Gyasi, Yaa
Summary: Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GYAKatzenbach, John
Summary: Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATAndrews, Donna.
Summary: Hosting a Spanish playwright during a graduate student's production of his play, Meg, eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins, is on the case when the department dean cancels the play and is promptly found murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDHazelwood, Ali
Summary: "When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAZShapiro, Barbara A.
Summary: When a suspicious accident occurs in a building of storage units, six characters dip in and out of each other's stories as they salvage their own lives, and seek the truth behind the accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SHABelcourt, Billy-Ray
Summary: "A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELGodfrey, Daniel
Summary: In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption. Nick Houghton doesn't know why he's been chosen to be the company's historical advisor. He's just excited to be there....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2016