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1) Martyr!
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11 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Akbar, K.
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Akbar, K.
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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South Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Akbar, K.
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Akbar, K.
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Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past-toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
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"The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational poem about a Sámi family's quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial schooling"--
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Ferraro, N.
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Ferraro, N.
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North Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Ferraro, N.
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Ferraro, N.
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"Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up Víctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them. Although she has come to terms with the realities of her life and enjoys aspects...
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5 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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"From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious,...
7) Rabbit hole
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Ten years ago, Theodora "Teddy" Angstrom's older sister, Angie, disappeared. Her case remains unsolved. Now-on the anniversary of Angie's disappearance-Teddy's father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark's family, he had been actively investigating conspiracy theories sourced from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie, and Teddy soon finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole. After all, if hope dies last, Angie could...
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1 copy, 7 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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"Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous -- like the Salem witch trials -- and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country's last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Pennsylvania in 1929 where a magical healer was labelled a "witch"; in Lesotho...
9) NORTHWOODS
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Pease, A.
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Pease, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Pease, A.
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Pease, A.
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"The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic in this unputdownable and thrilling debut that is perfect for fans of James Lee Burke, William Kent Krueger, and Mindy Mejia. Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only...
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East Side Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
301 M
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301 M
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Forest Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
301 M
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301 M
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. Sitting with a client undergoing surgery, accompanying...