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F NEMIR
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F NEMIR
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2011. | Vintage Books | 264 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
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Gereon Rath novels volume 1
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Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available
D KUTSC
Central - Adult Detective 1 available
D KUTSC
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2016. | Sandstone Press Ltd | 518 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available D KUTSC Central - Adult Detective 1 available D KUTSC |
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Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath, was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the Vice Squad in Berlin, a job he detests, even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter. There is seething unrest in the city and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the Vice Squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations....
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[1991] | HarperCollins | xxxiii, 732 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English |
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"For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon,...
4) Eleni
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2010 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"A devoted and brilliant achievement." The New York Review of Books
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in...
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps" behind the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in...
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
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D MANKE
Columbia Pike - Adult Detective 1 available
D MANKE
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c1997 | New Press : | 284 p. ; 25 cm. cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Detective 1 available D MANKE Columbia Pike - Adult Detective 1 available D MANKE |
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2006 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2011 | OverDrive | The New Press | English | Available Online
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It was a senselessly violent crime. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn't present enough problems for the Ystad police inspector, Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have. It also could be the match that inflames Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant...
6) Flights
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F TOKAR
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F TOKAR
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2018. | First American edition. | Riverhead Books | 403 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F TOKAR Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F TOKAR |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F KADAR
Glencarlyn - Recently Returned 1 available
F KADAR
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2018. | First Counterpoint edition. | Counterpoint Press | 185 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F KADAR Glencarlyn - Recently Returned 1 available F KADAR |
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While waiting to hear whether his newest play will be approved for production, playwright Rudian Stefa is called in for questioning by the Party Committee. A girl--Linda B.--has been found dead, with a signed copy of his latest book in her possession. He soon learns that Linda's family, considered suspect, was exiled to a small town far from the capital, and that she committed suicide. Under the influence of a paranoid regime, Rudian finds himself...
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©2014, ©1981. | Archipelago | 312 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F HRABA |
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"By the writer whom Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, this novel allows us into the mind of an elderly woman coming to terms...
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[2014] | New York Review Books | xiii, 301 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F SZERB |
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2006. | Harcourt | 179 pages ; 20 cm | English |
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Struggling with an overworked mother, an absent father, and the challenges of life within the infamous Paradise projects of suburban Paris, fifteen-year-old French Muslim Doria endures a parade of social workers, experiences a first kiss, and assumes a philosophical outlook regarding her circumstances.
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F NORS
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F NORS
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2018. | Graywolf Press | 188 pages ; 22cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F NORS Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F NORS |
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Sonja is ready to get on with her life. She's over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is unable to shift gears for herself. And her vertigo, which she has always carefully hidden, has begun to manifest at the worst possible moments. Sonja hoped her...
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2016. | First American edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 147 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F SJON |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
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Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as always. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves. When the Spanish...
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Neapolitan novels volume 1
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c2012 | Europa Editions | 331 p. ; 21 cm. | English |
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out
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[2016] | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 505 pages (large print) ; 23. | English |
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Beginning in the 1950s Elena and Lila grow up in Naples, Italy, mirroring two different aspects of their nation.
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2008. | Grove Press | 438 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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2008 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
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Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life-and leads him to an extraordinary book that will open the possibility of changing it. Inspired by the words of Amadeu de Prado, a doctor whose intelligence and magnetism left a mark on everyone who met him and whose principles led him into a confrontation with Salazar's...
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[2009] | Reissue edition. | Grove Press | 280 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F JELIN |
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38-year-old Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, still lives with her domineering mother. Erika has a weakness for buying clothing that she will never actually wear, secretly visits Turkish peep shows and watches sadomasochistic films. When a handsome, self-absorbed 17-year-old student attempts to seduce Erika, she resists, but the relationship between teacher and pupil spirals rapidly out of control, and Erika becomes consumed...
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2001. | Penguin Books | lxvi, 782 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 839.6 SAGAS |
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Presents a collection of Viking "sagas" to commemorate the adventures of the people who first settled Iceland, and then explored Greenland and North America.
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
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2005. | The Penguin Press | 486 pages : photographs ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available D RUIZ |
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2005 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2005 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the...
18) Small island
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2004. | Review | 441 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F LEVY |
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[2005] | RB Large Print | 436 pages (large print) : maps ; 25 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F LEVY |
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Returning to England after the war Gilbert Joseph is treated very differently now that he is no longer in an RAF uniform. Joined by his wife Hortense, he rekindles a friendship with Queenie who takes in Jamaican lodgers. Can their dreams of a better life in England overcome the prejudice they face?
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2015. | First United States edition. | Knopf | 303 pages : maps ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F OKSAN |
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"1941. In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime. 1963. Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet...
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2001, ©2000 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | 448 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2003 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...