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M ONDA, R.
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2020. | Bitter Lemon Press | 315 pages ; 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Mystery 1 available M ONDA, R. |
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2020 | Bitter Lemon Press | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime"--Publisher.
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610 HARPER
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2020. | Riverhead Books | xvi, 284 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 610 HARPER |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others"--
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met...
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[2020] | First edition. | W. W. Norton & Company | 300 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available from another library
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2020 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter -- radicalized...
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2020. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | xiv, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 591.782 SAF | |
2021 | St Martins Pr | 368 p. ; | Available from another library
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2020. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 637 pages (large print); 22 cm. | English | Available from another library
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"Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places. It shows how if you're a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual in a particular community. You too are who you are not by genes alone; your culture is a second form of inheritance....
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F NESBIT, T.
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2020. | Bloomsbury Publishing | 274 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F NESBIT, T. |
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2020 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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2020 | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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"Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough."--Provided...
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Notable Book
“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post
It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually...
A New York Times Notable Book
“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post
It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually...
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2020. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | xvii, 377 pages : maps ; 25 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available 955.053 GHA | |
2021. | First Picador paperback edition. | Picador/Henry Holt and Company | xvii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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[2020] | Unabridged. | HighBridge Audio | 13 audio discs (16 hr., 33 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive | Henry Holt and Co | English | Available Online
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2020 | Henry Holt and Co | English | Available Online
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"The bestselling author of The Secretary tells the gripping story of the real roots of the Sunni-Shia conflict in Middle East in the 1979 Iran Revolution that changed the region forever"--
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available
F COSBY, S.
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2020. | First edition. | Flatiron Books | 285 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F COSBY, S. |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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2020 | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
597.43 SVE
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2020. | First edition. | Ecco | 241 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 597.43 SVE |
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"Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition. Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the "eel question": Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind...
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available
F LIVESEY, M.
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[2020] | First edition. | HarperCollins Publishers | 256 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F LIVESEY, M. |
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[2020] | Unabridged. | HarperCollins | 7 audio discs (8 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2020 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford,...
11) Breasts and eggs
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2020. | First Publication 2020 by Europa Editions. | Europa Editions | 430 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available from another library
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2020 | Europa Editions | English | Available Online
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"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement...
12) A burning
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available
F MAJUMDAR, M.
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2020. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 293 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F MAJUMDAR, M. |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2020] | First Large Print edition. | Random House Large Print | 431 pages (large print) ; 21 cm | English | Available from another library
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"After a fiery attack on a train leaves 104 people dead, the fates of three people become inextricably entangled. Jivan, a bright, striving woman from the slums looking for a way out of poverty, is wrongly accused of planning the attack because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir, a slippery gym teacher from Jivan's former high school, has hitched his aspirations to a rising right wing party, and his own ascent becomes increasingly linked to...
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available
324.2734 ZEL
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2020. | Penguin Press | 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 324.2734 ZEL |
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"The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare. When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years." In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our...
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available
305.5122 WIL
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[2020] | First edition. | Random House | xvii, 476 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available 305.5122 WIL |
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 27 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2020 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
9 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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2021. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 709 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available from another library
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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[2020] | First edition. | W. W. Norton & Company | 224 pages ; 22 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F MILLET, L. | |
2021 | W W Norton & Co Inc | 224 p. ; | Available from another library
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Dreamscape Media, LLC | 5 audio discs (5 hr., 35 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2020 | W. W. Norton & Company | English | Available Online
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (5hr., 35 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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"[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events...
16) Cleanness
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What belongs to you volume 2
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F GREENWELL, G.
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2020. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 223 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F GREENWELL, G. |
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2020 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Available Online
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2020 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Available Online
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"Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his...
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD F MCBRIDE, J.
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2020. | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 12 audio discs (14 hr., 6 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD F MCBRIDE, J. |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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[2020] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | Available from another library
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 14 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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323.1196 X
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[2020] | First edition. | Liveright Publishing Corporation | xix, 612 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 323.1196 X |
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books, Inc | 14 audio discs (18 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2021. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 889 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm. | English | Available from another library
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[2020] | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (18 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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"An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures,...
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Childhood of Jesus volume 3
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"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging...
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 2 available
F EMEZI, A.
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2020. | Riverhead Books | 248 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 2 available F EMEZI, A. |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2020] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 358 pages (large print) ; 21 cm | English | Available from another library
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"A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds"--
Southeastern Nigeria. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives,...