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"Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day."--Provided by publisher.
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1 copy, 17 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 13 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 13 people are on the wait list.
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"Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
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January 2024 pick.
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3 copies, 151 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 163 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 163 people are on the wait list.
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"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...
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2 copies, 102 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 94 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 94 people are on the wait list.
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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial"--
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LBC November 2023 Pick
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F HUN
1 available
F HUN
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F HUN
1 available
F HUN
1 available
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"Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her best friend whose life she desperately covets. Their bond...
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October 2023 LBC Pick
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A struggling playwright--Holly Sherwin--her musician girlfriend, and a few friends find a creepy old mansion on an isolated hill from which to rehearse Holly's most ambitious play. Ignoring the red flags about the house and setting, the friends soon find themselves fighting each other--and the house itself."--
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September 2023 LBC Pick
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F ORL
1 available
F ORL
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F ORL
1 available
F ORL
1 available
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"A thrilling psychological horror debut about a woman who is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost... You can survive anything. That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to drip blood every September. She's learned how to live with it...and the other terrifying apparitions that have made the sprawling Victorian house she and her husband bought four years ago turn from a dream...
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August 2023 Pick
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F WIL
1 available
F WIL
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F WIL
1 available
F WIL
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F WIL
1 available
F WIL
1 available
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What happens when two ambitious young women, opposite in every way, join forces in a competitive male-dominated industry? Wren and Thessaly collide when they land coveted jobs at a glamorous New York City boutique wine importer. Hardworking, by-the-book Wren comes from a modest background and has everything to prove while Thessaly hails from a family of prestigious California growers--but she is plagued by self-doubt. Thrown together at work, where...
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEW
1 available
F DEW
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEW
1 available
F DEW
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEW
1 available
F DEW
1 available
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
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June 2023
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F RAB
1 available
F RAB
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F RAB
1 available
F RAB
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F RAB
1 available
F RAB
1 available
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When Jess Lands a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her old sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just...the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising, if imperfect ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship, one tinged with undeniable...
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F KEA
1 available
F KEA
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F KEA
1 available
F KEA
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F KEA
1 available
F KEA
1 available
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"Macolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but quickly realizes that making margins won't be easy. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying to have...
13) House of cotton
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April 2023
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Downtown Branch - Display Shelf
F BRA
1 available
F BRA
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F BRA
1 available
F BRA
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F BRA
1 available
F BRA
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
14) Weyward: a novel
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March 2023
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1 copy, 24 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 36 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 36 people are on the wait list.
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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February 2023
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F JOH
1 available
F JOH
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F JOH
1 available
F JOH
1 available
Triana Branch - Adult Fiction
F JOH
1 available
F JOH
1 available
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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"Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright...Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University,...
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January 2023
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F BEN
1 available
F BEN
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F BEN
1 available
F BEN
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F BEN
1 available
F BEN
1 available
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"Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters-each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next-dominate the English scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress. As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious...
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December 2022
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEV
1 available
F DEV
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEV
1 available
F DEV
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F DEV
1 available
F DEV
1 available
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Three generations of the Desai women--sixty-five-year-old Bindu; her daughter-in-law, Aly; and her granddaughter, Cullie--navigate bad dates, reemerging exes, and secrets that refuse to remain hidden as they embark on a daring shared journey of self-discovery to live their most authentic lives.
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November 2022
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAY
1 available
F HAY
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F HAY
1 available
F HAY
1 available
Madison Branch - Display Shelf
F HAY
1 available
F HAY
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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December 2019
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
1 available
F REI
1 available
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
2 available
F REI
2 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
1 available
F REI
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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The Brown sisters volume 1
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November 2019
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F HIB
1 available
F HIB
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F HIB
1 available
F HIB
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F HIB
1 available
F HIB
1 available
eAudiobook
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Emerging from a life-threatening illness, a fiercely organized but unfulfilled computer geek recruits a mysterious artist to help her establish meaning in her life, before finding herself engaged in reckless but thrilling activities.