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October 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F LIC
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F LIC
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Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F LIC
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F LIC
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Description
"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
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September 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F SEX
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F SEX
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North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F SEX
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F SEX
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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...
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August 2022
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F FOR
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F FOR
1 available
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F FOR
2 available
F FOR
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F FOR
1 available
F FOR
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South Huntsville Branch - Large Print
LF FOR
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LF FOR
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
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July 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F TRE
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F TRE
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F TRE
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F TRE
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F TRE
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F TRE
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Description
"A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal,...
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June 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F CHE
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F CHE
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F CHE
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F CHE
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F CHE
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F CHE
1 available
eAudiobook
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...
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May 2022
Checked Out
1 copy, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 16 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not?...
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April 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F LI
2 available
F LI
2 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F LI
1 available
F LI
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F LI
1 available
F LI
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Description
"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal...
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March 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F BUR
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F BUR
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F BUR
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F BUR
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Description
"When the shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic "prep school prophet" (and St. Dunstan's alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at 19, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular, Webster-worshipping members of the school's cultic chapel choir:...
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February 2022
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Mystery
M SLO
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M SLO
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North Huntsville Branch - Mystery
M SLO
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M SLO
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Mystery
M SLO
2 available
M SLO
2 available
Description
"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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January 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAN
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F SAN
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAN
1 available
F SAN
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAN
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F SAN
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Description
"When a British Indian woman's life hits rock bottom, she decides to change her stars by falling in love...with herself--a hilarious, heartfelt story from outrageously funny novelist Radhika Sanghani. Nina didn't plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. There's no Wi-Fi, no wine, no carbs, and no one to celebrate with. Unfortunately, it gives Nina plenty of time to reflect on her screwed-up...
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December 2021
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F KAP
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F KAP
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F KAP
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F KAP
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F KAP
1 available
F KAP
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eAudiobook
Description
"Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg--taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned...
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November 2021
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F ERD
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F ERD
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F ERD
1 available
F ERD
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F ERD
1 available
F ERD
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
13) Cackle
Author
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October 2021
On Shelf
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAR
1 available
F HAR
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAR
1 available
F HAR
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAR
1 available
F HAR
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Description
"From the author of The Return, a darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants, from a witch who might be too good to be true. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town...
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September 2021
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F ITA
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F ITA
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F ITA
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F ITA
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F ITA
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F ITA
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Description
Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
Author
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August 2021
Formats:
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F PAR
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F PAR
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F PAR
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F PAR
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North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F PAR
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F PAR
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Description
From the author of the "genuinely funny" and "delightful" Loathe at First Sight (NPR), a brilliant new rom-com following a Korean-American woman fighting against her former investment bank trying to buy out her media company-and the hot lawyer the firm hired to represent them.
When up-and-coming investment banker Jess Kim is passed over for a promotion, laid off in a virtual meeting, and then overhears why ("she's already being overpaid anyway for...
Author
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July 2021
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HEN
1 available
F HEN
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F HEN
1 available
F HEN
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F HEN
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F HEN
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
South Huntsville Branch - Large Print
LF HEN
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LF HEN
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Description
"A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the sirens fade and the audience...
Author
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June 2021
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAR
1 available
F HAR
1 available
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAR
1 available
F HAR
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAR
1 available
F HAR
1 available
On Shelf
South Huntsville Branch - Large Print
LF HAR
1 available
LF HAR
1 available
Description
"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
Author
Series
Oak Bluffs volume 1
Notes
May 2021
Formats:
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HOS
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F HOS
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F HOS
1 available
F HOS
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F HOS
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F HOS
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Description
In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them.
19) Gold diggers
Author
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April 2021
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAT
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F SAT
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAT
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F SAT
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North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAT
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F SAT
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Description
"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
Author
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March 2021
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F ISH
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F ISH
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F ISH
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F ISH
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Science Fiction
SF ISH
1 available
SF ISH
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...