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| 2016. | First edition. | Doubleday | 306 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 23 copies, 23 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F WHITE Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F WHITE Westover - Adult Fiction F WHITE |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available 6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F WHITE Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F WHITE Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F WHITE |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 10 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 25 copies, 16 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2016] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Checked Out |
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood-where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes...
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| 1999. | Anchor Books | 255 pages ; 22 cm | English | In Transit 3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. |
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It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question,...
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| 2002. | First Anchor Books edition. | Anchor Books | 389 pages ; 21 cm | English | Checked Out |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer - a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket binge. But when he begins to choke on a piece of...
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Central - Adult Fiction has 2
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| ©2017. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 431 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F LAVAL |
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"The wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed an unforgivable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine"--
"Apollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life...
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| ©2016. | First edition. | A Tom Doherty Associates Book | 151 pages ; 21 cm | English | Checked Out |
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"People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive...
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| 2009. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 370 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F LAVAL |
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2015. | First edition. | Orbit | 498 pages : map ; 21 cm. | English | Available 5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Science Fiction SF JEMIS |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out 15 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent,...
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Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 1
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| 2010. | First edition. | Orbit | 427 pages ; 21 cm | English | In Transit 1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2010] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 10 audio discs (11 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death...
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Dreamblood duology volume 1
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In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the city's Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic.
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| [2010] | Daw Books, Inc | 386 pages ; 24 cm | English | Checked Out |
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Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
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Akata series volume 1
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Central - Teen Fiction
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| [2011] | Viking | 349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available 3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Central - Teen Fiction YF OKORA |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. |
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Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
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Binti volume 3
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Westover - Recently Returned
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| [2015] | First edition. | Tom Doherty Associates, LLC | 90 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available 4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Westover - Recently Returned SF OKORA |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
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| ©2016. | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | xvi, 432 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 811 DOVE |
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| 1999. | First edition. | Norton | 95 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 811 DOVE |
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| [2004] | W.W. Norton | 143 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 811 DOVE |
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| ©2013. | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xi, 143 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 811 GIOVA |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out |
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From one of America's most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us.
"This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet's power and her command of language . . . Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book
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| 2009. | First edition. | William Morrow, An imprint of HarperCollins Pub | 109 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 811 GIOVA Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction has 2 811 GIOVA |
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| [2017] | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xi, 111 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 811 GIOVA Central - Adult Nonfiction 811 GIOVA |
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"Poet, firebrand, mother, radical, healer, and sage, Nikki Giovanni has always been celebrated for her inspired and courageous voice. For decades, she has spoken out on the sensitive issues -- race and gender, violence and inequality -- that touch our national consciousness. As energetic and insightful as ever, Nikki Giovanni now offers us an intimate and affecting look at her personal history and the hidden corners of her own heart. In A Good Cry,...
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Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 1
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| 2014. | First edition. | Forge | 317 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Shirlington - Adult Detective D HALL |
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A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou's sister.
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| ©2017. | First mass market edition. | Grand Central Publishing | 471 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F PATTE |
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The family lawyer: Criminal defense attorney Matthew Hovanes is at the height of his career with a good marriage and popular athlete daughter Hannah, and smart computer whiz son Daniel. But their lives are shattered when a local girl commits suicide after being anonymously bullied--and Hannah is accused of cyber-stalking her. Convinced of Hannah's innocence, Matthew is determined to save his daughter from prison. But as he delves into the case, he...
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