Gallen, Michelle
Summary: "Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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Summary: Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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Summary: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Alam, Rumaan
Summary: "A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2020
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Summary: Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Gabel, Aja
Summary: Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness String Quartet. In The Ensemble, each character picks up the melody, from the group’s youthful rocky start through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABGalchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALGelman, Laurie
Summary: Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom-or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max, this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA President sees her as the "wisest" candidate for the job (or oldest), not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GELGalligan, Gale
Summary: "While preparing for the last major dance competition before they graduate from eighth grade and go to separate high schools in NYC, Cory must balance the expectations of his parents, school, crew and his new friend as pressure mounts from all sides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: The murder of a wealthy young woman sparks a backlash against the hippie commune that has recently arrived in Black River Falls A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls. While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have to right to stay—despite how bizarre some of their ways can seem—as always there is a minority that constantly accuses them of everything from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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Summary: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOJOBouman, Tom
Summary: "A headless stranger is found in the woods of Wild Thyme, a small town in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. All signs point to a man-killing bear, and Officer Henry Farrell would just as soon leave this hunt to the Game Commission. But doubts arise when he discovers the victim was a retired investigator. What drew the investigator to sleepy Wild Thyme? Before Henry can find answers, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOUGruen, Sara.
Summary: The wildly entertaining new novel from the bestselling author of Water for Elephants. BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010
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Gruen, Sara.
Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GruGalligan, Gale
Summary: Accompanying the Pike family during a two-week vacation to the Jersey Shore, baby-sitter Stacey falls head over heels for a handsome lifeguard despite Mary Anne's warning that he is too old for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Marley spots two motherless kittens by the side of the road and his family gladly adopts them, but as he tries to copy the cute behavior of the little felines, the large puppy causes more and more trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GROGrogan, John
Summary: Marley the rambunctious dog sniffs his way to Cassie's school and spreads chaos as he searches for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GROBernstein, Galia
Summary: Simon the housecat points out that he may not roar like a lion or run fast like a cheetah, but he has many other things in common with the big cats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BERDuncan, Glen.
Summary: Then she opened her mouth to scream--and recognised me. It was what I'd been waiting for. She froze. She looked into my eyes. She said, "It's you." Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you'd never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you--and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Gaylin, Alison
Summary: "Camille Gardener is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women--the collective--Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAYGailey, Sarah
Summary: "Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAIGorman, Amanda
Summary: "As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GORGran, Julia.
Summary: Prunella knows so much about insects that people get bored listening to her talk, but when her classroom fills up with bees during show-and-tell, Prunella saves the day. Includes facts about insects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRAGailey, Sarah
Summary: "'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast--before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021