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Conflict of generations Fiction Conflit de générations Romans, nouvelles, etc Conflits conjugaux Romans, nouvelles, etc Couples mariés Romans, nouvelles, etc Indians of North America Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Marital conflict Fiction Married people Fiction Secrecy FictionShriver, Lionel
Summary: "In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRAnna, Holly
Summary: "In this fourth adventure, Daisy and Posey help a pretty pixie named Twee get to the bottom of a not-so-pretty problem"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ANNParis, B. A.
Summary: Iris and Gabriel seem to have it all: a beautiful country home, a daughter taking a gap year in Greece, and their good friends from Paris, Laure and Pierre, always up for a holiday weekend away. But when a young man has a tragic accident in a nearby quarry, Gabriel is the one to find him and hear his final words, leaving Gabriel with a guilty burden. As Iris tries to help ease her husband's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARMajor, Cesca
Summary: Harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won't go near her. Even the dog seems sad. She is too busy, buried in her phone all day with clients and WhatsApp groups. When she rushes back home for dinner, Dan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAJCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MajorParis, B. A.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARGrunwald, Lisa
Summary: "Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday, but a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris's clothes, even rearranging the furniture. Laure has walked out on her husband--and their good friend--Pierre, over his confession of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau's daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles, and his grandson, a senior in high school, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel as he finishes out the school year. Meanwhile, a friend from his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JANHallett, Janice
Summary: "Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling author Janice Hallett"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGatwood, Olivia
Summary: "In Santa Cruz, every house is as flawless as the people inside. Not so for Mitty and her elderly roommate Bethel. For ten years, Mitty has found refuge in their quiet existence after a traumatic relationship that marked her adolescence. Now, they're the oddball pair in the dilapidated bungalow -- the last vestiges of a town taken over by the tech elite. And when a new couple moves in next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GATHuang, Ana
Summary: "Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything-a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he's never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough. It isn't until she's gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books 2023
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Summary: "A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAFManguso, Sarah
Summary: "A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including--a few years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKilroy, Claire
Summary: "In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes readers deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, Kilroy vividly explores the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as the narrator, Soldier's, marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy and creativity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "A novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOCOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORAFuentes, Marcela
Summary: "In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father's moods, his rules, her secret life as singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FUERapp, Adam
Summary: "As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024