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FICTION PATCHETT, A.
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FICTION PATCHETT, A.
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CD FICTION PATCHETT, A.
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BOOK BAG DUTCH HOUSE
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BOOK BAG DUTCH HOUSE
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION PATCHETT, A.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION PATCHETT, A.
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"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. "'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight...
2) Ground Zero
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
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Books of Ember volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - Lobby - Kids
J PLAYAWAY FICTION DUPRAU, J.
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J PLAYAWAY FICTION DUPRAU, J.
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In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION PARK, L.S.
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J FICTION PARK, L.S.
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Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION BEATTY, R.
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J FICTION BEATTY, R.
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Homework
J FICTION WILES, D.
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J FICTION WILES, D.
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Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE 914.1 BRY
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LARGE TYPE 914.1 BRY
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"In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is ... [often considered] one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals of England in all its glorious eccentricity ever written. Two decades later, he set out again to rediscover that country, and the result is [this book]"--Amazon.com.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION CLEETON, C.
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FICTION CLEETON, C.
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"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution ... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...
9) The tenant
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Korner and Werner mysteries volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY ENGBERG, K.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY ENGBERG, K.
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"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BIOGRAPHY MCCOURT, F.
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BIOGRAPHY MCCOURT, F.
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CD BIOGRAPHY MCCOURT, F.
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CD BIOGRAPHY MCCOURT, F.
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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland....
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION FOLEY, L.
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CD FICTION FOLEY, L.
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
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With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920,...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION JENNER, N.
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FICTION JENNER, N.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION JENNER, N.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION JENNER, N.
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"Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve...
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"A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway. But when the storm hits, no one is getting away. It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing maybe even romantic weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION LIM, R.
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FICTION LIM, R.
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"From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune comes a delightful new novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes-or misfortunes-in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee,...
16) A deadly grind
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Vintage kitchen mysteries volume 1
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MYSTERY HAMILTON, V.
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MYSTERY HAMILTON, V.
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"When vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920's Hoosier-brand kitchen cabinet at an estate auction, it's love at first sight. Despite the protests of her sister, Rebecca, that the nineteenth-century yellow-brick house they share in Michigan is already too cluttered with Jaymie's junk, she successfully outbids the other buyers and triumphantly takes home her Hoosier. But that night on the summer porch, where she's...
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
18) Thief of shadows
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Maiden Lane romances volume 4
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE HOYT, E.
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ROMANCE HOYT, E.
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Winter Makepeace lives a double life. By day he's the stoic headmaster of a home for foundling children. But the night brings out a darker side of Winter. As the moon rises, so does the Ghost of St. Giles-protector, judge, fugitive. When the Ghost, beaten and wounded, is rescued by a beautiful aristocrat, Winter has no idea that his two worlds are about to collide. Lady Isabel Beckinhall enjoys nothing more than a challenge. Yet when she's asked to...
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Great cities trilogy volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
SF/F JEMISIN, N.K.
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SF/F JEMISIN, N.K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD SF/F JEMISIN, N.K.
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CD SF/F JEMISIN, N.K.
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION REYNOLDS, J.
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J FICTION REYNOLDS, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION REYNOLDS, J.
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TEEN FICTION REYNOLDS, J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J PLAYAWAY FICTION REYNOLDS, J.
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J PLAYAWAY FICTION REYNOLDS, J.
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"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--