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Beast player volume 1
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Teen Fiction - Young Adult Area
YA F Ueh
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YA F Ueh
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"Elin's family has an important responsibility: caring for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. So when some of the creatures mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath, she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone and far from home, Elin soon discovers that she can communicate with both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Large Print Books - Large Print Area
F BACKMAN LT
1 available
F BACKMAN LT
1 available
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Adult Nonfiction
153.733 Har
1 available
153.733 Har
1 available
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help...
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Chromatacia novels volume 1
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Jasper Fforde unfolds the tale of Eddie Russett, a boy living in a world without color. As he works for the Color Control Agency, the very entity that oppresses society's ability to see colors, Eddie falls in love with Jane, a girl from the unlit side of the village. However, when the two start to discuss rebelling against their oppressors, they undertake an adventure of a lifetime.
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Adult Nonfiction
796.93 Mor
1 available
796.93 Mor
1 available
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"A coming-of-middle-age story in which the author skis across Canada in winter."--
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4 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Adult Nonfiction
387.742 Coo
1 available
387.742 Coo
1 available
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"Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out and wanted up. Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5'3" and 5'9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire....
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Murderbot diaries volume 5
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3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. I caught myself rereading my favorite parts... and I can't recommend it enough. -- New York Times You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite...
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Elements of Cadence volume 1
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind...
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Elements of Cadence volume 2
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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In the stunning conclusion to the #1 internationally bestselling Elements of Cadence duology that began with A River Enchanted, A Fire Endless finds the tenuous balance between the human and faery realm threatened by Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, whose defeat may require Jack, Adaira, Torin, and Sidra to pay the ultimate price. East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines. The Isle of Cadence has always held itself and its residents...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F REID
1 available
F REID
1 available
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Audiobooks - Audiobook Shelves
AB/CD Rei
1 available
AB/CD Rei
1 available
eAudiobook
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17 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
12) Heartstopper #1
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Heartstopper volume 1
The library does not own any copies of this title.
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Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork.
Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance.
But Nick is struggling with...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F TORZS
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F TORZS
1 available
eAudiobook
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"Two estranged half sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power."--
14) Radio silence
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"Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying. Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight As. You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and she is a girl. They don’t. They make a podcast. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year. Will...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F CHANG-EPPIG
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F CHANG-EPPIG
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"When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Adult Nonfiction
781.11 Rog
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781.11 Rog
1 available
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"A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week")...
17) Goth: a history
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"GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tolhurst, co-founder of The Cure, this book offers a fascinating deep dive into the movers and shakers of goth with stories and anecdotes from Tolhurst's...
18) House of cotton
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F BRASHEARS
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F BRASHEARS
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"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
19) Hester: a novel
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F LICO ALBANESE
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F LICO ALBANESE
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F KINGFISHER
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F KINGFISHER
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eAudiobook
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed...