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Boy in the striped pyjamas volume 2
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72 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
BOYNE John
1 available
BOYNE John
1 available
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7 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures"--
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it...
4) Beartown
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Beartown volume 1
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16 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
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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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In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope. What will you find from his story? Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind,...
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108 copies.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
DELINSKY Barbara
1 available
DELINSKY Barbara
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road just long enough to rob her of her beloved daughter and ultimately of her new marriage, family, friends, and privacy. Now she lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid. She's thankful for her new friends--though she can't risk telling them too much-- and takes satisfaction in working as a makeup artist. Covering up scars is a skill she has mastered. Then a friend's teenage son is thrust into the national...
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Without her husband's knowledge, Christine, whose memory is damaged by a long-ago accident, is treated by a neurologist who helps her to remember her former self through journal entries until inconsistencies begin to emerge, raising disturbing questions.
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake -- if it was a mistake -- until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn't feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support...
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133 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
WILKERSON Charmaine
1 available
WILKERSON Charmaine
1 available
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11 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Meg Donohue, Sophie Kinsella, and Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop. "Losing myself in Jenny Colgan's beautiful pages is the...
11) Calling me home
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A debut novel interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It's a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle's tale of a forbidden relationship...
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191 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
DOERR Anthony
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DOERR Anthony
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4 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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84 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
PATRICK Phaedra
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PATRICK Phaedra
1 available
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"Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows...
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117 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
VERGHESE Abraham
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VERGHESE Abraham
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"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with...
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128 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
REID Taylor
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REID Taylor
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32 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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15 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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15 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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245 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
KINGSOLVER Barbara
2 available
KINGSOLVER Barbara
2 available
eAudiobook
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84 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
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39 copies, 247 people are on the wait list.
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39 copies, 247 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
53 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Large Type
KINGSOLVER Barbara (LG TYPE, pbk)
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KINGSOLVER Barbara (LG TYPE, pbk)
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Demon Copperhead: a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular...
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The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be...
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146 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Williamsburg Meekins Public Library - Main Stacks
HONEYMAN Gail
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HONEYMAN Gail
1 available
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26 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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23 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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23 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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""Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove)--there's a new curmudgeon to love."--Booklist (starred review). "Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows is absolutely gripping."--Jojo Moyes, #1New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. "Deft, compassionate and deeply moving -- Honeyman's debut will have you rooting for Eleanor with every turning page."...
20) Empire falls
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.
“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned...
“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned...