Palahniuk, Chuck
Summary: As the politicians bring the nation to the brink of war, a mysterious book appears offering directives and carrying wisdom to prepare people for Adjustment Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALArmstrong, Jesse
Summary: A young man, Andrew, follows his romantic interest, a wealthy young socialite named Penny, across Bosnia in a van, performing an unfinished peace play that they hope will stop the bombings in Sarajevo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMSloan, Maya
Summary: "Based on the wildly popular blog "Rich Kids of Instagram," a dishy and hilarious novel about the intersecting lives of the world's most extravagant, unapologetically uber-rich teenagers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOFfitch, Madeline
Summary: "This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFIMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology pride themselves on their unwavering commitment to intellectual excellence. They know it is their job to protect a certain civilized approach to the scholarly arts. So when a new deputy librarian, Dr. Hilda Schreiber-Ziegler, threatens to drag them all down a path of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCDuchovny, David
Summary: "Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture ... [and] Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God--and what the Box God reveals about something called an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUCGrillo, Christine
Summary: The year is 2023, and things are bad -- bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they're leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it's Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRINoxon, Christopher
Summary: "Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOXMoore, Christopher
Summary: "San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MooreAbramowitz, Andy
Summary: "Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this ... coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder '90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRKenney, John
Summary: Struggling with encroaching middle age and a broken engagement, advertising agent Finbar Dolan is forced to cancel his Christmas plans to tackle a last-minute work assignment only to learn that his estranged and abusive father has taken ill and that his siblings are unwilling to help, a situation that forces Fin to re-evaluate his choices.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KENBuckley, Christopher
Summary: During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCDuchovny, David
Summary: "Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016