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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | First edition. | Doubleday | 306 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
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Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F WHITE Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F WHITE |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Central - Adult Large Type 1 available
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Central - Recently Returned 1 available
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F WHITE Central - Recently Returned 1 available LT F WHITE |
Description
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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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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| [2000] | First Anchor books edition. | Anchor Books, a Division of Random House Inc | 255 pages ; 21 cm | Available
Central - Adult Detective 1 available D WHITE | |
| 1999. | Anchor Books | 255 pages ; 22 cm |
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2000 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
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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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2002. | First Anchor Books edition. | Anchor Books | 389 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE |
| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction 2 available
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Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2017. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 431 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available F LAVAL Shirlington - Adult Fiction 2 available F LAVAL Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F LAVAL |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
"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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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2016. | First edition. | A Tom Doherty Associates Book | 151 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F LAVAL |
Description
"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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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009. | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 370 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F LAVAL |
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| c2015. | First edition. | Orbit | 498 pages : map ; 21 cm. | English |
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3 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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Description
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
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2010. | First edition. | Orbit | 427 pages ; 21 cm | English |
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2010] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 10 audio discs (11 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out
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Description
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.
10) Who fears death
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2010] | Daw Books, Inc | 386 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Science Fiction 1 available SF OKORA |
Description
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.
11) Akata witch
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Akata series volume 1
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2011] | Viking | 349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF OKORA |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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Description
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.
12) Binti
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Binti volume 2
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Central - Adult Science Fiction 2 available
SF OKORA
Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
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Westover - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
SF OKORA
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | First edition. | Tom Doherty Associates, LLC | 90 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Science Fiction 2 available SF OKORA Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction 1 available SF OKORA Westover - Adult Science Fiction 1 available SF OKORA |
| Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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Description
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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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2016. | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | xvi, 432 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 DOVE |
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 1999. | First edition. | Norton | 95 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 DOVE |
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| Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2004] | W.W. Norton | 143 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 DOVE |
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
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| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2013. | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xi, 143 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA |
| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Description
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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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
811 GIOVA
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
811 GIOVA
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2013. | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xi, 143 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA |
| Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Description
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
...Author
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
811 GIOVA
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
811 GIOVA
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| 2009. | First edition. | William Morrow, An imprint of HarperCollins Pub | 109 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA |
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
811 GIOVA
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
811 GIOVA
| Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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| [2017] | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xi, 111 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 811 GIOVA |
Description
"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,...
20) Land of shadows
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Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective 1 available
D HALL
Westover - Adult Detective 1 available
D HALL
| Publication Date | Edition | Physical Description | Availability | |
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| 2014. | First edition. | 317 pages ; 25 cm | Available
Central - Adult Detective 1 available D HALL | |
| 2015, ©2014. | First trade paperback edition. | 333 pages ; 24 cm. | Available
Westover - Adult Detective 1 available D HALL |
Description
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.