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BG Turton
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BG Turton
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31 copies, 125 people are on the wait list.
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27 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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Evelyn Hardcastle will die, at 11:00 pm. Every day. Unless Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But he only has eight days to solve the case. And every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different witness. Some of his hosts are more helpful than others. Welcome to Blackheath.... -- adapted from back cover
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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16 copies, 100 people are on the wait list.
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A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
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Louisiana governor Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration, in the story of the rise and fall of a Southern politician and demagogue in the 1930s. This edition has been fully restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater energy, excitement, complexity, and subtlety of character in this landmark...
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6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, sets off with two companions across the border of Mexico.
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Lady Emily mystery volume 1
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Accepting a dashing viscount's marriage proposal as part of a plan to escape her overbearing mother, Emily finds herself widowed early after her marriage and subsequently learns that her husband was not who he professed to be, a discovery that prompts an investigation in the quiet corridors of the British Museum.
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4 copies, 75 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 75 people are on the wait list.
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Ten houseguests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine ... When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale?
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Top Floor
306 G8234
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306 G8234
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34 copies, 77 people are on the wait list.
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The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar. Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. John Green's...
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BG Backman
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BG Backman
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46 copies, 306 people are on the wait list.
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21 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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21 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
9) Attachments
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7 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wayward Son, Fangirl, Carry On, and Landline comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about an office romance that blossoms one email at a time....
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves...
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves...
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
623.4511 Sh42
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623.4511 Sh42
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Junior Nonfiction - North Wing Top Floor
J 623.4511 Sh42
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J 623.4511 Sh42
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T 623.4511 Sh42
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T 623.4511 Sh42
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14 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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40 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 79 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 79 people are on the wait list.
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Adult Fiction (Large Print) - South Wing Main Floor
LP Wingate
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LP Wingate
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"Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war...
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
617.092 G248
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617.092 G248
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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. This book lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
741.23 So471
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741.23 So471
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"An authorized, illustrated history of Crayola crayons, from the origins of Binney & Smith as the inventor of carbon black and red oxide pigment to colorful profiles of sky blue, sea green, and the other 118 Crayola colors in circulation today"--
14) Edenbrooke
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Audiobook - North Wing Basement
[R] Donaldson
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[R] Donaldson
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40 copies, 116 people are on the wait list.
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40 copies, 116 people are on the wait list.
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When Marianne receives an invitation to spend the summer with her twin sister in Edenbrooke, she has no idea of the romance and adventure that await her once she meets the dashing Sir Philip.
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Wayward children volume 1
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7 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care...
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Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment...
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Top Floor
364.1628 J6339
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364.1628 J6339
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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
18) The Final Empire
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41 copies, 463 people are on the wait list.
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Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga.
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then,
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Adult Fiction - Display (Fiction)
[R] Abramson
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[R] Abramson
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
[R] Abramson
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[R] Abramson
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The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice--but too late. His family is ripped apart, never to be reunited. But decades later, fate brings together the descendants of this broken dynasty in the place where it all began--Falcon Point. Anna, Cole, and Tess have never...
20) In our time
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When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The...