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A lyrically lush retelling of The Great Gatsby with just a touch of magic.
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VO,N
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VO,N
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"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
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Ninth House volume 1
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You'll either love it or hate it! Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series plays with point-of-view, character voice, and narrative structure while delivering an action-packed speculative fiction plot.
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The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis...
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Radiant emperor volume 1
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PARKER-CHAN,S
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PARKER-CHAN,S
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"To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness... In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family's eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness,...
4) Fell of dark
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Central Library - Young Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Teen Area
ROEHRIG,C
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ROEHRIG,C
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August thought living in a vampire town was the worst fate that could befall him, but when an annoyingly cute undead messenger boy tells him he's the chosen one standing between Earth's continued existence and an ancient power bent on destruction, he understands things can always get worse.
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Bright Falls volume 1
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A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—from the author of Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail.
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally...
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally...
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NGUYEN
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NGUYEN
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NGUYEN
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NGUYEN
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NGUYEN
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NGUYEN
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"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
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Spoiler alert volume 1
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
DADE,O
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DADE,O
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"Marcus Caster-Rupp has a secret. The world may know him as Aeneas, star of the biggest show on television, but fanfiction readers call him something else: Book!AeneasWouldNever. Marcus gets out his frustrations with the show through anonymous stories about the internet's favorite couple, Aeneas and Lavinia. But if anyone discovered his online persona, he'd be finished in Hollywood. April Whittier has secrets of her own. A hardcore Lavinia fan, she's...
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""The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." -Fanny Howe. This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous path of recovery, beginning in the wilds of the mind. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self...
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970.004 GANSWORTH
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970.004 GANSWORTH
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920.009 GANSWORTH
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920.009 GANSWORTH
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920.009 GANSWORTH
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920.009 GANSWORTH
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"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
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Wedgeford trials volume 1
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
FICTION MILAN,C 2003 v.1-3
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FICTION MILAN,C 2003 v.1-3
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Miss Chloe Fong has plans for her life, lists for her days, and absolutely no time for nonsense. Three years ago, she told her childhood sweetheart that he could talk to her once he planned to be serious. He disappeared that very night. Except now he's back. Jeremy Wentworth, the Duke of Lansing, has returned to the tiny village he once visited with the hope of wooing Chloe. In his defense, it took him years of attempting to be serious to realize...
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Last binding volume 1
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area
MARSKE,F
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MARSKE,F
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"Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating...
12) Book lovers
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Montecito Library - Adult Fiction - Fiction Area
HENRY,E
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HENRY,E
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HENRY,E
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HENRY,E
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"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are...
13) Spellbound
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To save Manhattan, they'll have to save each other first...
1925
New York
Arthur Kenzie's life's work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric...and the only one available has sworn off his abilities...
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Queer principles of Kit Webb volume 1
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SEBASTIAN,C
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SEBASTIAN,C
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Going against his gentlemanly behavior to save himself and a beloved friend, Lord Holland, to reclaim a book that once belonged to his mother, takes lessons in thievery from Kit Webb with whom he falls in love despite the impediments in their path.
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Die is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron's in a rush, he describes it as "Goth Jumanji", but that's only the tip of this critically acclaimed obsidian iceberg.
16) One last stop
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MCQUISTON,C
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MCQUISTON,C
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MCQUISTON,C
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MCQUISTON,C
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"Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love theymake movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there's Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile...
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The National Book Award finalist. “Limón’s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book.”—The Millions
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and...
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and...
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Way of the househusband volume 9
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WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND v.01
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WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND v.01
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Manga
WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND v.02
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WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND v.02
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Upper Level - Manga
WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND v.03
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WAY OF THE HOUSEHUSBAND v.03
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Tells the story of "the Immortal Dragon," the fiercest member of the yakuza, who leaves his old life behind to take on the role of a househusband.
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THIS
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THIS
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THIS
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THIS
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Explore the past 150 years in what is now Canada through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are a wild ride through magic realism, serial killings, psychic battles and time travel. See how Indigenous peoples have survived a post-apocalyptic world since Contact.
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MACLEAN,S
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MACLEAN,S
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MACLEAN,S
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MACLEAN,S
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When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, make her own fortune, and live her own life. But first she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she'll forgo as a confirmed spinster. Everything goes perfectly until she discovers the most beautiful man she's ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it's even begun.