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Brinkley, Jamel

Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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Bradbury, Jamey

Summary: "The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel -- think of the Brontë sisters and Stephen King." --John Irving...A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is afusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica -- A natural born...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Daoud, Kamel.

Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAO

Abu-Jaber, Diana.

Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011

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Attenberg, Jami.

Summary: Six years ago, Jarvis Miller's husband, an artist whose career was just starting to gain momentum, fell into a coma. And ever since, Jarvis has been waiting. At first, she was waiting for him to wake up so that their happy marriage could be continued. But she's spent too many years of dwindling hope, living as a half-widow, and selling off more and more pieces of his artwork to power the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATT

Ames, Jonathan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AME

Hendricks, Jaime Lynn

Summary: "When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There's broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

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Ford, Jamie.

Summary: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday, William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013

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Ford, Jamie

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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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Ford, Jamie

Summary: With his friend Charlotte, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, escapes from a Seattle orphanage determined to find his mother Willow and discover his connection to the exotic film star.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ford 2013

Ford, Jamie

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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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Sorokin, Vladimir

Summary: "A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated-and most controversial-novelist. Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik, American readers were introduced to his distinctive style, which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even the grotesque-all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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Benton, Janet

Summary: "In 1883 Philadelphia, Quaker schoolteacher Lilli de Jong finds herself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how can she keep her infant daughter after being cast out by her family, abandoned by her fiancé, and rejected by society? After the unexpected death of her beloved mother, a prominent Quaker in their Germantown community, Lilli de Jong's once-orderly life becomes increasingly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

James, P. D.

Summary: An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction James 2017

Kubica, Mary

Summary: Jessie Sloane applies to college after years of caring for her ailing mother. But her social security number raises a red flag, exposing a shocking detail putting Jessie at the center of a bizarre mystery. Unable to sleep, Jessie questions everything she knows until she can't tell what's real.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Crumley, James

Summary: When a close friend asks him to help locate a cache of stolen confidential psychoanalysis files, Montana private investigator C.W. Sughrue becomes increasingly baffled as the case's suspects begin dying violently.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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Patterson, James

Summary: A jet crashes at a DC airport, shot down by a Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. Even shorter is the time until Alex Cross is the next target.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HachetteAudio 2023

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Patterson, James

Summary: Keegan Barrett is America's most brilliant president ever. He is also a psychopath bent on revenge. If special agent Liam Grey can't bring him down in the next twenty-four hours, the nation is doomed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Patterson, James

Summary: As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2010

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Patterson, James

Summary: Alex Cross joins forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol in pursuit of the Wolf and the Weasel.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2004

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Patterson, James

Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders comes a twisted psychological thriller about a mother-to-be trying to find proof that she's being stalked, even when everyone around her distrusts her mother's intuition. Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City. She's a successful marketing executive who lives in a luxury apartment and enjoys a glamorous...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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Patterson, James

Summary: Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. They're only an hour out of port and everything is going wrong. Her daughter plans to drown herself, Mark is high on drugs, and Ernie is nearly catatonic. As she manages to pull...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008

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Patterson, James

Summary: A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC, leaving behind no shred of evidence. Detective Alex Cross must manage the investigation, with the dubious help of a charismatic true-crime author.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Patterson, James

Summary: Believing that everything she has ever wanted is within her grasp, New York City photographer Kristin Burns suffers a recurring nightmare of increasing violence that spills over into her waking life and convinces her that everyone she loves is in mortal danger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

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