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Central - Adult Fiction
F ACEVE
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F ACEVE
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ACEVE
1 available
F ACEVE
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ACEVE
1 available
F ACEVE
1 available
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"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
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"Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He'd made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town, pushing its volatile mix of...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CRUZ
3 available
F CRUZ
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CRUZ
1 available
F CRUZ
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F CRUZ
1 available
F CRUZ
1 available
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"Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CERVA
1 available
F CERVA
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F CERVA
1 available
F CERVA
1 available
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"When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her world turns upside down. She flees New York City to the one place she can always call home--the enchanted Hacienda Estrada. The Estrada family farm in Mexico houses an abundance of charmed flowers cultivated by Harlow's mother, sisters, aunt, and cousins. By harnessing the magic in these flowers, they can heal hearts, erase memories, interpret dreams--but...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NAPOL
6 available
F NAPOL
6 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F NAPOL
3 available
F NAPOL
3 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F NAPOL
1 available
F NAPOL
1 available
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Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type
LT F NAPOL
1 available
LT F NAPOL
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Large Type
LT F NAPOL
1 available
LT F NAPOL
1 available
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"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
6) Parakeet
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"The week of her wedding, the bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, the bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the...
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF ACEVE
1 available
YF ACEVE
1 available
Courthouse - Recently Returned
YF ACEVE
1 available
YF ACEVE
1 available
Description
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions-doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it's not worth her time to pursue...