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| 2005. | Simon & Schuster | 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Checked Out |
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| 2005 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2005. | Thorndike Press | pages ; cm. | English | Available Westover - Adult Large Type LT 973.09 VOWEL |
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New York Times bestselling author of The Word Shipmates and contributor to NPR's "This American Life" Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history.
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Central - Adult Biography has 3
B FEY T
Westover - Adult Biography
B FEY T
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2011 | 1st ed. | Little, Brown and Co | viii, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available 7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Biography has 3 B FEY T Westover - Adult Biography B FEY T |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks
CD B FEY T
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| p2011 | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 5 sound discs (5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks CD B FEY T |
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 7
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | English | Available Online 7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 7 |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 10 |
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On her way to becoming an award-winning superstar, Tina Fey struggled through some questionable haircuts, some after-school jobs, the rise of nachos as a cultural phenomenon, a normal childhood, a happy marriage and joyful motherhood. Now she can reflect on what she's learned: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BACKM
Central - Adult Fiction
F BACKM
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F BACKM
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | 324 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F BACKM Central - Adult Fiction F BACKM Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F BACKM |
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 8 audio discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F BACKM |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 2
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Atria Books | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016. | Thorndike Press Large Print | 497 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F BACKM |
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Britt-Marie is a socially awkward, fussy busybody who is used to being organized. When she walks out on her cheating husband and gets a job as caretaker of the dilapidated recreation center in Borg, she is woefully unprepared for the changes. But as she takes on the task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory, she just might find a place she belongs.
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Central - Adult Fiction has 3
F BARBI
Westover - Adult Fiction
F BARBI
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2012] | First edition. | Harper | 302 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 3 F BARBI Westover - Adult Fiction F BARBI |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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Learning of the infidelity of her husband, Nora Cunningham packs up her daughters--Annie, seven; and Ella, twelve--and takes refuge on Burke's Island, a craggy spit of land off the coast of Maine where her mother disappeared at sea long ago. Just as Nora begins to regain her balance, her daughters embark on a reckless odyssey of their own--forcing Nora to finally face the truth about her marriage, her mother, and her long-buried past.
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F SEDAR 2008 2nd ed.
Central - Adult Fiction
F SEDAR 2008 2nd ed.
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction has 2
F SEDAR 2008 2nd ed.
| Pub. Date | Edition | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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| 2008. | Second edition. | viii, 166 pages ; 19 cm | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F SEDAR 2008 2nd ed. Central - Adult Fiction F SEDAR 2008 2nd ed. Cherrydale - Adult Fiction has 2 F SEDAR 2008 2nd ed. | |
| [1997] | 123 pages ; 19 cm | Available Shirlington - Adult Fiction F SEDAR |
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2008] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F SEDAR |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Availability | |
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| 2008 | OverDrive | Hachette Audio | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection | |
| 2011 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| 2009 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 5 |
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A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.
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| 2001. | Riverhead Books | 305 pages ; 21 cm | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| 2005. | Riverhead Books | pages | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 814 CHO |
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The comedienne and activist shares her misadventures in political advocacy for such causes as the freedom of expression and gay rights in an account that makes humorous recommendations for surviving the current administration.
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John Lago novels volume 1
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F KUHN
Central - Adult Fiction has 3
F KUHN
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F KUHN
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2014. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | 276 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F KUHN Central - Adult Fiction has 3 F KUHN Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F KUHN |
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"John Lago is an intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan. He clocks eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all of the shit work no one else wants to do . . . and he doesn't make a dime. But John isn't trying to claw his way to the top of the corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm's high profile, heavily guarded partners. His internship is the perfect cover--enabling him to gather intel...
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| 2011. | Dutton | 294 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F STROH Westover - Adult Fiction F STROH |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD F STROH
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F STROH
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2011] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 8 audio discs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F STROH Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F STROH |
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When life gives you lemons, call your best girlfriends and whip up some lemon martinis. Such is the mantra for the Ladies' Society for the Conservation of Martinis, which is established after one fateful PTA meeting, when four young mothers discover they have more in common than they ever thought possible.
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Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction
YF HALL
Central - Teen Fiction has 2
YF HALL
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014. | First edition. | Swoon Reads | 246 pages, 22 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction YF HALL Central - Teen Fiction has 2 YF HALL |
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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College students Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class and have the same interests, but it looks like things are never going to work out between them because Lea is a little aloof and Gabe is a little shy.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WEINE
Central - Adult Fiction
F WEINE
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F WEINE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2012] | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | 389 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F WEINE Central - Adult Fiction F WEINE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F WEINE |
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| [2012] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 11 audio discs (720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F WEINE |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out |
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Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
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| 2008. | Gotham Books | xxiii, 230 pages ; 20 cm | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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614.1 BLUM
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| 2010. | Penguin Press | 319 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Nonfiction 614.1 BLUM |
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| [2010] | Unabridged. | Tantor Media, Inc | 8 audio discs (approximately 10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out |
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| 2010 | OverDrive | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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***PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE released a film based on The Poisoner's Handbook in January 2014***
Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie" (The New York Observer)
A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's
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Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 3
F SIMSI
Westover - Adult Fiction has 2
F SIMSI
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2013. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | 295 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available 10 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 3 F SIMSI Westover - Adult Fiction has 2 F SIMSI |
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2013] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 7 audio discs (approximately 480 min.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks has 3 CD F SIMSI |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Checked Out 5 copies, 22 people are on the wait list. |
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Don Tillman, a profesor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
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F THAYE
Central - Adult Fiction has 2
F THAYE
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F THAYE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2012] | First edition. | Ballantine Books | x, 303 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F THAYE Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F THAYE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F THAYE |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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Three women forge a unique bond one sun-drenched summer on New England's Dragonfly Lake.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HILDE
Westover - Adult Fiction
F HILDE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2012] | First edition. | Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co | 392 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F HILDE Westover - Adult Fiction F HILDE |
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| [2012] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 11 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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After a fatal car crash during a summer celebration on Nantucket island, four teenagers question if the roots of the accident lie further in the past than they seem; is true healing possible, in even these most devastating circumstance; and, can true friendship ever really die?
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| [2011] | First edition. | Princeton Architectural Press | 191 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 683.83 THWAI |
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The story of the author's nine-month-long journey to build a toaster from scratch--from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry--aims to help the reader reflect on the costs and perils of our cheap consumer culture.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 2
F SEMPL
Central - Adult Fiction has 6
F SEMPL
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F SEMPL
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2013. | First Back Bay paperback edition. | Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company | 330, 6 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available 21 copies, 8 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 2 F SEMPL Central - Adult Fiction has 6 F SEMPL Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F SEMPL |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | English | Checked Out 7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2012 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out 12 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. |
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When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...
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| 2009. | McSweeney's | 300 pages ; cm. cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F EGGER |
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| OverDrive | Blackstone Audio, Inc | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze.
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