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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coelho
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CD AUDIO Fiction Coelho
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"A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd...
2) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Herbert
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Fiction Herbert
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Herbert
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Fiction Herbert
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Herbert
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Fiction Herbert
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Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Herbert
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CD AUDIO Fiction Herbert
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"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ondaatj
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Fiction Ondaatj
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Fiction Ondaatj
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Fiction Ondaatj
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After a badly burned pilot is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered.
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bowles
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Fiction Bowles
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Fiction Bowles
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Fiction Bowles
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"The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century." —Tobias Wolff
"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II." —New Republic
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which
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Dark Tower volume 1
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction King
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Fiction King
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction King
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Fiction King
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction King
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Fiction King
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction King
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CD AUDIO Fiction King
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CD AUDIO Fiction King
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CD AUDIO Fiction King
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In The Gunslinger, King introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
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From a New York Times bestselling author, a Victorian-era thriller featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, a self-proclaimed spinster and heiress who's unrattled by anyone–including mummies.
The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who...
The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who...
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Daevabad trilogy volume 1
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Southeast - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chakrab
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Fiction Chakrab
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Thompson Lane - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chakrab
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Fiction Chakrab
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5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Inglewood - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Chakrab
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Playaway Fiction Chakrab
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"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent....
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6 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction McCarth
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CD AUDIO Fiction McCarth
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Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.
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Books of Ambha volume 1
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A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and...
10) Who fears death
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1512
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Okorafo
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Fiction Okorafo
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Okorafo
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Fiction Okorafo
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Okorafo
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Fiction Okorafo
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Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Cather
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Fiction Cather
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Cather
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Fiction Cather
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Cather
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Fiction Cather
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Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the...
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the...
12) Inland: a novel
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Obreht
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Fiction Obreht
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Obreht
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Fiction Obreht
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Looby - Adult Fiction
Fiction Obreht
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Fiction Obreht
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Donelson - Adult Large Print
Fiction Obreht Large Type
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Fiction Obreht Large Type
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Old Hickory - Adult Large Print
Fiction Obreht Large Type
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Fiction Obreht Large Type
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Obreht
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Playaway Fiction Obreht
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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
13) The desert spear
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Demon Cycle volume 2
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Brett
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Fiction Brett
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Southeast - Adult Fiction
Fiction Brett
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Fiction Brett
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Two men--Ahmann Jardir and Arlen--were once friends and brothers-in-arms. Now they have become fierce adversaries in a battle against a new breed of demon--more deadly and more intelligent than any that have come before. Only one is the prophesied Deliverer of his people. Sequel to The Warded Man.
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Sandsea trilogy volume 1
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Abdulla
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Fiction Abdulla
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Abdulla
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Fiction Abdulla
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Thompson Lane - Adult Fiction
Fiction Abdulla
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Fiction Abdulla
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"Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land--at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son...