Abdoh, Salar
Summary: "Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and, for some, a passing weekend affair. After weeks spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDSagan, Françoise
Summary: Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old CÃcile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her fatherâa handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eyeâfor a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. CÃcile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2009
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SAG FRENCHSatran, Pamela Redmond
Summary: "Alice is trying to return to her career in publishing after raising her only child. But the workplace is less than welcoming to a fortysomething mom whose resume is covered with fifteen years of dust. If Alice were younger, she knows, she'd get hired in a New York minute. So if age is just a number, why not become younger? Or at least fake it. With help from her artist friend, Maggie, Alice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATFoster, Sara
Summary: Tom Carruso left home soon after Lizzie Burdett disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance, intent on telling his side of the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FOSGruen, Sara
Summary: While her husband, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into his father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUMesa, Sara
Summary: "Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's 'program' is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the 'special', scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESBernstein, Sarah
Summary: "A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings--more than she cares to remember --from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. Soon after she arrives, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Canada 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction BernsteinGruen, Sara.
Summary: While her brother, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into her father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Gruen 2015Banner, A. J.
Summary: Elise Watters seems to have it all--a blissful marriage, a gorgeous Victorian home surrounded by lush gardens, and a dream job running her late mother's herbal boutique. But on the eve of her first wedding anniversary, Elise makes a shocking discovery that turns her life upside down and casts doubt on everything she thought she knew--about her marriage, her friends, and even herself. As she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZMcHugh, Laura.
Summary: Arrowood is the most ornate and beautiful of the grand historical houses that line the Mississippi River in southern Iowa. It has its own secrets and ghostly presence: It's where Arden's young twin sisters were abducted nearly twenty years ago, never to be seen again. Now, Arden has inherited Arrowood, and she returns to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCHOliver, Lauren
Summary: It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend, driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn. The only thing is, they didn't do it. On the anniversary of Summer's death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OLIReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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Summary: "Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane life a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what the desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. Shay would die for them to like her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020