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Santiago, Esmeralda

Summary: "A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SAN

Posteguillo, Santiago

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The runaway international bestseller - part sweeping historical epic, part legal thriller - following the trial that shaped the life of the young Julius Caesar and gave root to an immortal legacy. Every legend has a beginning. Rome, 77 B.C. Senator Dolabella, known for using violence against anyone who opposes him, is going on trial for corruption and has already hired the best lawyers and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024

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Santiago, Esmeralda

Summary: "A powerful novel of family, race, faith, and culture that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them. They refer to themselves as "las madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters (las nenas), have created a family based as much on friendship as on blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Florence, Debbi Michiko

Summary: When Jasmine and family visit Kabo, the Japanese village where her grandmother grew up, she is homesick and angry with her older sister for not playing with her, but when they start to compromise, they discover ways to bridge their differences. Includes author's note and instructions on how to make a folding fan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE FLO

Berg, Elizabeth

Summary: When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. Instead of sharing recipes, they begin sharing secrets. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them needs. Iris hasn't yet told anyone about the unlikely man who has captured her attention, and Maddy has come back...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019

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Berg, Elizabeth

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Summary: "This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Crook, Elizabeth

Summary: "Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CRO

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: W CRO

George, Elizabeth

Summary: "When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEO

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEO

Wein, Elizabeth

Summary: Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEI

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEI

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEI

Breck, Elizabeth

Summary: San Diego PI Madison Kelly arrives home to a note stabbed to her front door: "Stop investigating me, or I will hunt you down and kill you." The only problem? Madison hasn't been investigating anyone. The only way to remove the threat is to do exactly what "Anonymous", the note writer, is telling her not to do: investigate to see who left it. Madison has been tweeting about a true crime podcast...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRE

Strout, Elizabeth

Summary: As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STR

Bear, Elizabeth

Summary: "Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she's never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee. But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Berg, Elizabeth

Summary: A novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life. Lucille is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur, she has begun to teach baking classes. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. In these difficult times, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BER

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BER

Brooks, Elizabeth

Summary: "1945: War widow Peggy is grateful to have inherited Orchard House from her husband's Aunt Maude; she looks forward to making a fresh start in rural Cambridgeshire with her young son. The moment she sets eyes on the rambling property, however, doubt sets in. From the bricked up cellar to the scent of violets and rotting fruit, the place seems shrouded in dark mysteries. When Peggy discovers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022

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Kilcoyne, Elizabeth

Summary: After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIL

Lim, Elizabeth

Summary: Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent’s face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna—the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn’t see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LIM

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIM

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIM

McKenzie, Elizabeth

Summary: "From the National Book Award longlisted author of The Portable Veblen. Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCK

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McKenzie

Strout, Elizabeth

2 holds on 7 copies

Summary: "With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Strout

Strout, Elizabeth

Summary: Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret, one of those secrets that rearrange...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC STR

Weiner, Jennifer

Summary: Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body, at least, most of the time, and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: "Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: allí permite que sus manos le digan qué cocinar, sigue su intuición y agrega una pequeña pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ACE

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: "Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ACE

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACE

Castellano, Elizabeth

Summary: "When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. Who said anything about being happy? They live in Kansas, for goodness sake! But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town that has always looked lovely in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS

Hand, Elizabeth

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

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