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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Akhtar, A.
1 available
Akhtar, A.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Akhtar, A.
1 available
Akhtar, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Akhtar, A.
1 available
Akhtar, A.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Akhtar, A.
1 available
Akhtar, A.
1 available
Description
"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless...
2) There there
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Orange, T.
1 available
Orange, T.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Orange, T.
1 available
Orange, T.
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come...
3) Luster
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Leilani, R.
1 available
Leilani, R.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Leilani, R.
1 available
Leilani, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Leilani, R.
1 available
Leilani, R.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Leilani, R.
1 available
Leilani, R.
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Leilani, R.
1 available
Leilani, R.
1 available
Description
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Gunty, T.
1 available
Gunty, T.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Gunty, T.
1 available
Gunty, T.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Gunty, T.
1 available
Gunty, T.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Gunty, T.
1 available
Gunty, T.
1 available
Description
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here live four teenagers who have recently aged out of the...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Gyasi, Y.
1 available
Description
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Vuong, O.
1 available
Vuong, O.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Vuong, O.
1 available
Vuong, O.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Vuong, O.
1 available
Vuong, O.
1 available
Description
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Quade, K.
1 available
Quade, K.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Quade, K.
1 available
Quade, K.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Quade, K.
1 available
Quade, K.
1 available
Description
"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Dennis-Benn, N.
2 available
Dennis-Benn, N.
2 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Dennis-Benn, N.
1 available
Dennis-Benn, N.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Dennis-Benn, N.
1 available
Dennis-Benn, N.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Dennis-Benn, N.
1 available
Dennis-Benn, N.
1 available
Description
"When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. But Patsy's plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother--or even...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Whitehead, J.
1 available
Whitehead, J.
1 available
Description
Off the rez and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages - and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home for his step-father's funeral, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision...
10) Martyr!
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Checked Out
11 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Akbar, K.
1 available
Akbar, K.
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
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...