Henry, Patti Callahan

Summary: "In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated from their home to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HEN (Peninsula book club kit 8 paperbacks)

Miller, Ben

Summary: When she discovers a portal to a fairy tale world hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, she discovers these aren't the happy-ever-after tales she knows and loves, but are darker and more dangerous and the characters need her help in defeating an evil witch.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024

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Alvarez, Julia

Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALV

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Patchett, Ann

Summary: "In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Patchett

Pechaček, Jared

Summary: "A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." -Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEC

Torres, Justin

Summary: "Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOR