Conklin, Lynia
Summary: Capturing both the dark and lovable sides of the human experience, a collection of humurous and heartrending stories follows queer, trans and gender-nonconforming characters as they seek love and connection.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONHetherington, Nydia
Summary: "Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YUKAdamson, Lydia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ADAKiesling, Lydia
Summary: In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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Summary: Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015
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Summary: " If there was an award for Least Able To Function Around Cute Boys, Jess Webster would clean up. She can barely talk to a guy, let alone engage in naked things. But now that high school is over, Jess resolves to put her big-girl pants on and at last bang―sorry, bag―the longtime object of her desire, Andrew. All she needs is someone to practice on first. Enter Benjamin Oliver. Jock hot, nerd...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHASummary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMAdamson, Lydia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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Summary: Stories by an experimental writer, ranging in length from a sentence to several pages. One story describes the way a few ill-chosen words can turn a minor dispute into high drama, another is on the bad luck of an explorer who accomplishes a perilous expedition, only to die on his way home. By the author of The End of the Story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1997
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Summary: "After the thrilling events of The High Republic: Convergence, the Jedi race to confront the Path of the Open Hand and end the Forever War. After five years of conflict, the planets Eiram and E'ronoh are on the cusp of real peace. But when news breaks of a disaster at the treaty signing on Jedha, violence reignites on the beleaguered worlds. Together, the royal heirs of both planets--Phan-tu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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Summary: "The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Media Reads, a Zando imprint 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIEAdamson, Lydia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAFitzpatrick, Lydia
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world--the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions--is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITMillet, Lydia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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Summary: Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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Contents: Boring friends -- A mown lawn -- City people -- Betrayal -- The white tribe -- Our trip -- Special chair -- Certain knowledge from Herodotus -- Priority -- The meeting Companion -- Blind date -- Example of remember -- Old Mother and the Grouch -- Samuel Johnson is indignant -- New Year's resolution -- First grade: Handwriting practice -- Innteresting -- Happiest moment -- Jury duty -- A double...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2001