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1) The namesake
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"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...
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Wakefield - Main Lobby Alcoves
Adult Paperback Bestseller Zauner, M. (Nonfiction)
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Adult Paperback Bestseller Zauner, M. (Nonfiction)
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Wakefield - Second Floor
Adult Biography Zauner
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Adult Biography Zauner
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Adult Large Print Zauner (Biography)
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Adult Large Print Zauner (Biography)
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Vuong, O.
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Adult Fiction Vuong, O.
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Books with a Buzz
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Books with a Buzz
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"A year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an eighty-two-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much we're willing to risk to claim one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wakefield - Reference Area
Adult Large Print NG, C.
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Adult Large Print NG, C.
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Audiobooks Ng (Fiction)
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Adult Audiobooks Ng (Fiction)
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities...
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Murakami, H.
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Adult Fiction Murakami, H.
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"The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most...
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"Goodbye, Columbus meets the novels of Amy Tan in this American story of class, society and identity that marks the debut of a new voice in fiction"--Provided by the publisher.
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"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Washburn, K.
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Adult Fiction Washburn, K.
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Wakefield - Main Lobby Alcoves
Adult Paperback Bestseller Washburn, K.
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Adult Paperback Bestseller Washburn, K.
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Wakefield - Reference Area
Adult Large Print Washburn
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Adult Large Print Washburn
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa's family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from...

