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1) Birnam Wood
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Catton, E.
1 available
Catton, E.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Catton, E.
1 available
Catton, E.
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Catton, E.
1 available
Catton, E.
1 available
Description
"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm...
2) Coleman Hill
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East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Coleman Foote, K.
1 available
Coleman Foote, K.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Coleman Foote, K.
1 available
Coleman Foote, K.
1 available
South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Coleman Foote, K.
1 available
Coleman Foote, K.
1 available
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Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for September
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Ganeshananthan, V.
1 available
Ganeshananthan, V.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Ganeshananthan, V.
1 available
Ganeshananthan, V.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Ganeshananthan, V.
1 available
Ganeshananthan, V.
1 available
Description
"Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm? Sashi begins working as a medic at a field hospital for the militant...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Oza, J.
1 available
Oza, J.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Oza, J.
1 available
Oza, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Oza, J.
1 available
Oza, J.
1 available
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
6) Daughter
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"A woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life -- and art -- of her own"--
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Cuffy, N.
1 available
Cuffy, N.
1 available
South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Cuffy, N.
1 available
Cuffy, N.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Cuffy, N.
1 available
Cuffy, N.
1 available
Description
"Select the journal with your name and use this personalised dance journal to note down all of the things you need to remember when you leave your dance class. It has two hundred pages for all your dance notes. Write about all the dance performances you have seen or would like to see in the future under the dance dates section. Use this dance journal to note down your dance aspirations under the dance aims section, and then track your progress every...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Gawad, A.
1 available
Gawad, A.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Gawad, A.
1 available
Gawad, A.
1 available
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"A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan. It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. On the precipice of adulthood, they plan to embark on a summer of teenage revelry, trying on new identities and testing the limits of...
9) Loot
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - Display
James, T.
1 available
James, T.
1 available
Description
"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas hones his craft and learns to read French and then meets...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Makkai, R.
1 available
Makkai, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Makkai, R.
2 available
Makkai, R.
2 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Makkai, R.
1 available
Makkai, R.
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 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
"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...
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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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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Zhang, C.
1 available
Zhang, C.
1 available
East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Zhang, C.
1 available
Zhang, C.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Zhang, C.
1 available
Zhang, C.
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Zhang, C.
1 available
Zhang, C.
1 available
South Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Zhang, C.
1 available
Zhang, C.
1 available
Description
"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--