Warden, Anoushka
Summary: When a woman can't stand sex with her third serious boyfriend, she embarks on a journey of desperation and self-discovery in which she'll try anything to fix it, but maybe desire and long-term love just don't go together. -- Adapted from book jacket summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WARGarcía Márquez, Gabriel
Summary: Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GARSummary: Freddy is looking for a new 'hunting' accomplice. Having positioned herself as a hapless victim, rather than the ruthless killer we know her to be, Freddy has caught the public eye and her bank balance and ego have swelled. But she has also attracted the attention of a serial killer. When people near Freddy start dying, Detectives Lola and Jackson are convinced she's found a new hunting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WEAngress, Antonia
Summary: "The lives of four artists are forever altered by the desires, protests, and ambitions that lure and unsettle them in this magnetic novel. It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarified bubble, dreaming only of disproving the notion that in art, everything has already been done....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Feehan, Christine
Summary: "Gorya Amurov might be known as his family's peacekeeper, but the leopard inside him wants nothing more than to claw to the surface and unleash hell. A harsh life has shaped him into a vicious fighter with a calm exterior, but Gorya knows it's only a matter of time until he loses all control...Maya Averina has spent years hunting the criminals who destroyed her life...She keeps to herself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: "In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love-leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECowley Heller, Miranda
Summary: "Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the freshwater pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying set of cabins in the Back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances through the screen porch at the uncleared table from the dinner the previous evening: empty wine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Heller 2021Dubow, Charles.
Summary: "Love, passion, and obsession are at the heart of Naked in the Moonlight, about a man's all consuming desire for a bewitching and beguiling woman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBRukeyser, Rebecca
Summary: "A 'lusty, funny, heart-breaking' (Carmen Maria Machado) debut about a sex-obsessed young woman seeking out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Lew and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic 'Alaskan wilderness' experience is meticulously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUKCowley Heller, Miranda
Summary: "Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at...the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different, because last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time...Now, over the next 24 hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COWFuentes, Javier
Summary: "In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain, in what is ultimately a meditation on identity, class, belonging and desire. It is 2007, in New York where Demetrio, 30, is a celebrated pastry chef at the French restaurant, Le Bourrelet. It will be his seventh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUEMcNamara, Luna
Summary: A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. She spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to meet her destiny. When Psyche angers the love goddess Aphrodite, Eros, god of desire, is sent to deliver a cruel curse. When he pricks himself with the arrow intended for Psyche, Eros finds himself doomed to yearn for a woman who will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCNMohamed, Deena
Summary: "A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishes are real. Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the socio-political realities of contemporary Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik-a fairytale rhyme meaning "Your Wish is My Command" in Arabic-is the story of three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MOHJackson, Brenda (Brenda Streater)
Summary: "Bryce Witherspoon's heart races every time she sees Kaegan Chambray. Everyone in town knows they can't stand each other, but the truth is, even though the man broke her heart ten years ago, she still feels that irresistible, oh-so-familiar jolt of desire. When Kaegan returned to Catalina Cove to run the family business, he knew there'd be no avoiding Bryce. The woman he thought he'd one day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACMairal, Pedro
Summary: Trapped in a loveless marriage, Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, finds the one thing that keeps him going is the woman from Uruguay whom he met at a conference and has been longing to see ever since.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIMorrow, Rebecca
Summary: ""I was riveted...A modern-day Romeo Juliet."-Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways You want to walk away from the things that were bad for you and never look back. That's what Corinne Callahan wants. Cast out of the fundamentalist church she was raised in and cut off from her family, Corinne builds a new life for herself. A good one. But she never stops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCowley Heller, Miranda
Summary: "A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COWNemerever, Micah
Summary: A painfully insecure artist falls in love with a charming, intellectual fellow university student in 1970s Pittsburgh before their relationship spirals into an all-consuming obsession that culminates in a shattering truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillRedwing, Jack
Summary: A tractor leaves the farm and goes on a grand adventure to see and explore other cool places and machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cottage Door Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE REDSummary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003McCormick, Chris
Summary: "In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful,linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCGreenwood, Barbara
Summary: "Two brothers head for the Klondike Gold Rush, hoping to strike it rich. Factual information, illustrations and photos follow each chapter of their personal story" Cf. Our choice, 2002.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2001
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Summary: "As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone and it's fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister Julie marries his brother Joseph, Desiree and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020