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Summary: "Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Evaristo 2019Hammett, Dashiell
Summary: In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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Summary: This first volume offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as “A Spinster’s Tale,” “What You Hear from ’Em?,” “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” and “Miss Leonora When Last Seen.” As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYUpdike, John.
Contents: Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- The fairy godfathers -- The egg race -- The parade -- The faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- The city -- Learn a trade -- The ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDDiaz, Cameron
Summary: After discovering the man she is dating is married, Carly Whitten, the man's wife Kate, and yet another woman he is seeing join forces to get their revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OTHCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTH RATED PG-13Jones, Sandie
Summary: Emily thinks Adam's perfect; the man she thought she'd never meet. But lurking in the shadows is a rival; a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever. The Other Woman is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONDahl, Michael
Summary: When Bradley takes a shortcut through the graveyard one evening, he encounters a mysterious girl who keeps jumping out from behind the gravestones; she is wearing clothes that resemble a doll that Bradley took from his sister and accidentally ruined, and now that doll with the melted face is back for revenge--and the reader will find five more equally chilling stories in this collection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DAHWolitzer, Hilma
Summary: "The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLGreen, Jane
Summary: As her upcoming marriage to Dan, a proper man from a close-knit family approaches, Ellie, an impulsive young woman with little or no family, finds herself coping with the intrusive attentions of Dan's mother, Linda, as she finds her own wedding plans turned upside down by Linda's interference and by her overpowering presence in Dan's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREJones, Sandie
Summary: He loves you. Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. But she loves you not. Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. And she'll stop at nothing. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JONMacallister, Greer
Summary: "Electrifying ... a rollicking nineteenth-century thrill ride."--Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun Inspired by the real story of investigator Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's rise during one of the nation's times of crisis, bringing to life a fiercely independent woman whose forgotten triumphs helped sway the fate of the country. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACMueenuddin, Daniyal.
Summary: Each compelling tale revolves around the life and legacy of K.K. Harouni, a wealthy landowner in feudal, corruption-fueled Lahore. In this cutthroat society, a servant girl can immediately gain prestige by seducing a powerful married man--and then lose it just as swiftly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MUECampbell, Bonnie Jo
Summary: An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMMueenuddin, Daniyal.
Summary: A volume of linked stories describing the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUEHadley, Tessa
Summary: "The award-winning author of The Past once again 'crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural' (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADBlædel, Sara
Summary: Four days later, Louise Rick still had no answers. The body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a local forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should have made the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. As the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, Louise risks involving the media by releasing a photo of the victim, hoping to find someone who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BLASummary: Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTH RATED PG-13Jones, Sandie
Summary: A blissful romance between Adam and Emily is challenged by Adam's manipulative mother, who resorts to dire measures to keep all other women out of her son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JONSilva, Daniel
Summary: In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason's name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin's most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West - a mole who stands on the doorstep of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SILSpindler, Erica
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife Erica Spindler comes The Other Girl, a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thoughtshe'd put behind her. Officer Miranda Rader of the Hammond PD in Louisiana is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SPISummary: The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2001
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Summary: "While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door. Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and violent affair she's had with her professor, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RAIDiamond, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIAGreen, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005