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13 copies, 375 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 412 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 412 people are on the wait list.
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Brooks Memorial Library - LARGEPRINT - 1st Floor
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"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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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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22 copies, 168 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 143 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 143 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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21 copies, 339 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 240 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 240 people are on the wait list.
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Brooks Memorial Library - LARGEPRINT - 1st Floor
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LP PAT
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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4 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 76 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 76 people are on the wait list.
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Brooks Memorial Library - LARGEPRINT - 1st Floor
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LP SEE
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"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 being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations -- looking, listening, touching, and asking -- something a man can never do with a female...
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A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant,...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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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...
7) The fraud
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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SMI
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6 copies, 66 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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3 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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Brooks Memorial Library - LARGEPRINT - 1st Floor
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LP GRO
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
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NAP
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13 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 151 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 151 people are on the wait list.
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Brooks Memorial Library - LARGEPRINT - 1st Floor
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy: his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. His skill on the basketball court earned him a scholarship to a college far away from his childhood home. Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman, surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, happiest with her nose in a book and dreams...