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"Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping ... with the winner being awarded "The Prize"--Anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh...
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FICTION COWLEY HELLER, M.
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FICTION COWLEY HELLER, M.
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"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
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Signet classic ; cw 970
Signet classic volume ce 2589
Classic literature with classical music
World classics in large print British authors series
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Charnwood library series
Puffin in bloom
Novels of Jane Austen volume 1
Cover to cover classics (Audio Partners)
Collectors' library
Collins classics
Canterbury classics
Woman's Hour
Bantam classic
Everyman's library volume 51
Signet fiction volume ae 8790
Tantor unabridged classics
Classic collection (Brilliance Audio (Firm))
World's best reading
Kennebec Large Print perennial favorites collection
First Avenue Classics Ser
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE Fiction AUSTEN, J.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction AUSTEN, J.
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CD FICTION AUSTEN, J.
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CD FICTION AUSTEN, J.
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'Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's ... was more striking' As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense,...
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LARGE TYPE Fiction HELLER, P.
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LARGE TYPE Fiction HELLER, P.
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Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep...
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FICTION MARS-JONES, A.
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FICTION MARS-JONES, A.
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"In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self-on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles over glamorous Ray-ten years older, leather-clad, cool, handsome, a biker, and a top. (Colin, if largely unformed, is nevertheless decidedly a bottom.) Colin narrates his love-conveying how mind-blowing being...
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"Something is not right with George the shepherd. His sheep have gathered around him on a hill outside the cozy Irish village of Glennkill to assess the situation. George has cared for the sheep, reading them books every night, and now he lies pinned to the ground with a spade. His flock, far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep, set out to find George's killer, led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and...
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FICTION CONSTANTINE, L.
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FICTION CONSTANTINE, L.
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"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson,...
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SERLE, R.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION SERLE, R.
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CD FICTION SERLE, R.
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"When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking...
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TEEN FICTION COLLINS, S.
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TEEN FICTION COLLINS, S.
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"When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When...
10) The housemaid
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"Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I pick up their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband, Andrew, seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full...
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE HENRY, E.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends....
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"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions...
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CD ROMANCE HOOVER, C.
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CD ROMANCE HOOVER, C.
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After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the...
14) Frankenstein
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J FICTION SHELLEY, M.W.
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J FICTION SHELLEY, M.W.
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FICTION SHELLEY, M.W.
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FICTION SHELLEY, M.W.
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"Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983. A generation later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements made by any artist in the field. This book includes the complete text of the original groundbreaking novel,...
15) The Odyssey
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Everyman's library volume 94
Modern readers' series
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Dover thrift editions
Doubleday anchor book A333
Johns Hopkins new translations from antiquity
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Greenwich House classics library
Chartwell classics
Everyman's library volume 94
Modern readers' series
Townsend Library
ReadHowYouWant Classics Library
Tantor unabridged classics
World's classics
HighBridge classics
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Dover Thrift Editions Literary Collections
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J FICTION HOMER
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POETRY HOMER
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POETRY HOMER
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"A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has served to introduce readers to the ancient Greek world of gods and heroes and has been one of the most popular and respected versions of the work. Yet through all those decades, Chicago never published...
16) Verity
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PLAYAWAY ROMANCE HOOVER, C.
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PLAYAWAY ROMANCE HOOVER, C.
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"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't...
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Modern library of the world's best books
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Classics in large print
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Cambridge literature
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) volume 3
100 greatest books of all time
Chartwell classics
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World classics in large print
AUK Revisited
Everyman's library
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Modern Library torch bearers
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Knickerbocker classics
Kennebec Large Print perennial favorites collection
Isis clear type classic
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Macmillan classics volume 25
Enriched classics series
Modern library of the world's best books
Classic Lines
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Cambridge literature
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) volume 3
100 greatest books of all time
Chartwell classics
Recorded Books classics library
Barnes and Noble audio classics
World classics in large print
AUK Revisited
Everyman's library
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Wordsworth collector's editions
Modern Library torch bearers
Signet classic
Knickerbocker classics
Kennebec Large Print perennial favorites collection
Isis clear type classic
Arcturus classics
Great illustrated classics
Modern Library classics
Macmillan classics volume 25
Enriched classics series
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LARGE TYPE FICTION BRONTE, E.
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LARGE TYPE FICTION BRONTE, E.
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CD FICTION BRONTE, E.
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CD FICTION BRONTE, E.
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Obsession, vengeance, and jealousy pour from a tangle of lovers in Emily Bronte's only published novel, a story of unrequited love. Complete and unabridged, Wuthering Heights is an essential collectible. Explore Bronte's world of crime and punishment, nature and culture, and love and loss. Since its original publication in 1847, the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has long echoed on the moors. After being spurned by his lover...
18) Dune messiah
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CD SF/F HERBERT, F.
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CD SF/F HERBERT, F.
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Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known -- and feared -- as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne -- and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins...
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J CD FICTION LEWIS, C.S.
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J CD FICTION LEWIS, C.S.
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When Diggory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
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"The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames,...