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Scholomance volume 1
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"In the start of an all-new series, the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death--until one girl begins to unlock its many secrets. Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students...
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FICTION KOEPP, D.
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FICTION KOEPP, D.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION KOEPP, D.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION KOEPP, D.
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When Pentagon bio-terror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop...
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For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
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Veronica Speedwell novels volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY RAYBOURN, D.
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MYSTERY RAYBOURN, D.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY RAYBOURN, D.
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LARGE TYPE MYSTERY RAYBOURN, D.
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"London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a sharpened hatpin with equal aplomb, and with...
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Spellman files volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION LUTZ, L.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION LUTZ, L.
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Izzy Spellman launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
ROMANCE PHILLIPS, S.E.
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ROMANCE PHILLIPS, S.E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD ROMANCE PHILLIPS, S.E.
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CD ROMANCE PHILLIPS, S.E.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE ROMANCE PHILLIPS, S.E.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE PHILLIPS, S.E.
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"It's going to be a long, hot winter. He is a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She is a down-on-her-luck actress who's given up far too much. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now. Annie Hewitt has been forced to return to an isolated island off the coast of Maine, a place she hasn't visited since a disastrous...
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9) Ninth house
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Alex Stern volume 1
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"Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
10) City of the lost
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Casey Duncan novels volume 1
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"Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a domestic violence...
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Sunshine Vicram volume 1
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MYSTERY JONES, D.
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MYSTERY JONES, D.
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"New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones is back with the brand-new snarky, sassy, wickedly fun Sunshine Vicram series! Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose. Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee-and a nationwide manhunt? Del...
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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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CD BIOGRAPHY NOAH, T.
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CD 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...
13) The great alone
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"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN SUMMER READING SAGER, R.
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TEEN SUMMER READING SAGER, R.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SAGER, R.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SAGER, R.
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"The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York's oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one...
15) Overlord
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DVD OVERLORD
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DVD OVERLORD
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D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding in front of...
16) Plus one
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DVD PLUS
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DVD PLUS
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"Long-time friends Alice and Ben find themselves in that inevitable year that all late twenty-somethings experience, in which seemingly every person they know gets married, and agree to be one another's plus ones as they power through an endless parade of insufferable weddings"--Container.
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Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the secret of what this city of the dead was meant to contain. A journey into madness and terror, it reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt everyone.
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The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.