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Adult Fiction - Self-Discovery
Updated May 19, 2023
Milwaukee County Federated Library System
Oak Creek Public Library
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My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy--as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy....
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Darke
Gekoski, R. A.
Ebook
This critically acclaimed debut novel offers "an original and bleakly funny portrait of grief" in the singular mind and solitary life of its protagonist (The Economist). Shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize and The Author's Club Best First Novel Award
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In some other world, maybe : [a novel]
Goldhagen, Shari
Paper Book
In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he's had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for...
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The library at the edge of the world : a novel
Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
Paper Book
"Heart-warming . . . reminiscent of Maeve Binchy and Roisin Meaney." --Irish Examiner In the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-McCoy's U.S. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community and her own life in this touching...
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On the road : the original scroll
Kerouac, Jack
Audiobook
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road--typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,...
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Beast : a novel
Kingsnorth, Paul
Paper Book
The stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The Wake Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with...
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The Fields : a novel
Maher, Kevin
Paper Book
A warm and funny debut novel about a young man in trouble and a family in love and in pieces. It's the first summer of lust for 14-year-old Jim Finnegan, a boy trying to become a man in 1980s Dublin. Jim's vivid and winning voice leaps off the page and into the reader's...
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Losing me
Margolis, Sue
Paper Book
The 'compulsively readable' (Susie Essman, actress,Curb Your Enthusiasm) author ofBest Supporting Roledelivers a new novel of one woman who's stretched so thin, she almost disappears . . . Knocking on sixty, Barbara Stirling is too busy to find herself, while caring for...
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The young widower's handbook : a novel
McAllister, Tom
Paper Book
"Funny, sad, and smart . . . Part wacky road novel, part romantic comedy, McAllister's debut flies along yet reaches deep." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset For Hunter Cady, meeting Kaitlyn is the greatest thing that has ever happened to him. Whereas he had...
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Solar bones
McCormack, Mike
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize Winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year An Irish Times Book Club Choice "With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and...
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Tuesday nights in 1980
Prentiss, Molly
Paper Book
"In one sentence, Ms. Prentiss captures a sense of intoxication and possibility that six seasons of voice-overs from Sarah Jessica Parker never could...Ms. Prentiss concludes her novel on a note that's both ethereal and brutally realistic. She cauterizes wounds, but they're still visible and bare...
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The rise & fall of great powers : a novel
Rachman, Tom.
Paper Book
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The Seattle Times * The Globe and Mail * Kirkus Reviews * Daily Mail * The Vancouver Sun For fans of Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, and Donna Tartt--the brilliant, intricately woven new novel by Tom Rachman, author of The...
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The ocean between us
Wiggs, Susan.
Ebook
After years of following her navy officer husband on assignment around the world with their three children, Grace Bennett realizes that she's left something behind--herself. Steve Bennett can't understand the unraveling of his wife's heart. He wants to set things right, but when a...
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The interestings
Wolitzer, Meg.
Paper Book
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and The Chicago Tribune, and named a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”...
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Local girls
Zancan, Caroline
Paper Book
Named one of the summer's best books by People, Glamour, The Huffington Post, and Pure Wow Publishers Weekly Book of the Week Named one of Refinery 29's "21 New Authors to Watch" in 2015 The first person to break your heart isn't...
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