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December 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Nonfiction
BIOGRAPHY MEMOIR WANG
1 available
BIOGRAPHY MEMOIR WANG
1 available
eAudiobook
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"An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's five years living undocumented after immigrating with her parents from China to New York City in 1994. "-- Provided by publisher.
2) The women
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November 2025
eAudiobook
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29 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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31 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
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31 copies, 29 people are on the wait list.
Description
"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively...
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October 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Romance
ROMANCE POSTON
1 available
ROMANCE POSTON
1 available
eAudiobook
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
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Guncle volume 1
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September 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
eAudiobook
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Haltom City Public Library - Playaways
PLAYAWAY FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION ROWLEY
1 available
Description
"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"-- Provided by publisher.
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August 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION NEVER
1 available
FICTION NEVER
1 available
Description
"A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native...
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July 2025
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eAudiobook
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5 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Age of Miracles meets The Immortalists in this spirit-lifting, high-concept blockbuster debut set in a world where people can find out how much time they have left to live"-- Provided by publisher.
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June 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION KLIEWER
1 available
FICTION KLIEWER
1 available
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"As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can't believe the killer deal they've just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they're working in the house one day, there's a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in. As soon as the strangers enter their home,...
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May 2025
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"A captivating true-crime caper about Arthur Barry, a jewel thief who charmed celebrities and millionaires, stole from Rockefellers and royalty, and pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists of the Jazz Age" -- Provided by publisher.
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April 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION VANPELT
1 available
FICTION VANPELT
1 available
eAudiobook
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14 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
Description
"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- Provided by publisher.
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been...
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March 2025
eAudiobook
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Description
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged organs and body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. As the creature educates itself and learns how cruel mankind can be to something that they deem monstrous, he demands that Victor make him a companion, an Eve to his Adam. When Victor refuses, his...
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February 2025
eAudiobook
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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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.
On Shelf
Haltom City Public Library - Playaways
PLAYAWAY FICTION MILLER
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION MILLER
1 available
Description
When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of "pornographic" books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in "wholesome" dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
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January 2025
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION TOWLES
1 available
FICTION TOWLES
1 available
eAudiobook
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades...
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December 2024
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION WINGATE
1 available
FICTION WINGATE
1 available
eAudiobook
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"Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war...
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November 2024
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eAudiobook
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8 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
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October 2024
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION FOLEY
1 available
FICTION FOLEY
1 available
eAudiobook
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
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September 2024
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Haltom City Public Library - Fiction
FICTION ZEVIN
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FICTION ZEVIN
1 available
eAudiobook
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3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"-- Provided by publisher.
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard,...
17) The library book
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August 2024
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Haltom City Public Library - Nonfiction
HISTORY USA 20THCENT ORLEAN
1 available
HISTORY USA 20THCENT ORLEAN
1 available
Description
"Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson attempts to burn a...
18) The great Gatsby
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July 2024
eAudiobook
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
19) The hate u give
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Mary 2024
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Haltom City Public Library - Teen/Young Adult Fiction
TEEN REALISTIC THOMAS
1 available
TEEN REALISTIC THOMAS
1 available
eBook
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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April 2024
eBook
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4 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...