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Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark. -- from Amazon.
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Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel's beautiful but self-conscious narrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires, dabbling in ketamine, group sex,...
3) The idiot
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placed ebook on hold
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BATUM
1 available
F BATUM
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F BATUM
1 available
F BATUM
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary....
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placed ebook on hold
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RUSKO
1 available
F RUSKO
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F RUSKO
1 available
F RUSKO
1 available
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A tale told from multiple perspectives that traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.
Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged landscape in northern Idaho, where they are bound together by more than love. With her husband's memory fading, Ann attempts to piece together the truth of what happened to Wade's first...
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"In their first year of college, two young women, one from a Florida swamp, the other from a Kentucky holler, both outsiders at their prestigious east coast college, meet in "Introduction to Sketch" and become instant best friends. A decade later, Mel and Sharon's lives remain intertwined, but so much else has changed. Now a semi-famous New York filmmaking duo, they draw upon their own pasts to make intimate animated movies, a process that has left...
6) Exit west
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placed ebook on hold
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HAMID
1 available
F HAMID
1 available
Central - Recently Returned
F HAMID
1 available
F HAMID
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F HAMID
2 available
F HAMID
2 available
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
7) So Much Blue
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request on hold when available
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Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past. Ten years ago he had an affair with a...
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In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin. Out of the ranks...
Author
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placed ebook on hold
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WARD
5 available
F WARD
5 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD F WARD
1 available
CD F WARD
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
10) The end of Eddy
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Central - Adult Fiction
F LOUIS
1 available
F LOUIS
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F LOUIS
1 available
F LOUIS
1 available
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"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again. Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different -- "girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other...
11) Dear cyborgs
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In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponder modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on the seemingly inescapable grip of market economics. Gleefully toying with the conventions of the novel, Dear...
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on ebook waitlist
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Central - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
5 available
F EGAN
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
1 available
F EGAN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F EGAN
1 available
F EGAN
1 available
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Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SCHWE
1 available
F SCHWE
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F SCHWE
1 available
F SCHWE
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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SAUND
2 available
F SAUND
2 available
Central - Recently Returned
F SAUND
1 available
F SAUND
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F SAUND
1 available
F SAUND
1 available
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February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president...
15) White tears
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F KUNZR
1 available
F KUNZR
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KUNZR
1 available
F KUNZR
1 available
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Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an...