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1) Finna
Author
Series
Finna novels (Nino Cipri) volume 1
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On Shelf
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION (C)
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION (C)
1 available
Mountain Road Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION (C)
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION (C)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION (C)
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION (C)
2 available
Description
"When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store - but not that one - slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture...
2) Thornhedge
Author
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On Shelf
Discoveries: the Library at the Mall - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Interlibrary Loan - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Description
"There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? But nothing with fairies is ever simple. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering...
Author
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On Shelf
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (B)
1 available
FICTION (B)
1 available
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (B)
1 available
FICTION (B)
1 available
Mountain Road Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (B)
1 available
FICTION (B)
1 available
Description
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected...
Author
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On Shelf
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION (B)
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION (B)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION (B)
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION (B)
1 available
Mountain Road Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION (B)
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION (B)
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting." -Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears'...
5) Blue hour
Author
On Shelf
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
2 available
FICTION (C)
2 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
On Shelf
Odenton Library - Large Print
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Severna Park Library - Large Print
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Description
"Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class. Unmoored by the grief of a recent devastating miscarriage and Noah's fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having...
6) Paradais
Author
On Shelf
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
1 available
FICTION (M)
1 available
Riviera Beach Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (M)
3 available
FICTION (M)
3 available
Description
"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he...
Author
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On Shelf
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (N)
1 available
FICTION (N)
1 available
Riviera Beach Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (N)
3 available
FICTION (N)
3 available
Severn Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (N)
1 available
FICTION (N)
1 available
Description
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love...
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On Shelf
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Nonfiction
808.066 F
1 available
808.066 F
1 available
Linthicum Library - Adult Nonfiction
808.066 F
1 available
808.066 F
1 available
Description
Drawing on her own experiences, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir "Whip Smart" discusses how to confront the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing about our most intimate lives.
Author
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Broadneck Library - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 T
1 available
158.1 T
1 available
Crofton Library - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 T
2 available
158.1 T
2 available
Riviera Beach Library - Adult Nonfiction
158.1 T
1 available
158.1 T
1 available
Description
""To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." -Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--
Author
On Shelf
Brooklyn Park Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (D)
1 available
FICTION (D)
1 available
Discoveries: the Library at the Mall - Adult Fiction
FICTION (D)
1 available
FICTION (D)
1 available
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (D)
1 available
FICTION (D)
1 available
Description
"In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it's hard to be certain of anything. Spence is one of the "cured" living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him...
11) Second place
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Riviera Beach Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
2 available
FICTION (C)
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships"--
12) Open water
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (N)
1 available
FICTION (N)
1 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (N)
1 available
FICTION (N)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (N)
1 available
FICTION (N)
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists-he a photographer, she a dancer-and both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence, and over the course of...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Crofton Library - Adult Nonfiction
824.914 S
1 available
824.914 S
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Nonfiction
824.914 S
1 available
824.914 S
1 available
Severna Park Library - Adult Nonfiction
824.914 S
1 available
824.914 S
1 available
Description
"Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what...
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Formats:
On Shelf
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Discoveries: the Library at the Mall - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (H)
1 available
FICTION (H)
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden. It's Zinnia Gray's...
Author
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On Shelf
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 MAILHOT
1 available
921 MAILHOT
1 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 MAILHOT
1 available
921 MAILHOT
1 available
Riviera Beach Library - Adult Nonfiction
921 MAILHOT
1 available
921 MAILHOT
1 available
Description
"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...
16) Elevation
Author
On Shelf
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Linthicum Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (K)
2 available
FICTION (K)
2 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Glen Burnie Library - Large Print
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Odenton Library - Large Print
FICTION (K)
1 available
FICTION (K)
1 available
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Deale Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In this dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed...
Author
On Shelf
Brooklyn Park Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (O)
1 available
FICTION (O)
1 available
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (O)
1 available
FICTION (O)
1 available
Crofton Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (O)
1 available
FICTION (O)
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Glen Burnie Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (O)
1 available
CD FICTION (O)
1 available
Odenton Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (O)
1 available
CD FICTION (O)
1 available
Severn Library - Adult Audiobook
CD FICTION (O)
1 available
CD FICTION (O)
1 available
On Shelf
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY FICTION (O)
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION (O)
1 available
Mountain Road Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY FICTION (O)
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION (O)
1 available
Description
Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
19) The alchemist
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Series
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On Shelf
Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Busch Annapolis Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Mountain Road Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (C)
1 available
FICTION (C)
1 available
Checked Out
11 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
17 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
Author
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On Shelf
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION (L)
1 available
FICTION (L)
1 available
Description
"People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive...