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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
940.5421 LAR
2 available
940.5421 LAR
2 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
940.5421 LAR
1 available
940.5421 LAR
1 available
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1 copy, 15 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 15 people are on the wait list.
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT 940.5421 LAR
1 available
LARGE PRINT 940.5421 LAR
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LP 940.5421 LAR
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LP 940.5421 LAR
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Donoghue,E. Pull
1 available
FICTION Donoghue,E. Pull
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Donoghue,E. Pull
1 available
FICTION Donoghue,E. Pull
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Donoghue
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CD SPOKEN Donoghue
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Donoghue,E. Pull
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LARGE PRINT Donoghue,E. Pull
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LARGE PRINT Donoghue,E. Pull
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LARGE PRINT Donoghue,E. Pull
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A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl,...
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Lyons,A. Brilliant
1 available
FICTION Lyons,A. Brilliant
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Lyons,A. Brilliant
1 available
FICTION Lyons,A. Brilliant
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Lyons,A. Brilliant
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LARGE PRINT Lyons,A. Brilliant
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LARGE PRINT Lyons,A. Brilliant
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LARGE PRINT Lyons,A. Brilliant
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Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world--all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Backman
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CD SPOKEN Backman
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
CD SPOKEN Backman
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CD SPOKEN Backman
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
973.3 PHI
2 available
973.3 PHI
2 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
973.3 PHI
1 available
973.3 PHI
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
973.3 PHI
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973.3 PHI
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN 973.3 PHI
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CD SPOKEN 973.3 PHI
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT 973.3 PHI
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LARGE PRINT 973.3 PHI
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Recounts the events of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, tracing the experiences of Patriot leader Dr. Joseph Warren, a newly recruited George Washington, and British General William Howe.
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
928.1 Albom
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928.1 Albom
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
928.1 Albom
1 available
928.1 Albom
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
928.1 Albom
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928.1 Albom
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"Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
594.56 MON
26 available
594.56 MON
26 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
594.56 MON
2 available
594.56 MON
2 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
594.56 MON
1 available
594.56 MON
1 available
eAudiobook
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"This book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus: a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature and the remarkable connections it makes with humans"--
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Heller
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FICTION Heller
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Heller
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FICTION Heller
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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
29) The library book
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
027.4 ORL
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027.4 ORL
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
027.4 ORL
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027.4 ORL
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
027.4 ORL
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027.4 ORL
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN 027.4 ORL
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT 027.4 ORL
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LP 027.4 ORL
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, patrons and staff outside of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous, reaching 2000 degrees and burning for more than seven hours. It consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more....
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Lundberg
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FICTION Lundberg
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Lundberg
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FICTION Lundberg
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Lundberg
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FICTION Lundberg
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT Lundberg
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LARGE PRINT Lundberg
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"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come . . . Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
977 MCC
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977 MCC
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
977 MCC
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977 MCC
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
CD SPOKEN 977 MCC
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CD SPOKEN 977 MCC
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT 977 MCC
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LARGE PRINT 977 MCC
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LP 977 MCC
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LP 977 MCC
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"Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals"--
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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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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
927.9651 Gatewood
1 available
927.9651 Gatewood
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eAudiobook
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"Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin....
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN 338.76 CAR
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CD SPOKEN 338.76 CAR
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"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Orange, T There
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FICTION Orange, T There
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Orange
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CD SPOKEN Orange
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Checked Out
7 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Jenoff
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FICTION Jenoff
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Jenoff
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FICTION Jenoff
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
LP FICTION Jenoff
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LP FICTION Jenoff
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From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
973.337 PHI
1 available
973.337 PHI
1 available
Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
973.337 PHI
1 available
973.337 PHI
1 available
Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
973.337 PHI
1 available
973.337 PHI
1 available
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
LARGE PRINT 973.337 PHI
1 available
LARGE PRINT 973.337 PHI
1 available
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"The American Revolution may have been started by a group of citizen-soldiers on a green in Lexington, Massachusetts, but it was won on a choppy patch of water off Chesapeake Bay. In Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick gave us a new and provocative way of looking at the war that created the United States. His latest book is the capstone of that enterprise, focusing on the last year of the war, and is the culmination of Philbrick's...
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
FICTION Kane
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FICTION Kane
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Kane
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FICTION Kane
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A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them. But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from...
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"A forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other."--
40) Carnegie's maid
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Falmouth - East Branch - Adult
FICTION Benedict
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FICTION Benedict
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Falmouth - North Branch - Adult
FICTION Benedict
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FICTION Benedict
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Falmouth - Main Library - Adult
CD SPOKEN Benedict
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CD SPOKEN Benedict
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eBook
Checked Out
4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...