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"Lulu has always been taught that money is the ticket to a good life. So, when Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor surprises her with a proposal, the only acceptable answer is yes, even if the voice inside her head is saying no. His family’s fortune would solve all her parents’ financial woes, but Lulu isn’t in love or ready for marriage. The only people she can confide in are her two best friends: career-minded Rina, who is tired of being...
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"At a high-society Shanghai wedding, the reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own personal motives and fed up with the way society treats women, forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day"--
"Lulu has always been taught that money is the ticket to a good life. So, when Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor surprises her with a proposal, the only acceptable answer is yes, even if the voice inside her head is saying...
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3 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Gonzalez, X.
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Gonzalez, X.
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3 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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Kyiv mysteries volume 1
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A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable "queen of crosswords," Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker's popular crossword section. Working...
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Henríquez, C.
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Henríquez, C.
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But...
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Castle Knoll files volume 1
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5 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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Central Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Perrin, K.
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Perrin, K.
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Perrin, K.
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Perrin, K.
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5 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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"For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece to catch the killer. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn...
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7 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
Everett, P.
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Everett, P.
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4 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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East Side Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Oates, J.
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B Oates, J.
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South Side Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Oates, J.
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B Oates, J.
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"This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates's letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing" --
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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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8 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Hot Titles, No Holds
381.45 P
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381.45 P
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To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates "book joy" by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, "You've got to read this. You're going to love it." Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place...
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Central Library - New Fiction - New Books
Huang, J.
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Huang, J.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Huang, J.
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Huang, J.
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2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these seemingly unrelated...
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Forest Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Kuku, D.
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Kuku, D.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Fiction - New Books
Kuku, D.
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Kuku, D.
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South Side Library - New Fiction - Display
Kuku, D.
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Kuku, D.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"A collection of short stories about love and dating in Lagos, Nigeria"--
"'One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's private part and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. You won’t need them.' In this remarkable short story collection, Damilare Kuku takes us deep into the heart...