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17 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year...
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11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HART, E.
1 available
FICTION HART, E.
1 available
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12 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Housemaid novels volume 2
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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
4) Happy place
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HENRY, E.
3 available
FICTION HENRY, E.
3 available
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP HENRY, E.
2 available
LP HENRY, E.
2 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR HENRY, E.
1 available
SR HENRY, E.
1 available
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30 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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32 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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32 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college--they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now--for reasons they're still not discussing--they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group's yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from...
5) Fourth wing
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Series
Empyrean volume 1
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - New Large Print
LP YARROS, R.
1 available
LP YARROS, R.
1 available
eAudiobook
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23 copies, 114 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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51 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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51 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
6) Hell bent
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Alex Stern volume 2
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP BARDUGO, L.
1 available
LP BARDUGO, L.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR BARDUGO, L.
1 available
SR BARDUGO, L.
1 available
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"Wealth. Power, Murder, Magic, Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Alex is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and artifacts to uncover the societies' secrets and break every rule doing it. But...
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION KLUNE, T.
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FICTION KLUNE, T.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR KLUNE, T.
1 available
SR KLUNE, T.
1 available
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8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBooks
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans. When...
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR KING, S.
1 available
SR KING, S.
1 available
eAudiobook
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21 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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26 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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26 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...
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Letters of enchantment volume 1
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Manchester City Library - Teen Fiction - Main Floor - Teen Area - Fiction Shelves
YA ROSS, R.
1 available
YA ROSS, R.
1 available
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14 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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11 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. To combat...
10) Check & mate
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Manchester City Library - Teen Fiction - Main Floor - Teen Area - Fiction Shelves
YA HAZELWOOD, A.
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YA HAZELWOOD, A.
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
11) Weyward: a novel
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11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HART, E.
1 available
FICTION HART, E.
1 available
eAudiobook
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12 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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12 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Description
"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
362.50973 DES
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362.50973 DES
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...
13) The woman in me
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Second Floor - Art/Music Room
MUSIC 780.92 SPE
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MUSIC 780.92 SPE
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Manchester West Branch - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
780.92 SPE
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780.92 SPE
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR 780.92 SPE
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SR 780.92 SPE
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66 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - New Nonfiction
910.9164 GRA
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910.9164 GRA
1 available
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10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR 910.9164 GRA
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SR 910.9164 GRA
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12 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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6 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of...
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - New Biographies
B WINKLER, H.
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B WINKLER, H.
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11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...