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3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"Christian Cooper is a self-described 'Blerd' (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with...
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2 copies, 43 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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"In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy...
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Haslett - Non-Fiction
577.14 Egan
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577.14 Egan
1 available
Mason - Non-Fiction
577.14 Egan
1 available
577.14 Egan
1 available
Okemos - Non-Fiction
577.14 Egan
1 available
577.14 Egan
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1 copy, 13 people are on the wait list.
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"The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the enormous increase in the human population. Yet, as Egan...
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"As a young woman growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What Penaluna didn’t realize was that the Western philosophical canon taught in American universities, as...
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Haslett - Non-Fiction
921 Nguyen
1 available
921 Nguyen
1 available
Holt - Non-Fiction
921 Nguyen
1 available
921 Nguyen
1 available
Okemos - Non-Fiction
921 Nguyen
1 available
921 Nguyen
1 available
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are...
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Haslett - Non-Fiction
305.868073 Tobar
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305.868073 Tobar
1 available
Okemos - Non-Fiction
305.868073 Tobar
1 available
305.868073 Tobar
1 available
South Lansing - New Books
305.868073 Tobar
1 available
305.868073 Tobar
1 available
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"'Latino' is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino' assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people. Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of 'Latino'...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-New Items
643.7 Stardust
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643.7 Stardust
1 available
Foster - Non-Fiction
643.7 Stardust
1 available
643.7 Stardust
1 available
Mason - Non-Fiction
643.7 Stardust
1 available
643.7 Stardust
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"For too many people, the simple act of contacting a plumber or repair person can feel like a game of chance. As a transwoman and a professional maintenance technician, Mercury Stardust has discovered (the hard way) that we live in a world with much to fear. If you’ve ever felt panicked about opening your home to strangers in order to fix a maintenance issue, this book is for you. Renting a home can be a complex process—from finding a safe and...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-New Items
811.6 Petrouske
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811.6 Petrouske
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Downtown Lansing - 2nd Floor-Non-Fiction
811.6 Petrouske
1 available
811.6 Petrouske
1 available
Mason - Non-Fiction
811.6 Petrouske
1 available
811.6 Petrouske
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"In Tracking the Fox, Rosalie Sanara Petrouske weaves a tale of family ties and history. The poems are steeped in her Native American heritage and in the natural lore her Ojibwe father taught her. Skilled in descriptive writing, she allows the readers to see waterfalls, hear winds howling, and smell delicate flowers in full bloom. They will walk with her and her father through fields of native grasses, along snowy animal tracks, and down wooded paths....
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Downtown Lansing - 2nd Floor-Non-Fiction
921 Maclear
1 available
921 Maclear
1 available
Haslett - Non-Fiction
921 Maclear
1 available
921 Maclear
1 available
Okemos - Non-Fiction
921 Maclear
1 available
921 Maclear
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a...story...
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Downtown Lansing - 2nd Floor-Non-Fiction
910.91641 Grann
1 available
910.91641 Grann
1 available
Haslett - Non-Fiction
910.91641 Grann
1 available
910.91641 Grann
1 available
Leslie - Non-Fiction
910.91641 Grann
1 available
910.91641 Grann
1 available
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12 copies, 223 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 161 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 161 people are on the wait list.
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Mason - Large Print
LP 910.91641 Grann
1 available
LP 910.91641 Grann
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Okemos - Large Print
LP 910.91641 Grann
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LP 910.91641 Grann
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A mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an...
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5 copies, 68 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 265 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 265 people are on the wait list.
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"July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
FIC Zeineddine
1 available
FIC Zeineddine
1 available
Mason - Local Collection
FIC Zeineddine
1 available
FIC Zeineddine
1 available
Okemos - Fiction
FIC Zeineddine
1 available
FIC Zeineddine
1 available
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3 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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"In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions heighten within a close-knit group of couples when a mysterious man begins to frequent the local gym pool, dressed in Speedos printed with nostalgic images of Lebanon. And a failed stage actor attempts to drive a young Lebanese man with ambitions of becoming a Hollywood action hero to LA, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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Emily Wilde volume 1
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9 copies, 131 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 168 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 168 people are on the wait list.
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"Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives...
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Empyrean volume 1
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11 copies, 238 people are on the wait list.
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52 copies, 939 people are on the wait list.
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52 copies, 939 people are on the wait list.
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to 'fragile'...
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9 copies, 354 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 514 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 514 people are on the wait list.
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"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline...
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Holt - Fiction
SF Klune
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SF Klune
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Okemos - Fiction
SF Klune
1 available
SF Klune
1 available
Williamston - Fiction
SF Klune
1 available
SF Klune
1 available
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Audio Book/CD
BCD SF Klune
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BCD SF Klune
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Holt - Audio Book/CD
BCD SF Klune
1 available
BCD SF Klune
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8 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 49 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 49 people are on the wait list.
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"In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots, fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled 'HAP,' he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio, a past spent hunting humans....
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
HIS Thomas
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HIS Thomas
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Foster - Fiction
HIS Thomas
1 available
HIS Thomas
1 available
Holt - Fiction
HIS Thomas
1 available
HIS Thomas
1 available
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Dansville - New Books
LP HIS Thomas
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LP HIS Thomas
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Haslett - New Books
LP HIS Thomas
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LP HIS Thomas
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"In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in the American south, young Lensinda Martin works for a crusading Black journalist. One night, a neighboring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
FIC Sittenfeld
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FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
Holt - Fiction
FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
Mason - Fiction
FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Audio Book/CD
BCD FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
BCD FIC Sittenfeld
1 available
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5 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
FIC Patchett
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FIC Patchett
1 available
Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-New Items
FIC Patchett
1 available
FIC Patchett
1 available
Haslett - Fiction
FIC Patchett
1 available
FIC Patchett
1 available
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Audio Book/CD
BCD FIC Patchett
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BCD FIC Patchett
1 available
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44 copies, 916 people are on the wait list.
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-New Items
LP FIC Patchett
1 available
LP FIC Patchett
1 available
South Lansing - Large Print
LP FIC Patchett
1 available
LP FIC Patchett
1 available
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"In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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9 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 88 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 88 people are on the wait list.
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"Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her...