Yuknavitch, Lidia
Summary: "In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions--and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUKZhang, Lijia
Summary: "In the mesmerizing debut novel Lotus, a young woman defies her fate and escapes to the city and all it holds for her--be it love, danger, or destiny Surviving by her wits alone, Lotus charges headlong into the neon lights of Shenzhen, determined to pullherself out of the gutter and decide her own fate. Shes different than the other streetwalkers--reserved, even defiant, Lotus holds her secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZHAJacobs, Liska
Summary: "A novel about a young woman who loses her job and her boyfriend and spirals down a dark path of self-destruction that threatens to harm anyone close to her."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/FSG Originals 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACKiesling, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEMillet, Lydia
Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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Summary: Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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Summary: Yvonne, a recently widowed mother of two grown children, returns to Datça, Turkey, to relive memories of a happier time, but instead is troubled by her past and finds solace in her friendship with Ahmet, a young local boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2010
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Summary: "Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff's homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act--or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDSavage, Lila
Summary: A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about love and compassion, the fluidity of desire, and the myriad ways of devotion. Ella is nearing thirty, and not yet living the life she imagined. Her artistic ambitions as a student in Minnesota have given way to an unintended career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVWard, Liza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WARSummary: The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short horror fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Andy Davidson, Tananarive Due, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Angela Slatter, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BESWolfgang-Smith, Olivia
Summary: In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman of fortune, influential with the board of a prominent university because of her financial donations, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive, spendthrift husband. But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agnes's passion for science, Agnes begins to imagine a different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOLMcTiernan, Dervla
Summary: Nina and Simon leave for a weekend getaway, but only Simon comes home. When Simon's explanation doesn't add up, Nina's parents go to the police, while Simon's family and the media get involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Forty-year-old Weetzie Bat decides to pack her bag, leave her secret-agent boyfriend, Max, and head out for Los Angeles to find herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLOOlsson, Linda
Summary: From the acclaimed author of Astrid & Veronika, a lyrical novel of two sisters bound together by a tragic moment from their past. Maria and Emma have not seen each other since their mother's funeral two years ago. But now, Emma has come to visit Maria at her house in Spain, an unsettling intrusion on Maria's quiet and solitary life. Over six days in the seaside town, the sisters cautiously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLSHoward, Linda
Summary: Milla Edge, a woman with a gift for locating lost children, travels to Mexico to uncover the fate of many children who have vanished over the years, joining forces with a mysterious stranger on a mission that makes her an assassin's target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWHawkins, Paula
Summary: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Hawkins 2015Howard, Linda
Summary: Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013