Anam, Tahmima
Summary: "From prize-winning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam, her deeply moving second novel about the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh seen through the intimate lens of a family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANAAnam, Tahmima
Summary: "Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Cyrus inspires Asha to write a new algorithm. Before she knows it, she's abandoned her PhD program, they've exchanged vows, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia. The platform creates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: LP FIC ANAAkhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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Summary: "From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep. Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALAAnwar, Arif
Summary: "Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANWArudpragasam, Anuk
Summary: "Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world. This extraordinary debut is of that class." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARUAlam, Rumaan
Summary: "That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAChaudhuri, Amit
Summary: Three novels by an Indian writer, featuring Indians at home and abroad. In the title novel, the protagonist is a rebellious young man who has joined the communist party, in Afternoon Raag he is an Indian student in Oxford, and in A Strange and Sublime Address he is a small boy visiting family in Calcutta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChaudhuri, Amit
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAAnaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANAAlam, Rumaan
Summary: Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. So she reaches out to a lady that offered help at the hospital. Priscilla's presence quickly does as much to shake up her life as it does to stabilize her life. When Priscilla dies in childbirth, Rebecca steps up to adopt the baby. But she is unprepared for what it means to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: MP3CD FIC ALAAnsay, A. Manette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: LP FIC ANSAnsay, A. Manette.
Summary: Ellen Grier and her family move in with her in-laws to help take care of them, and she begins to feel like she is losing her identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSFeeney, Alice
Summary: Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can't recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts, and each year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEAnaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANAFeeney, Alice
Summary: Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can't recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts, and each year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FEEMedlicott, Joan A. (Joan Avna)
Summary: In a novel that celebrates friendship and the bonds between women, two friends leap to the aid of a third when her daughter suffers a terrible accident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDShreve, Anita.
Summary: Gathering to attend a wedding in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, seven former classmates find the reunion marked by the death of a spouse, a traumatic past event, a shocking secret, and health issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHRBrookner, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Press 1996
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Summary: Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick join a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the African mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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Summary: Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick join a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the African mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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Summary: A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma, streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction shreve 2010Shreve, Anita.
Summary: Gathering to attend a wedding in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, seven former classmates find the reunion marked by the death of a spouse, a traumatic past event, a shocking secret, and health issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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Summary: "In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017