Groff, Lauren.
Summary: Returning in disgrace to her mother's home after an affair with her professor, temperamental Willie arrives at the same time the remains of a prehistoric creature are discovered in the town's lake, a finding that leads to painful revelations about Willie's family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROGroff, Lauren
Summary: "Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROGroff, Lauren
Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GROGroff, Lauren.
Summary: "In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the monster's death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Even...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audiobooks 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GROGroff, Lauren.
Summary: The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Groff 2012Groff, Lauren.
Summary: Groff follows up The Monsters of Templeton with this innovative and beautifully written collection that covers a wide swath of humanity, from east coast resort towns, to the early 20th century flu epidemic, to WWII Europe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Groff, Lauren
Summary: A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Groff, Lauren
Summary: A collection of short stories capturing the lives and interactions of a wide spectrum of characters across the landscape of Florida.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GroffGroff, Lauren
Summary: "A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GroffGroff, Lauren.
Summary: "From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROSummary: A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: "This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESHale, Nancy
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHale, Nancy
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019