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Medford Library Branch
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Talent Library Branch
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"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...
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"Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death"--
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Medford Library Branch - Display
F POWERS R
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F POWERS R
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Ashland Library
F POWERS R
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Central Point Library Branch
F POWERS R
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F POWERS R
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White City Library Branch
LP F POWERS R SCI-FI
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"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife....
4) china room
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel" —Anne Tyler
New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the human heart", is back...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel" —Anne Tyler
New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the human heart", is back...
6) The promise
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WINNER
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Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize
A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by author, Damon Galgut.
Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power;...
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8) Great circle
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
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Medford Library Branch
F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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Prospect Library Branch
F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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Ruch Library Branch
F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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Medford Library Branch
LP F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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Ashland Library
LP F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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White City Library Branch
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"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. In this luminous tale,...
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Medford Library Branch
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Rogue River Library Branch
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Medford Library Branch
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Gold Hill Library Branch
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Jacksonville Library Branch
F HARRIS N
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F HARRIS N
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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Medford Library Branch
LP F HARRIS N
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Ashland Library
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Jacksonville Library Branch
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"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
12) Second place
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Medford Library Branch
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Ashland Library
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"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships"--