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Fiction Stuart
Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available
SP Fiction Stuart
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2020 | First Grove Atlantic paperback edition | Grove Press | 430 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Stuart Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available SP Fiction Stuart |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media | English | Available Online
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
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2022. | First edition. | Grove Press | 390 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2022 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2022 | OverDrive/Libby | Grove Atlantic | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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2022 | Grove Atlantic | English | Checked Out
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"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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"Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies over the course of her career, and when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft's door, everything appears normal. But after the baby girl is delivered, the women will spend the next harrowing days together, fighting for the survival of both mother and daughter. Over those eleven days, Mary Wollstonecraft recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of...
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available
Fiction Pickhart
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021]. | Two Dollar Radio | 300 pages : map ; 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available Fiction Pickhart |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Tantor Media, Inc | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Theatre de Champs-Elysees. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union, opting instead to forge a closer alliance with President...
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"When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle into life in America, she continues to send letters and tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father. Over time, Huong realizes she will never see Cong again. While she copes with this loss, her sons, Tuan and Binh,...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Checked Out
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2021 | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Checked Out
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"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...
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2021. | First edition. | Flatiron Books | 319 pages ; 25 cm. | English |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Flatiron Books | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | Flatiron Books | English | Checked Out
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A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee was...
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available
Fiction Jones
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 388 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available Fiction Jones |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2021 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved...
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Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 2 available
Teen Fiction Lo
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2021. | Dutton Books | 409 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 2 available Teen Fiction Lo |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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2021 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
10) Memorial
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 2 available
Fiction Washington
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | Riverhead Books | 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 2 available Fiction Washington |
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"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
11) Matrix
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available
Fiction Groff
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2021. | Riverhead Books | 260 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available Fiction Groff |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2021 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
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[2020] | First edition. | One World | 340 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese, and losing her meant losing his only family. Then Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she is pregnant with his baby -- and...
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Pentecost and Parker novels volume 1
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Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available
SP Fiction Spotswood
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[2020] | First edition. | Doubleday | 321 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available SP Fiction Spotswood |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"New York, 1942: Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. Three years later: Will and...
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Scribner | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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"In a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday...
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Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 2 available
Fiction Donoghue
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 295 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 2 available Fiction Donoghue |
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Ilsley Public Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available
Book on Disc Fiction Donoghue
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Little, Brown & Company, Hachette imprint | 8 audio discs (9.11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available Book on Disc Fiction Donoghue |
Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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2020 | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl,...
17) All adults here
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Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available
SP Fiction Straub
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | Riverhead Books | 356 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available SP Fiction Straub |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
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2019. | Penguin Press | 246 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
19) Time is a mother
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811.6 Poetry Vuong
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2022. | Penguin Press | 114 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available 811.6 Poetry Vuong |
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2022 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2022 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...
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2019. | Graywolf Press | 247 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library 1 available Biog Machado |
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Graywolf Press | English | Available Online
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2019 | Graywolf Press | English | Available Online
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The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.