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"An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake. Sophie's husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart. Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute...
2) Bad monkey
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION HIAASEN
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CD FICTION HIAASEN
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"Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office-has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for...
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated...
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"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart--and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit...
5) Fire & blood
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MARTIN
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FICTION MARTIN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MARTIN
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FICTION MARTIN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION MARTIN
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CD FICTION MARTIN
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Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen--the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria--took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart. What really happened during...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION DELANEY
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FICTION DELANEY
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION DELANEY
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FICTION DELANEY
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"In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA Reeling...
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Heartstopper volume 1
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Display
TEEN GN HEARTSTO
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TEEN GN HEARTSTO
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"Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and...
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(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings volume 1
Lord of the rings volume 1
Lord of the rings
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Lord of the rings volume 1
Lord of the rings
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The Lord of the Rings
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (1986) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (2001) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (2002) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (1994) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (Series) volume 1
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(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (1986) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (2001) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (2002) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (1994) volume 1
(John Ronald Reuel) Lord of the rings (Series) volume 1
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Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power the means by which he intends to rule Middle Earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all, which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION HOROWITZ
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CD FICTION HOROWITZ
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A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"-- Provided by publisher.
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Teen Graphic Novels
TEEN GN MSMARVEL 2014
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TEEN GN MSMARVEL 2014
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Teen Graphic Novels
TEEN GN MSMARVEL 2014
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TEEN GN MSMARVEL 2014
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Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City -- until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a secret behind them, as well. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her be too much to bear? Kamala has...
11) Pachinko
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION LEE
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CD FICTION LEE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION LEE
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CD FICTION LEE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION LEE
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CD FICTION LEE
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Adult Graphic Novels
GN PAPER
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GN PAPER
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Teen Graphic Novels
TEEN GN PAPER
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TEEN GN PAPER
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"After surviving the strangest night of their lives in the Cleveland suburb of Stony Stream, intrepid young newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future... the year 2016. What would you do if you were confronted by your 12-year-old self? 40-year-old newspaper reporter Erin Tieng is about to find out in this action-packed story about identity, mortality, and growing older in the...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SLAUGHTE
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FICTION SLAUGHTE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SLAUGHTE
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FICTION SLAUGHTE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION SLAUGHTE
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CD FICTION SLAUGHTE
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"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERMAN
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FICTION ALDERMAN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ALDERMAN
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FICTION ALDERMAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERMAN
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FICTION ALDERMAN
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When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with...
15) Roar
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"Cecelia Ahern gives us thirty stories, all titled 'The Woman Who...', that capture the different facets of women's lives. Humorous, moving and poignant, the stories capture the moments the characters are overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, frustration, intimidation, exhaustion the private moments when they feel the need to roar"--Provided by publisher.
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"An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth...
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BEUKES
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FICTION BEUKES
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"A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace-- until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with an...
18) Slow horses
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Slough house volume 1
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London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle -- not unusual in this line...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION HAN
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TEEN FICTION HAN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION HAN
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TEEN FICTION HAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION HAN
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TEEN FICTION HAN
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"Some summers are just destined to be pretty. Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes,...
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"The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune). A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures...
