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1) Internment
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Teen
YA AHMED
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YA AHMED
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"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. And one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." And now, Layla and her parents are suddenly taken from their home and forced into an...
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Winternight trilogy volume 1
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Science Fiction
SF ARDEN
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SF ARDEN
2 available
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"At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F BACKMAN
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CD F BACKMAN
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of eight strangers hostage. Each...
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F BENNETT
1 available
F BENNETT
1 available
Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
6 available
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
6 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F BENNETT
1 available
CD F BENNETT
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
BUNDLE: THE VANISHING HALF
1 available
BUNDLE: THE VANISHING HALF
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP BENNETT
1 available
LP BENNETT
1 available
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F CUMMINS
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F CUMMINS
1 available
Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
1 available
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F CUMMINS
1 available
CD F CUMMINS
1 available
eAudiobook
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP CUMMINS
1 available
LP CUMMINS
1 available
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"Tambien de este lado hay sue?os. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Biography
B DELGAUDIO
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B DELGAUDIO
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"A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction, from one of the most acclaimed conjurors and gifted sleight-of-hand artists in a generation, the creator and star of the astonishing one-man show, In and of Itself. Conscious of his own rather mind-boggling ability to deceive others professionally, Derek DelGaudio believed that the artifice in his life was always reserved exclusively for the stage. But when irrefutable evidence...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F FOLEY
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CD F FOLEY
1 available
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eBook
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP FOLEY
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LP FOLEY
1 available
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F FRANKEL
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CD F FRANKEL
1 available
eAudiobook
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP FRANKEL
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LP FRANKEL
1 available
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"This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change ... and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP HAIG
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LP HAIG
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
11) The four winds
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F HANNAH
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CD F HANNAH
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Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
BUNDLE: FOUR WINDS
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BUNDLE: FOUR WINDS
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"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP HARRIS
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LP HARRIS
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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,...
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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eAudiobook
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP JONES
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LP JONES
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP KEANE
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LP KEANE
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Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren't close friends on the job, but end up living next door to each other outside the city. What goes on behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the stunning events to come. Ask Again, Yes by award-winning author Mary Beth Keane, is a beautifully...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F KLINE
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F KLINE
1 available
Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
2 available
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
2 available
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eBook
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Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
BUNDLE: THE EXILES
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BUNDLE: THE EXILES
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP KLINE
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LP KLINE
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
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Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK*
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GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK*
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F KRUEGER
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CD F KRUEGER
1 available
eAudiobook
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP KRUEGER
1 available
LP KRUEGER
1 available
Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
BC LP KRUEGER
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BC LP KRUEGER
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Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. After commiting a terrible crime, Odie and his brother Albert are forced to flee, along with their best friend Mose and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy. Together they...
18) The glass hotel
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F MANDEL
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F MANDEL
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From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP MCBRIDE
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LP MCBRIDE
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Audiobooks
CD F MICHAELIDES
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CD F MICHAELIDES
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP MICHAELIDES
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LP MICHAELIDES
2 available
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"Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander,...