Ramirez, Janina
Summary: "Abruptly woken in the middle of the night by the village jarls calling upon her uncle to investigate the story of a mysterious English stranger, Alva is drawn into an epic quest that has her family at its very core. Protected by her tame wolf, Fenrir, and with the aid of her mother and uncle, Alva must decode mysterious runes, explore the farthest reaches of her homeland, and confront some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RAMWilk, Elvia
Summary: "In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants; and the weather is acting strange. In search of affordable housing, young couple Anja and Louis move into a community on an artificial mountain, The Berg--yet another "eco-friendly" initiative run by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull 2019
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Summary: When single mom Jo Dykstra was at her lowest, her childhood friend Dana McFarlane helped her out big-time. So, when Jo gets a frantic late-night call from Dana, sobbing and desperate for help, it feels like a chance to help her friend in return. The last thing Jo expects to see when she arrives at Dana's oceanfront mansion is her friend's husband dead, sprawled face down on the floor. Dana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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Summary: Charlotte Dawes, a New York architect who was raped as a girl, is frigid. She meets Roger Haywood, a developer who provides her with the capital she needs for a project. A romance ensues and Charlotte is cured.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLAElba, Idris
Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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Summary: Decades after her father kidnapped her from his ex-wife's home to save her from an unstable environment, a young woman struggles to come to terms with her father's criminal action and the deception that forms the foundation of her entire life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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Summary: Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly raising their own children and Margaret's orphaned niece. Then one day the phone rings--and suddenly everything changes forever as a woman from Adam's university days reappears in his life, and an old affair re-ignites. At the same time, there are problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1996
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Summary: A beautiful and gutsy lawyer, Jennie is on the brink of marriage and is trying the most important case of her career. Then a shattering secret from her past threatens to destroy her world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1989
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Summary: In turn-of-the-century New York, Henrietta De Rivera falls in love with a radical young man who scorns so many things Hennie has been taught to covet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1990
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Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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Summary: Septuagenarian Iris Stern questions her beliefs about what it means to be a woman and a wife when her daughter's marriage crumbles, an event that is complicated by the revelation of a dark family secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: "Megan Harris had hopes of seeing the world, but at twenty-five shes never even left Florida. Now a wedding invitation lures her to Quebec in February. When her ex-friend Scarlett offers to be her plus-one (yeah, thats a whole story) and suggests they turn the journey into an epic road trip, Megan reluctantly agrees to the biggest adventure of her life. A week together in a car is a surefire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carina Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINBarrick, Ella.
Summary: After her business partner and ex-fiance is found murdered in their dance studio, Stacy Graysin finds her world spinning wildly out of control when she is named the chief suspect in the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBerman, Ella
Summary: "A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERGriffin, Ella
Summary: "Drawing together a delightful cast of characters, Ella Griffin brings her warmth, wit, and wisdom to this captivating tale of the connections that bring us all together. Every bouquet tells a story. And every story begins at Blossom & Grow, a tiny flower shop in the heart of Dublin... Among the buckets of fragrant blooms, beneath the flickering candles and lanterns, Lara works her magic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRIBeskow, Elsa
Summary: Shortly before Christmas, there is finally enough snow for Ollie to use his new skis, and he visits the palace of King Winter, where the king's subjects are busy making Christmas gifts, but still have time to play with Ollie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESHart, Elsa
Summary: "In the follow-up to Elsa Hart's critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings them to a valley hidden between mountain passes. On the icy planks of a wooden bridge, a monk sits in contemplation. Closer inspection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMorante, Elsa
Summary: "Though written at the end of the first half of the twentieth century this is essentially a nineteenth century novel written with a twentieth century sensibility. A few things give it away as a twentieth century novel - regular trains, even to remote rural areas, and a gramophone as well as the fact that, unlike most nineteenth century novels, none of the main characters survives unscarred....
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2023
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Summary: The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011