Burges, Audrey
Summary: "A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling and unforgettable novel by Audrey Burges. From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide. Myra's stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURBusiek, Kurt.
Summary: "It's a story for the ages when a sentient storm builds up a grudge against the god of thunder, attacking in both the age of Vikings and the age of heroes! A new enemy is empowered to battle Thor, but which old enemy is behind it all? Plus: the ominous Uroc, terror of trolls! Guest-starring the Avengers and the Warriors Three!"--P. [4] of jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2010
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC BUSBurley, John
Summary: A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense. Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation. When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients-committed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURIronside, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony and Mayhem Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IROBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURIronside, Virginia.
Summary: Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IronsBurges, Audrey
Summary: "A woman searches for her missing father in order to reconcile the many strange and fantastical secrets of her past before she loses herself completely in this deeply profound and magical novel by Audrey Burges. Keryth Miller is disappearing. Between the growing distance between herself and her husband, the demands of two teenage daughters, and an all-encompassing burnout, she sometimes feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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Summary: A photographic tale about Duckling the reluctant swimmer finds him resenting the pressure exerted by his patient Mama and Papa Duck, preferring to stay dry and take a nap before eventually deciding to join his siblings in the pond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LURIronside, Elizabeth.
Summary: In 1925, the husband of Diana Pollexfen dies during her 30th birthday party, poisoned by Diana's photographic chemicals. Years later her great niece, an attorney in London, tries to discover who really killed her great-aunt's husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2008
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Summary: Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IROFried, Seth
Summary: "A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu) In Metropolis, the gleaming city of tomorrow, the dream of the great American city has been achieved. But all that is about to change, unless a neurotic, rule-following bureaucrat and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRIBarbery, Muriel
Summary: A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 1995
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Summary: When Susanne leaves her city home to visit her grandmother, she finds a very special tree of her own in the forest. Each time she returns to the tree, she observes something unique about it--from the sheltering protection of its branches to the scratchy surface of its bark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Kids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TALLewis-Barned, Suzi
Summary: "Grandpa Forgets is a beautifully simple story that explores the life of a grandparent living with dementia from a child's perspective. It's a story of love and hope that gently highlights what's really important in this unique relationship" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWSummary: Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLODe Muriel, Oscar
Summary: 1888: a violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard send Inspector Ian Frey. Frey reports to Detective "Nine-Nails" McGray, local legend and exact opposite of the foppish English Inspector. McGray’s tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond belief... There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMSummary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Girl 2004Barbery, Muriel
Summary: Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel
Summary: Two girls from France and Italy who possess uncanny respective abilities to communicate with nature and perform music at a preternatural level come into contact with magical and malevolent forces before meeting each other in world-changing ways. "An inspiring literary fantasy about two gifted girls from the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Life of Elves sings of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarbery, Muriel.
Summary: The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA, Inc. 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001