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1) Womb city
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This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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33 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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50 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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25 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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"In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these seemingly unrelated...
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 2
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION WHITEHEAD, C.
2 available
FICTION WHITEHEAD, C.
2 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR WHITEHEAD, C.
1 available
SR WHITEHEAD, C.
1 available
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
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Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
22 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP JEWELL, L.
1 available
LP JEWELL, L.
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
36 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
Available Online
45 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
45 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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eAudiobook
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35 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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48 copies, 159 people are on the wait list.
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48 copies, 159 people are on the wait list.
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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
8) The heiress
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - New Large Print
LP HAWKINS, R.
1 available
LP HAWKINS, R.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
SR HAWKINS, R.
1 available
SR HAWKINS, R.
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
13 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
Available Online
15 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
15 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most beloved World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, beloved of journalists and producers, popping up on red carpets and at fundraisers and festivals all over the country. Despite their age, they're still in great form--perfectly put together, sprightly and sparky, and always in search of their next "excitement." This time it's a trip to Paris to receive the...
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Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most beloved World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and Penny are in huge demand, beloved of journalists and producers, popping up on red carpets and at fundraisers and festivals all over the country. Despite their age, they're still in great form--perfectly put together, sprightly and sparky, and always in search of their next "excitement." This time it's a trip to Paris to receive the...
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8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
12) Holly: a novel
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION KING, S.
1 available
FICTION KING, S.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - New Large Print
LP KING, S.
1 available
LP KING, S.
1 available
On Shelf
Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR KING, S.
1 available
SR KING, S.
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
21 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
Checked Out
26 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
26 copies, 5 people are 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,...
13) The fury
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - New Large Print
LP MICHAELIDES, A.
1 available
LP MICHAELIDES, A.
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
20 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every...