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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
910.9164 GRA
1 available
910.9164 GRA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
910.9164 GRA
2 available
910.9164 GRA
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
910.9164 GRA
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910.9164 GRA
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MURRAY
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FICTION MURRAY
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"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION KRUEGER
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LT FICTION KRUEGER
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION KRUEGER
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CD FICTION KRUEGER
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Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. After commiting a terrible crime, Odie and his brother Albert are forced to flee, along with their best friend Mose and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy. Together they...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
616.995 GRE
1 available
616.995 GRE
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
616.995 GRE
1 available
616.995 GRE
1 available
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"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...
6) Gilead
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
LT FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION ROBINSON
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CD FICTION ROBINSON
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In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION ISHIGURO
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LT FICTION ISHIGURO
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORIARTY
1 available
FICTION MORIARTY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MORIARTY
1 available
FICTION MORIARTY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORIARTY
1 available
FICTION MORIARTY
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION MORIARTY
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LT FICTION MORIARTY
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION MORIARTY
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CD FICTION MORIARTY
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"A novel that looks at marriage, sibling rivalry, and the lies we tell others and ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. The Delany family love one another dearly--it's just sometimes they want to murder one another...If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most...
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"They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered...
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"In the years since Mukherjee dazzled readers with THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, much has changed in the universe of cancer--in our understanding of its causes; in our attempts to prevent it; and in the emerging and revolutionary new treatments, including those Mukherjee himself helped devise for leukemia and lymphoma. In four profound and revolutionary new chapters--essentially a new book about cancer--he illuminates the landscape of this disease...