Givhan, Jennifer
Summary: "When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Stone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIVTaylor, Valerie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYTishy, Cecelia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TISPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "Dawn Edelstein's life instantly changes when the plane she's on crashes. Before impact, she thinks not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash. She could return [to] Boston, back to her husband, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. Or she could go to Egypt to find Wyatt, who works as an archaeologist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PICO'Hara, John
Summary: Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHABernstein, 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 BernsteinAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVCadwalladr, Carole.
Summary: Presents a novel narrated by pop culture researcher Rebecca Monroe who tells of her marriage to a behavioral geneticist, her childhood and mother's suicide, her grandmother's biracial marriage and all the other family secrets that seem to control her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CADBront,͡ Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMurakami, Haruki
Summary: Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICDuBois, Jennifer
Summary: "When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful surroundings, the street food, the elusive guy next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn't come toArgentina to hang out with other Americans. Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: Orphaned and severely deformed, Sarah Sims, who has been kept hidden away in a secret CIA facility, gets a chance to make a new life for herself when a miraculous operation transforms her into an independent beauty and brings about an unexpected ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KANTrundle, Boo
Summary: "This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink. Katherine, a lost creative soul and the mother of two lovely teenagers with her strapping provider of a husband, has struggled into her forties with compulsive self-harm and intermittent fears of sexual intercourse. This brisk, mesmerizing version of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUKiesling, Lydia
Summary: "The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Media Reads, a Zando imprint 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIEBivald, Katarina
Summary: "Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bivald 2016Scott, Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOBatuman, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATChopin, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOHurston, Zora Neale.
Summary: A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURLewis, Sinclair
Summary: Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1996