Parciak, Wendy.
Summary: These are the words of Marzita Zaferatos, a mentally-ill young woman who wanders into the lives of her neighbors on Locust Street, whether they want her to or not. On the street live a frail spinster, a career-driven couple and their toddler, a neurologist with a constricting shyness of women, a teenager who wishes her life could be as interesting as her daydreams, and Marzita's father, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARPixley, Marcella Fleischman
Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIXLamb, Wally.
Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMason, Meg
Summary: Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMorrissey, Donna
Summary: Kit Pitman lives with her unstable mother in a cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland. Her life is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her illegitimate birth. Morrissey depicts the way the lines between mother and daughter, although blurred, are deeply felt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORGyasi, Yaa
Summary: "A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gyasi 2020Lee, Mira T.
Summary: "A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEETyler, Anne.
Summary: "Mrs. Pamela Emerson was three months into widowhood, living alone far outside Baltimore, in a house full of ticking, chiming clocks--and the constant reminder of time and loss. Then she hired Elizabeth Abbott, with her rundown moccasins and 'come what may' disposition, to be a handyman around the yard. They were opposites but would come to fit neatly together like pieces of a puzzle. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Centerpoint 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWiseman, Ellen Marie
Summary: Izzy Stone struggles to solve the mysteries surrounding her mentally ill mother and discover a place to truly call home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISSamson, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Faith 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMShields, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHICrosby, Polly
Summary: A girl who would save her mentally ill artist father from succumbing to the pressures of fame follows clues in the illustrations of his remarkable children's book before uncovering an astonishing family secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020