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Central - Adult Fiction
F MCALL
1 available
F MCALL
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MCALL
1 available
F MCALL
1 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F MCALL
1 available
F MCALL
1 available
Checked Out
14 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Description
From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BABAL
1 available
F BABAL
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BABAL
1 available
F BABAL
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F BABAL
1 available
F BABAL
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together... Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of "situationships", players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CHEN
5 available
F CHEN
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CHEN
1 available
F CHEN
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F CHEN
1 available
F CHEN
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
2 available
F WILLI
2 available
Central - Recently Returned
F WILLI
1 available
F WILLI
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
1 available
F WILLI
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NOVIC
3 available
F NOVIC
3 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F NOVIC
1 available
F NOVIC
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F NOVIC
2 available
F NOVIC
2 available
Description
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F LLOYD
3 available
F LLOYD
3 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F LLOYD
1 available
F LLOYD
1 available
Columbia Pike - Recently Returned
F LLOYD
1 available
F LLOYD
1 available
Description
Everyone's Dying to Join . . .The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Home—a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast—and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GRAMO
3 available
F GRAMO
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F GRAMO
2 available
F GRAMO
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F GRAMO
1 available
F GRAMO
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Cherrydale - Adult Large Type
LT F GRAMO
1 available
LT F GRAMO
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Large Type
LT F GRAMO
1 available
LT F GRAMO
1 available
Description
In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie. In every way, she became a part of their life––first, both Christies. Then, just Archie. Soon, Nan became Archie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted wife, desperate to marry him. Nan’s plot didn’t begin the day she met Archie and Agatha. It began decades before, in Ireland, when Nan was a young girl. She and the man...
28) Honor: a novel
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful...
29) Lucky
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Central - Adult Fiction
F STAPL
3 available
F STAPL
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F STAPL
1 available
F STAPL
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A compelling and thrilling road-trip novel about a talented grifter named Lucky whose past comes back to haunt her."--
Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She's ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity, when things go sideways. Alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, Lucky discovers that a lottery...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SHAFA
2 available
F SHAFA
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SHAFA
1 available
F SHAFA
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F SHAFA
1 available
F SHAFA
1 available
Description
"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when...
31) Sankofa: a novel
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ONUZO
1 available
F ONUZO
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ONUZO
1 available
F ONUZO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F ONUZO
1 available
F ONUZO
1 available
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
32) L.A. weather
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ESCAN
4 available
F ESCAN
4 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F ESCAN
1 available
F ESCAN
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F ESCAN
1 available
F ESCAN
1 available
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints. L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F BARTZ
2 available
F BARTZ
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F BARTZ
2 available
F BARTZ
2 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F BARTZ
1 available
F BARTZ
1 available
Description
Emily is having the time of her life—she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she brought back to their room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene...
34) The paper palace
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Central - Adult Fiction
F COWLE
6 available
F COWLE
6 available
Central - Recently Returned
F COWLE
1 available
F COWLE
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F COWLE
1 available
F COWLE
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
3 available
F WILLI
3 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F WILLI
2 available
F WILLI
2 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F DAVE
1 available
F DAVE
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F DAVE
2 available
F DAVE
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F DAVE
1 available
F DAVE
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US...
37) Northern spy
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BERRY
3 available
F BERRY
3 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F BERRY
1 available
F BERRY
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F BERRY
1 available
F BERRY
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F ENGEL
2 available
F ENGEL
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F ENGEL
1 available
F ENGEL
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ENGEL
1 available
F ENGEL
1 available
Description
Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she does make it to Bogotá, will she trade the facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her...
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Detective Elin Warner novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
D PEARS
4 available
D PEARS
4 available
Cherrydale - Adult Detective
D PEARS
1 available
D PEARS
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Detective
D PEARS
1 available
D PEARS
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NORTH
5 available
F NORTH
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F NORTH
1 available
F NORTH
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F NORTH
1 available
F NORTH
1 available
Description
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws...