McBride, Laura
Summary: Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June's story will intertwine with those of three unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBLaure, Estelle
Summary: "Teen detective Mary Elizabeth continues to unravel a dark conspiracy that has turned her best friend and boyfriend into villainous monsters--all while battling her own inner demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUMacBride, Stuart
Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace - that's why they demoted her and quashed his sentence. Now he's back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Wallace has to be responsible, but if Detective Sergeant Steel goes anywhere near him, his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won't listen to her, not after what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacBride, Stuart
Summary: Welcome to the Misfit Mob. It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts, the troublemakers, the compromised. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy turns up at the Oldcastle tip, it's his job to find out which museum it's been stolen from. But then Callum uncovers links between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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Summary: From the No. 1 bestselling author of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead, a new crime thriller featuring DS Logan McRae. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcBride, Amber
Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCBLaurain, Antoine
Summary: "When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author's identity. As the police begin to investigate a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAULaure, Estelle
Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAULaurain, Antoine.
Summary: Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. After the presidential party has gone, Daniel discovers that Mitterrand's black felt hat has been left behind. Daniel decides to keep the hat as a souvenir, and as he leaves the restaurant, he begins to feel somehow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Laurain 2013Chandrasekera, Vajra
Summary: "The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: "The tiny island of Sark lies isolated in the dark waters of the Channel Islands. No cars are allowed. No streetlamps light its paths. It is the world's only Dark Sky Island. This breathtaking patch of land seems the picture of tranquility--but at its heart lies a web of murder, deceit, and hidden danger. When bones are discovered on Derrible Bay and an elderly resident is violently murdered,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEARouda, Kaira Sturdivant
Summary: "Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she's starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners, a pastor and his wife, have left something - or rather someone - behind... Tom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause, and for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROUWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOMiura, Shion
Summary: A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura's novel is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIURouda, Kaira Sturdivant
Summary: When her husband's indiscretion with a young staffer threatens to ruin everything she has accomplished, Jody Asher, the wife of a political icon, flips the narrative as the balance of power shifts when he suddenly dies, securing the future she's entitled to despite her secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUChilds, Laura
Summary: When their longtime friend at County services, Hannah Venable, dies in a fire, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni, vowing to find the arsonist, investigate a possible connection with the nearby Prairie Star Casino.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CHIGriffin, Laura
Summary: "Corporate lawyer Ava Burch has had enough of the big city and the daily grind. She grew up in rural Texas, where her father raised search-and-rescue dogs, and has moved to the small town of Cuervo to spend time in the dry, rugged wilderness near Big Bend National Park. When she and her dog, Huck, discover an abandoned campsite on a volunteer search-and-rescue mission, she's perplexed, but she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRIKasischke, Laura
Summary: The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. Nicole was a straight-A student from a small town, sweet-tempered, all-American, a former Girl Scout, and a virgin. Too young to die. Unless she didn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNElliott, Laura
Summary: Peggy Schuyler has always felt like she’s existed in the shadows of her beloved sisters: the fiery, intelligent Angelica and beautiful, sweet Eliza, but in the throes of a chaotic war, Peggy finds herself a central figure amid Loyalists and Patriots, spies and traitors, friends and family. When a flirtatious aide-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton, writes to Peggy asking for her help in wooing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLSibson, Laura
Summary: "It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left. According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family's legacy as local "witches." When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SIBSnyder, Laurel
Summary: On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SNYChilds, Laura.
Summary: While at the social event of the year, Theodosia Browning finds herself battling with local police and high society when she starts digging for the real reason behind a groom's freak accident and the bride's missing wedding ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIRuby, Laura
Summary: It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020