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Department Q volume 1
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"The Keeper of Lost Causes" features a deeply flawed chief detective who's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest.
2) Day: a novel
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CUNNI
3 available
F CUNNI
3 available
Central - Recently Returned
F CUNNI
1 available
F CUNNI
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CUNNI
1 available
F CUNNI
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
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"When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets,...
4) Eastbound
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Central - Adult Fiction
F KERAN
4 available
F KERAN
4 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F KERAN
2 available
F KERAN
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KERAN
1 available
F KERAN
1 available
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"Racing toward Vladivostok, we meet the young Aliocha, packed onto a Trans-Siberian train with other Russian conscripts. Soon after boarding, he decides to desert and over a midnight smoke in a dark corridor of the train, he encounters an older French woman, H�el�ene, for whom he feels an uncanny trust. A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask-through a pantomime and basic Russian that H�el�ene must decipher-for...
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"Isabel is a single twenty-something in Portland, Oregon, who repairs damaged books in the basement of the local library, dreaming of a life she can't quite reach. She is filled with longing--for a life in Amsterdam even though she's never visited, for the unrequited love of a coworker, for a simpler time from her childhood in Alaska among the threatened glaciers she loves, and for the perfect vintage dress to wear to a party that just might change...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded...
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"From journalist and poet Melissa Bond, a gripping account of the author's addiction to benzodiazepines (a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) and the hidden dangers they pose. As Melissa mothers her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
B SINCLAI S
5 available
B SINCLAI S
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography
B SINCLAI S
1 available
B SINCLAI S
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
B SINCLAI S
1 available
B SINCLAI S
1 available
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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
9) Affinity
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Margaret Prior, assigned to visit the women's ward of Victorian London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work for a suicide attempt, is drawn into a dark romance with spiritualist Selina Dawes who has been jailed after a seance she was conducting went horribly wrong.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F TAN
4 available
F TAN
4 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F TAN
1 available
F TAN
1 available
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The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
11) The woman in me
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Central - Adult Biography - NEW
B SPEARS B
1 available
B SPEARS B
1 available
Central - Adult Biography
B SPEARS B
9 available
B SPEARS B
9 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography
B SPEARS B
2 available
B SPEARS B
2 available
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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
12) The talk
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Central - Adult Graphic Novel
GRAPH 305.896 BELL
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GRAPH 305.896 BELL
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"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
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Central - Adult Biography
B SIMMONS R
2 available
B SIMMONS R
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography
B SIMMONS R
1 available
B SIMMONS R
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Biography
B SIMMONS R
1 available
B SIMMONS R
1 available
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"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one of America's preeminent educators. The former president...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MASON
3 available
F MASON
3 available
Central - Recently Returned
F MASON
1 available
F MASON
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MASON
2 available
F MASON
2 available
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10 copies, 66 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 68 people are on the wait list.
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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16) Ordinary notes
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Central - Recently Returned
305.896 SHARP
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305.896 SHARP
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Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 SHARP
1 available
305.896 SHARP
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Told through a series of 248 notes, this volume explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake of it, touching upon such themes as language, beauty, memory, history and literature.
"A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ENRIG
3 available
F ENRIG
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F ENRIG
1 available
F ENRIG
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ENRIG
1 available
F ENRIG
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"From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell--funny, brave and so much loved--is a young woman...
18) Dracula
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Central - Adult Fiction
F STOKE
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F STOKE
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F STOKE
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F STOKE
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Overview: The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart-these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended...
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"In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road and Meet Me at the Museum, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine"-- Provided by publisher.
20) The fraud
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
6 available
F SMITH
6 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
1 available
F SMITH
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F SMITH
1 available
F SMITH
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Recently Returned
LT F SMITH
1 available
LT F SMITH
1 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT F SMITH
1 available
LT F SMITH
1 available
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...