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Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
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"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
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Guncle volume 1
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"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE WILLIAMS, T.
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ROMANCE WILLIAMS, T.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE WILLIAMS, T.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE WILLIAMS, T.
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"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...
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Bellinger sisters romances volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE BAILEY, T.
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ROMANCE BAILEY, T.
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Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar ... in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when...
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Dave Cubiak Door County mysteries volume 1
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Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin's beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he's had enough of death. Forced to confront the past, the morose Cubiak moves beyond his own heartache and starts investigating,...
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Nantucket Island mysteries volume 1
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Labor Day finds Nantucket shrouded in fog and Rusty Mason drowned in his brother's cranberry bog. Rusty has been out of the country for ten years--fleeing the law and the family wounds he left behind. Rookie detective Meredith Folger has to decide whether Rusty's killer mistook him for his brother--or whether Peter Mason murdered Rusty himself.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SCOTT, H.T.
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FICTION SCOTT, H.T.
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Athens, Georgia, 1988: Attorney August "Critter" Stillwell dreams of a life on the open sea, but he's stuck juggling a crushing caseload after the sudden departure of his defense attorney father, Guy Stillwell. When an episode of Unsolved Mysteries leads to the capture of a murder suspect who's been on the run for twenty-five years, the ominous pattern of facts drags Critter into a hidden corner of Guy's past. In 1963, To Kill a Mockingbird was playing...
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Beacon Bakeshop Mysteries volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY HANNAH, D.
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MYSTERY HANNAH, D.
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After catching her celebrity chef fiance sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker--and gets mixed up in someone's sweet taste of revenge ... More interested in kneading dough than adding it up, Lindsey's breakup inspired her to set up the shop she always wanted in a place that always made her happy. She'd spent many childhood...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION BAZAY, C.
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TEEN FICTION BAZAY, C.
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Five trips, two cousins, one family feud, and a summer that will change their lives forever. It's bad enough that estranged cousins Becka and KJ see each other at their grandfather's funeral, but when he leaves them a bucket list of places to visit together over the summer, so they can earn their inheritance, it seems like things are about to get much worse. However, with each trip the cousins complete -- like riding mules into the Grand Canyon or...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION KEMP, L.Z.
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TEEN FICTION KEMP, L.Z.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN CD FICTION KEMP, L.Z.
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TEEN CD FICTION KEMP, L.Z.
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Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her traditional Mexican-American mom and dad have different plans. Xander Amaro is a new hire at Nacho's. For him, the job is an opportunity...
11) Uprooted
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"Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. "Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. Uprooted is such a novel. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching."--Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked...
12) Hurricane summer
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION BROMFIELD, A.
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TEEN FICTION BROMFIELD, A.
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While visiting her father who lives in Jamaica, eighteen-year-old Tilla faces a storm of dark secrets that threaten to unravel her own life, while an actual storm, Hurricane Gustav, threatens the lives of those she loves.
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TEEN FICTION ADLER, D.
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TEEN FICTION ADLER, D.
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Larissa Bogdan was supposed to spend her summer babysitting and bookselling. Instead, she tagged along with her mom to the Outer Banks, working on her tan and making new friends. Now she's back and starting her senior year at Stratford High, only to face another unexpected turn: She's finally attracted the attention of superstar quarterback Chase Harding, the guy she's crushed on since middle school. Then Jasmine Killary shows up. Jasmine, who's supposed...
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DC icons volume 1
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"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
Diana, Princess of the Amazons, longs to prove herself to her warrior sisters. When the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal. Alia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued and forced to confront...
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Simon Snow volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION ROWELL, R.
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TEEN FICTION ROWELL, R.
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Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN FICTION DESSEN, S.
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TEEN FICTION DESSEN, S.
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"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie."--
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Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN CD FICTION HAN, J.
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TEEN CD FICTION HAN, J.
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Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
18) One great lie
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CALETTI, D.
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TEEN FICTION CALETTI, D.
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When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of a very famous poem. Bruni's villa on the eerie island...
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TEEN FICTION MENON, S.
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TEEN FICTION MENON, S.
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Told through letters, aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra learns a lesson about love while directing a movie for the Midsummer Night arts festival, in which her longtime crush and his twin brother are also participating.
Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. When fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, it's a...
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FICTION BLACKWELL, J.
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FICTION BLACKWELL, J.
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"An unforgettable story of resilience and resistance set during WWII and present-day France on a secluded island off the coast of Brittany, Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks things...