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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F DOERR
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CD F DOERR
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20 copies, 98 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 117 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 117 people are on the wait list.
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GIFFI
3 available
F GIFFI
3 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F GIFFI
1 available
F GIFFI
1 available
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"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's...
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Rich novels (Kevin Kwan) volume 1
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Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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Central - Adult Biography
B WESTOVE T
1 available
B WESTOVE T
1 available
Central - Recently Returned
B WESTOVE T
1 available
B WESTOVE T
1 available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD B WESTOVE T
2 available
CD B WESTOVE T
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD B WESTOVE T
1 available
CD B WESTOVE T
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD B WESTOVE T
1 available
CD B WESTOVE T
1 available
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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15 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F HANNA
1 available
F HANNA
1 available
Westover - Recently Returned
F HANNA
1 available
F HANNA
1 available
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10 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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17 copies, 63 people are on the wait list.
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17 copies, 63 people are on the wait list.
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Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better...
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Central - Adult Biography - Book Club
B VANCE FAMILY
6 available
B VANCE FAMILY
6 available
Central - Adult Biography
B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Biography - Book Club
B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
CD B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
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Courthouse - Adult Large Type
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
LT B VANCE FAMILY
1 available
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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Arthur Less novels volume 1
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
027.4794 ORLEA
6 available
027.4794 ORLEA
6 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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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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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Central - Adult Large Type
LT 648 KONDO
1 available
LT 648 KONDO
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT 648 KONDO
1 available
LT 648 KONDO
1 available
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Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever....
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NG
4 available
F NG
4 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F NG
1 available
F NG
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F NG
1 available
F NG
1 available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD F NG
1 available
CD F NG
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Audiobooks
CD F NG
1 available
CD F NG
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F NG
1 available
CD F NG
1 available
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
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Central - Kids Holiday - Fiction
J/HOL JP MOORE
6 available
J/HOL JP MOORE
6 available
Aurora Hills - Kids Holiday - Fiction
J/HOL JP MOORE
7 available
J/HOL JP MOORE
7 available
Cherrydale - Kids Holiday - Fiction
J/HOL JP MOORE
4 available
J/HOL JP MOORE
4 available
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"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with his...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MORIA
4 available
F MORIA
4 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F MORIA
2 available
F MORIA
2 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MORIA
1 available
F MORIA
1 available
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F MORIA
2 available
LT F MORIA
2 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT F MORIA
1 available
LT F MORIA
1 available
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
14) Origin: a novel
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Robert Langdon novels volume 5
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BROWN
1 available
F BROWN
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BROWN
1 available
F BROWN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F BROWN
1 available
F BROWN
1 available
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
15) Rain
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Aurora Hills - Kids Nonfiction
J 551.577 COX
1 available
J 551.577 COX
1 available
Shirlington - Kids Nonfiction
J 551.577 COX
1 available
J 551.577 COX
1 available
Westover - Kids Nonfiction
J 551.577 COX
1 available
J 551.577 COX
1 available
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"Through stunning photographs and simple text, books in this series introduce children to different types of weather. In Rain, children learn how rain forms, what floods and droughts are, and why rain is an important part of our weather"--Provided by publisher.
16) The reckoning
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GRISH
1 available
F GRISH
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F GRISH
1 available
F GRISH
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F GRISH
1 available
F GRISH
1 available
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Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
17) RIBSY
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Henry Huggins volume 6
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Cherrydale - Kids Fiction
JF CLEAR
1 available
JF CLEAR
1 available
Columbia Pike - Kids Fiction
JF CLEAR
1 available
JF CLEAR
1 available
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Separated from his owner, Henry Huggins, in a shopping center parking lot, an ordinary city dog begins a string of bewildering adventures.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 MANSO
1 available
158.1 MANSO
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 MANSO
1 available
158.1 MANSO
1 available
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"In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or...
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"Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth : the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
616.99424 KALAN
3 available
616.99424 KALAN
3 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction
616.99424 KALAN
1 available
616.99424 KALAN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
616.99424 KALAN
1 available
616.99424 KALAN
1 available
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5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT 616.99424 KALAN
1 available
LT 616.99424 KALAN
1 available
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT 616.99424 KALAN
1 available
LT 616.99424 KALAN
1 available
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...