Zgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHBeckerman, Hannah
Summary: "When Anna Bradshaw wakes up in a hospital bed in London, she remembers nothing, not even her loving husband, Stephen. The doctors say her amnesia is to be expected, but Anna feels cut adrift from her entire life. In Bristol, Livvy Nicholson is newly married to Dominic and eager to get back to work after six months' maternity leave. But when Dominic's estranged mother appears, making a series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECAckerman, Elliot
Summary: Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn't make it back home--and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Eden's re-ordered consciousness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKShepard, Sara
Summary: "New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars Series. When the principal of an elite California preschool is attacked, three moms--who feel like outsiders among the school's manicured and ultra-wealthy community--must work together to uncover her secrets, and figure out who is trying to blame them for the attempt on her life. Amanda, Ronnie, and Lauren all arrive at the Silver Swans preschool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEFoster, 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, Call number: Fiction Gruen 2015Mesa, 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 MESParetsky, Sara.
Summary: Tells the story of three Chicagoans--a disturbed young woman, an alcoholic opera singer, and an idealistic psychiatrist--whose lives are changed by a mysterious woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSligar, Sara
Summary: "When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are reopened when her son Theo hires the ex-journalist Kate Aitken to archive his mother's work and personal effects.As Kate sorts through the vast maze of material and contends with the vicious rumors and shocking details of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIFreeman, Sara
Summary: "An intoxicating, compact debut novel, Tides is the story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town by the winner of the Henfield Prize, Sara Freeman. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy beach town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FREHoffman, Cara.
Summary: Returning with deep psychological scars after a tour of duty in Iraq, soldier Lauren Clay guides her younger brother to an upstate New York oil field that has become the subject of her obsession and begins teaching him survival skills while revealing her experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFGruen, 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 2015Taylor, Sara
Summary: "A stirring and ambitious debut that traces the history and future of a small group of islands off the coast of Virginia through the lives of generations of the women who live there" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYBurton, Tara Isabella
Summary: "Rose investigates the disappearance of her irresponsible and impetuous sister who fell followed a cult-like cabaret troupe that only appears at night on a mysterious red boat that sails around New York and is blamed for several disappearances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurton, Tara Isabella
Summary: "When the shy, sensitive Laura Stearns arrives at St. Dunstan's Academy in Maine, she dreams that life there will echo her favorite novel, All Before Them, the sole surviving piece of writing by Byronic "prep school prophet" (and St. Dunstan's alum) Sebastian Webster, who died at 19, fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She soon finds the intensity she is looking for among the insular,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBaljeet Basra, Celina
Summary: In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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Summary: Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADAMurphy, Sara Flannery
Summary: "In an unnamed city, Edie works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits--numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been with the company for five years, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Murphy 2017Halpern, Sue
Summary: A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer, and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HALBurton, Tara Isabella
Summary: "A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. LouiseWilson is an expert at just barely making it. She's mastered the tricks and shortcuts that a penniless small-town girl needs to survive in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURJio, Sarah.
Summary: Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JIODunant, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001