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A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships (Twenty-One Essays)
'Nathan Burgoine, Nancy Newcomb, Dorianne Emmerton, Jean Copeland, Kate Barker, Jason Dale, Danny Glenwright, Ellen Russell, Rosemary Rowe, Bruce Gillespie, Maya Saibil, Sebastian Charge, Dale Lee Kwong, S. Bear Bergman, Arleen Paré, Jeffrey Ricker, Noreen Fagan, Sara Graefe, Betty Jane Hegerat, Paul Aguirre-Livingston, Keph Senett, Max Mosher
Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2014
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
Gregory Clark
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Claire Hartfield
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
Qais Akbar Omar
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
John Berger, Jean Mohr
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)
Steven T. Murray, Henning Mankell
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
Herman Viola, Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Mark Salter, John McCain
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000
Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years
Andrew Solomon
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
Farmer Giles of Ham
J. R. R. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999
Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991
Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
David Blankenhorn
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Ariel Dorfman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011
Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism (CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series)
Patrick J. Carroll, José E. Limón
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Ficciones
Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony Bonner, Jorge Luis Borges
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994
Fierce Attachments
Jonathan Lethem, Vivian Gornick
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
Robertson Davies
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002
Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
E.L. James, E. L. James
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013
Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe Brothers, #2)
Markus Zusak, Stig Wemyss
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
Louise Erdrich, Meg Wolitzer, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Ayelet Waldman, ed., Michael Chabon, ed., Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggers, C.J. Anders, David Handler, Ann Patchett, Lauren Groff, David Cole, Jennifer Egan, Morgan Parker, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Yaa Gyasi, Brit Bennett, Anthony Doerr, Geraldine Brooks, Andrew Sean Greer, Sergio de la Pava, Steven Okazaki, Timothy Egan, Scott Turow, Brenda J. Child, Ayelet Waldman, Rabih Alameddine, Jacqueline Woodson, Li Yiyun, Elizabeth Strout, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Héctor Tobar, George Saunders, Aleksandar Hemon, Jesmyn Ward, Salman Rushdie, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon
Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020
Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life
Susan Orpett Long
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)
Emily Rodda, Stephen King
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015
Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
Finding Nouf (Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi #1)
Zoë Ferraris, Zoe Ferraris
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008
Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman's Journey of Love, Identity, and Adoption
Marlee Matlin, Brandi Rarus, Gail Harris
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Fire at Sea: The Mysterious Tragedy of the Morro Castle
Thomas Gallagher
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Philip Connors
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
Peter Bellwood
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
First in Their Hearts: The Life of George Washington (The Thomas Fleming Library)
Thomas Fleming, Thomas James Fleming
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Five Seasons (Love & War Trilogy, #3)
A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004
Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, Ron Powers, James D. Bradley
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Keith O'Brien, Keith O'Brien
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018