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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILKE
4 available
F WILKE
4 available
Central - Recently Returned
F WILKE
1 available
F WILKE
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WILKE
2 available
F WILKE
2 available
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In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GONZA
3 available
F GONZA
3 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F GONZA
1 available
F GONZA
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F GONZA
1 available
LT F GONZA
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type
LT F GONZA
1 available
LT F GONZA
1 available
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
1 available
F GYASI
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
1 available
F GYASI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
2 available
F GYASI
2 available
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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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BENNE
6 available
F BENNE
6 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F BENNE
1 available
F BENNE
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST
“Bennett’s tone...
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST
“Bennett’s tone...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F JIN
1 available
F JIN
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F JIN
1 available
F JIN
1 available
Description
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China-to her,...
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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...