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2020. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 261 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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29 copies, 192 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
8 copies, 80 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
20 copies, 213 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior...
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2016. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 305 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm | English |
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22 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape : | 11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
12 copies, 76 people are on the wait list.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
3) The lowland
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Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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c2013. | First Edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 339 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction F LAHIR Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F LAHIR Shirlington - Adult Fiction F LAHIR |
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[2013] | Unabridged. | Random House/Books On Tape | 11 audio discs (783 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 13 |
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Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
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Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 356 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F HASLE Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F HASLE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F HASLE |
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2016 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
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When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings--the responsible Celia...
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2019. | Simon & Schuster | 261 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola's family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can't escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won't...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
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2017. | Riverhead Books | 231 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
21 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F HAMID Central - Adult Fiction has 9 F HAMID Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F HAMID |
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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2017 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection has 19 |
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2017. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 263 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type LT F HAMID |
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
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2020. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | xx, 345 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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12 copies, 95 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Book Group | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 49 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out
8 copies, 108 people are on the wait list.
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"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home"--
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
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Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2018. | First American edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 278 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edges of modern-day London. While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf organize their lives around soccer, girls, and grime, Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful, impassioned, and unforgettable, and when stitched together, they trace a brutal...