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2022. Random House
First edition.
x, 449 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), charts ; 25 cm
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
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2022 Random House Publishing Group
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2022 Random House Publishing Group
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Description
"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
2) The swimmers
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
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2022. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
175 pages ; 20 cm
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F OTS
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F OTS
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F OTS
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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Description
"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"--
"The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing...
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[2021] Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
324 pages ; 22 cm
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F SAN
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F SAN
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Description
"A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl - in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"--
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2022. Grove Press
First edition.
259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not...
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[2022] Random House
First edition.
xix, 320 pages ; 22 cm
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
B CHE CHE
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B CHE CHE
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"In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents take to the streets to rally against encroaching threats on their democracy and freedoms. But it is also misunderstood and often romanticized, its history...
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2022. Riverhead Books
324 pages ; 24 cm
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Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
616.044 ORO
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616.044 ORO
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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"A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases. A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O'Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of "invisible"...
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2022. W.W. Norton & Company
First edition.
pages ; cm
Description
"A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week")...
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North Huntsville Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
B ZAM ZAM
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B ZAM ZAM
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2022 Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
384 pages ; 25 cm
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North Huntsville Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
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B ZAM ZAM
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Random House Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Random House Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
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[2022] Flatiron Books
First Edition.
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
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[2022] Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC
First edition.
212 pages ; 22 cm
2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life according to their own cultural and...
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F STU
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F STU
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F STU
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F STU
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2022. Grove Press
First edition.
390 pages ; 24 cm
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
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"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
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2022. Alfred A. Knopf
First United States edition.
pages ; cm
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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Description
"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--
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[2022] William Morrow
First U.S. edition.
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
14) The passenger
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Series
Passenger novels volume 1
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F MACC
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F MACC
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F MACC
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F MACC
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2022. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
383 pages ; 25 cm
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F MACC
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F MACC
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F MACC
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F MACC
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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Description
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Science Fiction
SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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2022. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
255 pages ; 22 cm
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Science Fiction
SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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SF MAN
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CD F MAN
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CD F MAN
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CD F MAN
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[2022] Random House Audio
Unabridged.
5 audio discs (6 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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Downtown Branch - Audiovisual
CD F MAN
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CD F MAN
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CD F MAN
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CD F MAN
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2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Valley Digital Library
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Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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[2022] Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
548 pages ; 24 cm
[2022] HarperAudio
Unabridged.
17 audio discs (21 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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2022 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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[2022] Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First Harper Large Print edition.
883 pages ; 23 cm
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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2022. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First edition.
258 pages ; 22 cm
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HOL
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F HOL
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Description
"Andrew Holleran's unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire--the first novel in thirteen years from one the most acclaimed gay authors of our time"--
18) Trust
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2022. Riverhead Books
402 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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Downtown Branch - Science Fiction
SF CHA
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SF CHA
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F CHA
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F CHA
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2022. Simon & Schuster
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
324 pages ; 24 cm
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Downtown Branch - Science Fiction
SF CHA
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SF CHA
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F CHA
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F CHA
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2022 Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Simon & Schuster
Valley Digital Library
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2022 Simon & Schuster
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Description
"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...