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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Coll, S.
1 available
Coll, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Coll, S.
1 available
Coll, S.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Coll, S.
1 available
Coll, S.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Coll, S.
1 available
Coll, S.
1 available
Description
"A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week--narrated by two very different women and punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner. Independent bookstore owner Sophie Bernstein is burned out on books. Mourning the death of her husband, the loss of her favorite manager, her only child's lack of aspiration, and the grim state of the world, she...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
362.29 M
1 available
362.29 M
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
362.29 M
1 available
362.29 M
1 available
Description
In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick, journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America's courts. Nearly a decade into...
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Watkins, L.
1 available
Watkins, L.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Watkins, L.
1 available
Watkins, L.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Watkins, L.
1 available
Watkins, L.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Watkins, L.
1 available
Watkins, L.
1 available
Description
"From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Bear it or perish. Those are the words Helen Jean hears that fateful night in her cousin's outhouse that change the trajectory of her life. Spanning decades, Perish tracks the choices Helen Jean--the matriarch...
4) Shutter
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
1 available
North Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
1 available
North Side Library - New Large Print - New Books
Emerson, R.
1 available
Emerson, R.
1 available
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"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases -- she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...
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Forest Ave. Library - Parents Collection - Adult
306.874 An
1 available
306.874 An
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
306.874 An
1 available
306.874 An
1 available
Description
"A Washington Post culture writer chronicles the challenges she faces as a Black mother in a mostly white mommy group in a time of gentrification, racial reckoning, and a global pandemic. Helena Andrews-Dyer lives in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a picturesque collection of rowhouses near the center of the city that has become increasingly gentrified in the last decade. After having her first child a few years ago, she joined...
6) Afterlives
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Gurnah, A.
1 available
Gurnah, A.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Display
Gurnah, A.
1 available
Gurnah, A.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Gurnah, A.
1 available
Gurnah, A.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Gurnah, A.
1 available
Gurnah, A.
1 available
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Sivak, Z.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Sivak, Z.
1 available
Description
"A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who flees to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. Sylvie de Rosiers, the biracial daughter of a rich planter in 1791 Saint-Domingue, is both a lady born to privilege and a damning reminder of her father's infidelity with an enslaved...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Hamid, M.
1 available
Hamid, M.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hamid, M.
1 available
Hamid, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Hamid, M.
1 available
Hamid, M.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hamid, M.
1 available
Hamid, M.
1 available
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening...
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Central Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Kuang, R.
2 available
Kuang, R.
2 available
East Side Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Kuang, R.
2 available
Kuang, R.
2 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Kuang, R.
1 available
Kuang, R.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Audiobooks
Kuang, R.
1 available
Kuang, R.
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
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Lady Worthing mysteries volume 1
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Riley, V.
1 available
Riley, V.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Mysteries - Adult
Riley, V.
1 available
Riley, V.
1 available
North Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Riley, V.
1 available
Riley, V.
1 available
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Central Library - New Large Print - New Books
Riley, V.
1 available
Riley, V.
1 available
East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Riley, V.
1 available
Riley, V.
1 available
Description
"Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail's skin color and her mother's notorious past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton, and no amount of wealth or status will eclipse it. Abigail can't divulge...