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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Power, M.
1 available
Power, M.
1 available
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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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"A testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture"--Page [4] of cover.
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East Side Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Sepetys, R.
1 available
Sepetys, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Sepetys, R.
1 available
Sepetys, R.
1 available
South Side Library - Teen Fiction - Teen
Sepetys, R.
1 available
Sepetys, R.
1 available
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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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Central Library - Large Print Books - Display
Sepetys, R.
1 available
Sepetys, R.
1 available
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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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10 copies, 106 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 122 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 122 people are on the wait list.
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Forest Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
322.42 Eg
1 available
322.42 Eg
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
322.42 Eg
1 available
322.42 Eg
1 available
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...
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"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Peters, T.
1 available
Peters, T.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Peters, T.
1 available
Peters, T.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Peters, T.
1 available
Peters, T.
1 available
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"[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."--
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Stradal, J.
2 available
Stradal, J.
2 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Stradal, J.
1 available
Stradal, J.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Stradal, J.
1 available
Stradal, J.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Stradal, J.
1 available
Stradal, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Stradal, J.
1 available
Stradal, J.
1 available
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"This novel is the story of Mariel and Ned, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them"--
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Doerr, A.
1 available
Doerr, A.
1 available
East Side Library - Audiobooks
Doerr, A.
1 available
Doerr, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
Doerr, A.
1 available
Doerr, A.
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Doerr, A.
1 available
Doerr, A.
1 available
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Reid, K.
1 available
Reid, K.
1 available
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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Central Library - New Fiction - Display
Johnson, S.
1 available
Johnson, S.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Johnson, S.
1 available
Johnson, S.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Audiobooks
Johnson, S.
1 available
Johnson, S.
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Johnson, S.
1 available
Johnson, S.
1 available
South Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Johnson, S.
1 available
Johnson, S.
1 available
Description
"1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride...
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
Nagamatsu, S.
1 available
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"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archaeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
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6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
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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.
1 available
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
Description
"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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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
Adjei-Brenyah, N.
1 available
Description
"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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"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
591.5 Y
1 available
591.5 Y
1 available
East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
591.5 Y
1 available
591.5 Y
1 available
North Side Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
591.5 Y
1 available
591.5 Y
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...