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McQuiston, Casey
Summary: Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she₂s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that₂s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal's perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCQMoore, 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: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOOJamison, Laura
Summary: "Five college friends have arrived at forty in very different circumstances, but with at least one thing in common: they are among the more privileged in society. Elizabeth and Sara are lawyers, Martha is a doctor, Carmen is a wealthy and well-educated homemaker, and Heather, the most successful, is a famous tech executive-and after more than two decades of friendship, they know one another...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JAMKlune, TJ
Summary: When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular tea shop, run by a man named Hugo. Hugo is the tea shop's owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KLUGaiman, Neil
Summary: " According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world'sonly completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GAIBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACNicholls, David
Summary: "From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love--and how just one summer can forever change a life"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NICLipman, Elinor
Summary: "Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high-school yearbook she inherits from her mother. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and she, in turn, went on to attend every reunion. Each year, she scribbled notes and observations after each one -- not always charitably -- and noted who overstepped...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPLapidos, Juliet
Summary: "Anna Brisker is a twenty-nine-year-old graduate student in English at Collegiate University who can't seem to finish her dissertation. Her project: an intellectual history of inspiration. And yet Anna feels utterly and truly uninspired. Rather than find the case study she needs to anchor her thesis, she spends her days eating Pop-Tarts and wandering the streets of New Harbor, Connecticut. Amid...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAPBackman, Fredrik
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 BACDuchovny, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DUCMoore, Christopher
Summary: San Francisco. Summer, 1947. An enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It's love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his move, an Air Force general named Remy arrives with some urgent business. A suspicious flying object has been spotted up the Pacific coast in Washington State near Mount Rainer, followed by a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MOODuchovny, 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; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DUCLee, Ashton.
Summary: Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Cherry Cola Book Club is the touching and sometimes hilarious story of a young, upbeat librarian who has been given an ultimatum to increase the library's circulation dramatically--or risk having to close its doors. Maura doesn't just start a book club; she gets involved in unique and unexpected ways with her library patrons. She entertains and advises...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LEEKeillor, Garrison.
Summary: On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KEIJackson, Joshilyn.
Summary: A novel that follows a young woman's search for the truth about who her mother really is.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACQuick, Matthew
Summary: Poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife's betrayal. During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC QUIWodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville)
Summary: Bingo has a big problem when it comes to love: He loves too much and too many. Leave it to lovable butler Jeeves to take matters into his own hands and cover all the bases, so to speak.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WODAusten, Jane
Summary: Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006