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1) Paradais
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Melchor, F.
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Melchor, F.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Melchor, F.
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Melchor, F.
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"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
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"Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined."--Publisher.
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
158.1 R
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158.1 R
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East Side Library - Self Help - Adult
158.1 R
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158.1 R
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""To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." -Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
594.3 B
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594.3 B
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
594.3 B
1 available
594.3 B
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
594.3 B
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594.3 B
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Bedridden and suffering from a neurological disorder, the author recounts the profound effect on her life caused by a gift of a snail in a potted plant and shares the lessons learned from her new companion about her the meaning of her life and the life of the small creature.
6) tokyo ueno station
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Yu, M.
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Yu, M.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Yu, M.
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Yu, M.
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"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
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Monk & robot volume 1
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North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chambers, B.
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Chambers, B.
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South Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chambers, B.
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Chambers, B.
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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Central Library - New Science Fiction - New Books
Polk, C.
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Polk, C.
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Polk, C.
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Polk, C.
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"C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End. "Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it."-Laini Taylor A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her...
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Evans, D.
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Evans, D.
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Evans, D.
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Evans, D.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Evans, D.
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Evans, D.
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"The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak...
11) Binti
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Binti volume 1
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Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Okorafor, N.
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Okorafor, N.
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Woodson, J.
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Woodson, J.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Woodson, J.
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Woodson, J.
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Capote, T.
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Capote, T.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
CAPOTE
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CAPOTE
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14) Riot baby
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Onyebuchi, T.
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Onyebuchi, T.
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Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Onyebuchi, T.
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Onyebuchi, T.
1 available
South Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Onyebuchi, T.
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Onyebuchi, T.
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""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James. Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both...
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Sworn soldier volume 1
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Bennett, A.
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Bennett, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Bennett, A.
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Bennett, A.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Bennett, A.
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Bennett, A.
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Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chokshi, R.
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Chokshi, R.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chokshi, R.
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Chokshi, R.
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North Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chokshi, R.
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Chokshi, R.
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"FANTASY ROMANCE A fairy tale prince and princess get a second chance at getting what they truly desire in this dazzling tale as they embark on an enchanted road trip and encounter a delightful cast of magical characters. Imelda and Ambrose have forgotten why they got together in the first place. After a whirlwind courtship and a fairy-tale wedding, they embark on life together as royalty of Loves Keep. But when Imelda is in trouble, Ambrose sacrifices...
18) Linea nigra
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
618.2 B
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618.2 B
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"Personal essays about pregnancy interwoven with references to pregnancy in art and literature"--
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
796.42 M
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796.42 M
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
796.42 M
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796.42 M
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and--even more important--on his writing.--From publisher description.
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
362.196 M
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362.196 M
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
362.196 M
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362.196 M
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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Display
362.196 M
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362.196 M
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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...