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Central - Adult Fiction
F NG
5 available
F NG
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F NG
2 available
F NG
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F NG
1 available
F NG
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
10 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F KO
4 available
F KO
4 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KO
2 available
F KO
2 available
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WARD
5 available
F WARD
5 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
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Columbia Pike - Adult Audiobooks
CD F WARD
1 available
CD F WARD
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 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 CHAN
4 available
F CHAN
4 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F CHAN
1 available
F CHAN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CHAN
2 available
F CHAN
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough. Until Frida has a very bad day. The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their...
5) Vox
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F DALCH
2 available
F DALCH
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F DALCH
1 available
F DALCH
1 available
Description
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ALAM
5 available
F ALAM
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F ALAM
1 available
F ALAM
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ALAM
1 available
F ALAM
1 available
Description
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in a panic. They say a sudden blackout has swept the city: the TV and internet are down, and no cell phone service. Is the vacation...
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...