Ackerman, Sara
Summary: 1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in "the dungeon" at Station HYPO in Pearl Harbor, deciphering secrets plucked from the airwaves in a race to bring down the enemy. Isabel has only one wish: to avenge her brother's death. But she soon finds life has other plans when she meets his best friend, a hotshot pilot with secrets of his own. 1965....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACKAckerman, Sara
Summary: In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACKAckerman, Sara
Summary: In the dizzying aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the WARDs guide pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. But not everyone thinks the women are up to the job. With America's future on the line, Daisy is determined...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACKAckerman, Sara
Summary: "Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ACKAckerman, Sara
Summary: "She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKAdefris, Fasika
Summary: Follows how a Gabi is made in Ethiopia from seed to harvest, to weaving to shop, to gift for Girma.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADESava, Ayegül
Summary: "After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVWilson, Sari
Summary: Interweaving narratives that move between past and present follow a young ballerina whose life is upended when she falls in love with her much-older mentor, and a professor of dance at a Midwestern college who has a risky affair with a student.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBeckerman, Marty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECStanisic, Sasa
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHRaheem, Zara
Summary: To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of "Mr. Perfect," even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAHSala, Sharon
Summary: "PI Charlie Dodge may be down, but he's most definitely not out. He's still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need. Two days prior, Rachel Dean disappeared without a trace from her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALZgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHKrasikov, Sana
Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRASada, Daniel
Summary: In 1945 Oaxaca, an agronomist named Demetrio Sordo regularly visits a prostitute named Mireya even as he pursues a more pure form of love in his correspondence with a girl from his hometown named Renata, until problems arise with the arrangement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SADBeckerman, Hannah.
Summary: "Rachel, Max, and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life-until the night Rachel's heart stopped beating. She was thirty-six. Just as her family can't forget her, Rachel can't quite let go of them either. Caught in a place between worlds, Rachel watches helplessly as she begins to fade from their lives. This fresh debut novel touches on the various stages of bereavement, from denial to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ZGHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHZgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he'd landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ZGHCooper, Sari.
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Gillian had never been so scared as the bus wound its way toward Canyon Falls summer camp. She had been dreaming about a horseback riding experience like this for years, but now that she was actually on her way, she was terrified. She had never been away from her family, never mind for a whole month. Would she make friends? Would she be able to keep up with the other girls'...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harbour Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COOSarda, Julia
Summary: Once upon a time there were three sisters: Franca, Carmela, and Tomasina. This is their story of adventure and discovery. A tale of hidden mysteries and new wonders, of finding a strange world beyond home and unlocking the secrets inside themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SARAdams, Sara Nisha
Summary: Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she passes along the list to a lonely widower, a connection between two lonely souls is formed, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021