- Catalog Home
- » My Account
- » List
Author
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION PATRICK, P.
1 available
LARGE TYPE FICTION PATRICK, P.
1 available
Description
"Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid to make ends meet, often finding escape in a good book while daydreaming of becoming a writer herself. So she can't believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero, megabestselling author Essie Starling, a mysterious and intimidating recluse. The last thing Liv expected was to be the only person Essie talks to, which leads to a tenuous friendship. But when Essie dies suddenly,...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GREAT READS FICTION WINSTEAD, A.
2 available
GREAT READS FICTION WINSTEAD, A.
2 available
Description
"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God and the Devil are the myths that haunt the area, like the story of the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms and kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep...
Author
Formats:
Description
"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
Author
Series
Ray Ambler novels volume 1
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY LEHANE, C.
1 available
MYSTERY LEHANE, C.
1 available
Description
"Murder at the 42nd Street Library opens with a murder in a second floor office of the iconic, beaux-arts flagship of the New York Public Library. Ray Ambler, the curator of the library's crime fiction collection, joins forces with NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove in hopes of bringing a murderer to justice. In his search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler uncovers hidden--and profoundly disturbing--relationships between visitors to the...
Author
Series
Ray Ambler novels volume 2
Formats:
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY LEHANE, C.
1 available
MYSTERY LEHANE, C.
1 available
Description
The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library Mystery series, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart, compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at least as interesting as the striking sleuthing. When a murder desecrates the somber, book-lined halls of New York City's iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the library's curator of crime fiction, has a personal interest in solving the crime. His quest to solve the murder is complicated...
Author
Series
Ray Ambler novels volume 3
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY LEHANE, C.
1 available
MYSTERY LEHANE, C.
1 available
Description
"The third book in an amazing series that features crime à la library at America's most famous institution of higher reading. A note from bartender Brian McNulty, Raymond Ambler's friend, confidant, and sometimes adviser, sets the librarian sleuth off on a murder investigation, one that he pursues reluctantly until a second murder upends the world as he knows it. The second victim is a lady friend of McNulty's-and the prime suspect is McNulty himself....
Author
Series
Description
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror. The body of one monk is found in a cask of pigs' blood, another is floating in a bathhouse, still another is crushed at the foot of a cliff.
48) No cats allowed
Author
Series
Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 7
Formats:
Description
"Mississippi librarian Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are on their guard. Oscar Reilly, the new director at the Athena College library, is on a mission to cut costs and has set his sights on the archive and rare book collection. Reilly's also out to replace Charlie's fiery friend Melba with someone younger, but his biggest offense is declaring all four-legged creatures banned from the stacks. With enemies aplenty, the suspect list...
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION CABOT, M.
2 available
FICTION CABOT, M.
2 available
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - Lobby - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION CABOT, M.
1 available
LARGE TYPE FICTION CABOT, M.
1 available
Description
"Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest, most beautiful islands in the Florida Keys, home to sandy white beaches, salt-rimmed margaritas, and stunning sunsets--a place where nothing goes under the radar and love has a way of sneaking up when least expected... A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's...
Author
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
5 available
FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
5 available
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
1 available
CD FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
1 available
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - Ask Staff
BOOK BAG PARIS LIBRARY
1 available
BOOK BAG PARIS LIBRARY
1 available
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
1 available
LARGE TYPE FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
1 available
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
PLAYAWAY FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION SKESLIEN CHARLES, J.
1 available
Description
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
51) The pawful truth
Author
Series
Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 11
Formats:
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
1 available
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
1 available
Description
When Charlie Harris decides to go back to school, he and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, find themselves entangled in a deadly lovers' quarrel on campus. In addition to his library duties and his role as doting grandad, Charlie has enrolled in an early medieval history course offered by young, charismatic professor Carey Warriner. Charlie feels a bit out of place- his fellow classmates are half his age-except for Dixie Bell Compton, another mature student....
Author
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
CD FICTION BENEDICT, M.
1 available
CD FICTION BENEDICT, M.
1 available
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION SMITH, A.
1 available
FICTION SMITH, A.
1 available
Description
"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives-- our own personal libraries-- make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless...
Author
Series
Description
An unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir set in a Southern California public library.
55) Read and buried
Author
Series
Lighthouse library mysteries volume 6
Formats:
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY GATES, E.
1 available
MYSTERY GATES, E.
1 available
Description
The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library's foundations. The digging halts when Lucy pulls a battered tin box containing a Civil War-era diary from the pit. Tucked inside is a hand-drawn map of the Outer Banks accompanied by a page written in an indecipherable code. The library is overrun by people clamoring...
Author
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GRAPHIC NOVEL GAULD
1 available
GRAPHIC NOVEL GAULD
1 available
Description
"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism...
Author
Formats:
Description
In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison, attracting con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world.
58) Seven-year witch
Author
Series
Josie Way novels volume 2
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
MYSTERY SANDERS, A.M.
1 available
MYSTERY SANDERS, A.M.
1 available
Description
"When FBI agent Sam Wilfred's soon-to-be ex-wife goes missing and a local architect working at a cursed location is murdered, Josie enlists her witchy insight to clear Sam's name and discover who is drawing up some killer plans"--
Author
Series
Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 10
Formats:
On Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
1 available
LARGE TYPE MYSTERY JAMES, M.
1 available
Description
"Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are busy decking the halls for the holidays when an unexpected delivery and a shocking murder conspire to shake up the season in this all new installment of the New York Times bestselling series. December twenty-fifth is right around the corner, and Charlie is making his list and checking it twice. He is doing his best to show some peace and goodwill towardhisnosy neighbor Gerry Arbitron,a real estate...
Author
Series
Lighthouse library mysteries volume 4
Description
"Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly legends, Jay becomes one of the dearly departed in the rare books section. Now, it's up to Lucy Richardson and her fellow librarians to bone up on their detective skills and discover...