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1) Age of vice
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION KAPOOR, D.
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FICTION KAPOOR, D.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION KAPOOR, D.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION KAPOOR, D.
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"This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SOLOMON, A.
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FICTION SOLOMON, A.
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"Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment, she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. But one night...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION MILLER, K.
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FICTION MILLER, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION MILLER, K.
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CD FICTION MILLER, K.
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"Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick--a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers-putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town. In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment. When the body of a teenage girl is discovered...
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Legacy of Orisha volume 2
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION ADEYEMI, T.
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TEEN FICTION ADEYEMI, T.
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After Zélie and Amari bring magic back to the land of Orïsha, the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, forcing Zélie to fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION RAMISETTI, K.
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FICTION RAMISETTI, K.
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"Dava Shastri, one of the world's wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. A brain cancer diagnosis at the age of seventy, however, changes everything, as she decides to take her death-like all matters of her life-into her own hands. Summoning her four adult children to her private island, she discloses shocking news: in addition to having a terminal illness, she has arranged for the news of her death to break early,...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE POSTON, A.
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ROMANCE POSTON, A.
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"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
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FICTION BOSE, D.
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FICTION BOSE, D.
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"A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it ... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success - a picture perfect...
8) Dominicana
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION CRUZ, A.
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FICTION CRUZ, A.
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"Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
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FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GREAT READS FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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GREAT READS FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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CD FICTION ACEVEDO, E.
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"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
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Family upstairs volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION JEWELL, L.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION JEWELL, L.
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CD FICTION JEWELL, L.
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CD FICTION JEWELL, L.
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"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
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"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with...
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FICTION HUYNH, C.
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FICTION HUYNH, C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION HUYNH, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HUYNH, C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION HUYNH, C.
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CD FICTION HUYNH, C.
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"It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love-so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. Oanh's current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She's divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she's estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and...
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FICTION KIM, A.
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FICTION KIM, A.
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"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby...
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Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
15) The husbands
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION BAKER, C.
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FICTION BAKER, C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION BAKER, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION BAKER, C.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION BAKER, C.
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CD FICTION BAKER, C.
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"From Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband? Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too ... but why...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SERLE, R.
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FICTION SERLE, R.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SERLE, R.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SERLE, R.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION SERLE, R.
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CD FICTION SERLE, R.
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"A striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever"--
"When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track...
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Downers Grove Public Library - Adult and Teen Services Display
SF/F TORZS, E.
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SF/F TORZS, E.
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Two estranged half sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power! For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements, books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION ISHIGURO, K.
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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...
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20) The light pirate
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION BROOKS-DALTON, L.
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FICTION BROOKS-DALTON, L.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION BROOKS-DALTON, L.
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CD FICTION BROOKS-DALTON, L.
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"A luminous and wrenching portrait of a frighteningly possible future, The Light Pirate is a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world (Booklist, starred review). Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful...