Mills, Magnus
Summary: A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In is Magnus Mills's most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar and disturbingly close to home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSummary: Allison McRoberts' life feels like a sitcom when her self-centered husband, Kevin, is around -- he never considers the consequences of his actions and most of the people in his life let him be the center of their universe. When Allison learns that the better future she envisioned is impossible, she makes a plan to take back control of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KEVByers, Sam
Summary: Katherine, Daniel, and Nathan evaluate their feelings about each other in a shared world marked by such eccentricities as a mysterious cattle epidemic, an unwanted pregnancy, and a bio-domed workplace housing a perfectly engineered cornfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYETheroux, Paul
Summary: To escape his domineering brother Frank, Cal pursues life in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold. But to Frank, cash is king, and he seeks to influence Cal's growing wealth, and, ultimately, betray him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC THEBarry, Dave
Summary: Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems, if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BARCardinal, Ann Dávila
Summary: "Fans of Undead Girl Gang and The Babysitters Coven will love Breakup from Hell, a witty YA rom-com with a supernatural twist, starring horror novel obsessed Mica Angeles, who discovers the guy she fell for comes straight out of one of her beloved books. Miguela Angeles is tired. Tired of her abuela keeping secrets, especially about her heritage. Tired of her small Vermont town and hanging out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CARGilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2008
Ma-Kellams, Christine
Summary: "The biting literary satire of The Sellout meets the pulsing thrill of Mouth to Mouth in this darkly humorous, surreal debut about a seductive, but problematic bond between an unhappily married therapist and the cancelled K-Pop idol she meets at a Los Angeles H Mart"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEThorogood, Robert
Summary: Living alone in a faded mansion in Marlow, seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is blissfully happy. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. When the local police don't believe her story, Judith and two unlikely friends decide to investigate for themselves. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. But soon another body turns up, and it seems that a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC THOKultgen, Chad
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KULOsworth, A. E.
Summary: "Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public. But is Eliza Bright a brilliant, self-taught coder bravely calling out the toxic masculinity and chauvinism that pervades her workplace and industry? Or, is Eliza Bright a woman who needs to be destroyed to protect "the sanctity of gaming culture"? It depends on who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSWStone, Robert
Summary: The stories in this collection share the signature blend of longing, violence, and black humor with which Robert Stone illuminates the dark corners of the human soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017