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Boyd, Hilary. Gilbert, Kelly Loy Harrigan, Stephen Lloyd, Toby Lloyd-Barlow, ViktoriaHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: "The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: Landing a commission by taciturn rancher Lamar Clayton to create a memorial statue of a son killed in World War I, proud artistic exile Francis "Gil" Gilheany and his daughter realize that Lamar is guarding a secret that parallels a lie Gil fears may cost him his daughter's love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLloyd, Toby
Summary: A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024
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Summary: "Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: Jeanie is on the brink of turning sixty. When her husband George retreats from his conjugal duties, she is deeply hurt and very confused: Has she done something wrong? Is he in love with someone else? Her pained bewilderment turns to anger as he remains unable, or unwilling, to provide answers. The bright spot of Jeanie's week is Thursday, the day she takes her granddaughter to the park. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYGilbert, Kelly Loy
Summary: Growing up on a reality show, image is everything to Honor Lo, but when her family comes under public scrutiny and secrets are revealed, Honor questions everything she thought she wanted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023