Illinois.) Chatham Area Public Library (Chatham
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'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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[Chatham Area Public Library]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Sorin recovers a forgotten history of black motorists, and recounts...
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of...
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[Chatham Area Public Library]
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[2021]
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In suburban Shaker Heights, Ohio, everything is planned -- from the layout of the roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives of its residents. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Then Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist and single mother, arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl and rents a house from the Richardsons. Mia carries with her a...
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills, tends to say exactly what she's thinking, and carefully avoids unnecessary human contact. But everything changes when she meets Raymond, an IT worker from her office, and Sammy, an elderly gentleman. Raymond's compassion helps Eleanor find the way to repair her own damaged heart and she learns that she is capable of finding friendship and love.
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonniere for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal life...
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Marjane Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq, through comic strips that reflect how her own history is tied to the history of Iran.
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
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Harry Hole volume 1
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
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Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney, Australia to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together they discover that...
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. Until one night, when her husband, Gabriel, returns home late form work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kid of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into a mystery that captures the public imagination. And she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids at the Grove, a secure psychiatric unit in North London....
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides-- who would become known as the Muad'Dib--and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
18) Potholder Loom
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[Chatham Area Public Library]
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Learn about simple loom weaving with this kit. Kit contains a loom, hooks, instructions, and assortred colorful fabric loops to get you started. Suitable for all ages.
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Chatham Area Public Library
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn't exist. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in hospitals. As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she...