Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Adichie 2013Fforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFODybek, Nick
Summary: "A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart. In 1921, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYBJackson, Shirley
Summary: Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACPowers, Richard
Summary: An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back to life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWWright, Jaime Jo
Summary: Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wright 2019Lansens, Lori
Summary: "A ... survival story about four strangers who spend five days lost in the mountain wilderness above Palm Springs. Four go up the mountain, but only three will come down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LANMiller, Derek B.
Summary: "A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid--the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night--from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother ... Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård could be basking in the success of her recent mission to save an innocent child who'd gone missing in Oslo, but instead she is reeling from the deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2018Mandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MANRothschild, Hannah
Summary: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTMcLain, Paula
Summary: After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEJameson, Hanna
Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMSteel, Danielle
Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEHan, Kang
Summary: A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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Summary: A minor traffic accident becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster, a 60-year-old human rights scholar, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLBurke, James Lee
Summary: The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Burke 2019Burke, James Lee
Summary: While investigating a homicide, Dave Robicheaux, who is struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the loss of his wife, suspects he may have been the killer and endeavors to clear his name and make sense of the killing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDLevine, Jessica
Summary: "When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSimon, Christine
Summary: Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town's pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism, and revenue, he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SIMSteel, Danielle
Summary: Now on her own, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip from San Francisco to Monaco. But a chance encounter reconnects her with a thrill-seeking man she's tried to forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2021Vlautin, Willy
Summary: Determined to prove his worth, a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who was abandoned by his parents leaves his aging guardians to become a champion boxer before matches organized in Mexico and Las Vegas lead to his realization that he cannot change his identity or outrun his destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VLAFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017