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DVD BRIDGET
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DVD BRIDGET
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In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
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Greer Hogan novels volume 2
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY HILLIARD, M.E.
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MYSTERY HILLIARD, M.E.
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"Murder rocks a wedding celebration at an idyllic lakeside home-and librarian-turned-sleuth Greer Hogan could be next on the killer's guest list in this second exciting installment, perfect for fans of Louise Penny. Librarian Greer Hogan is on hand to celebrate her old friend Sarah Whitaker's nuptials at the Whitaker summer home on beautiful Mirror Lake, just outside the upstate New York village of Lake Placid. But Greer has an ulterior motive-to...
3) Hiss & tell
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 31
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY BROWN, R.M.
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MYSTERY BROWN, R.M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY BROWN, R.M.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY BROWN, R.M.
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"When a series of mysterious deaths spoil the Christmas season in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen and her beloved cats and dogs lend the police a helping paw in this exciting holiday mystery from Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Christmas is coming and Harry's to-do list is a mile long. The days are filled with delivering holiday baskets to neighbors in need, chopping down the perfect tree with her best friend,...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD TV WHITSTABLE
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DVD TV WHITSTABLE
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"With her son grown, single mum Pearl pursues her lifelong dream and starts a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's seafood restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring but no-nonsense nature, residents flock to her with all kinds of cases. But when she discovers her friend and oyster supplier dead, DCI Mike McGuire arrives from London to lead the investigation. Gruff and aloof, Mike initially clashes with...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION MCGINNIS, M.
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TEEN FICTION MCGINNIS, M.
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The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof. So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends her running into the night, stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine. Morning brings the...
6) Thornhill
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION SMY, P.
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J FICTION SMY, P.
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"Parallel plotlines set in different times, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door"--
1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have a lasting effect on the bully, on Mary, and on Thornhill...
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SHREVE, A.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SHREVE, A.
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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...
8) Hindi
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An introduction to the Hindi language, describing where it is spoken, the people who speak it, and how it compares and differs from the English language, and sharing basic vocabulary words and phrases in Hindi.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J 491.43 SIN
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J 491.43 SIN
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Organized as an ABC rhyming book, My First Book of Hindi Words incorporates common Hindi words into charming English-language rhymes, beginning with: "A is for akash. A sky so blue where little birds fly and big planes, too, " and on through "Z is for zukhaam. Achoo! I sneeze. I must have a cold. Mama, hug me please!" Full-color pictures illustrate each word and allow even very young readers to make their first foray into India's official language....
10) Ghost girl
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J FICTION MALINENKO, A.
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J FICTION MALINENKO, A.
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Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. There's a creepy new principal who seems to know everyone's darkest dreams. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie...
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BLU-RAY TV STAR
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BLU-RAY TV STAR
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD TV STAR
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DVD TV STAR
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"Season One is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan favorites from Season Two of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series follows Captain Pike and the crew in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy"--Container....
12) Lemon
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In this piercing psychological portrait that takes the shape of a crime novel, a woman haunted by her sister's unsolved murder transforms herself in order to cope with the pain of absence and unknowing. In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. Two suspects quickly emerge: rich kid Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION MANDEL, E.S.J.
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FICTION MANDEL, E.S.J.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION MANDEL, E.S.J.
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CD FICTION MANDEL, E.S.J.
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...