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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Chan, J.
2 available
Chan, J.
2 available
East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chan, J.
1 available
Chan, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Chan, J.
1 available
Chan, J.
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Chan, J.
1 available
Chan, J.
1 available
Description
"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Garcia, G.
1 available
Garcia, G.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Garcia, G.
1 available
Garcia, G.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Garcia, G.
1 available
Garcia, G.
1 available
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East Side Library - Audiobooks - Adult
Garcia, G.
1 available
Garcia, G.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Garcia, G.
1 available
Garcia, G.
1 available
North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Garcia, G.
1 available
Garcia, G.
1 available
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Harris, Z.
1 available
Harris, Z.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Harris, Z.
1 available
Harris, Z.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Harris, Z.
1 available
Harris, Z.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Harris, Z.
1 available
Harris, Z.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Harris, Z.
1 available
Harris, Z.
1 available
Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Varela, A.
1 available
Varela, A.
1 available
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"When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two children after having been incarcerated and recovering...
5) White horse
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Wurth, E.
1 available
Wurth, E.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Wurth, E.
1 available
Wurth, E.
1 available
Description
"Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari's mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable. Haunted by visions...
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Mathews, S.
1 available
Mathews, S.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Mathews, S.
1 available
Mathews, S.
1 available
Description
"From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Slocumb, B.
1 available
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Slocumb, B.
1 available
Slocumb, B.
1 available
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Talty, M.
1 available
Talty, M.
1 available
Description
"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Schweblin, S.
1 available
Schweblin, S.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Schweblin, S.
1 available
Schweblin, S.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Schweblin, S.
1 available
Schweblin, S.
1 available
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"A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English...
10) If I survive you
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Escoffery, J.
1 available
Escoffery, J.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Escoffery, J.
1 available
Escoffery, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Escoffery, J.
1 available
Escoffery, J.
1 available
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Escoffery, J.
1 available
Escoffery, J.
1 available
Description
"In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Moshfegh, O.
1 available
Moshfegh, O.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Moshfegh, O.
1 available
Moshfegh, O.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Moshfegh, O.
1 available
Moshfegh, O.
1 available
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caregiver in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime,...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Novic, S.
1 available
Novic, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Novic, S.
1 available
Novic, S.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Novic, S.
1 available
Novic, S.
1 available
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Zagreb, summer of 1991. Ten-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy who runs the streets of Croatia?s capital with her best friend, Luka, takes care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But as civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, soccer games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. When tragedy suddenly strikes, Ana is lost to a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Lund, E.
1 available
Lund, E.
1 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Lund, E.
1 available
Lund, E.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Lund, E.
1 available
Lund, E.
1 available
Description
""A modern coming-of-age full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night"--
Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums...
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Celestial kingdom volume 1
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Tan, S.
1 available
Tan, S.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Tan, S.
1 available
Tan, S.
1 available
South Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Tan, S.
1 available
Tan, S.
1 available
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"An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the elixer of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Bulawayo, N.
1 available
Bulawayo, N.
1 available
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Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.
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Central Library - Nonfiction - Adult
364.1 K
1 available
364.1 K
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
364.1 K
1 available
364.1 K
1 available
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"In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a mulitmillion-dollar business smuggling people."--Page 4 of cover
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
378.73 C
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378.73 C
1 available