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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hashimi
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Fiction Hashimi
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hashimi
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Fiction Hashimi
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hashimi
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hashimi
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hashimi
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hashimi
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In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Subrama
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Fiction Subrama
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Subrama
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Fiction Subrama
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Subrama
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Fiction Subrama
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"In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"--
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Lee
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Fiction Lee
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Lee
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Fiction Lee
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"A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." —Elizabeth Gilbert
The New York Times bestseller
Janice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from Penguin
In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in...
The New York Times bestseller
Janice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from Penguin
In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mirza
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Fiction Mirza
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mirza
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Fiction Mirza
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mirza
1 available
Fiction Mirza
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
Fiction Mirza Large Type
1 available
Fiction Mirza Large Type
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Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction Mirza Large Type
1 available
Fiction Mirza Large Type
1 available
Richland Park - Adult Large Print
Fiction Mirza Large Type
1 available
Fiction Mirza Large Type
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Mirza
1 available
Playaway Fiction Mirza
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Mirza
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Playaway Fiction Mirza
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Mirza
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Playaway Fiction Mirza
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"A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding -- a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead to their son's estrangement --...
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Balasub
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Fiction Balasub
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Balasub
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Fiction Balasub
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Balasub
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Fiction Balasub
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"P.R. Chandrasekhar, the celebrated professor of economics at Cambridge, is at a turning point. He has sacrificed his family for his career, but his conservative brand of economics is no longer in fashion, and yet again he has lost the Nobel Prize to a rival. His wife has left him for a free spirited West Coast psychiatrist and relocated to Boulder, Colorado. His son, a capitalist guru with a cult following, mocks his father's life work; his middle...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hua
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Fiction Hua
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hua
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Fiction Hua
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hua
1 available
Fiction Hua
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"In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed because...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Adiga
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Fiction Adiga
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Adiga
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Fiction Adiga
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Fiction
Fiction Adiga
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Fiction Adiga
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Adiga
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CD AUDIO Fiction Adiga
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Description
Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother Radha. But there are many other things about himself and the world that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. And when Manju meets Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, he is forced...
28) The sympathizer
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Checked Out
7 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Main Library - Adult Large Print
Fiction Nguyen Large Type
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Fiction Nguyen Large Type
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Thompson Lane - Adult Large Print
Fiction Nguyen Large Type
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Fiction Nguyen Large Type
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It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong....
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tan
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Fiction Tan
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tan
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Fiction Tan
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tan
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Fiction Tan
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Description
Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have...