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Earliest Publication Date
2023
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWER
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FICTION POWER
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION POWER
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FICTION POWER
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION POWER
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FICTION POWER
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"From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.... Sissy, born 1961: Sissy's relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is also filled with beautiful things, including a new Christmas present,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION PALMA
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FICTION PALMA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION PALMA
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FICTION PALMA
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"Hugo Contreras's world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same....
3) Bloodguard
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
Description
"One hundred years. Tens of thousands of gladiators. And today, only one will rise... Everything in the Kingdom of Arrow is a lie. Leith of Grey thought coming to this new land and volunteering to fight in the gladiator arena -- vicious, bloodthirsty tournaments where only the strongest survive -- would earn him enough gold to save his dying sister. He thought there was nothing left to lose. He was wrong -- and they took everything. His hope. His...
4) Bochica
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Earliest Publication Date
2025
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Historical Fiction
FICTION FLOREZ
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FICTION FLOREZ
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"In 1923 Soacha, Colombia, La Casona--an opulent mansion perched above the legendary Salto del Tequendama waterfall--was once home to Antonia and her family, who settle in despite their constant nightmares and the house's malevolent spirit. But tragedy strikes when Antonia's mother takes a fatal fall into El Salto and her father, consumed by grief, attempts to burn the house down with Antonia still inside. Three years later, haunted by disturbing...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOKEAH
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FICTION HOKEAH
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION HOKEAH
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FICTION HOKEAH
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION HOKEAH
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FICTION HOKEAH
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Description
"Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever's bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of Ever's...
6) Ceremony
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Earliest Publication Date
1977
Description
This story, set on an Indian reservation just after World War II, concerns the return home of a war-weary Laguna Pueblo young man. Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
Legally Blonde and Jury Duty meet The Real Housewives in this high-stakes courtroom love story--a sexy and sweet but heartfelt novel about friendship, romance, and reality television from the acclaimed author of Love Buzz and In a Not So Perfect World. Sydney Parks thinks she might be the first person in the world to look forward to serving jury duty. When Margot Kitsch, an OG cast member of the hit reality show Authentic Moms of Malibu is arrested...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHUNG
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FICTION CHUNG
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHUNG
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FICTION CHUNG
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHUNG
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FICTION CHUNG
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Description
"Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother--abused by the family for failing to birth a boy--finds her own small acts of rebellion in...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION KAKIMOTO
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FICTION KAKIMOTO
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"Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth. A childhood encounter...
10) Exposure
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION EMERSON
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FICTION EMERSON
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION EMERSON
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FICTION EMERSON
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"A dual-voice cat-and-mouse thriller, told from the points of view of a killer who has created his own deadly religion and the only person who can stop him, an embattled young detective who sees the ghosts of his Native victims. In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2020
Description
"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
Description
"In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military buses called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into...
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ORDORICA
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FICTION ORDORICA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ORDORICA
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FICTION ORDORICA
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"When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION ZHANG
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CD FICTION ZHANG
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"In this razor-sharp, diabolical debut thriller, a young woman steps into her deceased twin's influencer life, only to discover dark secrets hidden behind her social media façade. Julie Chan has nothing. Her twin sister has everything. Except a pulse. Julie Chan, a supermarket cashier with nothing to lose, finds herself thrust into the glamorous yet perilous world of her late twin sister, Chloe VanHuusen, a popular influencer. Separated at a young...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION SANTIAGO
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FICTION SANTIAGO
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION SANTIAGO
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FICTION SANTIAGO
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"They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed...
16) Like happiness
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION VILLARRE
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FICTION VILLARRE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION VILLARRE
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FICTION VILLARRE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION VILLARRE
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FICTION VILLARRE
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Description
"A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer. It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. She loves this new life, but more than anything, she loves it for helping her forget the decade she...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION DOVE
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FICTION DOVE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOVE
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FICTION DOVE
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"To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter's murder, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr's father never talked much about the reservation that raised him, but they need a new tribal marshal as much as Starr needs a place to call home. In the last decade, too many young women have disappeared from the rez. Some dead, others just ......
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION FORTUNE
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FICTION FORTUNE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION FORTUNE
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FICTION FORTUNE
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Description
"A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of Every Summer After. Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic...
19) Mina's Matchbox
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION OGAWA
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FICTION OGAWA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION OGAWA
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FICTION OGAWA
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"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICE
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FICTION RICE
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION RICE
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FICTION RICE
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION RICE
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FICTION RICE
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Description
"In this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by Evan Whitesky ventures into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit Northern Ontario Indigenous community more than a decade after a world-ending blackout. For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home...
