Brown, Janelle
Summary: "Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously, but when she meets Jonathan, a tech magazine editor and all around good guy, she settles easily into the life of an eco-conscious, stay-at-home suburban yoga mom. Their daughter Olive, under her mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BROEllis, Bret Easton.
Summary: Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze and drugs, the narrator gets a new chance at life, but his new life unravels after a series of grotesque murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLTorné de la Guardia, Gonzalo
Summary: "The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which henow sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORMackintosh, Sophie
Summary: "From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of obsession that centers on the real unsolved mystery of the 1951 mass poisoning of a French village. Still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit lost its mind. Some historians believe the mysterious illness and violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACTownshend, Pete
Summary: A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his wife disappears, nowhere to be found. A beautiful Irish girl, who has stabbed her father to death is determined to seduce her best friend's husband....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWKowal, Mary Robinette
Summary: Newlyweds Jane and David Vincent travel to Belgium for their honeymoon, where Jane uses the glamour at her disposal when the trip is disrupted by Napoleon's escape and her husband's capture for his spy activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOWStine, R. L.
Summary: Ever since a car accident killed her father and gave her a severe concussion, high school junior Lisa has been plagued by nightmares and hallucinations, but when she accepts a babysitting job in hopes it will banish the disturbing images, she faces new terror as she begins to question exactly who--or what--she is babysitting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin 2015