Chabon, Michael
Summary: "With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADolan, Naoise
Summary: "Meet Celine and Luke: for all intents and purposes, the happy couple. Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year. Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck. And Vivian (a wedding guest) is the only one with any emotional distance, and observes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOLRosenblatt, Roger
Summary: An aging poet contemplates the later chapters of his life while avoiding trips to the neurologist, spending time with his grandson, and falling for a blind woman less than half his age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: "Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIBoyd, Jeff
Summary: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYThayne, RaeAnne
Summary: "A soldier's return: Returning home to Cannon Beach and living in Brambleberry House, a place where good things seemed destined to happen, had brought Melissa Fielding and her young daughter such joy. Perhaps it was no accident when the single mom "bumped" into Eli Sanderson, and discovered the handsome doctor was also back in town. The ex-soldier was still so captivating, but also more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Enterprises Limited 2019
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Summary: "As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Gabby Langdon has always tried to make people happy. She even went to law school to please her father, and now she's a highly successful-albeit bored-attorney. But Gabby secretly dreams of being a writer, so for once she does something for herself--she signs up for a writing class taught by best-selling novelist Caden Marshall. There's only one problem: her brooding, sexy professor is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIAHarrison, Jim
Summary: Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HarrisonPickett, Rex.
Summary: As best friends Miles and Jack leave Los Angeles for Santa Ynez wine country in preparation for Jack's impending nuptials, they embark on a raucous, weeklong road trip that allows the two to contemplate their life choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2004
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Summary: "Aldo Moretta has always been the hero. The strongest, the fastest, the bravest. He fought for his country and built a thriving business in his hometown. With friends and family never more than a few blocks away, there was just one things he was missing. The right girl. She'd fallen for the wrong guy. The bad guy. But now that she's finally free, Also isn't going to miss his second chance. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books 2023
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Summary: Nearing forty, Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running an art gallery in Paris, and her dog, Lulu, but so far love has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher, at the same time she reconnects with an old boyfriend from college. But when she gets threatening calls and her apartment is broken into, it's clear she is in danger. But from whom--the old love, the new love, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC STEFerguson, Lana
Summary: "A hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author of The Nanny. When a very public breakup becomes a PR nightmare for Ian Chase's team, he hopes to focus on his game, but that suddenly seem less likely than a hat trick. With his career and the team's image in jeopardy, Ian is surprised to find a solution through none...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: Even as he plots revenge on his wife for abandoning him for another man Thomas Chippering, a professor of linguistics cannot free himself of his obsession with women. He makes a pass at a student who blackmails him into giving her good marks. A look at a womanizer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRLowe, T. I. (Tonya)
Summary: "When a damaged young woman is given a chance to reclaim her life in a small South Carolina town, she must reckon with the dark secrets she left behind in order to accept the love she deserves. On the run from a violent past, Leah Allen arrived in tiny Rivertown, South Carolina, battered and broken, but ready to reinvent herself. By a stroke of fate, Leah is drawn to the Southern hospitality of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Summary: "Retired university professor James Hillyer barely exists after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. He locates the woman he fell in love with many years ago on a summer trip to Quebec, but Odette's present existence is haunted by ghosts from her own past. The collision of past and present alters their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYODickens, Charles
Summary: The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery. Dickens supplied two endings to his great novel, both are recorded leaving the listener to judge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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Summary: As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBegley, Louis
Summary: "Struggling to recover from Carrie the waitress's rejection and his daughter's marriage to a Jewish man, lawyer Albert Schmidt hopes for renewal when both Carrie and his daughter become pregnant and when he falls for the beautiful French widow of a former partner"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEGProctor, Jenny
Summary: "Perry Hawthorne is my boss. Only my boss. And I do NOT have a crush. When one of THE Hawthorne brothers -- known by their chiseled jawlines and their family-run farm and event center -- hires me to be his virtual assistant, I do everything I can to keep him firmly in the work zone. His grumpy demeanor helps. His smoking hot profile picture does not. But even if I do have a crush (a very tiny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: He has all kinds of everyday joy in his life - he's young, he's in love, he has friends who promise to stand by him if life ever goes wrong. Then one day, life does go wrong. He makes a mistake, and it's big and unforgiveable. Now time is running out, and his life is falling apart. But he's going to put it back together again. His own way. This is a story about how far love must stretch to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2016
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Feehan, Christine
Summary: The moment Meiling sees Gedeon, she knows he's a leopard shifter, just as she knows she can't trust him. Gedeon is used to women throwing themselves at him, not throwing his injured body over their beautiful, deceptively strong shoulders and carrying him to safety. As they strike up a working relationship that suits them both, Gedeon starts to rely on Meiling for just about everything. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Leopard shifter Sevastyan Amurov has an anger inside of him that burns so hot it's almost impossible to control. His barely leashed rage threatens to break free, until he meets a woman who soothes his restless soul. But his would-be mate comes with strings attached - a relentless stalker who intends to claim her for his own. They barely know each other, but with a very real threat looming just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2020