Chung, Maxine Mei-Fung
Summary: "One woman, multiple personas. But which one is telling the truth? Alexa W nearly has her life together: a new relationship, a job that pays the bills, and a promising interview for a photojournalism position. But, it's complicated. Alexa is manipulated by a series of alternate personas that run her life, and it's a constant struggle to keep her other selves in check, to prevent them from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUPuig, Yvonne Georgina.
Summary: "Thirty-year-old Vivienne Cally is wealthy in name only. Orphaned as a child and raised by a cold but regal aunt, Vivienne was taught to rely on her beauty and Texas tradition, and is expected to marry a wealthy and respectable man who will honor the Cally name. Friends with Houston's richest and most prominent families, she's a beloved fixture at the social events big and small, and suffers no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUISummary: Bloody violence, strong sexuality, language, and brief drug use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANLin, Chia-Chia
Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINCuti, Vanessa
Summary: "Eager to get married, thirty-year-old Virginia Carey lands a job as an operator at a police tip line, where she thinks finding a husband will be easy. There's Charlie Ford, a surprisingly sweet homicide detective, and charming police chief Declan "Deck" Brady. But just as Virginia's plans begin to fall into place and she can almost picture a ring on her finger, she answers a call from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUTHsiao, Hung
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.135 HONTuil, Karine.
Summary: "An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Age of Reinvention is a suspenseful Gatsbian tale of a famous New York lawyer whose charmed and glamorous life is a sham" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUISummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INFSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSLowry, Chag
Summary: Based on the true-life story of Yurok men called to serve in World War I, this story follows three cousins as they struggle with being combat soldiers on the Western Front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Oak Press 2019
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Summary: "A detective ready for a new life... For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London. But then one day he receives a letter from his reclusive uncle - he has left Jake his property in the middle of the countryside. For Jake, it is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. A rural idyll the stuff of dreams... At first, life in the middle of nowhere is everything Jake could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABESugg, Joe
Summary: A socially-isolated teenage girl is given the opportunity to save a virtual world, which her father created for her, from descending into chaos. All the while, she must fend off high school bullies and help her ailing father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SUGWiig, Kristen
Summary: After winning the lottery, a woman with borderline personality disorder buys her own television talk show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Media Services Inc 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WELSugg, Zoe
Summary: When Noah, her rock star boyfriend, invites her on his European concert tour, Penny finds her perfect summer falling apart as she deals with Noah's packed schedule, unwelcoming bandmates, and threatening fans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Keywords Press, Atria 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SUGCusk, Rachel
Summary: A woman gives up the rat race in the city for the calm of the country--taking a job as family help--only to discover that country life with its eccentric people can be just as stressful. A British comedy by the author of Saving Agnes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCusk, Rachel
Summary: A working girl in London is searching for love. Agnes works for a magazine and shares an apartment with two other girls. One day she meets a handsome, mysterious man, just what she was looking for. Alas, he turns out to be a rotter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSQuin, Tegan
Summary: "Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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Summary: "A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSPung, Alice
Summary: In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PUNQuin, Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICusk, Rachel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCusk, Rachel
Summary: "The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSKung, Isabella
Summary: "Queen NoFuzzball loves being the ruler of her queendom. Her subjects adore her. But a new kitten has arrived to her home! Could this new subject be a threat to her throne?" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUNQuin, Eilish
Summary: "Discover the full story of the sorceress Medea, one of the most reviled and maligned women of Greek antiquity, in this propulsive and evocative debut in the tradition of Circe, Elektra, and Stone Blind. Among the women of Greek mythology, the witch Medea may be the most despised. Known for the brutal act of killing her own children to exact vengeance on her deceitful husband, the Argonauts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024