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Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION LYNCH
1 available
FICTION LYNCH
1 available
Description
"A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this debut novel. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected....
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - THRILLER2
FICTION WHITAKER
3 available
FICTION WHITAKER
3 available
Description
"1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer....
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION LITTLEWO
1 available
FICTION LITTLEWO
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION LITTLEWO
2 available
FICTION LITTLEWO
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION LITTLEWO
1 available
FICTION LITTLEWO
1 available
Description
"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink-who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION THAI
1 available
FICTION THAI
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION THAI
2 available
FICTION THAI
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION THAI
1 available
FICTION THAI
1 available
Description
"When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life-a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste-but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WILKERSO
2 available
FICTION WILKERSO
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
LT FICTION WILKERSO
1 available
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MELLORS
1 available
FICTION MELLORS
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MELLORS
6 available
FICTION MELLORS
6 available
Description
"Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The three Blue sisters are exceptional - and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
"In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal's wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they've lost. Margaret's husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm's...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ADJEI
4 available
FICTION ADJEI
4 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADJEI
1 available
FICTION ADJEI
1 available
Description
The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times -bestselling author of Friday Black , about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. "A new and necessary American voice." -- Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
Description
"Dicen que la construcción del canal será la hazaña más grande en la historia de la ingeniería. Pero ¿quién va a construirlo? Para Francisco, un pescador lugareño que no tolera que las potencias extranjeras saqueen a pedazos su país, nada es más desagradable que la decisión de su hijo, Omar, de trabajar como excavador en la zona de perforación. Pero para Omar, cuya crianza fue tranquila y solitaria, este trabajo es la oportunidad de, por...
Earliest Publication Date
2019
Description
"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ALDERTON
2 available
FICTION ALDERTON
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERTON
1 available
FICTION ALDERTON
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
"In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie,...
13) My other heart
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New Books
FICTION STRENNER
1 available
FICTION STRENNER
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
FICTION STRENNER
1 available
FICTION STRENNER
1 available
Description
"A mother's missing child, a search for identity, and ever-changing notions of "home"--class and race intersect with belonging in this stunning debut novel of mothers, daughters and best friends. In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two best friends graduate from high school in the WASP-y town of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is half Japanese,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KHONG
6 available
FICTION KHONG
6 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION KHONG
1 available
FICTION KHONG
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION KHONG
1 available
LT FICTION KHONG
1 available
Description
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of scientists who fled Maos Cultural Revolution. Despite all this,...
15) Swift River
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHAMBERS
1 available
FICTION CHAMBERS
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAMBERS
1 available
FICTION CHAMBERS
1 available
Description
It's the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But that's not the only reason Diamond stands out: she's teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop's been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his life insurance...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ROWLEY
2 available
FICTION ROWLEY
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
LT FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
Description
"It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
"Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA's algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRIQUE
1 available
FICTION HENRIQUE
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION HENRIQUE
4 available
FICTION HENRIQUE
4 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HENRIQUE
1 available
FICTION HENRIQUE
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION HENRIQUE
1 available
LT FICTION HENRIQUE
1 available
Description
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection. Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
Description
Thirty-something Lauren has been leading a steady, enjoyable single life: great friends, good job, and a nice flat in south-east London, until, one night, she comes back from a party to find a stranger in her home. His name is Michael. He's attractive, sweet, and, according to him, her friends, and the pictures on her walls, he's Lauren's husband. Just as Lauren is trying to figure out how she could be married to someone she can't remember meeting,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult New
FICTION ONEILL
1 available
FICTION ONEILL
1 available
Description
"In this debut, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, three adult sisters grapple with a shared tragedy over a Thanksgiving weekend spent in their childhood home, navigating complex relationships and old tensions. It's been years since the three Ryan sisters were all home together at their family's beloved house on the eastern shore of Long Island. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by an accident on their brother Topher's boat:...
