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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it...
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"Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it's time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION LIN-GREENBERG, K.
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FICTION LIN-GREENBERG, K.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GREAT READS FICTION LIN-GREENBERG, K.
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GREAT READS FICTION LIN-GREENBERG, K.
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"The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. In its pages, You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to life--flawed, real, lovable strangers who are wonderful company and prove unforgettable even after...
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"Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind with the Lazy Genius strategy of focusing on what really matters and ignoring what doesn't. If you need a comprehensive self-help strategy but are tired of reading stacks of self-help books, here is an easy way that actually works. No more cobbling together life hacks and productivity strategies from dozens of authors and still feeling tired. The struggle is real, but it doesn't have to be in charge"--
Adachi...
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"An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sisi. Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains...
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Jane Austen murder mysteries volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to solve a murder before her rival Mr. Darcy beats her to it.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SLOAN, R.
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FICTION SLOAN, R.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SLOAN, R.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SLOAN, R.
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"Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION RUM, E.
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CD FICTION RUM, E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - Ask Staff
BOOK BAG WOMAN IS NO MAN
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BOOK BAG WOMAN IS NO MAN
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"Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children -- four daughters...
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Heart and Brain Collection volume 4
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Heart and Brain characters fight through the world's gloom and uncertainty and march toward a brighter, more hopeful future.
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Lars the awkward yeti volume 1
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"Meet Lars, more commonly known at The Awkward Yeti. He's big, blue, furry, and completely out of place wherever he goes. In this compilation from the hit webcomic series, he learns the harsh realities of life, love, and anxiety in cringe-worthy ways we can all relate to" --
11) Living
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY LIVING
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BLU-RAY LIVING
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD LIVING
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DVD LIVING
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Downers Grove Public Library - Lobby - Adult
DVD LIVING
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DVD LIVING
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The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION WARGA, J. CAUDILL
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J FICTION WARGA, J. CAUDILL
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Told in their alternating voices, twelve-year-old neighbors and former best friends Cora Hamed and Quinn McCauley begin working together to open a wormhole so they can travel through time to prevent the school shooting that resulted in the deaths of Cora's sister and Quinn's brother.
13) Snow & poison
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION DE LA CRUZ, M.
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J FICTION DE LA CRUZ, M.
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Downers Grove Public Library - Adult and Teen Services Display
TEEN FICTION DEL LA CRUZ, M.
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TEEN FICTION DEL LA CRUZ, M.
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"Nicknamed Snow White, sixteen-year-old Lady Sophie, daughter of Duke Franz of Bavaria, debuts into high society and falls for the prince of Spain, whose betrothal to a higher-ranking girl and mercurial father prove dangerous for the duchy"--