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Central - Adult Fiction - NEW
F ZEVIN
2 available
F ZEVIN
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ZEVIN
1 available
F ZEVIN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction - NEW
F ZEVIN
1 available
F ZEVIN
1 available
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30 copies, 125 people are on the wait list.
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61 copies, 260 people are on the wait list.
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61 copies, 260 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type - NEW
LT F ZEVIN
1 available
LT F ZEVIN
1 available
Aurora Hills - Recently Returned
LT F ZEVIN
1 available
LT F ZEVIN
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Large Type
LT F ZEVIN
1 available
LT F ZEVIN
1 available
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"Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is over, and they must return to their normal lives. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F TRUSS
1 available
F TRUSS
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction - NEW
F TRUSS
1 available
F TRUSS
1 available
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"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction - NEW
791.4372 ZUCKE
1 available
791.4372 ZUCKE
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction - NEW
791.4372 ZUCKE
1 available
791.4372 ZUCKE
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction - NEW
791.4372 ZUCKE
1 available
791.4372 ZUCKE
1 available
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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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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"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can’t Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
822.33 B GREEN
1 available
822.33 B GREEN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
822.33 B GREEN
1 available
822.33 B GREEN
1 available
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Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare's life have been known...
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Central - Adult Fiction - NEW
F GARMU
1 available
F GARMU
1 available
Central - Adult Fiction
F GARMU
6 available
F GARMU
6 available
Central - Recently Returned
F GARMU
1 available
F GARMU
1 available
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40 copies, 141 people are on the wait list.
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75 copies, 182 people are on the wait list.
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75 copies, 182 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F GARMU
2 available
LT F GARMU
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type
LT F GARMU
2 available
LT F GARMU
2 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT F GARMU
1 available
LT F GARMU
1 available
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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Amgash novels volume 4
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F STROU
2 available
F STROU
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F STROU
1 available
F STROU
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F STROU
1 available
F STROU
1 available
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
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Central - Adult Fiction - NEW
F BROOK
1 available
F BROOK
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BROOK
8 available
F BROOK
8 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F BROOK
1 available
F BROOK
1 available
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8 copies, 48 people are on the wait list.
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20 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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20 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
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16 copies, 161 people are on the wait list.
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90 copies, 119 people are on the wait list.
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90 copies, 119 people are on the wait list.
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"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where...
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12 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
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Central - Adult Fiction - NEW
F KINGS
1 available
F KINGS
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction - NEW
F KINGS
1 available
F KINGS
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F KINGS
1 available
F KINGS
1 available
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44 copies, 167 people are on the wait list.
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86 copies, 131 people are on the wait list.
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86 copies, 131 people are on the wait list.
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
"Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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19 copies, 93 people are on the wait list.
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20 copies, 157 people are on the wait list.
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20 copies, 157 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F REID
1 available
F REID
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F REID
1 available
F REID
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F REID
1 available
F REID
1 available
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20 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
SF ELMOH
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SF ELMOH
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Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction
SF ELMOH
1 available
SF ELMOH
1 available
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18 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HAIG
1 available
F HAIG
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HAIG
1 available
F HAIG
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F HAIG
1 available
F HAIG
1 available
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 BALDW
1 available
305.896 BALDW
1 available
Columbia Pike - Recently Returned
305.896 BALDW
1 available
305.896 BALDW
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 BALDW
1 available
305.896 BALDW
1 available
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Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
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Glencarlyn - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DOCS CAPIT
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DVD DOCS CAPIT
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Westover - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DOCS CAPIT
1 available
DVD DOCS CAPIT
1 available
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An eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today's growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world's most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into the future....
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Nancy writes a report for school about her great-grandfather, making things up so he seems less ordinary, but when she learns that Grandpa will be there to hear her read the report aloud she realizes she was dishonest.
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"Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. From London to New York and beyond, city governments are investing billions in planting trees, installing green roofs, and building micro-parks. The innovations get even bolder, from a "forest city" in China covered entirely by trees to a program in Melbourne that connects citizens, by email, to their local flora. All of these programs, as sociologist Des Fitzgerald points out, are founded on the same...
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
SF GOSPO
6 available
SF GOSPO
6 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Science Fiction
SF GOSPO
1 available
SF GOSPO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction
SF GOSPO
1 available
SF GOSPO
1 available
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"An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October...
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Thorne chronicles volume 2
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Space pirate Rory Thorne and her crew trace an abandoned ship to vicious advanced alien tech and a sentient floral plant designed to be a massive biological weapon.
After avoiding an arranged marriage, thwarting a coup, and inadvertently kick-starting a revolution, Rory Thorne is no longer a princess, but a space pirate. When Rory and her crew-- former royal bodyguards, Thorsdottir and Zhang, and co-conspirator Jaed-- encounter an abandoned ship...