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1) Gilead
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Gilead novels volume 1
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Robinson, M.
1 available
Robinson, M.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Robinson, M.
1 available
Robinson, M.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Robinson, M.
1 available
Robinson, M.
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Robinson, M.
1 available
Robinson, M.
1 available
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In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Atwood, M.
1 available
Atwood, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Atwood, M.
1 available
Atwood, M.
1 available
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The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated...
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated...
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"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Campbell, J.
1 available
Campbell, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Campbell, J.
1 available
Campbell, J.
1 available
Description
"Cat Brushing, the provocative first book of stories by Jane Campbell, vigorously explores the sensual worlds of thirteen older women, unearthing their passions, libidinal appetites, integrity, and sense of self as they fight against prevalent misconceptions and stereotypes of the aging. Written in spikey, incisive prose, this alluring cast of characters overcomes the notion that elder women's behavior must be in some way monitored and controlled....
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Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Le Carre, J.
1 available
Le Carre, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Le Carré, J.
1 available
Le Carré, J.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Le Carre, J.
1 available
Le Carre, J.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Le Carre, J.
1 available
Le Carre, J.
1 available
Description
Who is the mole buried within British intelligence, planted by Karla in Moscow years ago? George Smiley is back, in the first novel of The quest for Karla trilogy.--
6) The switch
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
O'Leary, B.
1 available
O'Leary, B.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
O'Leary, B.
1 available
O'Leary, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
O'Leary, B.
1 available
O'Leary, B.
1 available
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North Side Library - Audiobooks - Adult
O'Leary, B.
1 available
O'Leary, B.
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
O'Leary, B.
1 available
O'Leary, B.
1 available
Description
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch ? Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen? So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
306.76 K
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306.76 K
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
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"In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Tursten, H.
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Tursten, H.
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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Raybourn, D.
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Raybourn, D.
1 available
South Side Library - Large Print Books - New Books
Raybourn, D.
1 available
Raybourn, D.
1 available
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"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum,...
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Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
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North Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Osman, R.
2 available
Osman, R.
2 available
South Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Osman, R.
1 available
Osman, R.
1 available
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4 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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Description
"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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Central Library - Fiction - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
Central Library - Fiction
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
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"Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Yu, M.
1 available
Yu, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Yu, M.
1 available
Yu, M.
1 available
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"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
McMillan, T.
1 available
McMillan, T.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
McMillan, T.
1 available
McMillan, T.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
McMillan, T.
1 available
McMillan, T.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
McMillan, T.
1 available
McMillan, T.
1 available
East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
McMillan, T.
1 available
McMillan, T.
1 available
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In I almost forgot about you, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love. Like Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, I Almost Forgot About...
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Series
Blessings volume 1
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Jenkins, B.
1 available
Jenkins, B.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Jenkins, B.
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Jenkins, B.
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When a post-Reconstruction African-American community succumbs to a desperate need for funds and purpose, its mayor puts the small town up for sale and finds a buyer in Bernardine Brown, who believes the town's sale to be a sign from God.
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"Irresistible...Filled with surprise, poignancy, and excitement, this is a surefire winner." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A brilliant and witty drama about two brave female World War II veterans who survived the unthinkable without ever losing their killer instinct...or their joie de vivre.
Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties,
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Ford, O.
1 available
Ford, O.
1 available
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"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Ford, O.
1 available
Ford, O.
1 available
Description
"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Yablon, H.
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Yablon, H.
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"Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams -- with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time...