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FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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CD FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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BOOK BAG HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
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BOOK BAG HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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FICTION YOON, P.
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FICTION YOON, P.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION YOON, P.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION YOON, P.
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"A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that...
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FICTION TAYLOR, B.
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FICTION TAYLOR, B.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION TAYLOR, B.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION TAYLOR, B.
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"In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who 'didn’t seek sex out so much as it came...
4) Roaming
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GRAPHIC NOVEL TAMAKI, M.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL TAMAKI, M.
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"Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city. Over the course of a much-anticipated trip to New York, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship off-balance. Emotional tensions vibrate wildly against the resplendently illustrated backdrop of the city, capturing a spontaneous queer romance in all of its fledgling glory. Slick attention to the details of a bustling, intimidating metropolis...
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LARGE TYPE FICTION RUSHDIE, S.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION RUSHDIE, S.
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION PARK, E.
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FICTION PARK, E.
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"March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existed now, today-working toward...
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FICTION O'DONOGHUE, C.
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FICTION O'DONOGHUE, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION O'DONOGHUE, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION O'DONOGHUE, C.
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"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love...
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364.1523 OCO
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364.1523 OCO
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"From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate...
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FICTION NDIAYE, M.
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FICTION NDIAYE, M.
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"The heroine of Marie NDiaye’s new novel is Maître Susane, a quiet middle-aged lawyer living a modest existence in Bordeaux, known to all as a consummate and unflappable professional. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of a horrific crime, Maître Susane begins to crack. She seems to remember having been alone with him in her youth for a significant event, one her mind obsesses over but...
10) The unsettled
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION MATHIS, A.
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FICTION MATHIS, A.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION MATHIS, A.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION MATHIS, A.
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"From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BIOGRAPHY LELAND, A.
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BIOGRAPHY LELAND, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CLUB READS BIOGRAPHY LELAND, A.
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CLUB READS BIOGRAPHY LELAND, A.
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY LELAND, A.
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY LELAND, A.
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"A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the strange liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: He's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from complete sightedness to complete blindness over...
12) Roman stories
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION LAHIRI, J.
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FICTION LAHIRI, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION LAHIRI, J.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION LAHIRI, J.
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies returns with her first short story collection since the publication of her number one New York Times bestseller, Unaccustomed Earth--a major literary event and a tour de force. Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity. An immigrant family confronts the devastating aftershocks of racial violence. A young...
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FICTION KIESLING, L.
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FICTION KIESLING, L.
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"The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age -- from Baku...
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FICTION HILL, N.
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FICTION HILL, N.
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LUCKY DAY FICTION HILL, N.
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LUCKY DAY FICTION HILL, N.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION HILL, N.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HILL, N.
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Nix, a witty and poignant new novel about modern marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to...
15) The secret hours
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HERRON, M.
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FICTION HERRON, M.
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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable First Desk...
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BIOGRAPHY BLAIR, E.
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BIOGRAPHY BLAIR, E.
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"A riveting work about the woman who sacrificed her future for one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and a probing look at what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, award-winning writer Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife,...
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"From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick, comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise. Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both burdened with traumatic pasts. In Cuba, a woman discovers her deceased brother's bones have...
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In the summer of 1894, two men collaborating on a book in defense of homosexuality, then a crime, must decide whether to continue with their project, risking social ostracism and imprisonment, when Oscar Wilde is arrested shortly before their book is to be published.
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613.04244 BOH
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613.04244 BOH
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE 613.0424 BOH
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LARGE TYPE 613.0424 BOH
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"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything...
20) The postcard
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FICTION BEREST, A.
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FICTION BEREST, A.
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"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...








