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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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BOOK
Call #: F BOYD
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
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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by
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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BOOK
Call #: 811.6 BLA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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.
BOOK
Call #: F KIMBERLING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rhett McLaughlin
(10,532)
Summary: "It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an...
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BOOK
Call #: F MCLAUGHLIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ling Ma
(46,215)
Summary: Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty....
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Call #: F MA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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BOOK
Call #: F MOSHFEGH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Nico Walker
(11,873)
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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BOOK
Call #: F WALKER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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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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
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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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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by
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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BOOK
Call #: F DEWITT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Helene Tursten
(8,757)
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss...
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BOOK
Call #: F TURSTEN
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
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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BOOK
Call #: F HARKAWAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
David Wong
Series:
John Dies At The End Series - #3
(9,796)
Summary: Investigating the activities of a shapeshifting entity that is snatching local kids, the friends from This Book Is Full of Spiders are challenged to navigate an uproariously convoluted maze of illusions, incompetence and lies.
BOOK
Call #: F WONG
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
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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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
copies in: 18 of 18
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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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by
Jess Kidd
(9,270)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F KIDD
Location: Large Print 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
Sabina Murray
(214)
Summary: "Following her New York Times Editor's Choice collection of short stories Tales of the New World, historical fiction master Sabina Murray returns with an epic and bold novel of friendship and...
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BOOK
Call #: F MURRAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Francine Prose
(2,284)
Summary: "The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters...
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Call #: F PROSE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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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BOOK
Call #: F CAMPBELL
Location: 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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BOOK
Call #: F CAMERON
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
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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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
George R. R Martin
(9,814)
Summary: "Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer, he's become the proud owner of the last seedship of...
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BOOK
Call #: F MARTIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lisa O'Donnell
(15,579)
Summary: Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgow's Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not right.
BOOK
Call #: F O'DONNELL
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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BOOK
Call #: F LINDSAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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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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BOOK
Call #: F HOMES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Will Wiles
(2,213)
Summary: Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a...
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BOOK
Call #: F WILES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
J. K. Rowling
(310,865)
Summary: The early death of a small town councilman reveals deep-rooted conflicts in the seemingly idyllic community of Pagford, which rapidly deteriorates in the face of cultural disputes, generation clashes, and a volatile election.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F ROWLING
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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
J. K Rowling
(310,865)
Summary: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.
BOOK
Call #: F ROWLING
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jeffry P Lindsay
Series:
Dexter Morgan Series
(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.
BOOK
Call #: F LINDSAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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