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Stephen King
(430,065)
Summary: On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time...
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Call #: F KING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Matthew Rosenberg writer
(1,074)
Summary: A darkly comedic story of our burgeoning child criminals and their elaborate plans. When a group of bumbling criminals shows up in her father's life looking to pull one last job, young Paige has two...
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Call #: 741.59 ROS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Hallie Heald illustrator
(221)
Summary: An illustrator and self-proclaimed introvert portrays engaging and sometimes outlandish excuses to avoid leaving home, with a character pursuing their obsessions, hobbies, interests, and sudden whims with gusto on each page.
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Call #: 155.232 HEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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John Green
(452,642)
Summary: Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find...
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Call #: YA F GREEN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Andrea Beaty
(6,302)
Summary: Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
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Call #: E BEATY
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 0 of 1
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Mitsurou Kubo
(467)
Summary: Kinichiro isn't even that bad. It's just that on the first day of high school, his narrow eyes made him look shifty, so people assumed he was trouble. Now it's graduation, and he's looking back on...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL AGA
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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M. C Beaton
Series:
Agatha Raisin Series
(22,738)
Summary: "Agatha has moved to a picture-book English village and wants to get in the swing. So she buys herself a quiche for the village quiche-making contest and is more than alarmed when it kills a judge....
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Call #: F BEATON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Ron Chernow
(135,964)
Summary: Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly...
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Call #: B HAMILTON
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Caleb Carr
Series:
Dr. Kreizler Series
(155,670)
Summary: "The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body...
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Call #: F CARR
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Elan Mastai
(22,678)
Summary: "There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a...
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Call #: F MASTAI
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Leslie Connor
(6,077)
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has...
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Call #: J F CONNOR
Location: Juvenile Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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Michael Kupperman
(1,118)
Summary: In this moving graphic memoir, Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father -- the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia -- seems to...
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Call #: 791.44 KUP
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Joy Fielding
(3,733)
Summary: "Driven to desperation by divorce, boredom, infidelity, or a beloved husband's death, a young woman named Paige, her cousin and rival Heather, her best friend Chloe, and her mother, Joan, all decide...
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Call #: F FIELDING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Robin Ha illustrator
(5,062)
Summary: A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up...
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Call #: 325.1 HA YA
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 1 of 1
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Anna Quindlen
(12,778)
Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why...
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Call #: F QUINDLEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Neil Gaiman
Series:
American Gods Series
(773,328)
Summary: Upon his release from prison, a widower accepts a job as a bodyguard and joins the battle between the gods of yore and the neoteric gods of present-day America.
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Call #: F GAIMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Nate Blakeslee
(8,008)
Summary: The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North...
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Call #: 599.773 BLA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(274,762)
Summary: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
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Call #: F ADICHIE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Wanda E. Brunstetter
(305)
Summary: The Amish country is known for an atmosphere of peace and quiet, perfect for front-porch sitting with a good book. Join New York Times bestselling author Brunstetter, her daughter-in-law, and...
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Call #: F BRUNSTETTER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Elizabeth Strout
(19,775)
Summary: With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in...
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Call #: F STROUT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Andrew Wyeth
(223)
Summary: This comprehensive survey is a look back at six decades of paintings by America's favorite artist. With 138 reproductions, including many seminal paintings from both his Chadds Ford and Maine work,...
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Call #: 759.13 WYE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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George Orwell
(1,649)
Summary: A graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel.
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Call #: 741.59 ORW
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kendare Blake
Series:
Anna Dressed In Blood Series
Summary: For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but...
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Call #: YA F BLAKE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Leo Tolstoy graf
(677,422)
Summary: Presents the working out of the parallel moral and religious dilemmas of Anna Karenina with her soldier-lover, Vronsky, and Konstantin Levin with his young, very loving wife, Kitty.
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Call #: F TOLSTOY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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David Polonsky artist
(8,946)
Summary: The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary -- it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this...
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Call #: B FRANK YA
Location: YA Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Greer Hendricks
(107,416)
Summary: "When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the...
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Call #: HOT PICK F HENDRICKS
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 3 of 3
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Elizabeth Strout
(44,358)
Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout comes a brilliant latticework of fiction that recalls Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity....
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Call #: F STROUT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Maile Meloy
Series:
Apothecary Series
(12,281)
Summary: Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
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Call #: YA F MELOY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Riad Sattouf
(10,490)
Summary: "In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France,...
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Call #: B SATTOUF
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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Bryan Talbot writer, illustrator
(57)
Summary: In a swirling multiverse of endless possibilities and incalculable dangers, malign forces manipulate history through countless timelines and act to wreak destruction across universes. But amongst...
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Call #: 741.59 TAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Garth Stein
(457,151)
Summary: Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
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Call #: F STEIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Melanie Gillman illustrator
(2,677)
Summary: "Charlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So naturally, she's spending a week of her summer vacation stuck at an all-white Christian...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL GIL
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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Yūsei Matsui
Series:
Assassination Classroom
(19,932)
Summary: The students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who's just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the...
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Call #: 741.59 MAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kenta Shinohara
Series:
Astra Lost In Space
(235)
Summary: After crashing on the planet Icriss, all seems hopeless for the crew of the Astra. That is, until they discover another Astra hidden on the planet. And there's a woman in cryogenic sleep inside! Will...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL AST
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jan Karon
Series:
Mitford Series - #1
(58,855)
Summary: A portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life introduces the small North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor.
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Call #: BK CLUB F KARON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 14 of 15
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Ian McEwan
(445,589)
Summary: Three children lost their innocence --as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935-- and their lives are changed forever.
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Call #: F MCEWAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Bill Watterson
(21,269)
Summary: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, is a large-format treasury of the cartoons from Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet! (including full-color Sunday cartoons) plus a full-color original story...
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Call #: 741.56 WAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Lucy Grealy
(24,640)
Summary: At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly...
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.916 GRE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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