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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
641.5972 MAR
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641.5972 MAR
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
641.5972 MAR
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641.5972 MAR
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"An enticing, regional, and stunning exploration of Mexican cuisine from beloved food writer and host of Food52's "Sweet Heat" series, Rick Martinez. In his first, much-anticipated cookbook, New York Times contributor, Food52 columnist, and former Bon Appétit food editor Rick Martinez introduces home cooks to the diverse culinary treasures of Mexico. In Mi Cocina, Rick travels to each of the seven regions in Mexico to explore 100 unique dishes, the...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B EJIOFOR
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B EJIOFOR
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"Living in Brixton and awaiting the return of her husband and young son from Nigeria, Obiajulu Ejiofor received shattering news. There had been a fatal car crash, and one of them was dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain Asher, tells the story of her family and her mother's deeply personal fight to protect her children from the daily pressures of poverty, crime, and racism in 1980s and '90s South London as a widowed emigrant....
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ADIGA
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FICTION ADIGA
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"Danny--formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION AMIRY
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FICTION AMIRY
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION AMIRY
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FICTION AMIRY
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"Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa vividly to life as a beautiful city by the sea where Jews,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ALAMEDDI
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FICTION ALAMEDDI
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"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose...
6) Salt houses
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
7) Bestiary
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHANG
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FICTION CHANG
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"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION JONES
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FICTION JONES
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION JONES
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FICTION JONES
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"In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. "Some girls just don't know how to die ..." Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORANGE
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FICTION ORANGE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ORANGE
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FICTION ORANGE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION ORANGE
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LT FICTION ORANGE
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION ORANGE
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CD FICTION ORANGE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION ORANGE
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CD FICTION ORANGE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
CD FICTION ORANGE
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CD FICTION ORANGE
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"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
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"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."-- Provided by publisher.
Every day Willis Wu leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too, but he dreams...
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Tita Rosie's kitchen mystery volume 5
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MANANSAL
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FICTION MANANSAL
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MANANSAL
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FICTION MANANSAL
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MANANSAL
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FICTION MANANSAL
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"The annual Shady Palms Corn Festival is one of the town's biggest moneymakers, drawing crowds from all over the Midwest looking to partake in delicious treats, local crafts, and of course, the second-largest corn maze in Illinois. Lila Macapagal and her Brew-ha Cafe crew, Adeena Awan and Elena Torres, are all too happy to participate in the event, though their fun is cut short when their wager on who can make it through the corn maze fastest ends...
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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
13) Honey and spice
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Romance
FICTION BABALOLA
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FICTION BABALOLA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BABALOLA
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FICTION BABALOLA
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"Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passion, humor, and heart, that centers on a young Black British woman who has no interest in love and unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the man she warned her girls about Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together... Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake....
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Romance
FICTION LOPEZ
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FICTION LOPEZ
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Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance from Lush Money author Angelina M. Lopez. Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The "poor handsome man." Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra "Alex" Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration;...
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Nampeshiweisit volume 1
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLACKGOO
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FICTION BLACKGOO
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BLACKGOO
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FICTION BLACKGOO
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"A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling-and quickly finds herself at odds with the "approved" way of doing things-in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations-until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons...
16) Siren queen
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION VO
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FICTION VO
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"It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill--but she doesn't care. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not...








