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Central - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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F PHILL
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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F PHILL
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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F PHILL
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Central - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
1 available
F PHILL
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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F PHILL
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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F PHILL
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A young wife's new job pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the universe in this dazzling first novel Ursula K. Le Guin hails as "funny, sad, scary, beautiful. I love it." In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as The Database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the...
2) The big con
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Chuck Restic mysteries volume 3
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Westover - Adult Detective
D PHILL
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D PHILL
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Chuck Restic, HR manager and part-time private investigator, has a problem: the consultant guru Julie St. Jean is the bane of his existence. Over his twenty-year HR career, he's been forced to partner with her on inane employee engagement programs whose only value has been to Julie's sizable bank account. When Julie is suddenly wanted for the murder of an associate, Chuck sees his chance to rid himself of her forever, until the corporate tables are...
3) Black Buck
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ASKAR
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F ASKAR
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F ASKAR
1 available
F ASKAR
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ASKAR
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F ASKAR
1 available
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ASKAR
3 available
F ASKAR
3 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F ASKAR
1 available
F ASKAR
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ASKAR
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F ASKAR
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MCLAU
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F MCLAU
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5) Digging in
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NYHAN
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F NYHAN
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Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade and lost him two years ago. Since his death, she's been sleepwalking through life, barely holding on for the sake of her teenage son. As Paige stares at her neglected lawn, she knows she's hit rock bottom. So she does something entirely unexpected: she begins to dig. As the hole gets bigger, Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a vegetable garden.
6) The factory
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F OYAMA
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F OYAMA
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In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality...
7) The glitch
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Central - Adult Fiction
F COHEN
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F COHEN
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F COHEN
1 available
F COHEN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F COHEN
1 available
F COHEN
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Central - Adult Fiction
F COHEN
1 available
F COHEN
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F COHEN
1 available
F COHEN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F COHEN
1 available
F COHEN
1 available
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"A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the manufacturer of a small wearable device that attaches...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F THORN
3 available
F THORN
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F THORN
1 available
F THORN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F THORN
1 available
F THORN
1 available
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F THORN
3 available
F THORN
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F THORN
1 available
F THORN
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F THORN
1 available
F THORN
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Checked Out
9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
9) how far shes come
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ROCKA
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F ROCKA
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F ROCKA
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F ROCKA
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ROCKA
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F ROCKA
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F ROCKA
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F ROCKA
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"By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed help-desk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. By night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app Fluttr. After one inappropriate pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows...
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F FRANS
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F FRANS
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F FRANS
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F FRANS
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F FRANS
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F FRANS
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F FRANS
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F FRANS
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"Once a book-loving English major, Casey lands a job at a top ad agency that highly values her ability to tell a good story. Her best friend thinks she's a sellout, but Casey tells herself that she's just paying the bills ... When her hard-to-please boss assigns her to a top-secret campaign that pairs literary authors with corporations hungry for upmarket cachet, Casey is both excited and skeptical. But as she crisscrosses America, wooing her former...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HARRI
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F HARRI
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HARRI
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F HARRI
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F HARRI
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F HARRI
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HARRI
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F HARRI
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HARRI
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F HARRI
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F HARRI
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F HARRI
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Cherrydale - Adult Large Type
LT F HARRI
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LT F HARRI
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Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT F HARRI
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LT F HARRI
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Large print edition.
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Cherrydale - Adult Large Type
LT F HARRI
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LT F HARRI
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Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT F HARRI
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LT F HARRI
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"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
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New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands a job working for the first female editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. For Alice, who wants to be a photographer, it seems like the perfect foot in the door, but nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters. Editors and writers resign on the spot,...
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In her thought-provoking, uplifting new novel, Shobhan Bantwal vividly blends the nuances of contemporary Indian-American culture with an unconventional romance. . .
At thirty-one, Meena Shenoy has a fulfilling career at a New Jersey high-tech firm. Not that it impresses her mother and aunts, who make dire predictions about her ticking biological clock. Men are drawn to Meena's dainty looks and she dates regularly, but hasn't met someone who really...
At thirty-one, Meena Shenoy has a fulfilling career at a New Jersey high-tech firm. Not that it impresses her mother and aunts, who make dire predictions about her ticking biological clock. Men are drawn to Meena's dainty looks and she dates regularly, but hasn't met someone who really...
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"A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"--
Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels. At least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it is just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home policy. Disembodied and alarmed by the looming abyss of...
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F YEN
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F YEN
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"During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia becomes an unlikely nerd whisperer. As Scott Kraft's right-hand woman, whip-smart Sophia is in the eye of the storm, sometimes floundering, sometimes nearly losing relationships and her health, but...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F FERRI
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F FERRI
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F FERRI
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F FERRI
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Central - Adult Fiction
F FERRI
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F FERRI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F FERRI
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F FERRI
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Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME)
No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in...
No one knows us in quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the Chicago ad agency depicted in...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MEDOF
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F MEDOF
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F MEDOF
1 available
F MEDOF
1 available
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First edition.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MEDOF
1 available
F MEDOF
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F MEDOF
1 available
F MEDOF
1 available
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Rosa Guerrero beat the odds as she rose to the top of the corporate world. An attractive woman of a certain age, the longtime chief of human resources at Ellery Consumer Research is still a formidable presence, even if her most vital days are behind her. A leader who wields power with grace and discretion, she has earned the devotion and loyalty of her staff. No one admires Rosa more than her doting lieutenant Leo Smalls, a benefits vice president...
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"Grey's Anatomy meets Scrubs in this brilliant debut novel about a young doctor's struggle to survive residency, love, and life. Having spent the last twenty-something years with her nose in a textbook, brilliant and driven Norah Kapadia has just landed the medical residency of her dreams. But after a disastrous first day, she's ready to quit. Disgruntled patients, sleep deprivation, and her duty to be the "perfect Indian daughter" have her questioning...
20) Young Frances
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Young Frances volume 1
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"After insomniac law clerk Frances Scarland is recruited by her firm's most notorious senior partner, she seems poised for serious advancement--whether she wants it or not. But when her impulsive best friend Vickie decides to move to the opposite coast for an acting role, Frances' confusing existence starts to implode... An intimate study of work chaos and close friendships over time"--