![Dexter is delicious [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52695@2x.jpg)
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Jeffry P Lindsay
(18,145)
Summary: Serial killer Dexter Morgan reevaluates his life views upon the birth of his daughter and investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl who has been running with a group of goths rumored to be engaging in cannibalism.
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![The tortilla curtain [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52994@2x.jpg)
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
(28,434)
Summary: The lives of two different couples-wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
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![Confessions of a crap artist--Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.) [downloadable ebook] / a chronicle of verified scientific fact, 1945-1959](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/57338@2x.jpg)
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Philip K Dick
(4,435)
Summary: Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hollow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly...
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![The third policeman [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42991@2x.jpg)
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Flann O'Brien
(11,416)
Summary: Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, its popularity has suddenly increased...
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![Beat the reaper [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44619@2x.jpg)
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Josh Bazell
(15,373)
Summary: Peter Brown is a young emergency room doctor whose sealed identity in the witness protection program is about to give out! After a heart-thumping morning (including a mugging and a lusty elevator...
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![Centuries of June [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61323@2x.jpg)
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by
Keith Donohue
(495)
Summary: In this black comedy Jack attempts to tell the story of how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. But he keeps getting interrupted by a series of suspects--eight women lying in the...
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![Double Dexter [downloadable ebook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/66433@2x.jpg)
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Jeffry P Lindsay
(13,552)
Summary: Forensic analyst and nighttime vigilante Dexter Morgan discovers that he is being followed by a killer who is copying his methods, an adversary whom Dexter seeks to outmaneuver using his trademark knack for extricating himself from trouble.
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by
Ottessa Moshfegh
(96,616)
Summary: "From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper...
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Call #: F MOSHFEGH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Oyinkan Braithwaite
(143,068)
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...
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![My year of rest and relaxation [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/195419@2x.jpg)
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by
Ottessa Moshfegh
(97,528)
Summary: "From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper...
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![Cherry [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191897@2x.jpg)
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Nico Walker
(12,089)
Summary: "Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share...
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Landis Blair , artist
(315)
Summary: Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, this is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignettes at once...
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Call #: 811.6 BLA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Oyinkan Braithwaite
(182,302)
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...
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Note: The Silent Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on April. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE
copies in: 16 of 18
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![My sister, the serial killer [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/217097@2x.jpg)
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
(180,229)
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...
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Note: The Silent Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on April. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE LP
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jess Kidd
(9,276)
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
copies in: 18 of 18
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![Purity [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/139561@2x.jpg)
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Jonathan Franzen (read by Dylan Baker)
(42,596)
Summary: "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F FRANZEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Himself [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/184553@2x.jpg)
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by
Jess Kidd
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F KIDD
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Dexter is delicious [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/106843@2x.jpg)
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by
Jeffry P. Lindsay (read by Jeff Lindsay)
Series:
Dexter Morgan Series
(18,145)
Summary: Dexter, a forensics expert for the Miami Police, kills people in his spare time. However, he only murders other killers who escape justice. In this installment, Dexter is just adjusting to life with...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F LINDSAY
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Dexter's final cut [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/75450@2x.jpg)
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by
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Series:
Dexter Morgan Series
(8,492)
Summary: "Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy blood spatter analyst...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F LINDSAY
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Sister mine [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27331@2x.jpg)
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by
Tawni O'Dell
(1,794)
Summary: Former police officer Shae-Lynn Penrose now drives a cab in the coal mining town she grew up in. Five of her friends still struggling with memories of being trapped in a mine two years earlier....
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F O'DELL
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The casual vacancy [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68461@2x.jpg)
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J. K. Rowling (read by Tom Hollander)
(310,858)
Summary: When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey,...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ROWLING
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dave Barry
(5,646)
Summary: Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters,...
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Call #: F BARRY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
William Boyd
(1,810)
Summary: A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968 -- a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin'...
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Call #: F BOYD
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Graeme Cameron
(3,883)
Summary: He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he's carefully...
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Call #: F CAMERON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
(1,440)
Summary: Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once...
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Call #: F CAMPBELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Patrick deWitt
(18,339)
Summary: "From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration....
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Call #: F DEWITT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lyndsay Faye
(14,210)
Summary: "A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: F FAYE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jonathan Franzen
(42,596)
Summary: "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student...
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BOOK
Call #: F FRANZEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nick Harkaway
(4,617)
Summary: "From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending...
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Call #: F HARKAWAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
A. M Homes
(14,479)
Summary: Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his...
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Call #: F HOMES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jess Kidd
(6,032)
Summary: Presents the tale of a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder who tackle notions of forgiveness, independence, sainthood, duty, and connections before dark family secrets are brought to light, revealing the sinister fate of a missing local schoolgirl.
BOOK
Call #: F KIDD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brian Kimberling
(117)
Summary: Escaping small-town life to immerse himself in the rapidly changing culture of 1998 Prague, Elliott falls in love with an English teacher with whom he explores their adopted city's wonders, before historical events upend their idyllic existence.
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Call #: F KIMBERLING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Antoine Laurain
Summary: When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undergo hypnotherapy to help kick the habit. At first the treatment is a success but, as the stresses of daily life begin...
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BOOK
Call #: F LAURAIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jem Lester
(5,093)
Summary: "In this darkly funny and emotive debut, Ben Jewell has hit a breaking point. His profoundly autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken, and Ben and his wife Emma are struggling to cope. When...
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Call #: F LESTER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jeffry P Lindsay
Series:
Dexter Morgan Series
(8,492)
Summary: Lights. Camera. Mayhem. Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy...
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Call #: F LINDSAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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