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Summary: Scott Free, a student at the Goodness Academy on the planet Apokolips, wants to escape to Earth but falls in love with the head of the Female Furies--the one person tasked with ensuring he never escapes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOHCarey, Peter
Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC FORForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORMaxfield, Marcie
Summary: Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXGriffin, Anne
Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022Brown, Eleanor
Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016White, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIChouinard, M. M.
Summary: "When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire, Ltd. 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACAwad, Mona
Summary: "ALL'S WELL is about Miranda Fitch whose life is a waking nightmare after an accident ruins her acting career, and leaves her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers and alcohol. On the verge of losing her job as a college theater director, Miranda lives out her broken dreams through an upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AWACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWAConfino, Sara Goodman
Summary: When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it's Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CONDodd, Christina
Summary: Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory caused by a gunshot wound to the head. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DODElliott, Rachel
Summary: "Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded-up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ELLHay, Ashley
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of the "exquisitely written and deeply felt" (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwayman's Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred years. Imagine you looked up at just the right moment and saw something completely unexpected. What if it was something so marvelous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press/Atria 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHill, Nathan
Summary: "An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hill 2016Himes, Leigh
Summary: "In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road Not Taken. Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHLaBan, Elizabeth
Summary: When she finds out her husband cheated, Hannah Bent thinks her marriage is over. But she's seen friends divorce, and it's not pretty. Plus, she and Joel have kids and an otherwise-happy life, and she still loves him, although begrudgingly. Furious and feeling stuck, she suggests having her own affair to even the score. Joel, desperate for forgiveness, agrees. But does she really want to go...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LABRichman, Alyson
Summary: "In her second year teaching sixth grade English, Maggie Topper is chosen for a special assignment: to privately tutor a student with serious health issues that prevent him from attending class with other kids. Though she agrees to the assignment, her decision is clouded with painful memories from her own childhood. It isn't easy for her to make a connection with Yuri Krasny, the son of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICSteel, Danielle
Summary: "After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following her mother's advice, and forgoing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEStewart, Mariah
Summary: The first in an "all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only thought they knew. When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake--and two separate families who never knew the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteel, Danielle.
Summary: A high-powered CEO and mother of two, a mom who gave up a promising law career, and a struggling artist and mother with an absent husband are forced to reevaluate their sacrifices and beliefs when they confront the realities of power and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2014Steel, Danielle.
Summary: "Power Play takes readers into the boardrooms and playgrounds of top tier corporate America, exploring the costs of great power through the intersecting stories of three indelible women: a high-powered CEO, a long-time 'corporate wife,' and an aspiring artist struggling to raise a family with an absentee father. The lives of three women are linked in ways that none could have imagined. Fiona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014