LaFarge, Paul
Summary: "From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAFLafarge, Daisy
Summary: "A sharp, timely debut about a young woman's toxic relationship with an older man and her battle to free herself from the suffocating expectation to be "good." When personal scandal forces her to leave Paris, Frances, a young British graduate student, travels to southern France one summer to volunteer on a farm. Almost as soon as she arrives, she is pulled into a relationship with the farm's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAFSummary: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRESummary: Detective James Knight is in this final, tense chapter of the trilogy. Knight's last-minute assignment to the Independence day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing a cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show'one that will strike dangerously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DETSummary: Veteran detective Hames Knight is dedicated to navigating the demanding streets of Los Angeles, in this thrilling first of a trilogy of films. As the city prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound Knight's partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective's dark past collides with his present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "In 1927, orphaned eight-year-old Alec Oswin sails from India to an unknown future in England. Meanwhile, in the English fenlands, June Attwell memorizes maps, patterns, and railway timetables, hoping for a future beyond her father's vicarage. Alec and June become friends, and, in time, marry. When the Second World War breaks out, Alec joins the RAF, while the Foreign Office sends June to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POSSummary: In custody in New York, Knight finds himself in the middle of a jailbreak led by The Christmas Bomber, a brutal fanatic whose Santa Claus disciples are terrorizing the city. With the promised return of his badge in exchange for taking out the terrorists, the steely-eyed Knight doles out mercy for the just and merciless justice for all the rest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DETSummary: When bounty hunter Ian Swan is shot and presumed dead after disappearing in Maui waters, Swan's son, Ryan, his ex-partner, and a local detective set out to find his killers. After being threatened by a ruthless power broker, it appears Ryan and his team are out of options, until an excursion to the closely guarded island community of Paradise City unites them with an unforeseen ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saban Films 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD PARDokey, Cameron.
Summary: "Belle is convinced that she has the wrong name, as she lacks her sisters' awe-inspiring beauty. So she withdraws from society, devoting her time to wood carving. Secretly, Belle longs to find the fabled Heartwood Tree...During a fierce storm, Belle's father stumbles upon the mysterious Heartwood--and encounters a terrifying and lonely Beast. Now Belle must carve the Heartwood to save her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOKNdibe, Okey
Summary: "This debut novel from the author of the powerful, universally acclaimed Foreign Gods, Inc. looks at a woman's drowning and the ensuing investigation in an emerging African nation. A young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the "madman" Bukuru, is asked to account for her death. His shocking revelations land him in court. Alone and undefended, Bukuru must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2014
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Summary: Based on real historical events, Lafaye's debut novel is at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid deiction of a major natural disaster. This book evokes what happens when people, sweating under the weight of their pasts, are tested to the absolute limits of their endurance.--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAFDokey, Cameron
Summary: In this retelling of the Perrault fairy tale, Cendrillon's father, grief stricken over the death of his wife, leaves his baby daughter to be brought up by servants together with an unidentified infant boy until the day, sixteen years later, when a new stepmother with two daughters arrives and changes their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOKDokey, Cameron.
Summary: In "Belle," Belle attempts to save her father from a terrifying beast; in "Sunlight And Shadow," a marriage betrothal is promised to whoever can rescue the kidnapped princess Mina; and in "Winter's Child," Grace sets out on a dangerous mission to save her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOKDokey, Cameron.
Summary: In "Before Midnight," Cendrillon tests her father's will by leaving the grounds for a royal ball; in "Golden," Rapunzel, born bald, must break an enchantment to free her heart; and in "Wild Orchid," Mulan joins the army disguised as a boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DOKLaFaye, A
Summary: When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAFLafaye, Vanessa.
Summary: Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become--unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LAFGorey, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GORCockey, Tim
Summary: Libby, a former flame of Hitchcock Sewell, has returned to town with her two children, but minus one husband and one nanny. Libby's husband has been accounted for-she left him back in Annapolis. However, the nanny, Sophie, is truly missing. As soon as Hitch starts to nose around, Sophie turns up-literally-in the Severn River. She's quite dead, and just a little bit pregnant. The police suspect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COCHowey, Hugh
Summary: Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hugh Howey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWNovey, Idra
Summary: "From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVReid, Noley
Summary: These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live forbut took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REILafaye, Vanessa.
Summary: Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become--unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten...
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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 LAFDeschanel, Zooey
Summary: When Polly, the queen of the trolls, discovers that the Bergens no longer have holidays on their calendar, she sets out to bring them some holiday spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV TROPaley, Grace.
Contents: Two ears, three lucks -- The little disturbances of man. Goodbye and good luck -- A woman, young and old -- The pale pink roast -- The loudest voice -- The contest -- An interest in life -- An irrevocable diameter -- Two short sad stories from a long and happy life. The used-boy raisers ; A subject of childhood -- In time which made a monkey of us all -- The floating truth -- Enormous changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2007