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Before the coffee gets cold volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Large Type
LARGE TYPE FICTION KAWAGUCH
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LARGE TYPE FICTION KAWAGUCH
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"If you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed....
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"Begin your journey into Middle-earth. A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This single volume, paperback omnibus edition includes the three titles that comprise J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Middle-earth, a world of magic and adventure. A land full of tales spanning thousands of years. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered...
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The author has always had a special affinity for Christmas. His celebrated National Public Radio debut, The Santa Land Diaries, which first appeared in print in Barrel Fever was hailed the Seattle Times. The New York Times also wrote of this book. Now The Santa Land Diaries & five other hilarious Christmas stories are available in a wonderfully subversive holiday gift package. For anyone who has had enough of the forced good cheer, family madness,...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Includes teacher's guide.
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Stacks
JUV EASY SILVERST
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JUV EASY SILVERST
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A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
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Tove Jansson ist dank ihrer MUMIN-Bücher weltweit bekannt und beliebt. Ihre Bücher zählen zu den Klassikern der skandinavischen Literatur. Das WINTERBUCH versammelt viele der beliebtesten Erzählungen für Erwachsene von der finnlandschwedischen Autorin. Mit feinem Humor und Melancholie begleitet dieses Buch die Leserinnen und Leser durch die dunkle Jahreszeit. Eine Jahreszeit, die neben Schnee, Eis und Kälte auch besondere Naturerlebnisse, Zurückgezogenheit...
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John dies at the end volume 1
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This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault." Revised and updated special edition includes all-new commentary from the characters and the author.
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Stacks
JUV WONDERBK EASY KEATS
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JUV WONDERBK EASY KEATS
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The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. A Caldecott Medal winner that conveys the silent wonder of a city snowfall and a small boy's solitary delight in it.
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROTHMAN-
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FICTION ROTHMAN-
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"In this lyrical and searing debut novel written by a rising literary star and MacDowell Fellow, a young man is preparing to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country. Four days after his nineteenth birthday, Jonathan is sitting in a military jail in Israel. Languishing in the dark cell, he recalls the series of events that led...
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Oak Lawn Public Library - AV
CD FICTION YANAGIHARA
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CD FICTION YANAGIHARA
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades,...
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Arriving in Orenburg, Pyotr reports to his commanding officer and is assigned to serve at Fort Belogorsky under captain Ivan Mironov. The fort is little more than a fence around a village, and the captain's wife Vasilisa is really in charge. Pyotr befriends his fellow officer Shvabrin, who has been banished here after a duel resulted in the death of his opponent. When Pyotr dines with the Mironov family, he meets their daughter Masha and falls in...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
JUV LARGE TYPE FICTION KINNEY
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JUV LARGE TYPE FICTION KINNEY
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"Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?To celebrate the full-color,...
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"When an unexpected inheritance forces two total opposites to work together, Lexie must decide if Theo is going to push her out-or pull her in for the kiss of a lifetime-in this heartwarming holiday novel from the author of Always, in December and One Last Gift"--
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
JUV LARGE TYPE FICTION ROWLING
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JUV LARGE TYPE FICTION ROWLING
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LARGE TYPE FICTION ROWLING
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LARGE TYPE FICTION ROWLING
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION ROWLING
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JUV DIGITAL BOOK FICTION ROWLING
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"Till now there's been no magic for Harry Potter. He lives with the miserable Dursleys at number four, Privet Drive. His room is the cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years. But then a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitiation to an incredible place called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And there he finds not only friends, flying sports on broomsticks, and magic in everything...
15) Little women
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Little Women series volume 1
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"For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
16) James: a novel
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Perfect chemistry series volume 1
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Wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany Ellis and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be. Now they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates -- and others.
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
BOOK CLUB FICTION DOERR
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BOOK CLUB FICTION DOERR
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Large Type
LARGE TYPE FICTION DOERR
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LARGE TYPE FICTION DOERR
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, 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. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
19) Greenglass house
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Greenglass House volume 1
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It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again. Soon Milo's home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects...
20) Emma
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Novels of Jane Austen volume 4
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AUSTEN
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FICTION AUSTEN
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Oak Lawn Public Library - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT FICTION AUSTEN
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION AUSTEN
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"The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Beautiful, clever, rich-- and single-- Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts...