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Central - Adult Fiction
F PERRY
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F PERRY
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F PERRY
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F PERRY
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F PERRY
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F PERRY
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It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts-or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HAGY
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F HAGY
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HAGY
1 available
F HAGY
1 available
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A brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade. In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe ekes out a lonely living on the family farmstead where she was raised and where her sister met an untimely end. She lets a migrant group known as the Uninvited...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BARKE
3 available
F BARKE
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BARKE
1 available
F BARKE
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F BARKE
1 available
F BARKE
1 available
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"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
1 available
F WILLI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
1 available
F WILLI
1 available
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Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...
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Sixth world volume 1
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
SF ROANH
1 available
SF ROANH
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction
SF ROANH
1 available
SF ROANH
1 available
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"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than...