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25 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
B/IZGIL, T./Izgil
1 available
B/IZGIL, T./Izgil
1 available
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"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...
62) Roman stories
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Lahiri J.
1 available
Fiction/Lahiri J.
1 available
Waltham - New Books
[EXPRESS] Fiction/Lahiri J.
2 available
[EXPRESS] Fiction/Lahiri J.
2 available
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7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--
Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary...
63) Worthy
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35 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
B/SMITH, J./Smith
1 available
B/SMITH, J./Smith
1 available
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Waltham - New Books
Large Print/B/SMITH, J./Smith
1 available
Large Print/B/SMITH, J./Smith
1 available
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"A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an intimate conversation with readers. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman's right and saving grace. An...
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Ward J.
3 available
Fiction/Ward J.
3 available
Waltham - New Books
[EXPRESS] Fiction/Ward J.
3 available
[EXPRESS] Fiction/Ward J.
3 available
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15 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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15 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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An investigation into how parking, parking structures, and parking planning dominate the American life and landscape.
66) Hope: a novel
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Ridker A.
1 available
Fiction/Ridker A.
1 available
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"A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends her free time helping resettle refugees. Their...
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48 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - Adult
Fiction/Stradal, J.
1 available
Fiction/Stradal, J.
1 available
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate, and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. So she can't help wondering...
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
614.49 Schama
1 available
614.49 Schama
1 available
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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"A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama."
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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
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Waltham - Adult
Fiction/Banwo, A.
1 available
Fiction/Banwo, A.
1 available
Waltham - Express
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] B
1 available
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] B
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"The introduction of a singularly stunning new voice in fiction, Ayanna Gillian Lloyd's The Gatekeepers is a mythic love story set in contemporary Trinidad & Tobago about two young outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead"--Provided by publisher.
The St. Bernard women have lived in Morne Marie, the house on top of a hill outside Port Angeles, for generations. One woman in each generation is responsible for the passage of the city's...
71) Ripe: a novel
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3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she also struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty and suffering. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of unhoused people bathing in the bay. Start-up...
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"As the clock ticks forward to midnight during Wendy Davis's historic filibuster of the abortion bill HB2 in June 2013, an Austin teen grapples with his past mistakes, the complex issue of abortion, and the kind of person he wants to be"--
It's been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he's lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013,...
73) Evergreen
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Series
Japantown mysteries volume 2
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1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Mystery Hirahara N.
1 available
Mystery Hirahara N.
1 available
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"Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
74) The fraud
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8 copies on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Smith Z.
3 available
Fiction/Smith Z.
3 available
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49 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
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49 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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9 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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"From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell--funny, brave and so much loved--is a young woman...
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"A modern-day Bridget Jones's Diary, this biting, entertaining, and transportive debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young woman finding her voice and reclaiming her identity in Trinidadian society, perfect for readers of Such a Fun Age"--
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24 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - New Books
Fiction/Norton G.
2 available
Fiction/Norton G.
2 available
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"The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darky comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation."--
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Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
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5 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." — R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War
"An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina's adventures are the reason to read fantasy." — Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of
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Series
Forge & fracture saga volume 1
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28 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Waltham - Young Adult
TEEN Fiction/Williams
1 available
TEEN Fiction/Williams
1 available
eAudiobook
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In 1605 London, sixteen-year-old Joan Sands' magical ability to control metal makes her a skilled craftswoman, but her family gift for observing the Fae, who recently broke the Pact and are now brutally attacking mortals, draws Joan into political intrigue in both human and Fae worlds.
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Waltham - Adult
814.6 Irby
1 available
814.6 Irby
1 available
Waltham - Express
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] I
2 available
[EXPRESS PAPERBACK] I
2 available
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7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...