Fredericks, Mariah
Summary: Through her exquisite prose, sharp observation and deft plotting, Mariah Fredericks invites us into the heart of a changing New York in her remarkable debut adult novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREJohnson, Maureen
Summary: "Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHSchott, Ben
Summary: As a member of the Junior Ganymede Club--an association of butlers and valets that is in reality an arm of the British intelligence service--Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy, with the help of his hapless employer, Bertie Wooster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSandford, John
Summary: 'We're going to murder people who need to be murdered.' So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as 'The Five,' shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored, and very rich. They target the worst of society, rapists, murderers, and thieves, and then use their unlimited resources to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth to solve the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWFowler, Earlene.
Summary: When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for a killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" newhusband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCapote, Truman
Summary: "Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite. Though Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPKoller Croft, Rachel
Summary: "A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families. Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she's worth and is determined to get all she deserves-it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. After a lifetime of forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOLChua, Amy
Summary: "Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUBelfoure, Charles
Summary: When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth-century New York, John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELChilds, Laura.
Summary: While riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Lowcountry, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis, Abby Davis, dead. What's more, the victim's brother is Theodosia's old flame. Who'd have guessed they'd be reunited through cold-blooded murder?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkeley Pub. Group 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIKaplan, Janice.
Summary: After her husband of 21 years leaves her for a woman half her age, Hallie goes looking for her former boyfriends. Rekindling old relationships Hallie discovers who she is and what she wants out of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAPSundell, Joanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SUNFredericks, Mariah
Summary: "In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady's maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. It's the summer of 1914 and Jane Prescott-lady's maid to Louise Tyler, daughter of a wealthy New York society family-has just arrived home from Independence Day celebrations to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREVassell, Charlotte
Summary: "A fabulous whodunit about two cold cases in which things go missing: a fourteen-year-old girl and a multi-million-dollar pension fund. Early one morning, a men's rowing team discovers a body floating face down in the Thames. Many years before, the chief executive of a clothing manufacturer walked off with a multi-million dollar corporate retirement fund and disappeared without a trace. Now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well as the disappearance of a street urchin's sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSandford, John
Summary: "Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford"-- "We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SANFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC FITO'Hara, John
Summary: Presents the 1949 novel about Grace Caldwell, a Pennsylvania heiress who is raped when she is fourteen by a friend of her brother's and whose eventual marriage still does not save her from scandal in her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'HAMaxwell, Alyssa
Summary: Responding to a frantic call from her cousin, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Emma Cross arrives at the Marble House mansion and learns Consuelo's mother, Alva, is forcing her into marriage with the Duke of Marlborough. Her mother has even called in a fortune teller to assure Consuelo of a happy future. But the future is short-lived for the fortune teller, who is found dead by her crystal ball, strangled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MAXSandford, John
Summary: "Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford"-- "We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SANEccles, Marjorie.
Summary: A woman in London, still suffering from the effects of an accident twelve years earlier that had robbed her of her memory, has a baffling connection to a corpse discovered on the grounds of a Shropshire estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECCBacigalupi, Paolo
Summary: "In Navola, a bustling city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, business is power, and power is everything. For generations, the di Regulai family-merchant bankers with a vast empire-has nurtured tendrils that stretch to the farthest reaches of the known world. And though they claim not to be political, their staggering wealth has bought cities and toppled kingdoms. Soon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACSteel, Danielle.
Summary: Two girls and three boys, all with strikingly different looks and talents, meet at the Atwood school as young children. Together, they become an inseparable group, known to outsiders as 'The Big Five,' and lean on one another through all the bumps and bends of childhood and adolescence. But when the tight-knit group graduates and scatters to different colleges, their lives diverge dramatically,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012