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1) Horse
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8 copies, 89 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
2) Foster
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 6 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. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...
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10 copies, 158 people are on the wait list.
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Brooks Memorial Library - LARGEPRINT - 1st Floor
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"After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine...
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17 copies, 333 people are on the wait list.
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
"Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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3 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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"On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa--daughter of Sámi reindeer herders--sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Sámi's...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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4 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
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"Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born into comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident,...
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16 copies, 244 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 170 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 170 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...
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9 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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"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...
10) Birnam Wood
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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3 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--
A landslide has closed a mountain pass on the south island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for a guerrilla gardening collective to plant crops. But an enigmatic American billionaire is interested in the farm...