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Central - Adult Fiction
F WINGA
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F WINGA
3 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WINGA
1 available
F WINGA
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F WINGA
1 available
F WINGA
1 available
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F WINGA
1 available
LT F WINGA
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Large Type
LT F WINGA
1 available
LT F WINGA
1 available
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned...
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25 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous...
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD F HAWKI
1 available
CD F HAWKI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F HAWKI
1 available
CD F HAWKI
1 available
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
CD B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RATNE
1 available
F RATNE
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F RATNE
1 available
F RATNE
1 available
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Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this novel is based on the author's personal story. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege...
6) Jane Eyre
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BRONT
2 available
F BRONT
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F BRONT
1 available
F BRONT
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F TAN
1 available
F TAN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F TAN
2 available
F TAN
2 available
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Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F PERRO
2 available
F PERRO
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F PERRO
2 available
F PERRO
2 available
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F PERRO
1 available
CD F PERRO
1 available
Description
"From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars. Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MCEWA
1 available
F MCEWA
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F MCEWA
1 available
F MCEWA
1 available
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F MCEWA
1 available
CD F MCEWA
1 available
Description
"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers"--...