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Kass, Linda Stern Malladi, Amulya Pearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane) Peters, Amanda Quick, AmandaMalladi, Amulya
Summary: "Everyone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard. So, when part-time blues musician, frustrated home renovator, and full-time private detective Gabriel Præst agrees to investigate the matter because his ex--the one who got away--asked him to, he knew it was a no-win case. But as Gabriel starts to ask questions, his face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MALKass, Linda Stern
Summary: "Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASQuick, Amanda
Summary: After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Quick 2018Peters, Amanda
Summary: "July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PETPearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Summary: "From the author of the "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People) and international bestseller Dear Mrs. Bird, a new charming and uplifting novel set in London during World War II about a plucky aspiring journalist. London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman's Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021