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1) Untamed
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BIOGRAPHY DOYLE, G.
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BIOGRAPHY DOYLE, G.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD BIOGRAPHY DOYLE, G.
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CD BIOGRAPHY DOYLE, G.
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
2) Every day
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Every day volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LEVITHAN, D.
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TEEN FICTION LEVITHAN, D.
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Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION ALBERTALLI, B.
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TEEN FICTION ALBERTALLI, B.
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"Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it's that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn't be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend's things. But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them? Maybe...
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"Wanted: One (fake) boyfriend Practically perfect in every way Luc O'Donnell is tangentially-and reluctantly-famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship ... and...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION SILVERA, A.
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TEEN FICTION SILVERA, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION SILVERA, A.
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TEEN FICTION SILVERA, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN CD FICTION SILVERA, A.
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TEEN CD FICTION SILVERA, A.
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In a near-future New York City, a service alerts people on the day they will die. Teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
"On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE MCQUISTON, C.
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ROMANCE MCQUISTON, C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD ROMANCE MCQUISTON, C.
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CD ROMANCE MCQUISTON, C.
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"For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION MCQUISTON, C.
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TEEN FICTION MCQUISTON, C.
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"Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she's spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that's kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal's perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. On a furious hunt for answers,...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BIOGRAPHY VAN NESS, J.
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BIOGRAPHY VAN NESS, J.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NPR'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
INDIE BESTSELLER
GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER: BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A laugh-and-cry-out-loud celebrity memoir from the beloved star of Netflix's Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.
The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE MCQUISTON, C.
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ROMANCE MCQUISTON, C.
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When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius--his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state,...
10) Meet cute diary
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LEE, E.
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TEEN FICTION LEE, E.
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"Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem; all the stories are fake ... When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah's world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn't have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah's life, and the pieces fall into place"-- Provided...
11) Felix ever after
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CALLENDER, K.
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TEEN FICTION CALLENDER, K.
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Felix Love has never been in love, painful irony that it is. He desperately wants to know why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. He is proud of his identity, but fears that he's one marginalization too many-- Black, queer, and transgender. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages-- after publicly posting Felix's deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned-- Felix comes up with a plan for revenge....
12) Nightcrawling
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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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"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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Cerulean chronicles volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE SF/F KLUNE, T.
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LARGE TYPE SF/F KLUNE, T.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY SF/F KLUNE, T.
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PLAYAWAY SF/F KLUNE, T.
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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION SAENZ, B.A.
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TEEN FICTION SAENZ, B.A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION SAENZ, B.A.
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TEEN FICTION SAENZ, B.A.
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Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship -- the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
15) Cemetery boys
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION THOMAS, A.
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TEEN FICTION THOMAS, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION THOMAS, A.
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TEEN FICTION THOMAS, A.
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"When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He's determined to find...
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Downers Grove Public Library - Adult and Teen Services Display
FICTION WATERS, S.
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FICTION WATERS, S.
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen, the out-of-work and hungry are demanding change. In a genteel Camberwell villa -- a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and servants -- impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life -- or how far-reaching the disturbances will be.
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Bright Falls volume 2
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE BLAKE, A.H.
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ROMANCE BLAKE, A.H.
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"An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn't Care. For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she's been focused on her career-her friends might say she's obsessed, but she's just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn's renovation...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION DEAVER, M.
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TEEN FICTION DEAVER, M.
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION QUINDLEN, K.
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TEEN FICTION QUINDLEN, K.
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After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for repairs, the girls are forced to carpool, and their rocky start only gets worse. In trying to get back at her toxic ex, Scottie bribes Irene into a fake-dating scheme that...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION LO, M.
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TEEN FICTION LO, M.
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"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...








