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Central - Adult Fiction
F ERDRI
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F ERDRI
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ERDRI
1 available
F ERDRI
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ERDRI
1 available
F ERDRI
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Description
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CONEL
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F CONEL
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CONEL
1 available
F CONEL
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Ruby grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Her friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the neighborhood's location brought certain advantages. Ruby took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college but now is no closer to her dream job and is forced to move back in with her parents. Tonight Caroline is throwing a party in her...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F STAPL
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F STAPL
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F STAPL
1 available
F STAPL
1 available
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"Set on an Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps is the story of Marion Lafournier, a gay Ojibwe man, and his search for meaning in a town he cannot seem to leave. When he begins a romance with a closeted former high school classmate Shannon, Marion finds himself struggling to connect with the volcanic and unstable man. One night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life a dog from underneath...
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CARD
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F CARD
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F CARD
1 available
F CARD
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"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SHTEY
5 available
F SHTEY
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F SHTEY
1 available
F SHTEY
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SHTEY
1 available
F SHTEY
1 available
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"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WARD
5 available
F WARD
5 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD F WARD
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CD F WARD
1 available
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ERDRI
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F ERDRI
2 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ERDRI
1 available
F ERDRI
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ERDRI
1 available
F ERDRI
1 available
Description
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...