Moshfegh, Ottessa.
Summary: "A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time. Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: An electrifying first collection of short stories from the author of Eileen.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MoshfeghCarozzi, Nicolo
Summary: "A heroic little mouse leads three mischievous black cats on a wild and epic chase up and down and over and around and into the pantry as part of a plan to protect her best friend, a goldfish the cats have been frightening"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARNickle, John.
Summary: Lucas learns a lesson about bullying when he is pulled into the ant hole he has been tormenting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NICNickle, David.
Summary: When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend-- a poltergeist, that spoke to her with flying knives and howling winds. She called it the Insect. And with a little professional help, she contained it. And the nightmare was over, at least for a time. But the nightmare never truly ended. As Ann grew from girl into young woman, the Insect grew with her. It became more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Wallace, Nicolle.
Summary: Charlotte Kramer, the first female president, finds her marriage and the safety of the American people in peril after rumors of her husband's infidelity circulate and her national security advisor makes grave errors of judgment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALBernier, Nichole.
Summary: Inheriting her best friend's diaries after a tragic accident, Kate learns unknown aspects of her late friend's life, from her deeply troubled childhood to her feelings of powerlessness as a wife and parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERWallace, Nicolle
Summary: "Charlotte Kramer, the forty-fifth president of the United States, has done the unprecedented in allowing a network news team to document a day in her life--and that of her most senior staff. But while twenty news cameras are embedded with the president, the unthinkable happens: five major attacks are leveled on US soil. Her secretary of defense, Melanie, and her press secretary, Dale, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWallace, Nicolle.
Summary: Vice President Tara Meyers struggles to redeem herself after a botched interview by working on a high-profile terror investigation that is complicated by allegations about the White House's culpability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALNicol, James
Summary: Sent away in disgrace after failing her witch's assessment, Arianwyn learns that the remote community where she works as a magic apprentice is under the shadow of a dark hex infestation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NICSummary: In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD EILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDAmmaniti, Niccolò
Summary: Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out of town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, 11-year-old Pietro reaches crisis point when his parents ignore his pleas for support and his schoolteacher turns her back on him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMMNicholl, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 NICPickle, Lara
Summary: Joana es una joven bruja que consiguió el trabajo de sus sueños en un aquelarre en Londres, su ciudad favorita, donde podrá dedicarse a crear pociones, ¡su actividad favorita! Sin embargo, pronto descubrirá que la realidad de la vida en la ciudad no es tan idílica. Encontrar piso es una dura prueba, el "trabajo de sus sueños" es estresante y está totalmente sola. Poco a poco se va haciendo un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PICFerraro, Nicolás
Summary: "Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he leaves a laundry list of unfinished cartel business. Seba, Tomas's revered older brother, has no choice but to abandon his straight life and take over his father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERHannah-Jones, Nikole
Summary: Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANObregón, Nicolás
Summary: "After a brutal investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. But, although he's determined to leave his past behind, murder still follows him. Having set up shop as a private investigator, Iwata is approached by someone from his old life. Her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OBRKrauss, Nicole.
Summary: Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2005