• Book kit request form: adult kits

    Book kit request form: adult kits

  • Are you looking for multiple copies of the same book? The Toledo Lucas County Public Library has you covered! Use the search bar to find a particular title or browse the list to find an available title within the allowed date range. New kits can be filtered by category.

    At this time customers can only reserve a maximum of 60 days in advance. Check back often as our inventory is always changing.

    • Adult Book kits contain 5 Large Print and 5 regular print copies (unless otherwise noted in the record).

    Most of these titles are available in eBook or eAudio format from Overdrive or hoopla (number of copies and availability varies).

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      Alchemist (Coelho, Paulo) Product Image
      Alchemist (Coelho, Paulo)Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different and far more satisfying than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.
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      All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr, Anthony) Product Image
      All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr, Anthony)A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. 
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      And the Mountains Echoed (Hosseini, Khaled)  Product Image
      And the Mountains Echoed (Hosseini, Khaled) In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most.
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      Anthropocene Reviewed, The (Green, John) NO Large Print Product Image
      Anthropocene Reviewed, The (Green, John) NO Large PrintThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale.
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      Before We Were Yours (Wingate, Lisa) KIT 1 Product Image
      Before We Were Yours (Wingate, Lisa) KIT 1A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger.
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      Before We Were Yours (Wingate, Lisa) KIT 2 Product Image
      Before We Were Yours (Wingate, Lisa) KIT 2A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger.
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      Book of Hope, The (Goodall, Jane) Product Image
      Book of Hope, The (Goodall, Jane)Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world.
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      Book That Matters Most, The (Hood, Ann)  Product Image
      Book That Matters Most, The (Hood, Ann) A woman rediscovers a book she loved during her childhood that helped her get through the untimely deaths of her mother and sister.
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      Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Richardson, Kim Michele) KIT 1 Product Image
      Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Richardson, Kim Michele) KIT 1A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
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      Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Richardson, Kim Michele) KIT 2 Product Image
      Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Richardson, Kim Michele) KIT 2A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
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      Caste: the origins of our discontent (Wilkerson, Isabel) KIT 1 Product Image
      Caste: the origins of our discontent (Wilkerson, Isabel) KIT 1The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives.
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      Caste: the origins of our discontent (Wilkerson, Isabel) KIT 2 Product Image
      Caste: the origins of our discontent (Wilkerson, Isabel) KIT 2The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives.
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      Doctors Blackwell, The (Nimura, Janice P.)  Product Image
      Doctors Blackwell, The (Nimura, Janice P.) The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. 
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      Downstairs Girl, The (Lee, Stacey)  Product Image
      Downstairs Girl, The (Lee, Stacey) 1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady
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      Early Morning Riser (Henry, Katherine)  Product Image
      Early Morning Riser (Henry, Katherine) Falling in love with Duncan, the world's most prolific seducer of women, Jane finds herself part of an unconventional family, which includes his best friend and ex-wife, when one terrible car crash permanently intertwines her life with Duncan's.
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      Educated (Westover, Tara) Product Image
      Educated (Westover, Tara)Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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      Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Honeyman, Gail) Product Image
      Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Honeyman, Gail)Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart.
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      Family Chao, The (Chang, Lan Samantha) Product Image
      Family Chao, The (Chang, Lan Samantha)When Big Leo, the owner of Fine Chao restaurant is found dead—presumed murdered—his three sons are reunited and fall under suspicion of the town and police, and must reckon with the legacy of their father’s outsized appetites and own future survival.
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      Four Winds, The (Hannah, Kristin) KIT 1 Product Image
      Four Winds, The (Hannah, Kristin) KIT 1The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation
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      Four Winds, The (Hannah, Kristin) KIT 2 Product Image
      Four Winds, The (Hannah, Kristin) KIT 2The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation
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      Four Winds, The (Hannah, Kristin) KIT 3 Product Image
      Four Winds, The (Hannah, Kristin) KIT 3The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation
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      Gentleman in Moscow, A (Towles, Amor)  Product Image
      Gentleman in Moscow, A (Towles, Amor) Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
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      Golden Girl (Hilderbrand, Elin) KIT 1 Product Image
      Golden Girl (Hilderbrand, Elin) KIT 1Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three “nudges” to alter the outcome of events.
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      Golden Girl (Hilderbrand, Elin) KIT 2 Product Image
      Golden Girl (Hilderbrand, Elin) KIT 2Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three “nudges” to alter the outcome of events.
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      Great Circle, The (Shipstead, Maggie) KIT 1 Product Image
      Great Circle, The (Shipstead, Maggie) KIT 1A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves’s disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates — and their dreams — become intertwined.
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      Great Circle, The (Shipstead, Maggie) KIT 2 Product Image
      Great Circle, The (Shipstead, Maggie) KIT 2A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves’s disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates — and their dreams — become intertwined.
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      Handmaid's Tale, The (Atwood, Margaret)  Product Image
      Handmaid's Tale, The (Atwood, Margaret) A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
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      Hidden Figures (Shetterly, Margot Lee)  Product Image
      Hidden Figures (Shetterly, Margot Lee) An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
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      Hillbilly Elegy (Vance, J.D.) Product Image
      Hillbilly Elegy (Vance, J.D.)Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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      Homegoing (Gyasi, Yaa)  Product Image
      Homegoing (Gyasi, Yaa) Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
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      I'll Be Gone in the Dark (McNamara, Michelle)  Product Image
      I'll Be Gone in the Dark (McNamara, Michelle) A masterful true-crime account of the Golden State Killer. The elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade. From Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.
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      Just Mercy (Stevenson, Bryan)  (NO LARGE PRT) Product Image
      Just Mercy (Stevenson, Bryan) (NO LARGE PRT)The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
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      Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann, David) KIT 2 Product Image
      Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann, David) KIT 2Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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      Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann, David) KIT 1 Product Image
      Killers of the Flower Moon (Grann, David) KIT 1Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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      Kindest Lie, The (Johnson, Nancy)  Product Image
      Kindest Lie, The (Johnson, Nancy) Needing to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption years earlier, an Ivy League-educated Black engineer uncovers devastating family secrets before her bond with a young white misfit scandalizes her racially torn community. 
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      Kitchen Front, The (Ryan, Jennifer)  Product Image
      Kitchen Front, The (Ryan, Jennifer) An indebted young widow, a freedom-seeking kitchen maid, the wife of a wealthy but unkind man and a trained chef navigating sexism compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II.
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      Klara and the Sun (Ishiguro, Kazuo)  Product Image
      Klara and the Sun (Ishiguro, Kazuo) From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
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      Know My Name (Miller, Chanel)  Product Image
      Know My Name (Miller, Chanel) She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.
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      Lady from the Black Lagoon, The (Omeara, Mallory)  Product Image
      Lady from the Black Lagoon, The (Omeara, Mallory) Mallory O'Meara uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick, one of Disney's first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood's classic movie monsters. O'Meara discovered that Patrick's contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, and she soon after had disappeared from film history. O'Meara set out to right the wrong, and in the process discovered the full, fascinating story of an ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time.
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      Last Castle: the epic story of love, loss and the American royalty in the nation's largest home (Kienan, Denise)  Product Image
      Last Castle: the epic story of love, loss and the American royalty in the nation's largest home (Kienan, Denise) Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.
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      Last Flight, The (Clark, Julie)  Product Image
      Last Flight, The (Clark, Julie) Fans of Lisa Jewell and Liv Constantine will love The Last Flight, a novel focusing on two women who meet in an airport, both alone, both scared, and both urgently needing an escape from their lives. Claire Cook has a husband whose temper burns as bright as his promising political career, and she has worked for months on a plan to get out. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a stranger equally as desperate. Together they hatch a plan to switch tickets - Claire taking Eva's flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. But then one plane crashes, and it's clear that one of them wasn't telling the truth.
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      Leave the World Behind (Alam, Rumaan)  Product Image
      Leave the World Behind (Alam, Rumaan) Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe.
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      Library Book, The (Orlean, Susan) KIT 1 Product Image
      Library Book, The (Orlean, Susan) KIT 1Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.
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      Library Book, The (Orlean, Susan) KIT 2 Product Image
      Library Book, The (Orlean, Susan) KIT 2Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.
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      Lincoln Highway, The (Towles, Amor) KIT 1 Product Image
      Lincoln Highway, The (Towles, Amor) KIT 1In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York.
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      Lincoln Highway, The (Towles, Amor) KIT 2 Product Image
      Lincoln Highway, The (Towles, Amor) KIT 2In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York.
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      Little Fires Everywhere (Ng, Celeste) Product Image
      Little Fires Everywhere (Ng, Celeste)Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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      Maid: hard work, low pay... (Land, Stephanie) NO Large Print Product Image
      Maid: hard work, low pay... (Land, Stephanie) NO Large PrintA journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
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      Man Called Ove (Backman, Fredrik)  Product Image
      Man Called Ove (Backman, Fredrik) A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
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      Me and White Supremacy (Saad, Layla F.) NO Large Print Product Image
      Me and White Supremacy (Saad, Layla F.) NO Large PrintThe host of the “Good Ancestor” podcast presents an updated and expanded edition of the Instagram challenge that launched a cultural movement about taking responsibility for first-person racism to stop unconsciously inflicting pain on others.
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      Mexican Gothic (Moreno-Garcia, Silvia)  Product Image
      Mexican Gothic (Moreno-Garcia, Silvia) The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico
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      Midnight Library (Haig, Matt) KIT 1 Product Image
      Midnight Library (Haig, Matt) KIT 1Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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      Midnight Library (Haig, Matt) KIT 2 Product Image
      Midnight Library (Haig, Matt) KIT 2Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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      Midnight Library (Haig, Matt) KIT 3 Product Image
      Midnight Library (Haig, Matt) KIT 3Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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      Mothers, The (Bennett, Brit) Product Image
      Mothers, The (Bennett, Brit)In a contemporary black community, seventeen-year-old Nadia Turner mourns the suicide of her mother, leading her to take up with the local pastor's son, but the resulting pregnancy and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
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      Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: the true story of New York City's greatest female detective (Ricca, Brad)  Product Image
      Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: the true story of New York City's greatest female detective (Ricca, Brad) The true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime fighters during an era when women were rarely involved with investigations.
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      New Jim Crow (Alexander, Michelle) Product Image
      New Jim Crow (Alexander, Michelle)Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
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      News of the World (Jiles, Paulette)  KIT 1 Product Image
      News of the World (Jiles, Paulette) KIT 1In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.
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      News of the World (Jiles, Paulette)  KIT 2 Product Image
      News of the World (Jiles, Paulette) KIT 2In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.
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      Nightingale, The (Hannah, Kristin)  Product Image
      Nightingale, The (Hannah, Kristin) In World War II France, two sisters face frightening situations and respond in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions.
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      Ninth Hour (McDermott, Alice)  Product Image
      Ninth Hour (McDermott, Alice) A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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      No One is Coming to Save Us (Watts, Stephanie Powell)  Product Image
      No One is Coming to Save Us (Watts, Stephanie Powell) JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. 
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      One Italian Summer (Serle, Rebecca) Product Image
      One Italian Summer (Serle, Rebecca)Still reeling from her mother’s death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone, where she encounters her mother in the flesh at 30 years old and must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue.
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      Oona out of order (Montimore, Margarita)  Product Image
      Oona out of order (Montimore, Margarita) A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms. 
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      Orphan Train (Kline, Christina Baker)  Product Image
      Orphan Train (Kline, Christina Baker) Close to aging out of the foster care system, Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer takes a community service position helping an elderly woman named Vivian clean out her home and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past. 
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      Other Black Girl, The (Harris, Zakiya Dalila) NO Large Print Product Image
      Other Black Girl, The (Harris, Zakiya Dalila) NO Large PrintGet Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
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      Other Einstein, The (Benedict, Marie)  Product Image
      Other Einstein, The (Benedict, Marie) This novel resurrects Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated. Was she simply Einstein's sounding board, an assistant performing complex mathematical equations? Or did she contribute something more?
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      People We Meet on Vacation (Henry, Emily) Product Image
      People We Meet on Vacation (Henry, Emily)Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart--she's in New York City, and he's in their small hometown--but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything.
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      Piece of the World (Kline, Christina Baker) KIT 1 Product Image
      Piece of the World (Kline, Christina Baker) KIT 1To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.
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      Piece of the World (Kline, Christina Baker) KIT 2 Product Image
      Piece of the World (Kline, Christina Baker) KIT 2To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.
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      Pioneers, The (McCullough, David)  Product Image
      Pioneers, The (McCullough, David) Recounts the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals.
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      Princess Bride (Goldman, William) Product Image
      Princess Bride (Goldman, William)A classic swashbuckling romance retells the tale of a drunken swordsman and a gentle giant who come to the aid of Westley, a handsome farm boy, and Buttercup, a princess in dire need of rescue from the evil schemers surrounding her.
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      Radium Girls (Moore, Kate)  Product Image
      Radium Girls (Moore, Kate) The incredible true story of the women heroes who were exposed to radium in factories across the U.S. in the early 20th century, and their brave and groundbreaking battle to strengthen workers' rights, even as the fatal poison claimed their own lives.
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      Silent Patient, The (Michaelides, Alex) KIT 1 Product Image
      Silent Patient, The (Michaelides, Alex) KIT 1All seems well for celebrated painter Alicia Berenson, who lives in a lush London house and is married to an equally celebrated fashion photographer. So why does she shoot him five times in the face one night and refuse to say another word?
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      Silent Patient, The (Michaelides, Alex) KIT 2 Product Image
      Silent Patient, The (Michaelides, Alex) KIT 2All seems well for celebrated painter Alicia Berenson, who lives in a lush London house and is married to an equally celebrated fashion photographer. So why does she shoot him five times in the face one night and refuse to say another word?
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