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Waltham - Audiovisual
[Audiobook] Fiction/Jones, T.
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[Audiobook] Fiction/Jones, T.
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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Waltham - Adult
Fiction/French, T.
1 available
Fiction/French, T.
1 available
Waltham - Adult
Mystery/French, T.
1 available
Mystery/French, T.
1 available
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4 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
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Waltham - Audiovisual
[Audiobook] Fiction/French, T.
1 available
[Audiobook] Fiction/French, T.
1 available
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"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...
3) Sorrowland
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eAudiobook
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Vern escapes the religious compound where she was raised and gives birth to twins in the forest, raising them away from the influence of the outside world. Her community won't let her go that easily, however, and as they pursue, she breaks the boundaries of humanity, changing her body in uncanny ways in order to protect her family.
4) Annihilation
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Southern Reach novels volume 1
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8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
"Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Authority is the second, and Acceptance is the third....
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4 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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"Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amidst the political upheaval of the time, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri's neighborhood book and stationery shop. She always feels safe in his dusty store, overflowing with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of soft writing paper. When Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer -- handsome Bahman,...
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6 copies on order.
Waltham - Adult
Fiction/Verghese A.
1 available
Fiction/Verghese A.
1 available
eAudiobook
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31 copies, 307 people are on the wait list.
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Waltham - New Books
[EXPRESS] Large Print/Verghese, A.
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[EXPRESS] Large Print/Verghese, A.
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
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Waltham - Adult
814.6 Gay
1 available
814.6 Gay
1 available
Waltham - Express
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] G
2 available
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] G
2 available
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"In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction book from award-winning poet Ross Gay is a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an airplane, the silent nod of acknowledgment...
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eAudiobook
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16 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton...
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Waltham - Adult
Fiction/Shafak E.
2 available
Fiction/Shafak E.
2 available
Waltham - Adult
Fiction/Shafak, E.
2 available
Fiction/Shafak, E.
2 available
Waltham - Express
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] S
3 available
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] S
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"A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches...
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2 copies on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Williams F.
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Fiction/Williams F.
1 available
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"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the dangers that threaten libraries... but not all of the attention...
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eAudiobook
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7 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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5 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.