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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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PLAYAWAY ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE 305.5122 WIL
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LARGE TYPE 305.5122 WIL
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Lacy Stoltz novels volume 2
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
3 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
1 available
LARGE TYPE FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
1 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
1 available
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental...
5) lessons in chemistry
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION TOWLES, A.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION TOWLES, A.
1 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION TOWLES, A.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION TOWLES, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION TOWLES, A.
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CD FICTION TOWLES, A.
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION REID, T.J.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION REID, T.J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION REID, T.J.
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CD FICTION REID, T.J.
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"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
4 available
FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
4 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION MORENO-GARCIA, S.
1 available
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After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION HAIG, M.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HAIG, M.
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends....
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION STRAUB, E.
5 available
FICTION STRAUB, E.
5 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION STRAUB, E.
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION STRAUB, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION STRAUB, E.
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CD FICTION STRAUB, E.
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"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...
12) vanishing half
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SCOTTOLINE, L.
3 available
FICTION SCOTTOLINE, L.
3 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SCOTTOLINE, L.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SCOTTOLINE, L.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION SCOTTOLINE, L.
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CD FICTION SCOTTOLINE, L.
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Jason Bennett is a family man and an elite court reporter, so good at his work that he was once selected to cover legal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay. One of his skills is the ability to read lips, which his fourteen-year-old son calls his "superpower." But his life takes a horrific turn when he is driving his family home from his teenaged daughter's lacrosse game, and he notices a pickup truck tailgating and cutting off their new Mercedes. Two men...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION PICOULT, J.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION PICOULT, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION PICOULT, J.
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CD FICTION PICOULT, J.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...