Creech, Sharon
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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Summary: Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song that has been passed through the generations of her family since 1759, and her only hope of remembering the song, and preserving her family legacy, lies with a mountain wisewoman who talks to both the living and the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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Summary: Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2012
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Summary: "A dark, fantastical, multi-generational tale about a family whose patriarch is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encountered in his youth. Eli Roebuck was nine years old when his mother walked off into the woods with "Mr. Krantz," a large, strange, hairy man who may or may not be a sasquatch. What Eli knows for certain is that his mother went willingly, leaving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt Paperbacks 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHISarton, May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1975
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Summary: Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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Summary: As an inspector for the Physical Education Department in the Delhi school system, Ram Karan supports his widowed daughter and eight-year-old granddaughter by collecting bribes for a small-time Congress Party boss. On the eve of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, one reckless act bares the lifetime of violence and sexual shame behind Ram's dingy public career and involves him in a farcical, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Summary: "For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bala 2018Owens, Sharon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chabon 2012Wharton, Edith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004
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Summary: When their quaint Victorian pub is threatened by plans for a shopping mall, Jack and Lily Beaumont, their employees, and their loyal patrons work to either save the pub or to make the most of the time that remains before it is torn down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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Summary: A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chabon 2016Chabon, Michael.
Summary: When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHACrouch, Katie.
Summary: Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her Southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced Southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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Summary: Sarah Walters knows she doesn't really fit in at the Cotillion Training School, that she'll never live up to the legacy of her mother and grandmother as a Camellia - the society for proper young Southern belles. As soon as she's out of school, Sarah and a group of friends forsake the South for the bright lights of New York City.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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Summary: In the spring of 1985, Hannah's father disappeared, and was presumed drowned. Now she has returned to Charleston, and encounters rivals and ghosts from her past, as she sets out to discover what really happened to her father so long ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROFrancis-Sharma, Lauren
Summary: "In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendaon quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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Summary: In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. But when a woman from Patrick's past drops in on them unexpectedly, everything changes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2020
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Summary: "Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered the night after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated. Or are they? They each stand to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated. Or are they? They each stand to inherit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021