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"In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION STRENNER
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FICTION STRENNER
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
FICTION STRENNER
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FICTION STRENNER
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"A mother's missing child, a search for identity, and ever-changing notions of "home"--class and race intersect with belonging in this stunning debut novel of mothers, daughters and best friends. In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two best friends graduate from high school in the WASP-y town of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is half Japanese,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult New
FICTION LAVENDER
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FICTION LAVENDER
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION LAVENDER
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FICTION LAVENDER
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
FICTION LAVENDER
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FICTION LAVENDER
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"A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill"-- Provided by publisher.
Nora Davies doesn't exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she's going nowhere fast. Enter Will a prominent...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION LYNCH
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FICTION LYNCH
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"A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this debut novel. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected....
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"A dazzling debut that asks: Can a name shape the course of a life? In the wake of an enormous, history-making storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to follow his family tradition going back generations, and name the child Gordon. But on the journey there, Cora wonders...
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"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie,...
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"Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA's algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION SOFFER
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FICTION SOFFER
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SOFFER
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FICTION SOFFER
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"A love letter to New York City, to Central Park, to art, and to love, told through the lens of a fifty-year romance and from various points of view"-- Provided by publisher.
"For fifty years Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KNIGHT
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FICTION KNIGHT
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Lives and Relationships
FICTION KNIGHT
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FICTION KNIGHT
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KNIGHT
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FICTION KNIGHT
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"A witty, warm and brilliantly told debut that is at once a love story, a story of female friendship and motherhood, and an irresistible mystery surrounding an extraordinary British family. Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she'll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father's--now a famous writer known as Lord...
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"Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MAY
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FICTION MAY
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"From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a "vibrant" (Charmaine Wilkerson) decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she's sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother's stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRICH
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FICTION ERDRICH
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ERDRICH
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FICTION ERDRICH
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRICH
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FICTION ERDRICH
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION ERDRICH
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CD FICTION ERDRICH
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION ERDRICH
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CD FICTION ERDRICH
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
CD FICTION ERDRICH
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CD FICTION ERDRICH
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"In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MELLORS
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FICTION MELLORS
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MELLORS
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FICTION MELLORS
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"Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The three Blue sisters are exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a...
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Thirty-something Lauren has been leading a steady, enjoyable single life: great friends, good job, and a nice flat in south-east London, until, one night, she comes back from a party to find a stranger in her home. His name is Michael. He's attractive, sweet, and, according to him, her friends, and the pictures on her walls, he's Lauren's husband. Just as Lauren is trying to figure out how she could be married to someone she can't remember meeting,...
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"It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - THRILLER2
FICTION WHITAKER
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FICTION WHITAKER
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"1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer....
17) Swift River
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHAMBERS
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FICTION CHAMBERS
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAMBERS
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FICTION CHAMBERS
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It's the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But that's not the only reason Diamond stands out: she's teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop's been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his life insurance...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KHONG
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FICTION KHONG
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KHONG
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FICTION KHONG
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION KHONG
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LT FICTION KHONG
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Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Maos Cultural Revolution. Despite all this,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION FADIPE
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FICTION FADIPE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION FADIPE
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FICTION FADIPE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION FADIPE
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FICTION FADIPE
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Basking in Singapore's nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream--until a mysterious (not to mention handsome) new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything. The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous for many things--its decadent street food, its world-class shopping, its lush gardens that burst with tropical blooms. But paradise is always hiding a snake. For Dara, a workaholic...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Memoir and Biography
B SINCLAIR
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B SINCLAIR
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B SINCLAIR
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B SINCLAIR
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Memoir and Biography
B SINCLAIR
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B SINCLAIR
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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. In an...
