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Central - Adult Fiction
F HENDR
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F HENDR
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HENDR
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F HENDR
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F HENDR
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F HENDR
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When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of...
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
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A Walk in the Woods is a laugh-out-loud account of an outrageously rugged hike by a beloved comic author.
Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted "hiker's highway" sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain. Bryson risked snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
25) The color purple
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Columbia Pike - Adult Audiobooks
CD F WALKE
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CD F WALKE
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
2 available
F MCLAI
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
1 available
F MCLAI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
1 available
F MCLAI
1 available
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"In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and uncontrollably--falling in love with Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming...
27) The library book
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
027.4794 ORLEA
4 available
027.4794 ORLEA
4 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
Westover - Adult Nonfiction
027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT 027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
LT 027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT 027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
LT 027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT 027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
LT 027.4794 ORLEA
1 available
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"Susan Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries"--
"Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative...
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5 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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A poignant tale of childhood and the ties of family, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" will transport the reader to the early 1900s where a little girl named Francie dreamily looks out her window at a tree struggling to reach the sky.
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Rich novels (Kevin Kwan) volume 2
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F KWAN
1 available
F KWAN
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F KWAN
1 available
F KWAN
1 available
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F KWAN
1 available
CD F KWAN
1 available
Westover - Adult Audiobooks
CD F KWAN
1 available
CD F KWAN
1 available
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It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. Then a chance accident reveals his identity. Suddenly, Rachel is drawn...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
305.2442 DRUCK
1 available
305.2442 DRUCK
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction
305.2442 DRUCK
1 available
305.2442 DRUCK
1 available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD 305.2442 DRUCK
1 available
CD 305.2442 DRUCK
1 available
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The author confronts the realities of being forty, examining how the modern forties are less associated with midlife than in the past and discussing the disconnects of social media, the French perspectives about libido, and the challenges of raising kids while caring for aging parents.
"The best-selling author of Bringing Up Bébé investigates life in her forties, and wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. When Pamela Druckerman...
31) Love, Rosie
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The relationship between Rosie and Alex evolves from childhood best friends into something more as separation, an unexpected pregnancy, and other romances turn their lives upside down.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BENED
1 available
F BENED
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F BENED
1 available
F BENED
1 available
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"The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok--a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
"In 1933, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. By that time, she had put...
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok--a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
"In 1933, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. By that time, she had put...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
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F MCLAI
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
1 available
F MCLAI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
1 available
F MCLAI
1 available
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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
36) hazards of good breeding
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Central - Adult Biography
B FOURCAD M
2 available
B FOURCAD M
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography
B FOURCAD M
1 available
B FOURCAD M
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Biography
B FOURCAD M
1 available
B FOURCAD M
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group's name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD F HONEY
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CD F HONEY
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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman...
39) American dirt
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CUMMI
5 available
F CUMMI
5 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F CUMMI
1 available
F CUMMI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CUMMI
1 available
F CUMMI
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
10 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F CUMMI
2 available
LT F CUMMI
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type
LT F CUMMI
1 available
LT F CUMMI
1 available
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"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F HAMID
1 available
F HAMID
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F HAMID
1 available
F HAMID
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F HAMID
1 available
F HAMID
1 available
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At a caf�e table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan...