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A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CASH
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F CASH
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F CASH
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F CASH
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A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. A Land More Kind than Home is a modern masterwork of Southern fiction, reminiscent of the writings of John Hart (Down River), Tom Franklin (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter), Ron Rash (Serena), and Pete Dexter (Paris Trout)—one
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At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No...
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A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water's edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts. Once a week they go to the city to buy groceries and otherwise merge with the civilized world. But one small mistake allows a backcountry jogger to discover them,...
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F TALLE
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F TALLE
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F TALLE
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F TALLE
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F TALLE
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F TALLE
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F TALLE
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CD F TALLE
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"Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CAMPB
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F CAMPB
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CAMPB
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F CAMPB
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From the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for "American Salvage" comes an odyssey of a novel about a girl's search for love and identity.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
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CD SF IVEY
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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BRUNT
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F BRUNT
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F BRUNT
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F BRUNT
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F BRUNT
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F BRUNT
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There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Central - Adult Fiction
F LEE
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F LEE
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Central - Recently Returned
F LEE
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F LEE
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F LEE
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F LEE
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F KINGS
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F KINGS
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KINGS
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F KINGS
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6 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F OWENS
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F OWENS
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F OWENS
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F OWENS
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F OWENS
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F OWENS
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD F OWENS
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CD F OWENS
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F OWENS
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CD F OWENS
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F OWENS
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LT F OWENS
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Central - Recently Returned
LT F OWENS
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LT F OWENS
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Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT F OWENS
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LT F OWENS
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the three-year anniversary of the tornado, a cosmetics factory outside...