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Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D MANAN
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D MANAN
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Cherrydale - Adult Detective
D MANAN
1 available
D MANAN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Detective
D MANAN
1 available
D MANAN
1 available
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes--one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
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Japantown mysteries volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D HIRAH
1 available
D HIRAH
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Detective
D HIRAH
1 available
D HIRAH
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Detective
D HIRAH
1 available
D HIRAH
1 available
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"Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago, where Aki's older sister, Rose, was sent months earlier and moved to the new...
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Noodle shop mysteries volume 1
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Courthouse - Adult Detective
D CHIEN
1 available
D CHIEN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Detective
D CHIEN
1 available
D CHIEN
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family's restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband. Lana's love life soon becomes yesterday's news once the restaurant's property manager, Mr. Feng, turns up dead--after...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CHANG
3 available
F CHANG
3 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F CHANG
1 available
F CHANG
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F CHANG
1 available
F CHANG
1 available
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"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons earned scholarships to respectable colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family's secrets and simmering resentments...
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Central - Adult Detective
D CHUA
1 available
D CHUA
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Aurora Hills - Adult Detective
D CHUA
1 available
D CHUA
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Detective
D CHUA
1 available
D CHUA
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont,...
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Leilani Santiago mysteries volume 1
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Courthouse - Adult Detective
D HIRAH
1 available
D HIRAH
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Detective
D HIRAH
1 available
D HIRAH
1 available
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"Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a...
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Sassy cat mysteries volume 1
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"Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother to thwart, her talking cat Marshmallow to tend to--oh, and the murder of a local breeder to solve...now if only Mimi hadn't landed herself on top of the suspect list. Mimi Lee hoped to give Los Angeles animal lovers something to talk about with her pet grooming shop, Hollywoof. She never imagined that the first cat she said hello to would talk...
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F KIM
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F KIM
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KIM
2 available
F KIM
2 available
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"-- Provided by publisher.
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine-- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic...
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Rei Shimura mysteries volume 1
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Winner of the Agatha Award.
"Sujata Massey blasts her way into fiction with The Salaryman's Wife, a cross-cultural mystery of manners with a decidedly sexy edge."— Janet Evanonich
Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks
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Siobhan O'Brien novels volume 1
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a glazed donut than a romance, but when an old friend asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm, the rookie private detective's search begins...
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Secret staircase novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D PANDI
2 available
D PANDI
2 available
Westover - Adult Detective
D PANDI
1 available
D PANDI
1 available
Description
"Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted. An impossible crime. A family legacy. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases. After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj's...
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Vera Wong mysteries volume 1
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12 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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"Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing-a dead man in the middle of her tea...
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Claudia Lin novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D PEK
3 available
D PEK
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Detective
D PEK
1 available
D PEK
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Detective
D PEK
1 available
D PEK
1 available
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"Claudia Lin is looking at a cliched post-college future as a chronically underemployed English major--much to the consternation of her mother, who wants her to settle down and start dating a nice Chinese boy already; her brother, who pushes her to followin his model-minority footsteps; and her sister, who can't get over Claudia's privileged place in their mother's affections. But Claudia is used to keeping secrets from her family. Such as the fact...
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Perveen Mistry novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D MASSE
2 available
D MASSE
2 available
Courthouse - Adult Detective
D MASSE
1 available
D MASSE
1 available
Westover - Adult Detective
D MASSE
1 available
D MASSE
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Mistry Law has been appointed to...