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Summary: "A story of a blended family-- from the pets' point of view!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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Summary: Juliette, a computer engineer, and Olivier, a journalist, have two young children and the busy lives of a modern Parisian couple. On a beautiful spring day, while sitting by the river watching her children play, Juliette’s cell phone rings. It is her husband. When Olivier confesses to having an affair, Juliette’s world is shattered. How do you survive betrayal? Can a couple ever be united...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALABuchet, Nelly
Summary: When Dog is handed a strawberry from the fruit bowl, she sizes it up, dances around it, and decides she is going to race the Strawberry--and win.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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Summary: ""The test of a crime series is its main character, and Sully is someone we'll want to read about again and again."--Lisa Scottoline, The Washington Post "Tucker raises the stakes and ramps up the darkness in this series and makes you wonder, and even worry a little about, what's coming next."--Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "Provocative. Tucker realistically depicts the newspaper industry in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCTucker, Neely
Summary: "When the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C., judge is found dead, three local black kids are arrested for her murder--but reporter Sully Carter suspects there's more to the case. From the city's grittiest backstreets to the elegant halls ofpower, wry yet wounded Sully pursues a string of cold cases, all the while fighting against pressure from government officials, police,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCTucker, Neely
Summary: When the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C., judge is found dead, three local black kids are arrested for her murder--but reporter Sully Carter suspects there's more to the case. From the city's grittiest backstreets to the elegant halls of power, wry yet wounded Sully pursues a string of cold cases, all the while fighting against pressure from government officials, police,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUCReilly, Kelly
Summary: A detective investigates a series of murders of young women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ABODavy, Nelle.
Summary: For generations, Aurelia was the crowning glory of more than three thousand acres of Iowa farmland and golden cornfields. The estate was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name--no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. It was a desperation that wrought the downfall of the Hathaways--and the once-prosperous farm. Now the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Summary: "Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per - the first boyfriend she tells usabout, and the first she leaves - as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELActon, Helly
Summary: "Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: While investigating the death of the son of Washington, D.C.'s most influential African-American family, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter discovers the real story--one that forces him to strike a dangerous balance between the city's violent back streets and its highest corridors of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUCSummary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLAHampton, Nell
Summary: Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--an assignment as the new personal chef to the royal family at Kensington Palace. But no sooner has Carrie Ann touched down across the pond and donned her apron than a dead body crops up beneath the royal kale beds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMLeyshon, Nell.
Summary: When her father, a man who becomes angry at the slightest provocation, sends her to work for the local vicar and his invalid wife, Mary finds her new place of employment an endless source of books, but discovers that knowledge comes with a price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEYZink, Nell
Summary: "Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINGage, Cully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 GAGMacmillan, Gilly
Summary: By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway. Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think. But when they get to Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note that claims one of their husbands has been murdered. Their phones are out of range. There's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACGriffiths, Elly
Summary: "In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway--described by Louise Penny as "a captivating amateur sleuth"--and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffiths, Elly
Summary: Nelson, investigating a series of murder-suicides he has connected to an archaeological discovery--and to Ruth's seemingly sweet new neighbor, Zoe--he enlists Ruth's help until she, Zoe, and Kate go missing and he is left scrambling to find them before it's too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Summary: North Norfolk. The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, uncover a Bronze Age hoard on the beach-- near a recently deceased body. Not long after, the same group uncover the apparent murder-suicide of a scientist and his wife at the isolated Black Dog Farm. The farm has long been said to be haunted by the Black Shuck, a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Ruth Galloway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffiths, Elly
Summary: "In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICrocker, Kellye
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ava travels to Colorado to meet her dad's girlfriend Jenn and her daughter Mackenzie, but managing her anxiety, avoiding altitude sickness, and surviving the mountains might take all of her strength.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CROHeley, Veronica.
Summary: While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHermann, Nellie
Summary: Ruby is the youngest child in the tightly knit Bronstein family, a sensitive, observant girl who looks up to her older brothers and is in awe of her stern but gentle father, a Holocaust survivor whose past and deep sense of morality inform the family's life. But when Ruby is ten, her eldest brother enters the hospital and emerges as someone she barely recognizes. It is only the first in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008