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1) Becoming
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY OBAMA, M.
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY OBAMA, M.
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CD BIOGRAPHY OBAMA, M.
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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
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BIOGRAPHY NOAH, T.
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BIOGRAPHY NOAH, T.
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TEEN SUMMER READING BIOGRAPHY NOAH, T.
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TEEN SUMMER READING BIOGRAPHY NOAH, T.
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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FICTION MCBRIDE, J.
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER, T.
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BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER, T.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN SUMMER READING WESTOVER, T.
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TEEN SUMMER READING WESTOVER, T.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER, T.
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER, T.
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CD BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER, T.
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CD BIOGRAPHY WESTOVER, T.
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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FICTION HONEYMAN, G.
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FICTION HONEYMAN, G.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HONEYMAN, G.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION HONEYMAN, G.
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CD FICTION HONEYMAN, G.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
6) four winds
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CD FICTION TOWLES, A.
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CD FICTION TOWLES, A.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
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LARGE TYPE FICTION LEE, H.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION LEE, H.
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"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
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CD FICTION GAIMAN, N.
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According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only _totally reliable_ guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea. Which means that Armageddon will happen on a Saturday night. There will be seas of fire, rains of fish, the moon turning to blood and the massed armies of Heaven and Hell will sort it out once and for all. Which is a major problem for Crowley, Hell's most approachable...
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FICTION SHAFFER, M.A.
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FICTION SHAFFER, M.A.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction SHAFFER, M.A.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction SHAFFER, M.A.
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
11) The help
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION STOCKETT, K.
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FICTION STOCKETT, K.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction STOCKETT, K.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction STOCKETT, K.
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"With more than 3 million copies sold, the #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a special gift edition. A modern classic, The Help has been a cultural touchstone for the millions of readers who have cheered on Skeeter, laughed with Minny, and hissed at Hilly. The noble and strong Aibileen has become a heroine for countless fans whose letters have poured in from all over the world. Now the bestselling and beloved book is available in a...
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; it is not an Earth book, has never been published on Earth, and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, was never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. Or, this is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television...
13) The kite runner
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FICTION HOSSEINI, K.
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FICTION HOSSEINI, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION HOSSEINI, K.
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CD FICTION HOSSEINI, K.
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Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official. An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking...
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FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth, " the president...
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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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"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives"--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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PLAYAWAY FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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CD FICTION MORIARTY, L.
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
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Pillars of the Earth volume 1
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CD FICTION FOLLETT, K.
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CD FICTION FOLLETT, K.
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Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance.
19) Queenie: a novel
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FICTION CARTY-WILLIAMS, C.
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FICTION CARTY-WILLIAMS, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION CARTY-WILLIAMS, C.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION CARTY-WILLIAMS, C.
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of...
20) Ready player one
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Ready player novels volume 1
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LARGE TYPE SF/F CLINE, E.
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LARGE TYPE SF/F CLINE, E.
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"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...