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1) Afterlives
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Medford Library Branch
F GURNAH A
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F GURNAH A
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Phoenix Library Branch
F GURNAH A
1 available
F GURNAH A
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
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Medford Library Branch
818.6 CAL 2022
1 available
818.6 CAL 2022
1 available
Jacksonville Library Branch
818.6 CAL 2022
1 available
818.6 CAL 2022
1 available
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A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet
When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier.
As a lifelong O'Hara fan...
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Central Point Library Branch
973.91 HOC 2022
1 available
973.91 HOC 2022
1 available
JCL-Tech Services
973.91 HOC 2022
1 available
973.91 HOC 2022
1 available
Rogue River Library Branch
973.91 HOC 2022
1 available
973.91 HOC 2022
1 available
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"A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--Provided by publisher.
The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced -- in one notable case, only in private....
4) Avalon
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"AVALON follows Bran, a high school graduate in California who is raised by her 'common-law-stepfather' in a rowdy home following her mother's death. After graduating from high school, Bran stays in town and is introduced to Peter, a college student who is engaged, and the two begin an intense relationship revolving around philosophy, literature, and their attraction for one another. Encouraged by Peter, Bran begins writing scripts for their friend,...
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Ashland Library
LP F NAGENDRA H MYSTERY
1 available
LP F NAGENDRA H MYSTERY
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"The first in a charming, joyful crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. Perfect for fans of Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu, she's resigned herself to a quiet life. But that all changes the night of the party at the Century Club, where she escapes to the garden for some peace...
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"An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity-climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss. The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane,...
7) black folk could fly selected writings
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"A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"-- Provided by publisher.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post
“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club
“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in...
“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post
“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club
“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in...
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Ashland Library
614.5924 QUA 2022
1 available
614.5924 QUA 2022
1 available
Ruch Library Branch
614.5924 QUA 2022
1 available
614.5924 QUA 2022
1 available
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Medford Library Branch
F EGAN J SCI-FI
2 available
F EGAN J SCI-FI
2 available
Phoenix Library Branch
F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
Ruch Library Branch
F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Medford Library Branch
LP F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
LP F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
Central Point Library Branch
LP F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
LP F EGAN J SCI-FI
1 available
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"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
12) Case study
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Medford Library Branch
F BURNET G
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F BURNET G
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Ashland Library
F BURNET G
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F BURNET G
1 available
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize • Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards • Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination.
London, 1965. 'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger,' writes an anonymous patient,...
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"A playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. It consists of ninety-nine sketches of life in Hong Kong just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature develops from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and unfurls alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life. Dung blends vivid everyday details-Portuguese...
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Medford Library Branch
F BENNETT C
2 available
F BENNETT C
2 available
Ashland Library
F BENNETT C
1 available
F BENNETT C
1 available
Eagle Point Library Branch
F BENNETT C
1 available
F BENNETT C
1 available
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"From the author of the "dazzling. . . . and daring" Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets-and dreams up-along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer...
15) Companion piece
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Medford Library Branch
F SMITH A
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F SMITH A
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Ashland Library
F SMITH A
1 available
F SMITH A
1 available
Talent Library Branch
F SMITH A
1 available
F SMITH A
1 available
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"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Here we are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
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Medford Library Branch
305.896 JEF 2022
2 available
305.896 JEF 2022
2 available
Ashland Library
305.896 JEF 2022
1 available
305.896 JEF 2022
1 available
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"Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble...
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Medford Library Branch
F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
Phoenix Library Branch
F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
Ruch Library Branch
F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Phoenix Library Branch
LP F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
LP F MORENO-GARCIA S SCI-FI
1 available
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.
“This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of lush jungles and feminist themes. Some light romance...
“This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy reimagining of a classic story with vivid descriptions of lush jungles and feminist themes. Some light romance...
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Medford Library Branch
F POSTON A ROMANCE
1 available
F POSTON A ROMANCE
1 available
Central Point Library Branch
F POSTON A ROMANCE
1 available
F POSTON A ROMANCE
1 available
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3 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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Medford Library Branch
LP F POSTON A MYSTERY
1 available
LP F POSTON A MYSTERY
1 available
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"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
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Medford Library Branch
F YOSHIMOTO B
1 available
F YOSHIMOTO B
1 available
Ashland Library
F YOSHIMOTO B
1 available
F YOSHIMOTO B
1 available
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"First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is one betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle's bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In "House of Ghosts," the daughter of a yoshoku...
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Medford Library Branch
AB F KINGSOLVER B
2 available
AB F KINGSOLVER B
2 available
Rogue River Library Branch
AB F KINGSOLVER B
1 available
AB F KINGSOLVER B
1 available
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52 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 133 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 133 people are on the wait list.
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...