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Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians -- mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” (Michael Chabon) and “our greatest living fabulist” (Carmen Maria Machado)
“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while staring into the void.”—The...
“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while staring into the void.”—The...
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4 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
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Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
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4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MORGE
5 available
F MORGE
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MORGE
1 available
F MORGE
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F MORGE
1 available
F MORGE
1 available
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MURAK
1 available
F MURAK
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MURAK
1 available
F MURAK
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F MURAK
1 available
F MURAK
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.