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Jake Brigance novels volume 1
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this searing courtroom drama featuring the beloved Jake Brigance.
“John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless white men....
“John Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless white men....
2) Blindsighted
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Grant County series volume 1
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Slaughter, K.
1 available
Slaughter, K.
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The mutilation murder of a young college professor paralyzes a tiny Georgian community. This hideous crime is the worst thing small-town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton has ever seen--but only when the autopsy is complete is the intricate, terrible genius of a profoundly twisted psychopath truly revealed. As Sara's ex-husband--Heartsdale police chief Jeffrey Tolliver--pursues an elusive fiend, the victim's sister and the county's only detective,...
3) The notebook
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart — one of PBS's "Great American Reads".
Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale...
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A corrupt Burmese politician uses the powers of his office to win membership in a British club.
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Hosseini, K.
1 available
Hosseini, K.
1 available
Central Library - Fiction - Adult
Hosseini, K.
1 available
Hosseini, K.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Hosseini, K.
1 available
Hosseini, K.
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Graphic Novels - 1st Floor
Hosseini, K.
1 available
Hosseini, K.
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Hosseini, K.
1 available
Hosseini, K.
1 available
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Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara--a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
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Irish Hearts volume 1
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Franklin Ave. Library - Romance - Adult
Roberts, N.
1 available
Roberts, N.
1 available
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"There's nothing left for Adelia Cunnane in Ireland. The aunt she cared for has passed, and the family farm has been sold for taxes. But her uncle Paddy has written her: Come to America... Dee has always had a magical touch with animals, and she finds employment with her uncle on the Maryland horse farm owned by Travis Grant. It's a joy to ride Travis's chestnut Thoroughbred--and to spend her first paycheck on luxuries she never had in the old country....
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Ishiguro, K.
1 available
Ishiguro, K.
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8) Carrie
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
King, S.
1 available
King, S.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
King, S.
1 available
King, S.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
King, S.
1 available
King, S.
1 available
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In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this sixteen-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: she posessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Groff, L.
1 available
Groff, L.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Groff, L.
1 available
Groff, L.
1 available
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Erdrich, L.
1 available
Erdrich, L.
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12) The bluest eye
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Morrison, T.
1 available
Morrison, T.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Morrison, T.
2 available
Morrison, T.
2 available
North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Morrison, T.
1 available
Morrison, T.
1 available
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
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Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 1
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Central Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - 1st Floor
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Jemisin, N.
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East Side Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Jemisin, N.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Adult
Jemisin, N.
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Jemisin, N.
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After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her...
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her...
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East Side Library - Audiobooks
Ng, C.
1 available
Ng, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
Ng, C.
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Ng, C.
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Tartt, D.
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Tartt, D.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Tartt, D.
1 available
Tartt, D.
1 available
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.
Under the influence of a charismatic...
Under the influence of a charismatic...