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1) New kid
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD FICTION CRAFT
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J CD FICTION CRAFT
1 available
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After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds.
2) Refugee
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J CD FICTION GRATZ
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J CD FICTION GRATZ
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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
J PLAY FICTION RASKIN
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J PLAY FICTION RASKIN
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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
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"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
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"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for...
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Albany Co. Public Library - New Item
LP FICTION PARI
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LP FICTION PARI
1 available
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"Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished. Caught in the middle is their mother, Shireen, torn between her fierce love...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION GARMUS
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FICTION GARMUS
2 available
Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
FICTION GARMUS
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FICTION GARMUS
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD FICTION GARMUS
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CD FICTION GARMUS
1 available
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION TOWLES
1 available
FICTION TOWLES
1 available
Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION TOWLES
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FICTION TOWLES
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
FICTION TOWLES
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FICTION TOWLES
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A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In 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 manslaugher. 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,...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION CRONIN
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FICTION CRONIN
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but still has plenty of living to do. She lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital....
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"It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. Haunting, mysterious, and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock...
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION ADAMS
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FICTION ADAMS
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Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
13) The sentence
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION ERDRICH
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FICTION ERDRICH
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD FICTION ERDRICH
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CD FICTION ERDRICH
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Albany Co. Bookmobile - Large Print Collection
LP FICTION ERDRICH
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LP FICTION ERDRICH
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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Fiction
FICTION ALBOM
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FICTION ALBOM
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Fiction
FICTION ALBOM
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FICTION ALBOM
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After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.
15) The winners
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Fiction
FICTION BACKMAN
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FICTION BACKMAN
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD FICTION BACKMAN
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CD FICTION BACKMAN
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Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. They can see how much Beartown has changed. There is a sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on,...
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Albany Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD 796.48 BROWN
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CD 796.48 BROWN
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"The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic Games in Berlin....
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Albany Co. - Centennial Branch - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY OSMAN
1 available
MYSTERY OSMAN
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Albany Co. - Rock River Branch - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY OSMAN
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MYSTERY OSMAN
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Albany Co. Bookmobile - Mystery Collection
MYSTERY OSMAN
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MYSTERY OSMAN
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
18) Never lie
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"Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate ... with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains...
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Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods -- until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her from the curiousity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears. Only Merricat can see the danger,...