Brontë, Anne
Summary: The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Classics 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMichaels, Fern
Summary: "After years of standing by their women, the Sisterhood's significant others have also become loyal friends. And now Jack Emery, Nikki's husband, has enlisted Ted, Joe, Jay, Bert, Dennis, and Abner to form a top-secret organization known as BOLO Consultants." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2015
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Summary: "Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe-Berlin. Zoe, rudderless, relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney Spears and wants nothing more than to be an art star. On Craigslist, Hailey unknowingly stumbles on an apartment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENMichaels, Fern
Summary: "After years of standing by their women, the Sisterhood's significant others have also become loyal friends. And now Jack Emery, Nikki's husband, has enlisted Ted, Joe, Jay, Bert, Dennis, and Abner to form a top-secret organization known as BOLO Consultants." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICSummary: "This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY LODBlackett, Laura
Summary: "Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate - one full of beauty and authenticity. She just needs to convince her tech-bro husband, Jordan, of her vision for the future. Willing to do anything for Rosie's happiness, Jordan signs on, and they offer - well above asking price - on a beautiful, historic fixer-upper in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Nine-year-old Alejandria rallies her family and community to fight and save their neighborhood from rising rent prices and evictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERMosley, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2005
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Summary: Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toyshop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina firmly believes there may be a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THACompton, Johnny
Summary: "A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMDay, Elizabeth
Summary: When their new lodger, Kate, becomes obsessed with her, her husband, and the baby they are desperately trying to conceive, Marisa must find out who Kate really is before she loses everything she's worked so hard to create--her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAYKallos, Stephanie.
Summary: Two very different women, each with her own dark secrets--wealthy, reclusive septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, living alone with her vast collection of priceless antiques, and Wanda Schultz, a brokenhearted young woman in search of her wayward boyfriend--find new meaning and redemption in their growing friendship with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KALMarshall, Bev
Summary: "Though the women are as different as water and wine?Icey is feisty, hot-tempered, and impulsive, while Tee Wee is more submissive and disciplined?both are driven by a passionate determination to give their children a better life. Through trying times, they are the pillars, fierce and resilient; yet they celebrate life with a love of food, music, and family that makes even the most traumatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARThayer, Nancy
Summary: Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toyshop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. Even so, Christina firmly believes there may be a warm heart underneath Oscar's steely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THAThubron, Colin
Summary: "Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THUAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: "In an unassuming apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, three lives intersect as the reality of war invades their lives. Young Esther is heartbroken when her father decides to enlist in the army shortly after the death of her mother. Penny Goodrich has been in love with Eddie Shaffer for as long as she can remember; now that Eddie's wife is dead, Penny feels that she's been given a second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AUSChilds, Laura
Summary: "Murder at an Alice in Wonderland-themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He's been hit in the head...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M CHIGlaser, Karina Yan
Summary: Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Charles Blakey, a young man who can't find a job and who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments for the home that's been in his family for generations, cannot say no when a stranger offers to rent the basement for $50,000 in cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: "During the Mad Hatter Masquerade, a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Opera on the grounds of the old Pendleton Grist Mill, Harlan Sadler, husband of Cricket Sadler, the chairwoman, is killed. He's been hit in the head with a croquet mallet, and his body hung on the chains and paddles of the grist mill. Nobody can figure out why since Harlan was much beloved by everyone. It's only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIFarrington, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2007