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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 3
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION DOYLE, A.C.
1 available
J FICTION DOYLE, A.C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY DOYLE, A.C.
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MYSTERY DOYLE, A.C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD MYSTERY DOYLE, A.C.
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CD MYSTERY DOYLE, A.C.
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Is there a more enduring, legendary detective than Sherlock Holmes? This quintessential collection includes many of the famous cases that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. Set against the foggy backdrop of London and the English countryside, each story unravels an exciting new mystery, from mistaken identity and ominous omens to counterfeit currency and jewellery theft. Including 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The...
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Scholomance volume 1
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"In the start of an all-new series, the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death--until one girl begins to unlock its many secrets. Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HOLSINGER, B.W.
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FICTION HOLSINGER, B.W.
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"'Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read.' - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION MOYES, J.
3 available
LARGE TYPE FICTION MOYES, J.
3 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION MOYES, J.
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION MOYES, J.
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"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION BACKMAN, F.
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CD FICTION BACKMAN, F.
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
SF/F JAMES, M.
2 available
SF/F JAMES, M.
2 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD SF/F JAMES, M.
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CD SF/F JAMES, M.
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"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN CD FICTION CHBOSKY, S.
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TEEN CD FICTION CHBOSKY, S.
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A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent, it's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION AUSTEN, J.
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J FICTION AUSTEN, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION AUSTEN, J.
4 available
FICTION AUSTEN, J.
4 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION AUSTEN, J.
1 available
CD FICTION AUSTEN, J.
1 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION AUSTEN, J.
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION AUSTEN, J.
1 available
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Pride and Prejudice is a story set in the English countryside outside of London during the early 19th century which centers on the life of Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five sisters who are all unmarried. When a wealthy and sociable young gentleman, Charles Bingley, rents the nearby manor of Netherfield Park the opportunity to find husbands presents itself. While attending a ball the Bennets meet Charles Bingley and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy...
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BIOGRAPHY GINSBURG, R.B.
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BIOGRAPHY GINSBURG, R.B.
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"The first full life--private; public; legal; philosophical--of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the Justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and associates. In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION BAZAWULE, B.
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FICTION BAZAWULE, B.
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"Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel. "I am truly blown away by this novel."--Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone When the windshield of his Chevy Impala shatters in a dark diner parking lot in Alabama, Melvin moves without thinking. A split-second reaction marrows in his bones...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION ALAMEDDINE, R.
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FICTION ALAMEDDINE, R.
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"Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, 'the three witches, ' discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya...
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Wolf Hall trilogy volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION MANTEL, H.
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CD FICTION MANTEL, H.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE Fiction MANTEL, H.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction MANTEL, H.
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"Henry VIII, anxious about the consequences of dying without a male heir, is denied permission to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn, but the power struggle between the Church and the Crown is mediated by astute politician Thomas Cromwell, who manages to get the king what he wants while keeping his eye on the prize of a free England"--Provided by publisher.