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SF/F KUANG, R.F.
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SF/F KUANG, R.F.
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"From award-winning author R.F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
2) The deep
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
SF/F CUTTER, N.
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SF/F CUTTER, N.
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"A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys...then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily...and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia"...
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Downers Grove Public Library - Lobby - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION DAVE, L.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION DAVE, L.
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"Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they've forged a relationship with Bailey's grandfather, Nicholas, and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up at Hannah's new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless...
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"Maria Semple is a treasure.": Los Angeles Times The New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman's cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in. Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcee, she lives a contented life on New York City's Upper West Side. Having discovered...
5) Malinche
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When Malinalli, a member of the tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortés, she -- like many -- believes that he is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is to help Cortés destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortés's thirst for conquest is all too human. He is willing to destroy anyone, even his...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION KNAPP, F.
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FICTION KNAPP, F.
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"A dazzling debut that asks: Can a name shape the course of a life? In the wake of an enormous, history-making storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to follow his family tradition going back generations, and name the child Gordon. But on the journey there, Cora wonders...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION GONZALEZ, X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Murderbot diaries volume 8
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Downers Grove Public Library - Lobby - Adult
LUCKY DAY SF/F WELLS, M.
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LUCKY DAY SF/F WELLS, M.
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Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f-)...
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Firekeeper's daughter volume 3
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION BOULLEY, A.
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TEEN FICTION BOULLEY, A.
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"Ever since Lucy Smith's father died five years ago, 'home' has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a 'ward of the state'. But when the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson with an interest in her case comes looking for her, Lucy wonders if hiding from her past will ever truly keep her safe. Five years in the foster system has taught her to be cautious and smart. But she wants to believe...
10) Vigil: a novel
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Downers Grove Public Library - Lobby - Adult
FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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LUCKY DAY FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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LUCKY DAY FICTION SAUNDERS, G.
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"Not for the first time, Jill 'Doll' Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge--yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife--and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But...