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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Beagin, J.
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Beagin, J.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Beagin, J.
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Beagin, J.
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"Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she's tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Lacey, C.
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Lacey, C.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Lacey, C.
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Lacey, C.
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"When X -- an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter -- falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets,...
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Central Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Chang, K.
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Chang, K.
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"Best friends Anita and Rainie have made countless visits to their home base: an old sycamore tree and its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations of dog-headed women and women-headed dogs whose bloodlines knot them together like thread. Anita convinces her best friend Rainie to become a dog with her, tying a collar of red string around each of their...
4) Pomegranate
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"Ranita Atwater is "getting short." She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. With three years of sobriety, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. My name is Ranita, and I'm an addict, she has said again and again at recovery meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? As she claims the story housed within her pomegranate-like heart, she...
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"Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband,...
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Torres, J.
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Torres, J.
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East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Torres, J.
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Torres, J.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Torres, J.
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Torres, J.
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"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Mirabella, R.
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Mirabella, R.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Mirabella, R.
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Mirabella, R.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Mirabella, R.
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Mirabella, R.
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Willa grudgingly takes in her brother, Justin, who is spiraling out of control, unable to manage his sobriety and the ongoing effects of a brain injury suffered when he fled a terrifying act of violence committed by his first boyfriend.
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Khabushani, K.
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Khabushani, K.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Khabushani, K.
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Khabushani, K.
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"The youngest of three brothers, K just wants to be an all-American boy-shooting hoops with his buddies and riding his Huffy around the San Fernando Valley. But K understands there's something different about himself, a longing that draws him closer to his friends while making him feel more and more alienated. At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the faithful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to survive in the United States....
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Washington, B.
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Washington, B.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Washington, B.
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Washington, B.
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Washington, B.
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Washington, B.
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Madievsky, R.
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Madievsky, R.
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Madievsky, R.
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Madievsky, R.
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"Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace. On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister, Debbie, to Salvation--a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of...
11) Endpapers
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"In 2003 New York, a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, ill-fitting relationship, and artistic block discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author"--
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East Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
James, S.
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James, S.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
James, S.
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James, S.
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North Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
James, S.
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James, S.
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"Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen...
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Jakobson, H.
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Jakobson, H.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Jakobson, H.
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Jakobson, H.
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"A funny, astute debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between the new life she's creating for herself and the life she worked so hard to escape"--
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"In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also stunningly talented musicians-who fled China in the wake...
15) Bellies: a novel
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Dinan, N.
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Dinan, N.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - New Books
Dinan, N.
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Dinan, N.
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Two queer men, who hit it off during their university's drag night begin a relationship and eventually plan a life together, face a momentous challenge when one of them announces an intention to transition.
16) Girlfriends
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"In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Attending to the intimacy of Gen Z women's lives, these stories move from the provinces to the metropolis, from chaotic student accommodation to insecure jobs, from parties to dates to the nights after, from haplessness to some kind of power." -- Back cover.
17) Wild geese
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"Wild Geese is Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel. Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she's overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman without a past can be anyone she wants. But an unexpected...