Krasikov, Sana
Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1986
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Summary: Enjoying her loving family and her work as an art restorer, Rachel Jensen finds her world unraveling after a terrible accident that leads to Rachel's discovery that her teenage daughter is threatening to destroy them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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Summary: "Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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Summary: "Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: "Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 0000
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Summary: "A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to a hilarious, smart story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong, wrong, wrong Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. The resort town is known for its stunning views, exotic wildlife, and welcoming locals, and Jenna has organized the trip to celebrate her husband's fiftieth birthday--she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2019
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Summary: "A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center-a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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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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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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Summary: "For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bala 2018Mazur, Grace Dane
Summary: The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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Summary: Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis. In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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Summary: "Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they're struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LIUClarke, Diana
Summary: Rose and Lily Winters are twins. They feel each other's emotions, taste what the other is feeling, but their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts consuming everything Rose won't or can't. Now Rose is about to mark her one-year anniversary in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, a kindergarten teacher, dates abusive men, including a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: If there's one thing Lily Hong can't stand, it's being second best. That's why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge. She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago . . . her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: The fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. This story takes place in pre-Revolutionary War North Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Summary: Appealing to district attorney Rourke Kilpatrick when her troubled brother is arrested on drug charges, naive Rebecca Cullen finds herself falling for this man who might be using her and her family to get to a notorious drug dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 1990