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East - Adult Nonfiction - New
323.1197 NAGLE
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North Park - Adult Nonfiction - New
323.1197 NAGLE
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323.1197 NAGLE
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Oaklyn - Adult Nonfiction - New
323.1197 NAGLE
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323.1197 NAGLE
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"A powerful work of reportage and American history in the vein of Caste and How the Word Is Passed that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century later"--
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"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction - New - 2nd Floor
921 LORDE GUMBS
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921 LORDE GUMBS
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North Park - Adult Nonfiction - New
921 LORDE GUMBS
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921 LORDE GUMBS
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Oaklyn - Adult Nonfiction - New
921 LORDE GUMBS
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921 LORDE GUMBS
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"A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde"--
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Central - Adult Nonfiction - New - 2nd Floor
921 MITCH POWER
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921 MITCH POWER
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East - Adult Nonfiction - New
921 MITCH POWER
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921 MITCH POWER
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McCollough - Adult Nonfiction - New
921 MITCH POWER
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921 MITCH POWER
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"For decades, Joni Mitchell's life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation, Mitchell has inspired countless musicians--from peers like James Taylor, to inheritors like Prince and Brandi Carlile--and authors, who have dissected her music and her life in their writing. At the same time, Mitchell has always been a force beckoning us still closer, as--with the other arm--she pushes us away. Given this,...
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McCollough - Adult Nonfiction - New
320.5209 GANZ
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320.5209 GANZ
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Oaklyn - Adult Nonfiction - New
320.5209 GANZ
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320.5209 GANZ
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"A history of the right-wing political figures who defined the early 1990s"--
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"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers-or coyotes,...
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"May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman - who is younger even...
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Central - Adult Fiction - 1st Floor
FICTION JULY
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FICTION JULY
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"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--Provided by publisher.
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McCollough - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERTO
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FICTION ALDERTO
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North Park - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERTO
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FICTION ALDERTO
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Oaklyn - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALDERTO
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FICTION ALDERTO
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"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...
11) James: a novel
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
12) Martyr!
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Central - Adult Fiction Playaways - 1st Floor
FICTION AKBAR
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FICTION AKBAR
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work...
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"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators:...
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"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
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"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--
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Central - Adult Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
306.7680 SANTE
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306.7680 SANTE
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Red Bank - Adult Nonfiction
306.7680 SANTE
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306.7680 SANTE
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"For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates, on her way to building...
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North Park - Adult Nonfiction - New
921 REAGAN BOOT
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921 REAGAN BOOT
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Red Bank - Adult Nonfiction - New
921 REAGAN BOOT
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921 REAGAN BOOT
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"Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician--America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography. In this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach...
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Central - Adult Fiction - 1st Floor
FICTION LINK
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FICTION LINK
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North Park - Adult Fiction
FICTION LINK
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FICTION LINK
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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
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Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas) volume 3
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North Park - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MAAS
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SCIENCE FICTION MAAS
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Oaklyn - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MAAS
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SCIENCE FICTION MAAS
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Red Bank - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MAAS
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SCIENCE FICTION MAAS
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"Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After...