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[2021] Doubleday
First edition.
xii, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Glenside Public Library District - Popular True Crime
362.293 Kee
1 available
362.293 Kee
1 available
2022. Anchor Books
First Anchor Books edition.
xviii, 620 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 21 cm
2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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7 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
2021 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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4 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
2021 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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4 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
[2021] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
974 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions -- Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller, OxyContin, that was the catalyst for the opioid...
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Glenside Public Library District - Nonfiction
791.0899 Abd
1 available
791.0899 Abd
1 available
[2021] Random House
First edition.
xii, 300 pages ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Nonfiction
791.0899 Abd
1 available
791.0899 Abd
1 available
2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
Description
"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project,...
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Glenside Public Library District - Nonfiction
973.0496 Mil
1 available
973.0496 Mil
1 available
2021. Random House
First edition.
xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Glenside Public Library District - Nonfiction
973.0496 Mil
1 available
973.0496 Mil
1 available
2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
2021 Random House Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Random House Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2022. Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
645 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley's survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language--including Rose's wish...
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2021. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
viii, 452 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America. Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood's first blockbuster--Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than...
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Glenside Public Library District - Graphic Novels
GN Radke
1 available
GN Radke
1 available
[2021] Pantheon Books
First edition.
352 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Graphic Novels
GN Radke
1 available
GN Radke
1 available
Description
"When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into a piercing exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another. She looks at the very real current...
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2021. TOR
First edition.
376 pages ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Klune, T.
1 available
F Klune, T.
1 available
eAudiobook
2021 Macmillan Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Tor Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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14 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
2021 Tor Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
14 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
[2021] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (900 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not...
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Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Rocklyn, Z.
1 available
F Rocklyn, Z.
1 available
2021. TorDotCom
First edition.
107 pages ; 21 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Rocklyn, Z.
1 available
F Rocklyn, Z.
1 available
Description
"Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous sea beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp. Among the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she's pregnant with a child who might be more than human, Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine."--Page 4 of cover.
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[2021] W. W. Norton & Company
First edition.
xv, 348 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24cm
eAudiobook
2021 HighBridge
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...
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On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Lee, C.
1 available
F Lee, C.
1 available
2021. Riverhead Books
477 pages ; 24 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Lee, C.
1 available
F Lee, C.
1 available
Available Online
2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2021 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
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[2021] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
655 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure. Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing...
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Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F NORTH, A.
1 available
F NORTH, A.
1 available
2021. Bloomsbury Publishing
261 pages ; 25 cm
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Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F NORTH, A.
1 available
F NORTH, A.
1 available
2021 Bloomsbury Publishing
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Bloomsbury Publishing
Libby/OverDrive
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2021. Center Point Large Print
Center Point Large Print edition.
359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
11) Second place
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On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Cusk, R.
1 available
F Cusk, R.
1 available
2021. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First edition.
183 pages ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Cusk, R.
1 available
F Cusk, R.
1 available
eAudiobook
2021 Macmillan Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Libby/OverDrive
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2021. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
243 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma--and disrupts the calm of her secluded household. Second Place, Rachel Cusk's electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and...
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[2021] Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
First edition.
272 pages ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Hobson, B.
1 available
F Hobson, B.
1 available
[2021] Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
272 pages ; 22 cm
[2021] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2021] Harper Audio
Unabridged.
6 audio discs (7 hr., 15 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
Available Online
2021 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021. Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
353 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"Teeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago--from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads...
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2021. Little, Brown and Company
First edition.
278 pages ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Jones, C.
1 available
F Jones, C.
1 available
2021. Back Bay Books
First Back Bay trade paperback edition.
282 pages ; 21 cm
[2021] Hachette Book Group
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Available Online
2021 Hachette Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Little, Brown and Company
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Little, Brown and Company
Libby/OverDrive
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Description
Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
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Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Kupersmith, V.
1 available
F Kupersmith, V.
1 available
[2021] Random House
First edition.
378 pages : ilustrations, maps ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Kupersmith, V.
1 available
F Kupersmith, V.
1 available
2021 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2021 Random House Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
2021 Random House Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock...
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On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Feito, V.
1 available
F Feito, V.
1 available
[2021] Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
First edition.
288 pages ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Feito, V.
1 available
F Feito, V.
1 available
[2021] Recorded Books, Inc
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2021 Recorded Books, Inc
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2021 Liveright
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Liveright
Libby/OverDrive
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[2021] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 8 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
George March's latest novel is a smash. No one is prouder than Mrs. March, his doting wife. But one morning, the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that his protagonist is based on Mrs. March herself. Suddenly, Mrs. March is hurled into a harrowing journey that builds to near psychosis, one that begins merely within the pages of a book, but may uncover both a killer and the long-buried secrets of her past.
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Series
2021. Avid Reader Press
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
191 pages ; 22 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Engel, P.
1 available
F Engel, P.
1 available
2021. Avid Reader Press
First Avid Reader Press trade paperback edition.
191 pages ; 22 cm.
[2021] Simon & Schuster Audio
Unabridged.
4 audio discs (5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2021 Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
2021 Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
2021. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
269 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogotá.
Author
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Ferrell, C.
1 available
F Ferrell, C.
1 available
2021. Henry Holt and Company
First edition.
419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Ferrell, C.
1 available
F Ferrell, C.
1 available
[2021] Macmillan
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (approximately 11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2021 Macmillan Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Henry Holt and Co
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Henry Holt and Co
Libby/OverDrive
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2021. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
593 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
[2021] Findaway World, LLC
[Explicit version], Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"Fern seeks refuge from her mother's pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation's dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the...
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Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Akpan, U.
1 available
F Akpan, U.
1 available
[2022] W.W. Norton & Company
First edition.
404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Akpan, U.
1 available
F Akpan, U.
1 available
eAudiobook
2021 Recorded Books, Inc
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2021 W. W. Norton & Company
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 W. W. Norton & Company
Libby/OverDrive
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Description
"A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning...
Author
2021. Little, Brown and Company
First edition.
xiii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
[2021] Hachette Book Group
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2021 Hachette Book Group
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Little, Brown and Company
Libby/OverDrive
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2021 Little, Brown and Company
Libby/OverDrive
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2021. Little, Brown and Company
Large print edition.
xiv, 480 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
[2021] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
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Series
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Jeffers, H.
1 available
F Jeffers, H.
1 available
[2021] Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
xiv, 797 pages ; 24 cm.
On Shelf
Glenside Public Library District - Fiction
F Jeffers, H.
1 available
F Jeffers, H.
1 available
[2021] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
23 audio discs (30 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
[2021] Harper Audio
Unabridged.
24 audio discs (29 hr., 45 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2021 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2022. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
1025 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
[2021] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (1785 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans--the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and...