Goodwin, Sarah
Summary: When eight people arrive on the beautiful but remote Buidseach Island, they are ready for the challenge of a lifetime: to live alone for one year. Eighteen months later, a woman is found in an isolated fishing village. She's desperate to explain what happened to her: how the group fractured and friends became enemies. How they did what they must to survive until the boat came to collect them....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GoodwinErdrich, Louise.
Summary: While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwa artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDKiesbye, Stefan.
Summary: A village on the Devil's Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age--in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEWalters, Minette.
Summary: When local gossips brand him a killer despite his wife's death by natural causes, wealthy British colonel James Lockyer-Fox draws the concern of his attorney, who discovers that his reclusive client is also being accused of far worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALErdrich, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERDErdrich, Louise.
Summary: When Faye Travers appraises the estate of a family who descended from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family, she finds a rare drum. The story traces the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, from the reservation on the northern plains to New Hampshire and back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ERDWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WATCarr, J. L. (Joseph Lloyd)
Summary: "Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's extraordinary depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERDNair, Kamala.
Summary: When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: "Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town--and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay--or does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WATVijay, Madhuri
Summary: "Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIJSeskis, Tina
Summary: "Hope Close: a leafy, tranquil backwater in the heart of the English countryside. But when Andy Meyer moves in, it soon becomes clear that picture-perfect homes can hide less-than-perfect lives. Fresh from rehab and with no interest in meeting his neighbours, Andy erects forbidding gates to keep the ghosts of his past - and any prying eyes - at bay. Next door, in the grandest house, Layla is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020