Offill, Jenny
Summary: "Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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Summary: Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous. Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life. Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family. One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac. Two sisters. One truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Impulse 0000
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Summary: A young child tries a series of wacky experiments, such as seeing if a piece of bologna will fly like a frisbee and determining whether seedlings will grow if watered with expensive perfume, and then must suffer the consequences of experiments gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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Summary: "Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addictbrother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: A child tells an outlandish tale of what took place while a younger sibling was taking a nap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2014
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Summary: A child takes a sloth named Sparky as a pet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OFFForeman, Michael
Summary: Adam, an immigrant boy in a big city, is lonely until he see snow for the first time and starts to play with the neighborhood children, but when he starts school he gets some seeds and begins to plant them with help from his new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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Summary: After closing at the Dinosaur Museum, the dinosaur models come to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FORCampbell, Jack
Summary: As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. Presented with orders to carry out actions he believes not only are mistaken but would be contrary to the ideals of the Alliance, Geary has to decide whether he must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMOffit, Mike.
Summary: "Nothing Personal is the stunning story of Warren Hament, a bright young man who stumbles into a career in finance in the early 1980s. His rapid rise exposes the inner workings of the amoral, crude, and brutal world of top-tier investment banking as onlya true insider could know them. Introduced to the elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and with his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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Summary: South China coast, 1801: Sold as a child to a floating brothel, 26-year-old Yang has finally bought her freedom, only to be kidnapped by a brutal pirate gang and forced to marry their leader.Dragged through stormy seas and lawless bandit havens, Yang must stay scrappy to survive. She embeds herself in the dark business of piracy, carving out her role against the resistance of powerful pirate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A small cat reminisces about events that took place around the manger where it was sleeping on the night the baby Jesus was born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FORWilder, Effie Leland.
Summary: Hattie's friends Retta Gooding and Sidney Metcalf ("the unelected but undeniable Most Eligible Widower of FairAcres Home") are drawn closer together while delivering Meals on Wheels. Hattie's writing career takes off and the FairAcres folks make new friends: elderly Ben Stringfellow and his two young neighbors, Jamie and Jeffrey. Ben's not quite ready for FairAcres but he is in need of some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 1996
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Summary: Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Old age through the eyes of Hattie McNair a resident of a retirement home, chronicling the daily activities, relationships and ailments. By the author of Out to Pasture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 1995
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Summary: In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1973
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Summary: Rogue Bishop was a gambler and a freelance troubleshooter. He attracted trouble like a magnet. This time the trouble started with a brawl in a small border town in Mexico -- and continued with Shamrock O'Terran, who was half child, half woman and all spitfire. Shamrock was a blossoming young beauty who just couldn't possibly fit in with Rogue Bishop's plans. Plain and simple, he was a loner....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2001
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Summary: A novel on aging through the eyes of a resident of an old people's home in South Carolina. She is Hattie McNair who records debates among residents on the merits of the past and the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILDECampbell, Jack
Summary: Geary leads the fleet through space controlled by mysterious and hostile aliens. The fate of the fleet will depend on him making the right decision. If he can stay alive long enough to do that.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: The Great Guilds, fearing the loss of their control of the world of Dematr, have gathered their power and joined it with the relentless legions of the Empire. The full might of that host will fall upon the fortress city of Dorcastle. If Dorcastle falls, the revolt led by Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain will fail, and their world will soon descend into chaos.Only Mari, believed to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF Campbell 2016Summary: When peace breaks out in America, killing machine Major Benson Winifred Payne, United States Marine Corps Special Forces, is given his marching orders--to the unemployment line. Unable to cope with civilian life, Payne is thrust back into the military regimen as commander of the Madison Academy Junior ROTC.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018