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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION JULY
1 available
FICTION JULY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION JULY
8 available
FICTION JULY
8 available
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"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic...
2) Beautyland
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION BERTINO
1 available
FICTION BERTINO
1 available
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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities...
3) Black river
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ROY
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FICTION ROY
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It takes a village to kill a child. The village of Teetarpur outside Delhi, is famous for nothing until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslin man, Mansoor. It's up to the local policeman Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh to get to the truth. With only one officer under him, and only a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice...
4) Bluff: poems
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
811 SMI
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811 SMI
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"Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with violence, shame, easy pessimism, their responsibility as a poet, and their hometown of the Twin Citites. Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, this book is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ROONEY
9 available
FICTION ROONEY
9 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROONEY
1 available
FICTION ROONEY
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION ROONEY
1 available
LT FICTION ROONEY
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION ROONEY
1 available
CD FICTION ROONEY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION ROONEY
1 available
CD FICTION ROONEY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
CD FICTION ROONEY
1 available
CD FICTION ROONEY
1 available
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"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION LINK
2 available
FICTION LINK
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION LINK
1 available
FICTION LINK
1 available
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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION GROSSMAN
1 available
FICTION GROSSMAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION GROSSMAN
1 available
FICTION GROSSMAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION GROSSMAN
1 available
FICTION GROSSMAN
1 available
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"Collum, a brilliantly gifted young knight from the provinces, arrives at Camelot two weeks after the Battle of Camlann, hoping to compete for a spot on the Round Table. But he finds the city empty, King Arthur dead, and the Table destroyed. The remaining six knights aren't the mighty heroes, the legends, like Lancelot and Gawain and Tristram and Galahad. These are the survivors, a grab-bag of minor oddball knights from the margins--Sir Palomides,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ZAHER
1 available
FICTION ZAHER
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ZAHER
1 available
FICTION ZAHER
1 available
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"The Coin's narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SENNA
1 available
FICTION SENNA
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SENNA
5 available
FICTION SENNA
5 available
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"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel,...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUSHNER
1 available
FICTION KUSHNER
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KUSHNER
11 available
FICTION KUSHNER
11 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KUSHNER
1 available
FICTION KUSHNER
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION KUSHNER
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CD FICTION KUSHNER
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"Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"-- making...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION BLACKBUR
1 available
FICTION BLACKBUR
1 available
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"A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and...
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOKARCZU
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FICTION TOKARCZU
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"September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the...
13) The familiar
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARDUGO
1 available
FICTION BARDUGO
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION BARDUGO
4 available
FICTION BARDUGO
4 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BARDUGO
1 available
FICTION BARDUGO
1 available
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
811 BAN
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811 BAN
1 available
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"A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. 'I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing,' Bowie answered. 'Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.' Mary Jo Bang's brilliant poems might be the...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
821 ABU
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821 ABU
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Mosab Abu Toha, a scholar, librarian, and poet, rose to prominence with his first poetry collection. After completing his master's degree at Syracuse University, he returned to Gaza, where his second work was interrupted by the outbreak of conflict. When the Israeli army bombed his home, destroying a library he had built for his community, Abu Toha and his family fled for safety. Amid the chaos, he continued writing poetry, capturing both the horrors...
16) Funny story
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION HENRY
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LT FICTION HENRY
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION HENRY
1 available
CD FICTION HENRY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION HENRY
1 available
CD FICTION HENRY
1 available
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION AGUDA
1 available
FICTION AGUDA
1 available
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In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, 'Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MOORE
3 available
FICTION MOORE
3 available
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"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...
19) Godwin
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ONEILL
1 available
FICTION ONEILL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ONEILL
1 available
FICTION ONEILL
1 available
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"Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother Geoff. Raised in the UK by the mother who deserted Mark when she divorced his dad and married a richer man, Geoff is now a fast-talking soccer agent,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ALDERTON
4 available
FICTION ALDERTON
4 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERTON
1 available
FICTION ALDERTON
1 available
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"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup--the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex--all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...
