Hetherington, Nydia
Summary: "Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETPink, Daniel H.
Summary: Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human, Daniel H. Pink writes in this provocative and eye-opening new book. Done right, it needn't bring us down; it can lift us up. Drawing from new research in social psychology, neuroscience, biology, and more, as well as from more than ten thousand people in thirty-five countries around the world who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 152.4 PINDunn, Katherine
Summary: "Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNGlancy, Robert
Summary: Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories - of those around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print**. In the wake of the accident Frank begins to piece together his former life - and his former self....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLARoth, Philip.
Summary: The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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Summary: On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOOIngall, Marjorie
Summary: "It's a truth universally acknowledged that terrible apologies are the worst. We've all been on the receiving end, and oh, how they make us seethe. Horrible public apologies-excuse-laden, victim blame-y, weaselly statements-often go viral instantaneously, whether they're from a celebrity, a politician, or a blogger. We all recognize bad apologies when we hear them. So why is it so hard to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2024
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Summary: In this life-changing book, you'll learn ten pathways of success that will help you redirect your mistakes and make way for success physically, personally, and spiritually.Everyone makes mistakes, big and small. Sometimes our mistakes take us down the wrong path and send us spiralling into destructive life patterns, and sometimes we learn a lesson and never make the same mistake again. But how?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the twentieth century is linked to a woman considering leaving her loveless marriage in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOOJennings, Karen
Summary: "Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENAger, Milton
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Ager, Yellen & Bornstein Inc. 1925
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMFaulks, Sebastian.
Summary: Five interconnected stories trace the experiences of soldiers whose relationships are shaped by war, from a World War II prisoner who endures his incarceration by imagining a cricket match to a man in a Victorian poorhouse who shamefully remembers the son he gave away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western McMurtry 2009Lambert, Megan Dowd
Summary: "April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). One day angry words are exchanged and they must find a way to apologize and save their friendship."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCMPink, Daniel H.
Summary: "From Daniel H. Pink, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion, regret. "Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human," Daniel H. Pink writes in his provocative and eye-opening new book. "Done right, it needn't bring us down; it can lift us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 PINTaylor, Charlotte
Summary: Si le has hecho mal a alguien, aunque no haya sido intencional, es importante pedir disculpas. Esto no siempre es fácil, especialmente para los niños. Esta obra presenta al joven lector varias situaciones en las que los protagonistas se dan cuenta que tienen que disculparse. Cada historia de la vida real demuestra al lector la importancia de saber cuándo hay que decir "Lo siento."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 158.2 TAYChaffey, Will.
Contents: Thirst -- Departures and arrivals -- Mitchell Plateau -- Millaa Millaa -- Wild Bill -- Perry Farm and Middlebrook Road -- By the road -- The academy -- Frank and Earl -- Tanami -- Getting out of Alice -- Alice to Melbourne -- Melbourne -- Back to Millaa -- Swahili spoken here -- West -- Flood : the flight from Wyndham -- First steps -- Landmarks -- The river -- The cave in the cliff -- Oralee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.41 CHATeague, Mark
Summary: A talkative cattle egret explains to a rhinoceros that in addition to having a symbiotic relationship, they also have a friendship built on communication, kindness, and a respect for boundaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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Contents: Control -- Thing -- GC -- Pain & regret -- Savage --Vesna -- Eely -- Plans -- AG.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AUWilson, Steven
Contents: First regret -- 3 years older -- Hand cannot erase -- Perfect life -- Routine -- Home invasion -- Regret #9 -- Transience -- Ancestral -- Happy returns -- Ascendant here on...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One U.S.Lp 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILApple, Fiona.
Contents: Every single night -- Daredevil -- Valentine -- Jonathan -- Left alone -- Werewolf -- Periphery -- Regret -- Anything we want -- Hot knife.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Clean Slate/Epic 2012