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Zach's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION ACKERMAN, E.
1 available
FICTION ACKERMAN, E.
1 available
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March 12, 2034. US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea. Her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he...
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Pam's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP SHAPIRO, B.
1 available
LP SHAPIRO, B.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR SHAPIRO, B.
1 available
SR SHAPIRO, B.
1 available
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBooks
Description
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline...
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Angela's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - Blu-ray Shelves
BLU BAN discs 1-2
1 available
BLU BAN discs 1-2
1 available
Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - Blu-ray Shelves
BLU BAN discs 3-4
1 available
BLU BAN discs 3-4
1 available
Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - Blu-ray Shelves
BLU BAN discs 5-6
1 available
BLU BAN discs 5-6
1 available
Description
Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary about the soldiers in Easy Company.
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Amy's Pick
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Manchester West Branch - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP COUSENS, S.
1 available
LP COUSENS, S.
1 available
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"Head-in-the-stars Audrey is about to marry down-to-earth Josh. Though they are polar opposites, they have a healthy, stable relationship; Josh is just what Audrey needs. But romance should be unpredictable and full of fireworks, and as the big day approaches, Audrey's found herself wondering if Josh really is "The One." So, when Josh's sister shows up to the rehearsal dinner with Fred, Audrey's "What If? Guy" -- the man she met six years ago and...
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Peg's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR B SHAPIRO, A.
1 available
SR B SHAPIRO, A.
1 available
Description
"In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad. As the self-reinforcing bubbles we live in become more impenetrable,...
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Tina's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Second Floor - Art/Music Room
ART 720.9773 BEA
1 available
ART 720.9773 BEA
1 available
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"In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began an intimate relationship, spending weekends...
7) Caraval
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Caraval volume 1
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Lucie's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Teen Fiction - Main Floor - Teen Area - Fiction Shelves
YA GARBER, S.
1 available
YA GARBER, S.
1 available
On Shelf
Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Teen Area - Audiobook Shelves
YA SR GARBER, S.
1 available
YA SR GARBER, S.
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
Description
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor who she has just met, Tella whisks...
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Class Mom volume 1
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Carla's Pick
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Available Online
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
Laurie Gelman’s clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom―a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics. Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom―or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it’s her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max―this time with a husband...
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Connor's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
306.44 MON
1 available
306.44 MON
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level,...
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Lisa W's Pick
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION FEENEY, A.
2 available
FICTION FEENEY, A.
2 available
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP FEENEY, A.
1 available
LP FEENEY, A.
1 available
Checked Out
11 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family...
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Alexa's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION POSTON, A.
1 available
FICTION POSTON, A.
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem--after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time...
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Connor's Pick
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eBooks
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"While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming...
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Letters of enchantment volume 1
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Alexa's Pick
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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
Checked Out
14 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
Checked Out
11 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
11 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"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...
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Emily Wilde volume 1
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Alexa's Pick
Checked Out
6 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where she discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on dryadology, the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
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Pam's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION NG, C.
1 available
FICTION NG, C.
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue--in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Alexa's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - DVD Shelves
DVD FLE
1 available
DVD FLE
1 available
Description
A dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman hurls herself at modern living in London. She often escapes into momentary fantasy asides -- letting an imaginary audience hear her unspoken gibes -- as she navigates her father's emotional distance, her godmother-turned-stepmother, her perfect sister and horrible brother-in-law as well as her seemingly-doomed love life.
17) Force of nature
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Aaron Falk novels volume 2
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Sarah L's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HARPER, J.
1 available
FICTION HARPER, J.
1 available
Manchester West Branch - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HARPER, J.
1 available
FICTION HARPER, J.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR HARPER, J.
1 available
SR HARPER, J.
1 available
Description
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
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Amy's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - DVD Shelves
DVD GIL 3 disc set
1 available
DVD GIL 3 disc set
1 available
Description
A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the...
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Angela's Picks
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Ursula Todd's brother Teddy is an old man trying to come to grips with his post-War life and with a modern world and family. Switching back and forth in time between memories of his childhood and his present, Teddy is an oblivious husband, a rueful father. He never quite got over the War and part of him never adjusted to having a future. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, Teddy navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly...
20) The great alone
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Peg's Pick
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR HANNAH, K.
1 available
SR HANNAH, K.
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
20 copies, 94 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
Checked Out
16 copies, 172 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
16 copies, 172 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little...