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F ALLEN
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F ALLEN
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ALLEN
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F ALLEN
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"Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another train,...
2) Afterlife
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ALVAR
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F ALVAR
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ALVAR
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F ALVAR
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"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
3) By blood
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"San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But the walls are thin and he's distracted by voices from next door--his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so he begins to hear about the patient's troubles...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F UMANS
1 available
F UMANS
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F UMANS
1 available
F UMANS
1 available
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One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--connects the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in a novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.
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Over a period of 20 years, Enrique Florit loses his love, Leila Rezvani, only to find love again with El Salvador immigrant, Marta Claros.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F URREA
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F URREA
3 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F URREA
1 available
F URREA
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F URREA
1 available
F URREA
1 available
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"In Urrea's exuberant new novel of Mexican-American life, 70-year-old patriarch Big Angel de la Cruz is dying, and he wants to have one last birthday blowout. Unfortunately, his 100-year-old mother, America, dies the week of his party, so funeral and birthday are celebrated one day apart. The entire contentious, riotous de la Cruz clan descends on San Diego for the events--"High rollers and college students, prison veternaos and welfare mothers, happy...
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F LUISE
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F LUISE
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F LUISE
1 available
F LUISE
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F LUISE
1 available
F LUISE
1 available
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"A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes...
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"Emilio thinks he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to make sure of it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver's license--however, his mother dissuades him from doing so. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal. Under the Dreamers'...
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F HOFFM
1 available
F HOFFM
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F HOFFM
1 available
F HOFFM
1 available
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"From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--
Berlin. Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Ettie, the daughter of a renowned rabbi, offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn...
10) Violeta: a novel
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ALLEN
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F ALLEN
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ALLEN
2 available
F ALLEN
2 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F ALLEN
1 available
F ALLEN
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century"--
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores...