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17 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 16 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...
2) Homegoing
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Nesmith Library - Audiobooks - Audio-Visual Area
AB/CD GYA
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AB/CD GYA
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4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Nesmith Library - Audiobooks - Audio-Visual Area
AB/CD B NOA
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AB/CD B NOA
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The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his...
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"Life is short - no one knows that better than seventeen year-old Lenni Petterssen. On the Terminal Ward, the nurses are offering their condolences already, but Lenni still has plenty of living to do. When she meets 83-year-old Margot Macrae, a fellow patient offering new friendship and enviable artistic skills, Lenni's life begins to soar in ways she'd never imagined. As their bond deepens, a world of stories opens up: of wartime love and loss, of...
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Nesmith Library - Audiobooks - Audio-Visual Area
AB/CD BEN
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AB/CD BEN
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
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Maid novels volume 1
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Nesmith Library - Fiction - Adult Area
F PRO MYSTERY Maid #1
1 available
F PRO MYSTERY Maid #1
1 available
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Nesmith Library - Large Print Books - Adult Area
LP PRO MYSTERY
1 available
LP PRO MYSTERY
1 available
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8 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...
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Nesmith Library - Audiobooks - Audio-Visual Area
AB/CD NAP
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AB/CD NAP
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8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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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...
8) Foster
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is a story of astonishing...
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"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...
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Nesmith Library - Audiobooks - Audio-Visual Area
AB/CD B MOO
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AB/CD B MOO
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Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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Checked Out
11 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
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"Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha "Sam" Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star's New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed. When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, single, and defeated, she spends a summer working on her family's orchard cooking and baking alongside...
