Faletti, Giorgio
Summary: In the seedy underworld of 1970s Milan, shortly after politician Aldo Moro's kidnapping by the Red Brigades terrorist group, Bravo, a caterer to the wealthy, has an affair with a mysterious woman only to find himself pursued by the authorities and organized crime bosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: STEFO 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANDe Maria, Giorgio
Summary: In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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Summary: Springing into post-World War II society, and quite naughty and haughty, Princess Margaret lived in a whirlwind of fame and notoriety. She sparkles in the company of her glittering entourage of wealthy young aristocrats known as the Margaret Set, but can she be a dutiful princess while still dazzling the world on her own terms? The Honorable Vera Strathmore dreams of living and working in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABroder, Melissa
Summary: "The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow-both for her father in the ICU and a disabled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: "Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: "A merry little peanut faces obstacles on the way to Christmas dinner at his grandma's house."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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Summary: A father teaches his daughter about woodworking and she contributes imagination and fun as they build a shed together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2021
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Summary: "An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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Summary: When the small crew of ex-cons working on Mars start getting murdered, everyone is a suspect in this terrifying science fiction thriller from bona fide rocket scientist and award winning-author S.J. Morden. It's the dawn of a new era - and we're ready to colonize Mars. But the company that's been contracted to construct a new Mars base, has made promises they can't fulfill and is desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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Summary: Being a scarecrow can be lonely. Spending his day keeping birds away doesn't leave Crow with many options for friends. Then one snowy day, the children on the farm build a snowman. Crow and Snow are fast friends and winter passes happily in each other's company. Then Snow goes away. Crow misses his friend and thinks of Snow during the warm seasons until they can be reunited again. Being apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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Summary: Even though he's now bigger and more active, Wilbur still likes to be carried, but when his Mommy is achy and tired, he rises to the occasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: As the fourth daughter of the perpetually in-mourning Queen Victoria, Princess Louise's life is more a gilded prison than a fairy tale. Expected to sit quietly next to her mother with down-cast eyes, Louise vows to escape the stultifying royal court. Blessed with beauty, artistic talent, and a common touch, she creates a life outside the walled-in existence of the palace grounds by attending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Having acquired the skill of morphing, Molly Moon can inhabit any creature she wants but, unless she can find the ancient book of hypnotism in time, she risks never getting back into her own body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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Summary: A messy, loud Australian family and an aloof, snobby American family who have nothing in common except the marriage of their daughters are stuck for six weeks on a tropical island off Queensland when a nearby volcano erupts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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Summary: Evie, Krista, and Willow are regular girls trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. Until they come across Pretty, a magic tincture that makes them, well, gorgeous. Like, supermodel gorgeous. And it's certainly not their fault if the sudden gift of beauty causes unexpected doors to open for them. But there's a dark side to Pretty, too, and the question arises: What would you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books / Atria 2016
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Summary: Peanut Butter sets out with his soccer ball to find a friend after moving to a new town, but everyone from Hamburger to Soup seems to be too busy to play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "What better way to learn colors than from food! Blue carrots? Purple eggs? Kids will laugh out loud at this new offering from the creator of Peanut Butter & Cupcake. Milk wants to give bows to all of her friends, and she wants them to match! She gives Carrot a blue bow, but that's not right-Carrot is orange! She gives Lime a yellow bow, but that's not right either-Lime is green! And when it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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Summary: With his French village under Nazi control, Paul Colbert joins a secret resistance after rescuing an American paratrooper and gets his chance to make a difference in the midst of the largest invasion in history, working to do his part in turning horror into hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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Summary: "Mimi was a perfectly ordinary girl who lived a perfectly ordinary life. She didn't want many things. But there was one thing she wanted more than anything else... to see fairies in her garden. Could she ever make a garden perfect enough that they would come?" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids, an imprint of Quarto Group 2022
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Summary: With the evil Superbrain plotting to use a massive weather machine to create tsunamis, twisters, and other natural disasters in order to rule the world, Molly Moon, with the assistance of her hypnotist brother Micky Minus, must find a way to stop him before any damage is done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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Summary: ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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Summary: Four sisters who never knew their father-or each other-come together around his deathbed and learn what it means to be a family in The Year Everything Changed , a magnificent novel brimming with heart and feeling from author Georgia Bockoven. The bestselling, award-winning writer who enthralled readers with The Beach House and Another Summer returns with a masterful work of contemporary women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011