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AUDIO BOOK FIC GAIMAN
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AUDIO BOOK FIC GAIMAN
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the...
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FIC JILES
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FIC JILES
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SET JILES
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SET JILES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JILES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JILES
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SET JILES
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SET JILES
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LARGE PRINT FIC JILES
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LARGE PRINT FIC JILES
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SET JILES
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SET JILES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JILES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JILES
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC JONES
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FIC JONES
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SET JONES
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SET JONES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JONES
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AUDIO BOOK FIC JONES
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SET JONES
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SET JONES
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LARGE PRINT FIC JONES
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LARGE PRINT FIC JONES
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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FIC MICHAELIDES
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FIC MICHAELIDES
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SET MICHAELIDES
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SET MICHAELIDES
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SET MICHAELIDES
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SET MICHAELIDES
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"Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander,...
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AUDIO BOOK 792.7028 NOA
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AUDIO BOOK 792.7028 NOA
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SET NOAH
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SET NOAH
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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...
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AUDIO BOOK FIC NOVAK
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AUDIO BOOK FIC NOVAK
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AUDIO BOOK FIC NOVAK
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AUDIO BOOK FIC NOVAK
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"Across a range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, Novak's assured prose and expansive imagination introduce readers to people, places, and premises that are hilarious, insightful, provocative, and moving-often at the same time. In One More Thing, a boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes - only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins -...
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LARGE PRINT FIC SAUNDERS
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LARGE PRINT FIC SAUNDERS
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"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth, " the president...
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FIC WARD
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FIC WARD
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LARGE PRINT FIC WARD
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Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high. Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children...
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FIC WOODSON
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FIC WOODSON
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LARGE PRINT FIC WOODSON
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LARGE PRINT FIC WOODSON
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WOODSON
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WOODSON
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When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
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FIC EL-MOHTAR
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FIC EL-MOHTAR
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AUDIO BOOK FIC EL-MOHTAR
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AUDIO BOOK FIC EL-MOHTAR
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
11) The alchemist
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AUDIO BOOK FIC COELHO
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AUDIO BOOK FIC COELHO
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"Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 COA
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305.8 COA
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AUDIO BOOK 305.8 COA
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AUDIO BOOK 305.8 COA
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LARGE PRINT 305.8 COA
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
13) Why not me?
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
818.6 KAL
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818.6 KAL
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AUDIO BOOK 818.6 KAL
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AUDIO BOOK 818.6 KAL
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Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it's falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you're constantly reminded that no one looks like you. In "How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet's Confessions,"...