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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Enriquez, M.
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Enriquez, M.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
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"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Perrin, V.
1 available
Perrin, V.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Perrin, V.
1 available
Perrin, V.
1 available
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"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Azar, S.
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Azar, S.
1 available
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Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land. Bahar's mother,...
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Neapolitan novels volume 1
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Ferrante, E.
1 available
Ferrante, E.
1 available
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Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Barbery, M.
1 available
Barbery, M.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Barbery, M.
1 available
Barbery, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Barbery, M.
1 available
Barbery, M.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Allende, I.
1 available
Allende, I.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Allende, I.
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Allende, I.
1 available
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The triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba,...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
362.883 It
1 available
362.883 It
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
362.883 It
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362.883 It
1 available
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"BLACK BOX is Shiori Ito's written account of her 2015 assault by a prominent Japanese reporter, the publication of which led to a societal reckoning around recognizing sexual assault and gender-based violence, and foregrounded Japan's #MeToo movement"--
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.894 H
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305.894 H
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"Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
869.4 Z
1 available
869.4 Z
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"In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation. As a group of Venezuelan migrants wait at a bus station in Manaus, looking for a place more stable than home, an elder in Alter do Cĥo becomes the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 after years of fighting for the rights and recognition...
11) Flights
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Tokarczuk, O.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
Tokarczuk, O.
1 available
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A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - New Books
895.63 M
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895.63 M
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
895.63 M
1 available
895.63 M
1 available
South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
895.63 M
1 available
895.63 M
1 available
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"A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Ferrada, M.
1 available
Ferrada, M.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Ferrada, M.
1 available
Ferrada, M.
1 available
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"After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision: to make the billboard his new home. Twelve-year-old Miguel is enchanted by his uncle's unusual living arrangement, but the neighborhood is buzzing with gossip, declaring Ramón a madman bringing shame to the community....
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Central Library - True Crime - 2nd Floor
364.152 T
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364.152 T
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"When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
579.6 L
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579.6 L
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A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing--hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner's course...
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Backman, F.
1 available
Backman, F.
1 available
Description
"Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
17) Norwegian Wood
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful...
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful...