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by
Kengo Hanazawa
Series:
I Am A Hero
(278)
Summary: After teaming up with a larger group of survivors living above an outlet mall, Hideo, Hiromi, and Mr. Araki are betrayed. Now subservient to a band of strange men with odd post-apocalyptic rules,...
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Call #: 741.59 HAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kengo Hanazawa
Series:
I Am A Hero
(240)
Summary: With Japan's zombie outbreak in full swing, manga maestro Kengo Hanazawa shows readers how the monstrous ZQN creatures begin to take over Taiwan before taking us back to his main heroes. Our three...
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Call #: 741.59 HAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kengo Hanazawa
(193)
Summary: A global zombie outbreak threatens to wipe out civilization! In Japan, some of the infected have been able to hold onto their humanity while exhibiting superhuman ZQN powers. As Hiromi evolves,...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 HAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kengo Hanazawa
(167)
Summary: Near Tokyo, Hideo and the other survivors find camaraderie and even moments of romance as they slowly make their way back into the city. New horrors are encountered and new weapons are found, as old...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 HAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kengo Hanazawa
(158)
Summary: As the ZQN virus continues to mutate and alter those living and dead, Hiromi and Yabu attempt to get free from a zombie swarm and find help for Hideo. Across Japan, those who are fully ZQN begin to...
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Call #: 741.59 HAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Antony Johnston
Series:
Coldest City
(346)
Summary: Eight years before "The Coldest City," Berlin froze. Antony Johnston returns to The Coldest City for a tale even more complex, compelling, and cold than the first! After a string of botched...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 JOH
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Antony Johnston
Series:
Coldest City
(2,163)
Summary: As communism collapses and the Berlin Wall crumbles, an undercover M16 spy is killed while carrying priceless information -- a list containing the name of every spy in Berlin. But no list is found on his body.
BOOK
Call #: 741.59 JOH
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jeff Lemire
(2,861)
Summary: "Derek Ouelette's glory days are behind him. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violent incident on ice, and since then he's been living off his reputation in the remote northern community...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 LEM
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alan Moore
(32,771)
Summary: Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel...
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BOOK
Call #: 741.59 MOO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Oyinkan Braithwaite
(139,770)
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 Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 8/20/2020. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE
copies in: 17 of 18
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by
Graeme Macrae Burnet
(26,837)
Summary: "A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F BURNET
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 8 of 20
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by
Wiley Cash
(23,386)
Summary: Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Halle is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.
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Call #: BK CLUB F CASH
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Lisa Jewell
(190,810)
Summary: "Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times...
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Call #: BK CLUB F JEWELL
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Tarashea Nesbit
(6,390)
Summary: "Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NESBIT
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Celeste Ng
(329,880)
Summary: "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F NG
copies in: 18 of 18
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Summary: Clandestine army activities threaten the war-torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious being with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU ACT/ADV AKIRA
Location: Blu-rays Action/Adventure
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU ACT/ADV ANNIHILATION
Location: Blu-rays Action/Adventure
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU ACT/ADV INCREDIBLE
Location: Blu-rays Action/Adventure
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU ACT/ADV LOGAN
Location: Blu-rays Action/Adventure
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA CIRCLE
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Hank is a retired Sergeant with the Military Police. He receives a call informing him that his youngest son, Mike, has gone AWOL. He thought his son was in Iraq, but is informed that Mike returned...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA IN
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: A powerful and evil force threatens to attack a family whenever they make a noise, causing them to plunge into lives of silence. Any move they make, they live with the terrifying threat of being...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA QUIET
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: A mommy vlogger seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town.
BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA SIMPLE
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: When soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA SOURCE
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU DRAMA TEN
Location: Blu-rays Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU SCI FIC BLADE
Location: Blu-rays SCI-FI
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU SCI FIC EDGE
Location: Blu-rays SCI-FI
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Twenty-two years following the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now includes a completely functioning dinosaur theme park, as once envisioned by John Hammond. After ten years of operation and...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU SCI FIC JURASSIC
Location: Blu-rays SCI-FI
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after,...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU SCI FIC SUPER
Location: Blu-rays SCI-FI
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to the disappearance of a child -- which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise peaceful...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU TV STRANGER S1
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jeff Abbott
(1,289)
Summary: From New York Times bestselling writer Jeff Abbott, a psychologically intense and emotionally gripping new suspense novel about a daughter's desperate search for her missing mother--one that may lead...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ABBOTT
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Megan E Abbott (read by Lauren Fortgang)
(38,506)
Summary: Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ABBOTT
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Corban Addison
(2,866)
Summary: A young American lawyer and a Zambian police officer work together to uncover the identiy of a young Zambian girl who has been brutally assaulted and find out the person who is behind the crime.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ADDISON
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jussi Adler-Olsen (read by Graeme Malcolm)
(6,859)
Summary: Two British pilots during World War II are shot down during a raid over Germany. They survive the crash, but are faced with a German dog patrol. They manage to save themselves by jumping aboard a...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ADLER-OLSEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jussi Adler-Olsen (read by Graeme Malcolm)
Series:
Department Q Series - #6
(12,428)
Summary: In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Morck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm....
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ADLER-OLSEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jussi Adler-Olsen (read by Erik Davies )
Series:
Department Q Series
(63,292)
Summary: Carl Merck used to be one of Copenhagen's best homicide detectives. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself....
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ADLER-OLSEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jussi Adler-Olsen (read by Graeme Malcolm)
Series:
Department Q Series - #3
(29,286)
Summary: Detective Carl Morck has received a bottle that holds an old and decayed message written in blood. It's a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. After...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ADLER_OLSEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jussi Adler-Olsen (read by Graeme Malcolm)
Series:
Department Q Series - #7
(9,908)
Summary: Detective Carl Morck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold-cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the troubled past of a team member collides with a sinister unsolved murder. Failure to...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ADLER-OLSEN
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mitch Albom (read by Mitch Albom)
(54,723)
Summary: Tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax?...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ALBOM
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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