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Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
"A taut, lyrical, and life-affirming debut, All That Life Can Afford is a tale of aspirations, high society, and the bittersweet journey of turning over a new leaf while staying true to one's roots. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. As a child, Eva devoured London through library books--savoring its soft, dreamlike edges of castles and dances, a far cry from her life of co-pays and Craigslist and caring for...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION GONZALEZ
1 available
FICTION GONZALEZ
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION GONZALEZ
4 available
FICTION GONZALEZ
4 available
Description
"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Hot Pick
HOT PICK FICTION HALL
1 available
HOT PICK FICTION HALL
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION HALL
1 available
CD FICTION HALL
1 available
Description
"Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager--the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SMALE
1 available
FICTION SMALE
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMALE
1 available
FICTION SMALE
1 available
Description
After an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth's boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KIM
1 available
FICTION KIM
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KIM
1 available
FICTION KIM
1 available
Description
"A once famous ballerina faces a final choice--to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHEN
3 available
FICTION CHEN
3 available
Description
Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this facade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate from...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SMITH
3 available
FICTION SMITH
3 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH
1 available
FICTION SMITH
1 available
Description
"When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2017
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION HONEYMAN
1 available
CD FICTION HONEYMAN
1 available
Description
"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELSTON
1 available
FICTION ELSTON
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ELSTON
3 available
FICTION ELSTON
3 available
Description
"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRY
1 available
FICTION HENRY
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Lives and Relationships
FICTION HENRY
4 available
FICTION HENRY
4 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION HENRY
1 available
LT FICTION HENRY
1 available
Description
"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen...
11) Honey and spice
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BABALOLA
1 available
FICTION BABALOLA
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BABALOLA
1 available
FICTION BABALOLA
1 available
Description
"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....
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2021
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ENGEL
1 available
FICTION ENGEL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL
1 available
FICTION ENGEL
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION ENGEL
1 available
CD FICTION ENGEL
1 available
Description
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogotá.
13) Isola: a novel
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION GOODMAN
1 available
FICTION GOODMAN
1 available
Description
"Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian--an enigmatic and volatile man--spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. Isolated and afraid, Marguerite befriends her guardian's servant and the two develop an intense attraction. But when their relationship is discovered, they are brutally punished and abandoned on a small island with...
14) L.A. weather
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2021
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ESCANDON
1 available
FICTION ESCANDON
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ESCANDON
1 available
FICTION ESCANDON
1 available
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SIMON
1 available
FICTION SIMON
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SIMON
1 available
FICTION SIMON
1 available
Description
"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SEXTON
1 available
FICTION SEXTON
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEXTON
1 available
FICTION SEXTON
1 available
Description
A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco. At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION NG
1 available
LT FICTION NG
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION NG
1 available
CD FICTION NG
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION NG
1 available
CD FICTION NG
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION NG
1 available
CD FICTION NG
1 available
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
Description
""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROWELL
1 available
FICTION ROWELL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ROWELL
1 available
FICTION ROWELL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROWELL
1 available
FICTION ROWELL
1 available
Description
They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh's porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north Omaha--Shiloh would go to go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change. Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed. Now Shiloh's thirty-three,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION BROWN
5 available
FICTION BROWN
5 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROWN
1 available
FICTION BROWN
1 available
Description
"When a young woman turns up dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accident-and when she starts to dig for answers, her investigations take her closer to home than she ever would have imagined in this thrilling debut novel from an exciting new talent. Every year, Maya loves heading back to Princeton for her reunions-she may have graduated a decade ago, but it's always fun to see old faces and take a walk through her own...
