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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
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FIC CON
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William Hall - Adult Fiction
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Cranston Central - Audiobooks
CDB CON
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William Hall - Audiobooks
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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC RUM
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FIC RUM
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William Hall - Adult Fiction
FIC RUM
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FIC RUM
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Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children--four daughters instead...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
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FIC KWO
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Arlington - Adult Fiction
FIC KWO
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
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FIC KWO
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"Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother--and then vanishes. Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn't rejoin her family in America until age...
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Cranston Central - Display
FIC HOL
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FIC HOL
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC HOL
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FIC HOL
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC HOL
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FIC HOL
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Cranston Central - Large Print
LARGE PRINT HOL
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LARGE PRINT HOL
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Auburn - Large Print
LARGE PRINT HOL
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LARGE PRINT HOL
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William Hall - Large Print
LARGE PRINT HOL
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LARGE PRINT HOL
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC DEN
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FIC DEN
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC DEN
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FIC DEN
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William Hall - Adult Fiction
FIC DEN
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FIC DEN
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"When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. But Patsy's plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother--or even...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC WAL
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FIC WAL
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC WAL
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FIC WAL
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC WAL
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FIC WAL
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"Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely...
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Arlington - Adult Fiction
FIC PAT
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FIC PAT
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Knightsville - Adult Fiction
FIC PAT
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FIC PAT
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC PAT
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FIC PAT
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Cranston Central - Large Print
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LARGE PRINT PAT
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William Hall - Large Print
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LARGE PRINT PAT
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"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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"Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin stepkids are moving in, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated. Lillian is convinced...
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Cranston Central - Large Print
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Arlington - Large Print
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Auburn - Large Print
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LARGE PRINT NAP
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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 veteran 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...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC DAR
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FIC DAR
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC DAR
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FIC DAR
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC DAR
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FIC DAR
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"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"--the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...
11) Writers & lovers
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC KIN
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FIC KIN
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William Hall - Adult Fiction
FIC KIN
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FIC KIN
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"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...
12) Valentine
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From beguiling New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather comes this classic tale brimming with intrigue and passion.
A quirk of fate has made Sylvester Gilbraith the heir of his sworn enemy, the earl of Stoneridge. But there’s a catch: To claim his inheritance, he has to marry one of the earl’s four granddaughters. The magnetically handsome nobleman has no choice but to comply with the terms of the will,...
A quirk of fate has made Sylvester Gilbraith the heir of his sworn enemy, the earl of Stoneridge. But there’s a catch: To claim his inheritance, he has to marry one of the earl’s four granddaughters. The magnetically handsome nobleman has no choice but to comply with the terms of the will,...
13) All adults here
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC STR
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FIC STR
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC STR
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FIC STR
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William Hall - Adult Fiction
FIC STR
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FIC STR
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"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
14) A burning
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC MAJ
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FIC MAJ
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Arlington - Adult Fiction
FIC MAJ
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FIC MAJ
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"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC SUL
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FIC SUL
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William Hall - Adult Fiction
FIC SUL
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FIC SUL
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Ex-New Yorker Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town. Alone in the house with her infant son all day, she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. She hires Sam, a senior at the local women's college, to babysit. Sam is struggling...
16) The comeback
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"A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her year of self-imposed exile. She knows the new private...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC GYA
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FIC GYA
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC GYA
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FIC GYA
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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC ALA
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FIC ALA
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Knightsville - Adult Fiction
FIC ALA
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FIC ALA
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Oak Lawn - Adult Fiction
FIC ALA
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FIC ALA
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Cranston Central - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ALA
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LARGE PRINT ALA
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Oak Lawn - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ALA
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LARGE PRINT ALA
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"Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G.H. are an older couple, it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC YAN
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FIC YAN
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Auburn - Adult Fiction
FIC YAN
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FIC YAN
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Knightsville - Adult Fiction
FIC YAN
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FIC YAN
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"White Ivy begins as many coming-to-America stories do: Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But that's where the...
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Cranston Central - Adult Fiction
FIC MOR
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FIC MOR
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Arlington - Adult Fiction
FIC MOR
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FIC MOR
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Knightsville - Adult Fiction
FIC MOR
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FIC MOR
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"Tells the story of black, eleven-year old Pecola Breedlove. She prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blonde, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life changes in painful, devastating ways." --