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Summary: Scott Free, a student at the Goodness Academy on the planet Apokolips, wants to escape to Earth but falls in love with the head of the Female Furies--the one person tasked with ensuring he never escapes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 JOHCarey, Peter
Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC FORForman, Gayle
Summary: "Aaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family's secondhand bookstore, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It's a predicament he understands all too well, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FORGriffin, Anne
Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022Chouinard, M. M.
Summary: "When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire, Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOMaxfield, Marcie
Summary: Not your typical story about an American abroad. Instead, Marcie Maxfield pulls back the curtain on the globe-trotting world of an expat wife to explore issues of marriage and compromise. Moving backward and forward--both in time and between cities and countries--Em's Awful Good Fortune is woven together thematically by bits and pieces of Em's life: love, loss and betrayal, sexual assault and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXSteel, Danielle.
Summary: A high-powered CEO and mother of two, a mom who gave up a promising law career, and a struggling artist and mother with an absent husband are forced to reevaluate their sacrifices and beliefs when they confront the realities of power and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2014Brown, Eleanor
Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016White, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIBrowne, Mahogany L.
Summary: "A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROSteel, Danielle.
Summary: "Power Play takes readers into the boardrooms and playgrounds of top tier corporate America, exploring the costs of great power through the intersecting stories of three indelible women: a high-powered CEO, a long-time 'corporate wife,' and an aspiring artist struggling to raise a family with an absentee father. The lives of three women are linked in ways that none could have imagined. Fiona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACForman, Gayle
Summary: Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But, as is so often the case, once she gets to where she's going, she sees her life from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Forman 2016Forna, Aminatta
Summary: A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORStrick, Alexandra
Summary: "You can . . . be brave, challenge yourself, overcome your fears, be kind, be YOU! Come on an amazing journey with fourteen young people as they grow from birth to eighteen, learning new skills, exploring new worlds, standing up for their own and others' rights, and following their dreams. Created in consultation with real young adults, Alexandra Strick's groundbreaking narrative will inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: "For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACAwad, Mona
Summary: "ALL'S WELL is about Miranda Fitch whose life is a waking nightmare after an accident ruins her acting career, and leaves her with chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers and alcohol. On the verge of losing her job as a college theater director, Miranda lives out her broken dreams through an upcoming production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWAConfino, Sara Goodman
Summary: When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it's Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Summary: Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory caused by a gunshot wound to the head. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DODElliott, Rachel
Summary: "Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded-up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ELLHay, Ashley
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of the "exquisitely written and deeply felt" (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwayman's Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred years. Imagine you looked up at just the right moment and saw something completely unexpected. What if it was something so marvelous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press/Atria 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHill, Nathan
Summary: "An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016