Wells, Benedict
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live. At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELEnger, Leif
Summary: "Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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Summary: In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMWright, Jaime Jo
Summary: Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wright 2019Erdrich, Louise
Summary: "In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Elise is out dancing the night before her graduation from college, hundreds of miles from home, when her younger sister Sophie calls to tell her that their mother has gone missing. They soon discover that she was arrested on her way home from work and deported to São Paulo, Brazil. Elise decides to return to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly three years to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURWalker, Martin
Summary: "A sumptuous French cookbook that immerses readers in the delectable countryside cuisine of the Périgord region, by the author of the beloved Bruno series and his wife, Julia Watson. Bruno Courrèges, the protagonist of Martin Walker's internationally acclaimed mystery series, is not only the local police chief of the idyllic French village of St. Denis. Bruno also happens to be an impassioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 WALSummary: First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledged successor to Black Mask, which had ceased publication the year before, as the venue for high-quality crime fiction. By April of 1956 it was being billed as the World s Best-Selling Crime-Fiction Magazine. On its pages, over its 14-year run, appeared a veritable Who s Who of the world s greatest mystery writers including:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stark House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rust Belt Chic Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DETSummary: "A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: Publisher Annotation: Bram Stoker's original novel about the world-renowned vampire, Dracula, is adapted into a beautiful graphic novel by the renowned artist Georges Bess. This volume includes an epilogue adapting Stoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" (believed to be the original novel's first draft chapter before later revived for publication two years after the author's passing).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnetic Press
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 741.5 BESPetry, Ann
Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETReyes, Dolores
Summary: Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020
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Summary: Helping her beloved grandfather John, who suffers from dementia, break out of his nursing home, 6-year-old Gracie Lynn joins him on a quest to chase the sun while her estranged parents frantically try to locate them before something bad happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCRSummary: "A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century through the Depression era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 TREKerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN KERSummary: Roland can't wait for Christmas Day, and when the morning finally arrives he races downstairs to see what is waiting for him. What he sees stops him in his tracks. Could that tiny present really be what he had waited all year for?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2014
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Summary: Annabelle Granger has always made good decisions. That’s why she quit oil painting in college to become a robotics engineer. That’s why she married Dr. Paul Granger, management consultant, her supportive modern mate. Together with their five-year-old son, Heath, they are living the suburban dream. But Annabelle fears her sensible life lacks originality. Will she ever make her mark?Following a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etheridge Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: Exploring such themes as land, language, and identity, Momaday recalls the moving stories of his Kiowa grandfather and Kiowa ancestors, recollects a boyhood spent partly at Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, and ponders the circumstances of history and Indian-White relations as we inherit them today. Collecting thirty-two essays and articles, The Man Made of Words attempts to fashion a definition of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMShearer, Wendy
Summary: "This spook-tactular collection features more than 20 fright-filled stories from around the globe. Retold with ghoulish relish by professional storyteller Wendy Shearer and beautifully illustrated by Teo Georgiev, these hair-raising tales are sure to send shivers down your spine."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 MYESummary: "The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation that detail their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a successful kickstarter campaign, this expanded edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, Coco Ouwerkerk, and many others....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 306.76 OUTDorrance
Summary: "For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a poignant, stirring graphic memoir—both heartbreaking and darkly funny—that perfectly captures the grief, nostalgia, and chaos of traveling home to care for an elderly parent in crisis" -
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2024
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Summary: After leaving Villagetown in search of an aeon forge, Runt and Breeze weren't expecting to cross paths with their old classmates who have also been sent by the mayor to undertake mysterious quests. The Eyeless One seems to be gathering his troops to go on the attack. For Runt and his friends, it's time to strike back and prove that these villagers have truly become warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2019