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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
3 available
FICTION SENNA
3 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SENNA
1 available
FICTION SENNA
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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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"A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom. When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
277.3083 GRI
1 available
277.3083 GRI
1 available
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"A Pulitzer Prize winner's startling, intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission to build community, its heartbreaking crisis, and the future of faith in America"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ERDRICH
2 available
FICTION ERDRICH
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
CD FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
CD FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
CD FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
CD FICTION ERDRICH
1 available
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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 Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MANGUSO
1 available
FICTION MANGUSO
1 available
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"A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including--a few years later--all the attendant joy and labor of motherhood. But it's...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS
1 available
FICTION POWERS
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION POWERS
6 available
FICTION POWERS
6 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWERS
1 available
FICTION POWERS
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION POWERS
1 available
LT FICTION POWERS
1 available
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"Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred...
7) Rental house
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WANG
5 available
FICTION WANG
5 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WANG
1 available
FICTION WANG
1 available
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"Keru and Nate first meet in college, brought together by a joke at a Halloween party (would a "great white" costume mean dressing like a shark or a privileged Ivy League student?) and marrying a few years later. Misfits in their own families, they find in each other a feeling of home. Keru is the only child of strict, well-educated Chinese immigrant parents who hold her to impossible standards even as an adult ("To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,"...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAFAK
1 available
FICTION SHAFAK
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SHAFAK
1 available
FICTION SHAFAK
1 available
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From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION THANKI
1 available
FICTION THANKI
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION THANKI
2 available
FICTION THANKI
2 available
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"A heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them, sweeping readers from Partition-era India to modern day Brooklyn. Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated by a secret her family has kept for centuries, one that Ayukta...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
814 DAN
1 available
814 DAN
1 available
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"Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. From hurricanes...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
FICTION WILKERSO
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The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well....
12) One good thing
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, an unforgettable story of hardship and hope, courage and resilience, that follows one young woman's journey through war-torn Italy 1941, Emilia Romagna. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the University of Ferrara; when Esti's son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. There is a war being fought across borders, and in Italy, Mussolini's Racial Laws have...
13) James: a novel
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION EVERETT
1 available
FICTION EVERETT
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION EVERETT
1 available
FICTION EVERETT
1 available
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MOORE
8 available
FICTION MOORE
8 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOORE
1 available
FICTION MOORE
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION MOORE
1 available
LT FICTION MOORE
1 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...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WILLIAMS
1 available
FICTION WILLIAMS
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILLIAMS
1 available
FICTION WILLIAMS
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"Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
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A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture--from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones--to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
796.323 ABD
1 available
796.323 ABD
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
796.323 ABD
2 available
796.323 ABD
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
796.323 ABD
1 available
796.323 ABD
1 available
Description
"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B TAFFA
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B TAFFA
1 available
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"Whiskey Tender is a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between being raised to strive towards the American dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of America"-- Provided by publisher.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAN
1 available
FICTION CHAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHAN
1 available
FICTION CHAN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAN
1 available
FICTION CHAN
1 available
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"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
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"The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything last forever, and, although nothing does, we continue inside that dream. One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been altered forever. Obsessed by the power of those words -- and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa-- Khaled leaves Libya...
