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Andrea Oliver novels volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SLAUGHTER, K.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SLAUGHTER, K.
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"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION VAUGHAN, S.
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CD FICTION VAUGHAN, S.
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"An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake. Sophie's husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart. Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION DESSEN, S.
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J FICTION DESSEN, S.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION DESSEN, S.
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TEEN FICTION DESSEN, S.
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"Nights have always been Auden's time, her chance to escape everything that's going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen..." -- page 3 of cover.
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"An exquisitely talented young British author makes her American debut with this rapturously acclaimed historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century England, about an intellectually minded young widow, a pious vicar, and a rumored mythical serpent that explores questions about science and religion, skepticism, and faith, independence and love. When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J READ ALONG PALACIO, R.J.
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J READ ALONG PALACIO, R.J.
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"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comes crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement. For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein's treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey...
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"A father shares his autistic son's story and offers inspiration and advice for families facing similar challenges"--
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Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN CD FICTION HAN, J.
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TEEN CD FICTION HAN, J.
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Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
9) Blonde
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Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos; pero también era frágil, una mujer asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros--el Ex Deportista, el Dramaturgo o el Presidente--ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista emblemática cargada de conflictos y temores, de pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante, y llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda....
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When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with...
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Vampire chronicles volume 1
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"Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write"--Page [4] of cover.
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Sandman library volume 1
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Now a Netflix TV series, the first volume of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel masterpiece returns in a new edition! One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 15
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY CHRISTIE, A.
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MYSTERY CHRISTIE, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD MYSTERY CHRISTIE, A.
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CD MYSTERY CHRISTIE, A.
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The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION NELSON, J.
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TEEN FICTION NELSON, J.
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In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
15) No exit: a novel
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"On the way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the Colorado Rockies. With roads impassable, she's forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop with no cell phone reception. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers. Desperate to find a signal to call home, the exhausted young art student goes back out into the storm ... and makes a horrifying...
16) Pachinko
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION LEE, M.J.
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CD FICTION LEE, M.J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - Ask Staff
BOOK BAG PACHINKO
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BOOK BAG PACHINKO
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION LEE, M.J.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION LEE, M.J.
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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Bridgerton series volume 2
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When notorious rake Anthony Bridgerton announces that he has chosen a prospective bride, he faces unexpected opposition when his intended's meddlesome sister Kate decides to protect her innocent sister from the wicked aristocrat.
This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London's most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry--he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield--the...
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Mrs. Harris series volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION GALLICO, P.
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FICTION GALLICO, P.
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Mrs. Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, while tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life--a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything so badly. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs. Harris scrimps and saves...
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Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.
A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION OWENS, D.
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FICTION OWENS, D.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN SUMMER READING OWENS, D.
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TEEN SUMMER READING OWENS, D.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION OWENS, D.
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CD FICTION OWENS, D.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION OWENS, D.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION OWENS, D.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION OWENS, D.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION OWENS, D.
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...