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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Lockwood, P.
1 available
Lockwood, P.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Lockwood, P.
1 available
Lockwood, P.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Lockwood, P.
1 available
Lockwood, P.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Lockwood, P.
1 available
Lockwood, P.
1 available
Description
"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
McBride, J.
1 available
McBride, J.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
McBride, J.
1 available
McBride, J.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
McBride, J.
1 available
McBride, J.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Large Print - New Books
Maehrer, H.
1 available
Maehrer, H.
1 available
Description
"ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits. With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn's most infamous Villain results in a job offer--naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect,...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Romance - Adult
Kwan, K.
1 available
Kwan, K.
1 available
South Side Library - Romance - Adult
Kwan, K.
1 available
Kwan, K.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Kwan, K.
1 available
Kwan, K.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Kwan, K.
1 available
Kwan, K.
1 available
Description
"The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"--
On her very first morning on the island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao-- and instantly can't stand him. Especially when he kisses...
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Central Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Jones, L.
1 available
B Jones, L.
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Description
A candid memoir filled with vivid anecdotes: Growing up in the South, navigating stand-up comedy's challenging early days, brushes with celebrities like Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and insights on Ghostbusters, Supermarket Sweep, The Daily Show. Revealing struggles as a tall Black woman in comedy.
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"The History of Sketch Comedy will appeal to all kinds of comedy fans as well as fans of Keegan-Michael Key. With epic personal tangents and hilarious asides, their story takes you on an illuminating look at all facets of comedy from the stock characters of commedia del arte in the 16th century, to the rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the golden age of television comedy, the influence of the most well-known comedy schools, and ascension of comedy...
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Central Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Irby, S.
1 available
B Irby, S.
1 available
East Side Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Irby, S.
1 available
B Irby, S.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Irby, S.
1 available
B Irby, S.
1 available
Description
"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...
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Forest Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
814 Ar21
1 available
814 Ar21
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled--and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives but also the doors that remain shut or ever-so-slightly ajar; the confounding challenges of dating in a time when social media has made everything both more accessible and more unreliable; and the allure of returning home while still...
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Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Everett, P.
1 available
Everett, P.
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of
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From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Beatty, P.
1 available
Beatty, P.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Beatty, P.
1 available
Beatty, P.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Beatty, P.
1 available
Beatty, P.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Beatty, P.
1 available
Beatty, P.
1 available
Description
"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
973 V
1 available
973 V
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
973 V
1 available
973 V
1 available
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Kuang, R.
1 available
Kuang, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Kuang, R.
1 available
Kuang, R.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Kuang, R.
1 available
Kuang, R.
1 available
Checked Out
9 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Description
What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American -- in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
792.7 K
1 available
792.7 K
1 available