remarkable debut that gleefully upends the rules of the genre and marks the arrival of a major new talent "The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth." A remote, old-money hunting lodge. A raging storm. A locked...
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Washington, B.
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Washington, B.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Washington, B.
1 available
Washington, B.
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Washington, B.
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Washington, B.
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...