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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bazterr
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bazterr
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Fiction Bazterr
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"From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find--discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe--cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bo-reum
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Fiction Bo-reum
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bo-reum
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Fiction Bo-reum
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bo-reum
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Fiction Bo-reum
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Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer...
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"A beautiful forty-year-old French woman is pathologically obsessed with her husband, even after fifteen years together."-- Provided by publisher.
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Seolyeo
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Fiction Seolyeo
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Seolyeo
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Fiction Seolyeo
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Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul's Mapo Bridge. But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white, her guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. But the woman's excitement turns to frustration when she learns that being a magical...
5) Elena knows
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Pineiro
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Fiction Pineiro
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Pineiro
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Fiction Pineiro
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Taking place in a single, this is the story of Elena's trek across Buenos Aires to learn the truth about her daughter's death. In the course of the day, she is forced to redefine everything she thought she knew about her daughter, herself, and a fleeting encounter, twenty years before -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Han
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Fiction Han
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Han
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Fiction Han
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"One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently. The two women have last seen each other over a year before, on Jeju Island, where Inseon lives and where, two days before this reunion, she has injured herself chopping wood. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation, Inseon has had to leave behind her pet bird. Bedridden, she begs Kyungha to take...
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"The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues...
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Genberg
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Fiction Genberg
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Genberg
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Fiction Genberg
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"A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host. As she flips through the book, pages from the woman's own past begin to come alive, scenes of events and people she cannot forget. There are moments with Johanna, and Niki, the friend who disappeared years ago without...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johanss
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Fiction Johanss
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johanss
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Fiction Johanss
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A lonely thirtysomething disrupts the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter on a beautiful Greek island, distorting the lines between lover and beloved and child and adult, in a queer version of Lolita by an award-winning Swedish writer.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Geetanj
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Fiction Geetanj
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Geetanj
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Fiction Geetanj
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"A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family--especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch--in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's every need, while her favorite grandson,...
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
Four siblings, two summer houses, one terrible secret—the “prickly, persuasive” bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, perfect for readers of Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard (New Yorker)
“ . . . Hypnotic. Hjorth works finely parsed and brilliant variations on her unrelenting theme of familial mistrust and misunderstanding.” —New...
Four siblings, two summer houses, one terrible secret—the “prickly, persuasive” bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, perfect for readers of Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard (New Yorker)
“ . . . Hypnotic. Hjorth works finely parsed and brilliant variations on her unrelenting theme of familial mistrust and misunderstanding.” —New...
12) Jumpnauts
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In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the Pacific League of Nations and the Atlantic Division of Nations, tensions are high as each side waits for the other to make a move. But neither side is prepared for a powerful third party that has apparently been an influential presence on Earth for thousands of years, and just might be making a reappearance very soon. With the realization that a highly intelligent alien race has...
13) Your utopia
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chung
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Fiction Chung
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Chung
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Fiction Chung
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"Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the acclaimed Anton Hur, readers will experience a variety of possible fates for humanity, from total demise via a disease whose only symptom is casual cannibalism to a world in which even dreams can be monitored and used to convict people of crimes....
14) Lies and Sorcery
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An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.
Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in Translation Prize
Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation...
Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in Translation Prize
Elsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation...
15) Thirst: a novel
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"Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America's feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe's bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her...
16) Mater 2–10
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history.
In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-storey factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on
...17) Violets
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Shin
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Fiction Shin
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Southeast - Adult Fiction
Fiction Shin
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Fiction Shin
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"San, a neglected young woman, experiences the violence and isolation of late twentieth-century Korean society"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tokarcz
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Fiction Tokarcz
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Inglewood - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tokarcz
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Fiction Tokarcz
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tokarcz
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Fiction Tokarcz
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas"-- Provided by publisher.
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Rosenfe
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Fiction Rosenfe
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Rosenfe
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Fiction Rosenfe
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"Ever since she was a child, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests a cochlear implant. This irreversible operation would give Louise a new sense of hearing, but it would come at the expense of her natural hearing, which has shaped her relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows." -- Amazon.
20) Role play
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Drummon
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Fiction Drummon
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Drummon
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Fiction Drummon
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"Set in the world of art, money, and privilege in Brazil, Vivian is an image-obsessed curator at the beginning of a dark and delirious spiral into her own narcissism"-- Provided by publisher.
