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High water 3Gautreaux, Tim.
Summary: Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self--and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUGreen, Tim
Summary: Jack Ruskin is uniquely qualified to commit a series of perfect murders. A former prosecuter, and now the respected partner of a prestigious law firm, he has the means and the knowledge to kill without leaving a trace of evidence behind. His targets are criminals themselves, sexual predators beyond reform. He has no connection to them; he simply finds their names in public records. Jack knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREO'Brien, Tim
Summary: n O'Brien's dynamic first novel, a Vietnam vet and his brother vie for the same gal, a native of their dwindling Minnesota hometown. Culminating in a disastrous road trip which ends with the men skiing home through the wilderness, "Northern Lights" spawned themes that would become the author's hallmarks for future works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINJohnston, Tim
Summary: "When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles from home. One girl's survival, and the other's death--murder, actually--stun the citizens of a small Minnesota town, thawing memories of another young woman who lost her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Johnston 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY JOHJohnston, Tim
Summary: The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015
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Summary: Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brien, Tim
Summary: At the age of forty-nine, William Cowling decides to dig a gigantic hole in his backyard in order to protect himself and his family from "the very real threat of nuclear annihilation that everyone evades and denies."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRWinton, Tim
Summary: "A new novel about a man trying to survive in the wilderness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINGreen, Tim
Summary: His career and reputation irrevocably derailed when he is framed and convicted for murder, attorney and political candidate Raymond White methodically plots his escape and revenge throughout the course of an eighteen-year imprisonment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREShoemaker, Tim
Summary: "Every person has a pressure-point--something that can send them to places they never wanted to go. "It starts today. Your world is about to change." Harley ignores the cryptic warning at first, but soon learns the chilling message is absolutely true. When his motorcycle is stolen, he loses the one connection he has to his dad, the one thing keeping his dad's memory alive. He begins a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion Drew once showed her is transferred to his ailing mother. When she's thrust into an enforced caretaker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Summary: In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWGeorge, Nina
Summary: "Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairy tales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOEdwards, Kim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EDWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWEdwards, Kim
Summary: In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EDWFranklin, Tom.
Summary: Silas Jones, Chabot's lone lawman, hasn't had a lick of trouble in recent memory. In fact, the last thing to disturb Chabot was the disappearance of a teen girl nearly twenty years ago. However, when somebody tries to kill the town recluse, another young woman vanishes, and a drug dealer is found murdered all in a short amount of time, the quaint Mississippi town is shaken to the core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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Summary: "U., a 'corporate anthropologist,' is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCPiazza, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIAFranklin, Tom.
Summary: "...set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAHarrison, Jim
Summary: The son of a wealthy family of timber barons struggles to reconcile himself with the damage his family has done to Michigan's Upper Peninsula--a scarring that cuts deeply into the fabric of his own family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HARHarrison, Jim
Summary: When his wife divorces him and robs him of his farmland, sixty-year-old Cliff road trips across America, intent on eliminating blandness by renaming the fifty states and their state birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Summary: The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is more a malevolent force than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHarrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1971