Lester, Alison Jean.
Summary: "A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESOffill, Jenny
Summary: "Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFFOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters theminds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2018Mailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIJewell, Lisa
Summary: On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEWHart, Brian (Brian Woodson)
Contents: Burning season -- Child -- Deep water -- Low states -- Reunion -- Road used to end here -- Clay eaters -- Sackcloth and ashes -- Open ground -- Drawn out -- Houses on the hill -- A dog that fetches rocks -- Land of no use -- Cold water, tall mountains -- Night -- In kind -- Last winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARWingate, Lisa.
Summary: After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINDay, Kate Hope
Summary: "In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities. Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of a beautiful co-worker in Ginny's own bed and begins to doubt the solidity of her marriage. Ginny's husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist, sees a vision that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAYDixon, Dianne.
Summary: Successful hotel manager Justin is devastated by the deaths of his estranged parents, who hid from him the existence of a child who shared his name and died at the age of three.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIXWingate, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINVincent, Norah.
Summary: Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. He begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINGoodman, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOODouglas, Claire
Summary: 1994. Sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Her mother, her sister Heather, and Heather's best friend Jess had to somehow carry on not knowing what happened. Twenty-five years later, tragedy strikes again when Heather walks into a stranger's house and allegedly kills two people in cold blood. Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUJewell, Lisa
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWKelly, Erin
Summary: "In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they'll share. But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KELLispector, Clarice.
Summary: Clarice Lispector died of cancer at the age of fifty-six on 9th December 1977. "The Hour of the Star" was published that same year and acclaimed by the critics as 'a regional allegory' of extraordinary awareness and insight. Lispector herself defined "The Hour of the Star" as a book 'made without words ... a mute photograph ... a silence ... a question'. The tale of Macabea can be read at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISErnaux, Annie
Summary: "Set in the mid-1970s, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne, who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERNde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She's hiding something from Kidd--but could they ever be together anyway?Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH DE LGerritsen, Tess
Summary: Ava Collette is punishing herself for an unspeakable tragedy. So she flees Boston and rents an old home named Brodie's Watch on a remote coastal peninsula of Maine, hoping to work on a cookbook inspired by New England cuisine. She immediately feels at peace in the isolated house, until she starts to hear strange noises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEROates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OATOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940smagazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATBlock, Brett Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBenítez, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2003