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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Bazawule, B.
1 available
Bazawule, B.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Bazawule, B.
1 available
Bazawule, B.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Bazawule, B.
1 available
Bazawule, B.
1 available
Description
"December 15, 1965, Alabama, the fateful night that triggers an avalanche of events that turn newly engaged couple Melvin and Bernadette into fugitives. A pitstop in the wrong part of town ends with blood on their hands. Suspecting that cops are already following them, Melvin realizes the only way they'll survive is if they flee the country. Bernadette, who's hiding a secret from her fiancé, reluctantly agrees. With a persistent FBI agent on their...
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Series
Canary Club mysteries volume 1
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Hare, L.
1 available
Hare, L.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hare, L.
1 available
Hare, L.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Mysteries - Adult
Hare, L.
1 available
Hare, L.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - New Books
Hare, L.
1 available
Hare, L.
1 available
South Side Library - Large Print Books - Display
Hare, L.
1 available
Hare, L.
1 available
Description
"Nightclub singer Lena Aldridge had planned to jump ship before her past caught up with her--only to find a killer has followed her onboard the Queen Mary in this thrilling locked-room mystery. London 1936. Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just dumped her. But Lena has always...
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"A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Montimore, M.
1 available
Montimore, M.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Montimore, M.
1 available
Montimore, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Montimore, M.
1 available
Montimore, M.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Montimore, M.
1 available
Montimore, M.
1 available
Description
"From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Obaro. T.
1 available
Obaro. T.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Obaro. T.
1 available
Obaro. T.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Obaro. T.
1 available
Obaro. T.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Obaro. T.
1 available
Obaro. T.
1 available
Description
A novel in which three Nigerian women, friends since their university days, are reunited in Lagos for the first time in thirty years at the lavish wedding of one of their daughters. Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Sanchez, E.
1 available
B Sanchez, E.
1 available
East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Sanchez, E.
1 available
B Sanchez, E.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Sanchez, E.
1 available
B Sanchez, E.
1 available
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny"--
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment--a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
345.73 Sw
1 available
345.73 Sw
1 available
East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
345.73 Sw
1 available
345.73 Sw
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - New Books
345.73 Sw
1 available
345.73 Sw
1 available
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"A riveting historical drama that tells the story of the first rape trial on record in American history and the fault lines of class privilege and gender bias that it exposed, showing how much has changed over two centuries and how much has not"--
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
418 C
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418 C
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
418 C
1 available
418 C
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
418 C
1 available
418 C
1 available
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"An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading--and our potential to become radically better readers in the world"--
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Hauser, C.
1 available
B Hauser, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hauser, C.
1 available
B Hauser, C.
1 available
South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hauser, C.
1 available
B Hauser, C.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
B Hauser, C.
1 available
B Hauser, C.
1 available
Description
"CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with...
10) The retreat
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 2
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Central Library - Mysteries - Adult
Pearse, S.
1 available
Pearse, S.
1 available
East Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Pearse, S.
1 available
Pearse, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Mysteries - Adult
Pearse, S.
1 available
Pearse, S.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Pearse, S.
1 available
Pearse, S.
1 available
Description
"An eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation--but the island itself, once the playground of a serial killer, is rumored to be cursed. Detective Elin Warner is called to the retreat when a young woman's body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But the victim wasn't a guest--she wasn't meant to be on the island at all. When a guest drowns in a diving...