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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Malhotra, A.
1 available
Malhotra, A.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Malhotra, A.
1 available
Malhotra, A.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Malhotra, A.
1 available
Malhotra, A.
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"A Hindu perfumer and a Muslim calligrapher fall in love against the backdrop of Partition. On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family's ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer's apprentice and calligrapher's apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. But as the struggle...
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Forest Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - Adult
305.48 D
1 available
305.48 D
1 available
North Side Library - Memoirs - Adult
305.48 D
1 available
305.48 D
1 available
South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.48 D
1 available
305.48 D
1 available
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"In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty- nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she...
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Central Library - Mysteries - 1st Floor
Smiley, J.
2 available
Smiley, J.
2 available
East Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Smiley, J.
1 available
Smiley, J.
1 available
North Side Library - New Mysteries - New Books
Smiley, J.
1 available
Smiley, J.
1 available
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Audiobooks
Smiley, J.
1 available
Smiley, J.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Smiley, J.
1 available
Smiley, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Smiley, J.
1 available
Smiley, J.
1 available
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
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Central Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
306.874 G
1 available
306.874 G
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Parents Collection - Adult
306.874 G
1 available
306.874 G
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Nonfiction - New Books
306.874 G
1 available
306.874 G
1 available
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"In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities"--
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Manenzhe, R.
1 available
Manenzhe, R.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Manenzhe, R.
1 available
Manenzhe, R.
1 available
South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Manenzhe, R.
1 available
Manenzhe, R.
1 available
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In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
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Central Library - Fiction - Display
Rehman, B.
1 available
Rehman, B.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Rehman, B.
1 available
Rehman, B.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Rehman, B.
1 available
Rehman, B.
1 available
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"In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. But when a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's idyllic childhood is shattered forever. In middle school, Razia befriends a new girl, Taslima, and they begin to chafe...
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Central Library - Fiction - Display
Brooks-Dalton, L.
1 available
Brooks-Dalton, L.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Brooks-Dalton, L.
1 available
Brooks-Dalton, L.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - Display
Brooks-Dalton, L.
1 available
Brooks-Dalton, L.
1 available
Description
"A luminous and wrenching portrait of a frighteningly possible future, The Light Pirate is a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world (Booklist, starred review). Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Pitzorno, B.
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Pitzorno, B.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Pitzorno, B.
1 available
Pitzorno, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Pitzorno, B.
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Pitzorno, B.
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"In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hems--and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her. Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Haven, J.
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Haven, J.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Haven, J.
1 available
Haven, J.
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"In the first caper from a 'promising new talent' (Publishers Weekly), a skilled counterfeiter hires a crew of career criminals to steal an artwork from a speeding train. When former platoon sergeant Matt Kubelsky is paroled from Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institute in upstate New York, he's surprised to find his ex-girlfriend waiting for him out in the parking lot. An ex-girlfriend he's spent years pining for after she dumped him and stopped...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Cooking - New Books
641.5 F
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641.5 F
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
641.5 F
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641.5 F
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"The Princess Bride Cookbook: The Official Cookbook features more than 50 recipes for dishes seen in, and inspired by, the film"--