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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ROONE
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F ROONE
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F ROONE
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F ROONE
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5 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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"A new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends"--
"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F DOLAN
1 available
F DOLAN
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F DOLAN
1 available
F DOLAN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F DOLAN
1 available
F DOLAN
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal." Enter Edith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to...
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"Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by a vivid cast of characters, it explores necessary emigration, the art of fiction, and ethnic and class conflict. Pippa is an Australian writer who longs for the success of her novelist teacher and eventually comes to fear that she "missed everything important." In Paris, Celeste tries...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WOLIT
2 available
F WOLIT
2 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F WOLIT
1 available
F WOLIT
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F WOLIT
1 available
F WOLIT
1 available
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To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
2 available
F CARTY
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
1 available
F CARTY
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
1 available
F CARTY
1 available
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F DICKS
2 available
F DICKS
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F DICKS
1 available
F DICKS
1 available
Description
"From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists. Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true: 1. He loves his wife Jill... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting his job and opening a bookshop a little (maybe more than a little) 3. Jill is ready to have a baby. 4. The bookshop isn't doing well. Financial crisis is imminent....
7) Swing time
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
2 available
F SMITH
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
1 available
F SMITH
1 available
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"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never...