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Carol Stream Public Library - Adult Audiobooks
BCD/BACKMAN F
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BCD/BACKMAN F
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who "captures the messy essence of being human" (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger's life twenty-five years later. Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world....
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"Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - now a hit Netflix series - returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder"-- Provided by publisher.
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she's still waiting for her life to begin. I'll do it later, she always...
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Carol Stream Public Library - Large Type
LP/HENRY E
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LP/HENRY E
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Carol Stream Public Library - Main Lobby
LP/HENRY E
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LP/HENRY E
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"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen...
5) Onyx storm
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Carol Stream Public Library - Romance
ROM/YARROS R
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ROM/YARROS R
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Carol Stream Public Library - Large Type
LP/YARROS R
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LP/YARROS R
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"After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit,...
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Carol Stream Public Library - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
SF/SCHWAB V
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SF/SCHWAB V
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Carol Stream Public Library - Large Type
LP/SCHWAB V
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LP/SCHWAB V
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This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily--her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life...
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"Lily-a bored, beautiful twenty-something-wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras are catching all her angles, good...
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"Set in Florida in the 1970s, Grady Hendrix's newest novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft"-- Provided by publisher.
"They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget...
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"When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When...
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"One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they're unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo. Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn't told Ryan about, and Ryan has...
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Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the cause: she must use her magic to track down magical relics before Hitler and his sycophants can. When a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences, the coven is left shaken,...
12) Homeseeking
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"A single choice can define an entire life."-- Publisher.
"An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland."-- Publisher.
"Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels...
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Ellis has her senior year perfectly planned: focus on her Columbia journalism application and lay the groundwork for her future career. But her plans are upended when her parents separate, and she's forced to move from New York City to Bramble Falls, Connecticut, with her mom. Though the town is charming, it's full of distractions, including Cooper Barnett, her former best friend and first kiss who now keeps his distance. Ellis is swept into the town's...
14) We fell apart
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Carol Stream Public Library - Spotlight Adult Fiction
TEEN/LOCKHART E
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TEEN/LOCKHART E
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"When eighteen-year-old Mathilda is invited to spend the summer with the father she has never met, she discovers far more than she expected within his seaside home"-- Provided by publisher.
When Matilda receives a sudden invitation from Kingsley Cello--the estranged father she's never met--she travels to his seaside home, Hidden Beach, hoping for connection and self-discovery. Instead, she encounters her lost brother Meer, troubled ex-actor Brock,...
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Firekeeper's daughter volume 3
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"Ever since Lucy Smith's father died five years ago, 'home' has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a 'ward of the state'. But when the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson with an interest in her case comes looking for her, Lucy wonders if hiding from her past will ever truly keep her safe. Five years in the foster system has taught her to be cautious and smart. But she wants to believe...
16) Hazelthorn
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Carol Stream Public Library - Spotlight Adult Fiction
TEEN/DREWS C
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TEEN/DREWS C
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"A YA horror about a reclusive autistic boy who inherits his murdered guardian's estate, including a sentient, carnivorous garden"-- Provided by publisher.
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"It's been centuries since a warm-season fairy in Pixie Hollow has crossed into the Winter Woods, and while most fear the legends of monsters lurking in the frozen lands, Clarion, can't help being intrigued by Winter's stoic beauty. But under the watchful eyes of the current monarch and the court's seasonal ministers, Clarion has little time to dwell on daydreams while the days to her coronation dwindle away. That is, until reports of a monster crossing...
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Carol Stream Public Library - Adult Fiction
F/KING S
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F/KING S
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Carol Stream Public Library - Large Type
LP/KING S
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LP/KING S
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"From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines-one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker-featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters. When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty" in "an act of atonement...
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Carol Stream Public Library - Adult Fiction
F/JONES S
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F/JONES S
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Carol Stream Public Library - Large Type
LP/JONES S
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LP/JONES S
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"A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who...
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Carol Stream Public Library - Romance
ROM/JIMENEZ A
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ROM/JIMENEZ A
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Carol Stream Public Library - Spotlight Adult Fiction
ROM/JIMENEZ A
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ROM/JIMENEZ A
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"There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes-all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there's nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong . . . . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake....
