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Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 6
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"In Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris is known for his good nature--and for his Maine coon cat, Diesel, whom he walks on a leash. Charlie returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but taking the plunge into a recent acquisition will have him in over his head... Lucinda Beckwith Long, the mayor of Athena, has donated a set of Civil War-era diaries to the archives of Athena College. The books were recently discovered among the...
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In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's...
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Library lover's mysteries volume 7
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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"A decades-overdue book puts library director Lindsey Norris hot on the trail of a cold case. When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day no fines for late returns the volume of incoming materials is more than Lindsey and her staff can handle. In a bind, Lindsey drafts the crafternoon ladies to help check in and sort the stacks of books. But one tardy tome catches her attention a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher...
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Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CLUB READS FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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CLUB READS FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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CD FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - Ask Staff
BOOK BAG BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK
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BOOK BAG BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION RICHARDSON, K.M.
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"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
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Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 12
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
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"Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots. Laura is upset to learn that Luke Lombardi, an overbearing...
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Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 13
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"Charlie Harris and his feline companion, Diesel, take a bookish vacation but discover that murder never takes a holiday, in this all-new installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Charlie and Diesel along with Charlie's fiancee, Helen Louise Brady, are heading to Asheville, North Carolina, to spend a week at a boutique hotel and participate in a gathering of a mystery reader's club composed of patrons of the Athena Public Library. In addition...
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Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 9
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY JAMES, M.
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MYSTERY JAMES, M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
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"Charlie Harris is busy enjoying his new grandson when a mysterious man with a connection to Charlie's family starts visiting the library, bringing with him troubling questions about an unsolved murder..."--
True-crime writer Jack Pemberton has a connection to Charlie Harris's family, and he wants Charlie as the subject of his latest book. Meanwhile Charlie is spending time helping an elderly man navigate the library's genealogical database. But...
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Library lover's mysteries volume 8
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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"Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library's annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover's dream--it's the library's biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raising funds, the new library board president is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable. Although Olive Boyle acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the...
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Lighthouse library mysteries volume 7
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY GATES, E.
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MYSTERY GATES, E.
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When her former director is found dead in the water, librarian Lucy Richardson will have to get to the bottom of the mystery before the killer ends her tale. It's summertime in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Bertie James's college class is having their 40th anniversary reunion. The opening night reception is held at the Lighthouse Library and Lucy and her colleagues have assembled an exhibit of library artifacts showing how libraries have changed...
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The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff,...
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A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, which may still be continuing.
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Library lover's mysteries volume 9
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY MCKINLAY, J.
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"It is murder by the book in the latest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in the Stacks. When a stack of library material is found at the scene of a hit-and-run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation as the police try to link the driver of the stolen car to the person who borrowed the CDs. Before Lindsey can delve into the library's records, the victim of the hit-and-run,...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HOFFMAN, A.
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FICTION HOFFMAN, A.
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After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
14) The inner circle
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE Fiction MELTZER, B.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction MELTZER, B.
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Beecher White is a young archivist who spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S. government. When Clementine Kaye, his first childhood crush, shows up at the Archives asking for help tracking down her long-lost father, Beecher tries to impress her by showing her the secret vault where the President of the United States privately reviews classified documents. It is also where Beecher and Clementine accidently happen upon...
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Invisible library volume 1
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"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION FOGELSON, A.
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FICTION FOGELSON, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION FOGELSON, A.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION FOGELSON, A.
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"When the Chatsworth Library closes indefinitely, Dodie Fairisle loses her sanctuary. How is a small-town art teacher supposed to cope without the never-ending life advice and enjoyment that books give her? Well, when she's as resourceful and generous as Dodie, she turns her sunroom into her very own little lending library. At first just a hobby, this lit lovers' haven opens up her world in incredible ways. She knows books are powerful, and soon enough...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION ITURBE, A.
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J FICTION ITURBE, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION ITURBE, A.
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TEEN FICTION ITURBE, A.
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
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Finfarran Peninsula volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION HAYES-MCCOY, F.
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CD FICTION HAYES-MCCOY, F.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION HAYES-MCCOY, F.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HAYES-MCCOY, F.
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"As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that,...
20) The library book
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD 027.4 ORL
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CD 027.4 ORL
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE 027.4 ORL
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LARGE TYPE 027.4 ORL
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"On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie." The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed...