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Acton - Adult
FIC MOYES
2 available
FIC MOYES
2 available
Acton - Speed Read
SPEEDREAD FIC MOYES
1 available
SPEEDREAD FIC MOYES
1 available
Acton West - New Books
FIC MOYES
1 available
FIC MOYES
1 available
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11 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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Acton - Adult
LARGEPRINT MOYES
1 available
LARGEPRINT MOYES
1 available
Acton West - Adult
LargePrint MOYES
1 available
LargePrint MOYES
1 available
Description
"A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars. Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even...
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11 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has...
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5 copies on order.
Acton - New Books
FIC NAPOLITANO
1 available
FIC NAPOLITANO
1 available
Acton West - Adult
FICTION NAPOLITANO
1 available
FICTION NAPOLITANO
1 available
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15 copies, 236 people are on the wait list.
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26 copies, 338 people are on the wait list.
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26 copies, 338 people are on the wait list.
Description
"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
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4 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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4 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
Description
"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away and even starting a...
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2 copies on order.
Acton - Speed Read
SPEEDREAD FIC SEE
1 available
SPEEDREAD FIC SEE
1 available
Acton West - Adult
FIC SEE
1 available
FIC SEE
1 available
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16 copies, 96 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 160 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 160 people are on the wait list.
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
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On Shelf
64 copies available. 2 copies on order.
Acton West - Adult
FIC JOHNSON
1 available
FIC JOHNSON
1 available
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16 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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23 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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23 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Description
"1950s Philadelphia: 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...
27) Looking for Jane
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7 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
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"Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners--an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle,...
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6 copies on order.
Acton West - Adult
FIC VERGHESE
1 available
FIC VERGHESE
1 available
eAudiobook
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29 copies, 334 people are on the wait list.
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89 copies, 265 people are on the wait list.
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89 copies, 265 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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115 copies, 697 people are on the wait list.
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156 copies, 835 people are on the wait list.
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156 copies, 835 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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"When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between...
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11 copies, 114 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 124 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 124 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
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"A thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her--literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout...
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4 copies on order.
Acton - New Books
FIC SAGER
1 available
FIC SAGER
1 available
Acton - Speed Read
SPEEDREAD FIC SAGER
1 available
SPEEDREAD FIC SAGER
1 available
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20 copies, 61 people are on the wait list.
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28 copies, 81 people are on the wait list.
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28 copies, 81 people are on the wait list.
Description
"At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4
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36 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking...
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Acton - Adult
FIC MORTON
2 available
FIC MORTON
2 available
Acton - Speed Read
SPEEDREAD FIC MORTON
1 available
SPEEDREAD FIC MORTON
1 available
Acton West - Adult
FIC MORTON
1 available
FIC MORTON
1 available
eBook
On Shelf
Acton - Adult
LARGEPRINT MORTON
1 available
LARGEPRINT MORTON
1 available
Acton West - Adult
LargePrint MORTON
1 available
LargePrint MORTON
1 available
Description
"Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what...
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1 copy on order.
Acton - New Books
FIC JEWELL
1 available
FIC JEWELL
1 available
Acton West - Adult
FIC JEWELL
1 available
FIC JEWELL
1 available
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55 copies, 253 people are on the wait list.
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66 copies, 391 people are on the wait list.
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66 copies, 391 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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1 copy on order.
Acton - New Books
FIC KNOLL
1 available
FIC KNOLL
1 available
Acton - Speed Read
SPEEDREAD FIC KNOLL
1 available
SPEEDREAD FIC KNOLL
1 available
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11 copies, 109 people are on the wait list.
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35 copies, 76 people are on the wait list.
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35 copies, 76 people are on the wait list.
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15 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Description
"January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. That night, Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate....