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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." -Margaret Atwood, on Twitter
"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of...
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." -Margaret Atwood, on Twitter
"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of...
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F BAC
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F BAC
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F BAC
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F BAC
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
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F BAC
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Madison Branch - Audiovisual
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Monrovia Branch - Audiovisual
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--
Eric and Andrew, with seven-year-old Wen, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. When Leonard appears in the driveway, he is the largest...
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F NAP
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F NAP
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F NAP
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F NAP
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F NAP
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F NAP
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"One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured vet returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward...
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Downtown Branch - Mystery
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Madison Branch - Mystery
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South Huntsville Branch - Mystery
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Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career. "It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere." So begins...
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F BRO
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F BRO
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
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F BRO
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Downtown Branch - Young Adult Fiction
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YA BRO
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Hazel Green Branch - Audiovisual
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Madison Branch - Audiovisual
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The passionate love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire Moors
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
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F REI
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
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F REI
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Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
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F REI
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Downtown Branch - Audiovisual
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CD F REI
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Monrovia Branch - Audiovisual
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South Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
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CD F REI
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2 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F CRA
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F CRA
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Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F CRA
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F CRA
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South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
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F CRA
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"Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sam Heughan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, a heartwarming story of love, loss, serendipity, and texting. After a heated argument, Clara's fiance stormed out of their apartment, but before they have a chance to reconcile, he died a tragic accident. It's been two years, but she's still paralyzed with grief, and her friends are worried about her. So, to try to say what was left unsaid, she start's texting his old...
10) Dracula
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Downtown Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA STO
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YA STO
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F STO
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F STO
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Monrovia Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA PB STO CLASSIC
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YA PB STO CLASSIC
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Prince of the Night. Lord of the Damned. King of Vampires. He is Dracula, the most well-known vampire in the world--and this new illustrated edition of Bram Stoker's classic tale of terror offers Dracula as you have never seen him before. Brought to life through the stunning visual artistry of Eisner Award-winning illustrator Becky Cloonan (Demo, American Virgin, Victor Von Doom), this new graphically compelling novel offers a spellbinding, edition...
11) Hallowe'en Party
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 32
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When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery, Hallowe'en Party. At a Halloween party, Joyce-a hostile thirteen-year-old-boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'....
12) The exorcist
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
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Madison Branch - Display Shelf
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A young girl becomes possessed by the devil and causes several violent deaths before she can be cured.
13) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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3 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
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"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel
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Gurley Branch - Young Adult Fiction
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YA COL
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Hazel Green Branch - New Shelf
YA COL
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YA COL
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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
15) The color purple
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Gurley Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA WAL
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YA WAL
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Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F WAL
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F WAL
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F WAL
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F WAL
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Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA DOE
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YA DOE
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F DOE
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F DOE
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F DOE
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F DOE
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Madison Branch - Audiovisual
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CD F DOE
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Monrovia Branch - Audiovisual
CD F DOE
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CD F DOE
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New Hope Branch - Audiovisual
CD F DOE
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CD F DOE
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3 copies, 73 people are on the wait list.
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
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F ALD
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Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
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F ALD
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South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F ALD
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F ALD
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When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.
A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with...
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When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius--his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state,...
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Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F DAV
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F DAV
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Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F DAV
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F DAV
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F DAV
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F DAV
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"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
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7 copies, 155 people are on the wait list.
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...