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Walsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction WalshWhitaker, Chris
Summary: "There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he's still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. Duchess is a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KLUCoben, Harlan
Summary: The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COBHannah, Sophie
Summary: All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn't want to see her today, or ever again....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: "The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RICMcManus, Karen M.
Summary: "Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCMChild, Lee
Summary: "In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple ... and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Far beneath the surface of the earth, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. The entryways that lead to this sanctuary are often hidden, sometimes on forest floors, sometimes in private homes, sometimes in plain sight. But those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is searching for his door, though he does not...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MORAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ATWDoiron, Paul
Summary: In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron's bestselling series, a deadly attack on one of Maine's last wild wolves leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy. While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he, reluctantly, had to put behind bars for murder. Billy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: "Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Growing up, Keely and her best friend, Isabelle, were inseparable. Nothing could come between them, except, Keely's high school boyfriend, Tommy. Returning home would mean facing Isabelle's bitter betrayal and seeing for herself the family Tommy and Isabelle have created, the life that might have been Keely's. But when Keely's mother falls into a deep depression, Keely knows what she must do,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THAMorris, Heather
Summary: For fans of Schindler's List; The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz; and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; comes a heart breaking story of the very best of humanity in the very worst of circumstances. He tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on his heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MORAbbott, Jeff
Summary: "My mom would never leave me. This has been Mariah Dunning's motto. Her compass. Her belief. So when she glimpses her mother--who's been missing for the past year--on the other side of a crowded food court, Mariah's conviction becomes stronger than ever. Or is she losing her mind? An unlikely coincidence? When Beth Dunning disappeared without a trace, suspicion for her murder-despite the lack...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ABBButland, Stephanie
Summary: Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If someone looks carefully, they might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show anyone. Into her hiding place, the bookstore where she works, come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries. Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: As a big hockey match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks between the communities of Beartown and Hed pile up, leading to the death of a local resident. The people of both towns are forced to wonder if the game they love can ever return to something simple and honest.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACFleet, Rebecca
Summary: "A fantastic thriller--dead-on domestic noir, full of tension and surprises. I loved it." -Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight LineShe may not know exactly who is in her house. But she knows why they are there...A house swap becomes the eerie backdrop to a chilling look inside a broken marriage filled with tantalizing secrets.When Caroline and Francis receive an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FLEMcLain, Paula
Summary: "In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCLOndaatje, Michael
Summary: "It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel, are seemingly abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure they call The Moth. They suspect he may be a criminal and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ONDDuchovny, David
Summary: One woman's trippy, mystical journey down parallel tracks of time and love. On the way, Emer will battle natural and supernatural forces to find her true voice, power, and destiny. A fairy tale of love lost and regained, is also a love letter to the city that enchants us all: New York.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018