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December 2024
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7 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 105 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 105 people are on the wait list.
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...
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November 2024
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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
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October 2024
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19 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
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17 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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17 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover...
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Maid novels volume 1
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September 2024
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Manchester West Branch - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION PROSE, N.
1 available
FICTION PROSE, N.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP PROSE, N.
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LP PROSE, N.
1 available
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8 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...
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August 2024
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"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
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July 2024
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41 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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32 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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32 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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June 2024
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION WARD, J.
2 available
FICTION WARD, J.
2 available
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP WARD, J.
1 available
LP WARD, J.
1 available
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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May 2024
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6 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list...
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April 2024
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP HENDRIX, G.
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LP HENDRIX, G.
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7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
7 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn't want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn't...
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March 2024
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Manchester City Library - Teen Fiction - Main Floor - Teen Area - Fiction Shelves
YA SEPETYS, R.
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YA SEPETYS, R.
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"Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce...
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February 2024
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION SCOTTON, C.
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FICTION SCOTTON, C.
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"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky."--
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January 2024
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION RUM, E.
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FICTION RUM, E.
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Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.
Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn....
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December 2023
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"Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations. Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And seamlessly woven into their patchwork is Beth, whose presence...
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November 2023
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"Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London--must work the tobacco plantations....
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October 2023
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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FICTION SLOCUMB, B.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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September 2023
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"It's 1998 and Isabel Rosen, the only daughter of a Lower East Side appetizing store owner, has one semester left at Wilder College, a prestigious school in New Hampshire. Desperate to shed her working-class roots and still mourning the death of her mother four years earlier, Isabel has always felt like an outsider at Wilder but now, in her final semester, she believes she has found her place-until a nonconsensual sexual encounter with one of the...
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August 2023
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION BUTLAND, S.
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FICTION BUTLAND, S.
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP BUTLAND, S.
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LP BUTLAND, S.
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"Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you. Into her hiding place--the bookstore where she works--come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries. Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive her own heartbreaking secrets?"--Back cover.
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July 2023
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"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
19) The night tiger
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June 2023
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION CHOO, Y.
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FICTION CHOO, Y.
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP CHOO, Y.
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LP CHOO, Y.
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"Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master’s dying wish: that Ren find the man’s finger, lost years ago in an...
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May 2023
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Sherlock Holmes & a brilliant 15-year-old girl become a detective duo & match wits with great criminal minds in England during World War I. What would happen if Sherlock Holmes, a perfect man of the Victorian age--pompous, smug, and misogynisitic--were to come face to face with a twentieth-century female? If she grew to be a partner worthy of his great talents? Laurie R. King, whose very different first novel, A Grave Talent (SMP, 1993), drew rave...