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Matt Haigg's The Midnight Library is Trending at the Library
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If you enjoyed it, or if you're waiting for it, try one of these great read-alikes!
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A long way down
by Nick Hornby
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a television talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share the stories about their circumstances and decisions. By the author of How to Be Good.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Or what you will
by Jo Walton
A fictional hero who has assumed the roles of gods, warriors, scholars, and lovers in award-winning novels discovers that his author is dying and orchestrates a daring plan to catapult writer and character into immortality.
Available on Overdrive
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Life after life : a novel
by Kate Atkinson
Follows the experiences of a woman, who, after being born on a snowy night in 1910, repeatedly dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world.
Available on Audiobook CD, Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Oona out of order
by Margarita Montimore
A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The impossible lives of Greta Wells
by Andrew Sean Greer
To alleviate her suffocating depression after the death of her twin brother and the break-up with her long-time lover, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment that has an unexpected side effect.
Available on Overdrive
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The invisible library
by Genevieve Cogman
An undercover librarian who works for an occult organization that collects books from different realities must determine what happened to a particularly dangerous book that has been stolen and becomes mired in a mystery infused with peril and conflicting clues.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The bone clocks : a novel
by David Mitchell
Interweaves six narratives spanning the period between 1984 and the 2030s to chronicle a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes who would take them down. By the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas.
Available on audiobook CD, Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Reincarnation blues : a novel
by Michael Poore
A man who has been reincarnated nearly ten thousand times, living lives in regions from ancient India and Renaissance Italy to outer space and the modern world, searches for the secret to immortality so that he can be with his beloved, the incarnation of Death.
Available on Overdrive
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The book of two ways : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Experiencing memories of a man other than her husband while surviving a plane crash, an end-of-life doula on the brink of a fateful decision envisions two disparate paths that find her staying with her family or reconnecting with the past.
Available on audiobook CD, Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
After getting readings from a psychic reputed to be able to tell customers when they will die, four siblings from New York's Lower East Side hide what they learn from each other before living five decades of experiences shaped by their determination to control fate. A New York Times Best Seller.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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