![Fifty words for rain [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/228520@2x.jpg)
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Asha Lemmie
(10,688)
Summary: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding...
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![Daisy Jones & the Six [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/201120@2x.jpg)
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
(314,335)
Summary: "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...
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![With the fire on high [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/208222@2x.jpg)
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Elizabeth Acevedo
(49,395)
Summary: Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.
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![Amal unbound [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/195329@2x.jpg)
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Aisha Saeed
(12,196)
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Amal's dream of becoming a teacher one day is dashed in an instant when she accidentally insults a member of her Pakistani village's ruling family. As punishment for her behavior,...
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![All rise for the honorable Perry T. Cook [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/160010@2x.jpg)
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Leslie Connor
(6,146)
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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![The book of Jonas [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68577@2x.jpg)
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Stephen Dau
(1,654)
Summary: An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound.
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![What dies in summer [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76244@2x.jpg)
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Tom Wright
(1,019)
Summary: A riveting Southern Gothic coming-of-age debut by a major new talent. "I did what I did, and that's on me." From that tantalizing first sentence, Tom Wright sweeps listeners up in a tale of lost...
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![Where we belong [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/96100@2x.jpg)
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Emily Giffin
(89,012)
Summary: Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of...
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![The marriage plot [downloadable audiobook]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Jeffrey Eugenides
(112,732)
Summary: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. But now,...
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![A death in the family [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/66674@2x.jpg)
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James Agee
(14,237)
Summary: The tragedy of Jay Follet's sudden death destroys his family's secure and loving world.
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![The cat's table [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/66720@2x.jpg)
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Michael Ondaatje
(24,472)
Summary: In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"-- as far from the Captain's Table as can be-- with a ragtag group...
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![The kid [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68644@2x.jpg)
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Sapphire
(2,283)
Summary: Nine year old Abdul is left alone to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade, forced to confront unspeakable violence, his history, and the dark corners of his own...
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Robert A. Heinlein
Summary: When Don Harvey's parents abruptly summon him from school on Earth to join them on Mars he has no idea he's about to be plunged into a deadly interplanetary intrigue. But from the moment he begins...
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![On Canaan's side [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/72624@2x.jpg)
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Sebastian Barry
(4,899)
Summary: Forced to flee from Ireland and the wrath of the IRA, Lilly Bere and her teenage son start anew in America. However, tragedy strikes when her fiance is murdered in Chicago and, years later, her...
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![The preacher's daughter [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76190@2x.jpg)
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Beverly Lewis
(8,175)
Summary: The Preacher's Daughter is the first in a captivating new series, ANNIE'S PEOPLE, and introduces an Amish community in Paradise, Pennsylvania-a heavenly-sounding place, but one that has seen its...
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Catherine Marshall
(49,913)
Summary: Christy Huddleston left home at 19 to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible...
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![The girl who fell from the sky [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/48788@2x.jpg)
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Heidi W Durrow
(27,848)
Summary: The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided...
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![The particular sadness of lemon cake [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52506@2x.jpg)
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Aimee Bender
(61,758)
Summary: On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake...
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![The children's book [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55086@2x.jpg)
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A. S. Byatt
(17,003)
Summary: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a dazzling new novel that spans the years from the Victorian era through World War I and centers around a famous children's book author and the...
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![Push [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/48712@2x.jpg)
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Sapphire
(48,454)
Summary: An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem...
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![South of Broad [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/45410@2x.jpg)
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Pat Conroy
(42,950)
Summary: The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship. Against the sumptuous...
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![The last song [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46056@2x.jpg)
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Nicholas Sparks
(512,806)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina. Three years later her mother decides it would be in...
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![The magicians [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/47335@2x.jpg)
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Lev Grossman
(241,272)
Summary: A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly...
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![Someday this pain will be useful to you [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/45517@2x.jpg)
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Peter Cameron
(12,890)
Summary: Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
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![Belle ruin [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60979@2x.jpg)
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Martha Grimes
(1,307)
Summary: When twelve-year-old Emma Graham and her friends discover the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel hidden in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake, Emma is determined to discover its secrets.
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![Snow angels [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35068@2x.jpg)
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Stewart O'Nan
(1,881)
Summary: Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents' divorce. His world is shattered further by the sudden and...
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Jerry Spinelli
(25,558)
Summary: He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a...
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![The blue star [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35659@2x.jpg)
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Tony Earley
(967)
Summary: Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and...
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![American wife [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/41242@2x.jpg)
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Curtis Sittenfeld
(52,260)
Summary: Alice Blackwell is the president's wife, the former school librarian is thrust into a position of power and influence, privilege and responsibility. During her husband's second term she must face contradictions when her beliefs disagree with his.
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![Nicholas Nickleby [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42763@2x.jpg)
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Charles Dickens
(40,591)
Summary: The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen...
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![The prime of Miss Jean Brodie [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42719@2x.jpg)
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Muriel Spark
(43,830)
Summary: In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of...
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![The rope walk [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/38956@2x.jpg)
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Carrie Brown
(958)
Summary: At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for...
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John Grisham
Summary: A moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
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![The alchemist's daughter [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34682@2x.jpg)
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Katharine McMahon
(4,587)
Summary: There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A gripping tale of a book-smart young woman's sensual...
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![The namesake [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34735@2x.jpg)
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Jhumpa Lahiri
(239,042)
Summary: Now a major motion picture! The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the...
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![The last summer (of you and me) [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60958@2x.jpg)
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Ann Brashares
(30,514)
Summary: The highly anticipated first novel for adults from the bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the traveling pants series. There are over seven million copies of the first three novels in Ann...
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![Captains courageous [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/43002@2x.jpg)
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Rudyard Kipling
Summary: This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, living characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a character transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a...
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![The god of animals [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44630@2x.jpg)
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Aryn Kyle
Summary: When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bed-ridden mother, a reticent, overworked father, and a...
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![Daisy Miller [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42961@2x.jpg)
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Henry James
Summary: Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets commonplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, N.Y., her mischievous small son, Randolph, and her daughter,...
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![Middlemarch [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42980@2x.jpg)
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George Eliot
(100,448)
Summary: Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of 19th century England. It is concerned with the lives of several ordinary people, albeit ones with high social...
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