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Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHANG
1 available
FICTION CHANG
1 available
Description
"Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don't take life too seriously, get out on the road when you can, and everyone gets just seven great loves in their life--so don't blow it. This last one sticks with Young as he is an obsessive cataloger of his life: movies watched, favorite albums . . . all filtered through Chinese numerology and superstition. He finds meaning in almost everything, for which his two best friends endlessly...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION PORTER
1 available
FICTION PORTER
1 available
Description
"Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens means. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
eAudiobook
Description
"CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ANDREWS
1 available
FICTION ANDREWS
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ANDREWS
2 available
FICTION ANDREWS
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION ANDREWS
1 available
FICTION ANDREWS
1 available
Description
"Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver needs a second chance. When she moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina, she is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Plus, it's been years, since before her parents' divorce, that she's been to the city to sell Christmas...
5) Code blue
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
"Theresa Gallagher has never met her Aunt Dottie, though she remembers her mother's stories about the wild sister who left home at seventeen and moved out west. When a letter arrives from one of Dottie's neighbors, telling Theresa that her aunt is now incapacitated and in a nursing home, Theresa decides to fly out to Arizona to see her. After all, family is family. The staff at the Sunnydale Care Facility seem pleasant and efficient, but Theresa finds...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION HEPWORTH
1 available
FICTION HEPWORTH
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION HEPWORTH
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CD FICTION HEPWORTH
1 available
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult New
FICTION HALL
1 available
FICTION HALL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
FICTION HALL
1 available
FICTION HALL
1 available
Description
"Luke and Hannah live a happy and stable life in London, working in jobs they love as they prepare for the arrival of their first child, Samuel. All his life, Luke has known he was adopted, but he's never felt the need to seek out his birth mother--until he becomes a father himself. Spurred by the connection he feels to his son, Luke's search leads him to his birth mother Alice. Their first encounter is surreal, a sharp prick that barely scratches...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION ARMSTRON
1 available
FICTION ARMSTRON
1 available
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2021
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCFADDEN
1 available
FICTION MCFADDEN
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION MCFADDEN
1 available
FICTION MCFADDEN
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she's done. But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION TOON
1 available
FICTION TOON
1 available
Description
"A love stronger than distance. A fate determined by time. Nell and Van meet as children when their parents fall in love. They become best friends and each other's whole world. Then tragedy strikes and Van is sent to the other side of the globe. Five years later, they find each other again. But they're no longer children and the bond between them smolders into flames. New feelings surprise them both. They are destined, soulmates. Until an untimely...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
FICTION WILLINGH
1 available
FICTION WILLINGH
1 available
Description
"A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark. Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell's older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an investigative...
12) Framed in death
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult New
FICTION ROBB
1 available
FICTION ROBB
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - Mystery
FICTION ROBB
1 available
FICTION ROBB
1 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
CD FICTION ROBB
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CD FICTION ROBB
1 available
Description
"Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb. Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist's career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work....
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION MCCALL
3 available
FICTION MCCALL
3 available
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT FICTION MCCALL
1 available
LT FICTION MCCALL
1 available
Description
"Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are enjoying a nice meal out at a peri-peri restaurant when an American woman named Julia approaches seeking Mma Ramotswe's help. Julia's beloved late grandfather was Botswanan, and he instilled in her an abiding love of his homeland. Now, years after his passing and during a rough patch in her own life, Julia has come to visit the land he had spoken of so often and to find her relatives. Unfortunately, her grandfather's...
14) Hello stranger
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CENTER
2 available
FICTION CENTER
2 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CENTER
1 available
FICTION CENTER
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
Description
"When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively...
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult New
FICTION MCCALL
1 available
FICTION MCCALL
1 available
Description
"The rains are coming, but not just yet. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish - particularly those of Mma Potokwani, matron of a children's home and old friend of Precious Ramotswe. Mma Potokwani and Mma Ramotswe have many other things to talk about, including a new friendship that Mr J.L.B. Matekoni has struck up with Mr Freddie Mohlala, a prominent figure in the motor trade. Freddie Mohlala...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION OAKLEY
1 available
FICTION OAKLEY
1 available
Description
"Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn't sure they're going to make it to twenty. The mother of two feels unneeded by her teenagers, and her writing career has screeched to an unsuccessful halt. Her one published novel sold under five hundred copies. Worse? She's pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to the renowned upscale restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it's as good...
18) Jilted
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
When Sloane Carrick, a writer for Bride magazine, is forced to fill in for a missing bridesmaid, she is paired with gorgeous but insufferable groomsman Wilder Hayes. They fight all evening--until they end up in the coat closet for a make-out session. At least she never has to see him again. Until Monday--when she finds out he's the boss's son and will be working with her the rest of the season.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION CHAMPINE
1 available
FICTION CHAMPINE
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHAMPINE
1 available
FICTION CHAMPINE
1 available
Description
"When Jess was thirteen, her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister, Liz, never found out what happened. Instead, they did what they hoped their mother had done: survive. As soon as she was old enough, Jess fled their small town of Knife River, wandering from girlfriend to girlfriend like a ghost in her own life, aimless in her attempts to outrun grief and confusion. But one morning, fifteen years after their mother's...
20) Mercury
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION BURNS
3 available
FICTION BURNS
3 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURNS
1 available
FICTION BURNS
1 available
Description
"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
