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Picking up his late father's arrangement with an anti-religious sect that performs secret burials for marginalized outcasts, an eccentric undertaker in 1970s Beirut confronts perspectives on death in the face of war.
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
363.325 S4931b
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363.325 S4931b
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
363.325 S4931b
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363.325 S4931b
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Southeast - Adult Non-Fiction
363.325 S4931b
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363.325 S4931b
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The first definitive account of the lost girls of Boko Haram and why their story still matters--by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay. In the early morning of April 14, 2014, the militant Islamic group Boko Haram violently burst into the small town of Chibok, Nigeria, and abducted 276 girls from their school dorm rooms. From poor families, these girls were determined to make better lives for themselves, but pursuing an education made them...
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Green Hills - Adult Biography
B S4289s
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B S4289s
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Richland Park - Adult Biography
B S4289s
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B S4289s
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"Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets" --
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Hermitage - Adult Spanish
Fiction Marias
1 available
Fiction Marias
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Richland Park - Adult Spanish
Fiction Marias
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Fiction Marias
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"Un día cualquiera, "un día estúpido", condicionará el resto de su existencia. La envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera. "Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creía que sí, a veces creía que no, y a veces decidía no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con él, o con aquel hombre semejante a él, mayor que él. Pero también ella se había hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia,...
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Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 15
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Penny
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Fiction Penny
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Penny
1 available
Fiction Penny
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Penny
1 available
Fiction Penny
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Penny
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Penny
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Penny
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CD AUDIO Fiction Penny
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Penny
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CD AUDIO Fiction Penny
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Penny Large Type
1 available
Fiction Penny Large Type
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Donelson - Adult Large Print
Fiction Penny Large Type
1 available
Fiction Penny Large Type
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
Fiction Penny Large Type
1 available
Fiction Penny Large Type
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Penny
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Playaway Fiction Penny
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It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
223.1052 B58212j
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223.1052 B58212j
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
223.1052 B58212j
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223.1052 B58212j
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"The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greenstein's characterization, is "a Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary streams" which "dazzles like Shakespeare with unrivaled vocabulary and a penchant for linguistic innovation." Despite the text's literary prestige and cultural prominence, no English translation has come close to conveying the proper sense of the original....
28) Big sky
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Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 5
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atkinso
1 available
Fiction Atkinso
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atkinso
1 available
Fiction Atkinso
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atkinso
1 available
Fiction Atkinso
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Atkinso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Atkinso
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Atkinso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Atkinso
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Richland Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Atkinso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Atkinso
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
Fiction Atkinso Large Type
1 available
Fiction Atkinso Large Type
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Large Print
Fiction Atkinso Large Type
1 available
Fiction Atkinso Large Type
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Hermitage - Adult Large Print
Fiction Atkinso Large Type
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Fiction Atkinso Large Type
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"Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
305.48896 B5186b
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305.48896 B5186b
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
305.48896 B5186b
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305.48896 B5186b
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Madison - Adult Non-Fiction
305.48896 B5186b
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305.48896 B5186b
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In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop while taking graduate studies at Yale, marrying a white man from the north and bring him home to her family, adopting two babies from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction James
1 available
Fiction James
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction James
1 available
Fiction James
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction James
1 available
Fiction James
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction James
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CD AUDIO Fiction James
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Edgehill - Adult Large Print
Fiction James Large Type
1 available
Fiction James Large Type
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Large Print
Fiction James Large Type
1 available
Fiction James Large Type
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Southeast - Adult Large Print
Fiction James Large Type
1 available
Fiction James Large Type
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction James
1 available
Playaway Fiction James
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Looby - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction James
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Playaway Fiction James
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"Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows...
31) Blood: a memoir
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B M8254b
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B M8254b
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Donelson - Adult Biography
B M8254b
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B M8254b
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East - Adult Biography
B M8254b
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B M8254b
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"Mobile, Alabama, 1986. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning musician. ... Now, Allison uses her lyrical storytelling powers on a journey to understand the unthinkable, to parse the unknowable, and to lay bare the memories and impressions that make a family, and that...
32) The bone fire
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Somershill Manor mysteries volume 4
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"In the new Somershill Manor Mystery, Oswald de Lacy brings his family to a secluded island castle to escape the Black Death, but soon a murder within the household proves that even the strongest fortresses aren't free from terror in fourteenth-century England. When the Black Death reappears in England in 1361, Oswald de Lacy knows that the safest place for his wife and young son is the island-fortress of Eden, where his eccentrically pious friend...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction McCrack
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Fiction McCrack
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction McCrack
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Fiction McCrack
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction McCrack
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Fiction McCrack
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Inglewood - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction McCrack
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CD AUDIO Fiction McCrack
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
Fiction McCrack Large Type
1 available
Fiction McCrack Large Type
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction McCrack Large Type
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Fiction McCrack Large Type
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An unconventional New England family faces scandal, inheritance battles, and questions of paternities as viewed through their three generations of owning and operating a candlepin bowling alley in the town of Salford, Massachusetts.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dalton
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Fiction Dalton
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dalton
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Fiction Dalton
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Exiled in a drug-oppressed refugee suburb in 1980s Australia, a twelve-year-old boy dreams of a career in journalism while fending off the local criminal element to protect his imprisoned mother.
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Bareknuckle bastards volume 2
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New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape—and the women who bring them to their knees.
The Lady's Plan
When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she
...36) The bride test
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Kiss quotient novels volume 2
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hoang
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Fiction Hoang
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hoang
1 available
Fiction Hoang
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hoang
1 available
Fiction Hoang
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hoang
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Hoang
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Goodlettsville - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hoang
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Hoang
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hoang
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Hoang
1 available
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Hoang
1 available
Playaway Fiction Hoang
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"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
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League of extraordinary women novels volume 1
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Checked Out
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England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics...
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Revolution trilogy volume 1
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
973.3 A877b
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973.3 A877b
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Goodlettsville - Adult Non-Fiction
973.3 A877b
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973.3 A877b
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
973.3 A877b
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973.3 A877b
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"Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B K362b
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B K362b
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Green Hills - Adult Biography
B K362b
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B K362b
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Hermitage - Adult Biography
B K362b
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B K362b
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"From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate -- and illuminates her journey towards redemption. Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the 'symbol of racial reconciliation' (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students...
40) Bunny
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"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...