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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Memoir and Biography
B MCCURDY
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B MCCURDY
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B MCCURDY
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B MCCURDY
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"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B ZAMORA
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B ZAMORA
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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION IRWIN
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FICTION IRWIN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION IRWIN
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FICTION IRWIN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION IRWIN
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FICTION IRWIN
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"A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home...
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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...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SCALZI
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FICTION SCALZI
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"The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN
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FICTION TAN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION TAN
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FICTION TAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TAN
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FICTION TAN
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"An enthralling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother sets her on a dangerous path and pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the elixer of immortality. But when Xingyin's magic flares...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen Nonfiction
TEEN 322.4 MAR
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TEEN 322.4 MAR
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There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic. That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution. In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined. This is the story of Huey and Bobby....
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Winner of the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature A Coretta Scott King Award Author and Illustrator Honor Book A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Booklist Best Book of the Year A Horn Book Fanfare Title On October 16, 1968, during...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION BLUM
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TEEN FICTION BLUM
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"Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn't changed that much. He's got basketball to play, studies to avoid, and a supermarket full of delicious kosher snacks to eat. The people of Tregaron aren't happy that so many Orthodox Jews are moving in at once, but that's not Hoodie's problem. That is, until he meets...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
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TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
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TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
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TEEN FICTION BOULLEY
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With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
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TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
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TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
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TEEN FICTION HAMMONDS
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When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
13) The red palace
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION HUR
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TEEN FICTION HUR
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"1758. Joseon. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father's approval. But Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect...
14) The Honeys
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION LASALA
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TEEN FICTION LASALA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION LA
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TEEN FICTION LA
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"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
15) Love radio
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION LADELLE
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TEEN FICTION LADELLE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION LADELLE
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TEEN FICTION LADELLE
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Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION LAMB
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TEEN FICTION LAMB
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"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION STEWART
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TEEN FICTION STEWART
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION STEWART
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TEEN FICTION STEWART
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"It's been two months since Lily found her sister, Alice, hurting herself. Since then, Lily has been trying to be the perfect daughter, friend, student, and athlete. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program, and it's beccoming harder for Lily to outrun her feelings. Especially when she meets Micah, a guy with a troubled past of his own. Because Lily has secets, too. Compulsions she can't let go of and thoughts she can't drown out. Things...
18) All my rage
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION TAHIR
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TEEN FICTION TAHIR
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION TAHIR
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TEEN FICTION TAHIR
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"Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION TIRADO
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TEEN FICTION TIRADO
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION ROGERS
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TEEN FICTION ROGERS
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION ROGERS
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TEEN FICTION ROGERS
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Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
