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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 1
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to confront the lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory...
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In a series of moments spanning two years, seventeen-year-old Neon navigates the progression of his relationship with Aria, culminating in a case of the jitters as the two intend to take the next big step in their relationship.
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Grimaldi, V.
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Adult Fiction Grimaldi, V.
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Two sisters, Emma and Agathe, reminisce about their lives together, analyze their fraught relationship and consider reconciling when they must return together to Basque Country to empty out the home of their beloved grandmother.
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Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. (Bestseller)
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Audiobooks Doerr (Fiction)
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Adult Audiobooks Doerr (Fiction)
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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*Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives...
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Wakefield - Reference Area
Adult Large Print Backman
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Adult Large Print Backman
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Audiobooks Backman (Fiction)
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Adult Audiobooks Backman (Fiction)
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Playaways Backman (Fiction)
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Adult Playaways Backman (Fiction)
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4 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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"Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
8) Atomic Anna
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Barenbaum, R.
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Adult Fiction Barenbaum, R.
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"In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly's daughter Raisa, and put their...
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Everyman's library volume 220
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Heller, J.
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Adult Fiction Heller, J.
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Wakefield - Main Lobby Alcoves
Adult Paperback Bestseller Heller, J.
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Adult Paperback Bestseller Heller, J.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Catch-22 took the war novel genre to a new level, shocking us with its clever and disturbing style. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of John Yossarian, who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. Yossarian is also trying to decode the meaning of Catch-22, a mysterious regulation that proves that insane people are really the sanest, while the supposedly...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives...Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume's most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle,...
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Wakefield - Main Lobby Alcoves
Adult Paperback Bestseller Doerr, A.
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Adult Paperback Bestseller Doerr, A.
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Wakefield - Reference Area
Adult Large Print Doerr
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Adult Large Print Doerr
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Audiobooks Doerr (Fiction)
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Adult Audiobooks Doerr (Fiction)
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Playaways Doerr (Fiction)
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Adult Playaways Doerr (Fiction)
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly...
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Wakefield - Reference Area
Adult Large Print ELSTON, A.
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Adult Large Print ELSTON, A.
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5 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 12 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...
13) Horse
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson,...
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On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life.
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Audiobooks Garcia (Fiction)
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Adult Audiobooks Garcia (Fiction)
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"In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding,...
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Wakefield - Second Floor
Adult Biography PAGE, E.
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Adult Biography PAGE, E.
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"The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans...
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32 copies, 562 people are on the wait list.
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32 copies, 562 people are on the wait list.
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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
18) Red at the bone
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Wakefield - Lower Level
Adult Fiction Woodson, J.
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Adult Fiction Woodson, J.
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It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's birthday celebration in her grandparent's Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, escorted by her father to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special, custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own sixteenth birthday party and a celebration which...
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Wakefield - Reference Area
Adult Large Print Mandel
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Adult Large Print Mandel
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Wakefield - Media Alcove
Adult Audiobooks Mandel (Fiction)
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Adult Audiobooks Mandel (Fiction)
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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When a woman--known only as Mother--moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer-- Here --is never enough. Mother's simmering anger...

