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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION MOTTLEY, L.
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FICTION MOTTLEY, L.
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FICTION MOTTLEY, L.
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FICTION MOTTLEY, L.
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION FU, M.
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FICTION FU, M.
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1938, China. With the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fables that offer solace and wisdom, they must travel through a ravaged country, seeking refuge. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. Though his daughter is desperate to understand her heritage, he refuses to talk...
5) The hacienda
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION CANAS, I.
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FICTION CANAS, I.
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"Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, dark secrets, and the woman pulled into their clutches ... In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father is executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize...
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Downers Grove Public Library - Adult and Teen Services Display
FICTION HARRIS, K.
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FICTION HARRIS, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION HARRIS, K.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HARRIS, K.
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"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother."--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
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FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION GUTIERREZ, K.
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An evocative drama about a woman caught leading a double life after one husband murders the other, and the true-crime writer who becomes obsessed with telling her story--this masterful work of literary suspense marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. In 1985, Dolores "Lore" Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo, Texas, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international...
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Maid novels volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY PROSE, N.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY PROSE, N.
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...
9) black cake
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION CHAN, J.
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FICTION CHAN, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION CHAN, J.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION CHAN, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
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CD FICTION CHAN, J.
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"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...
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FICTION NAGAMATSU, S.
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FICTION NAGAMATSU, S.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION NAGAMATSU, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION NAGAMATSU, S.
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"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague--a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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CD FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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CD FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
13) lessons in chemistry
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