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Klaussmann, Liza

Summary: A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLA

Molnár, Márta

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Marta Molnar 2022

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Moore, Taylor

Summary: "In this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise threatens his family"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Bennett, Brit

Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEN

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAM

Korman, Gordon

Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KOR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KOR

Mafi, Tahereh

Summary: 2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAF

Rum, Etaf

Summary: Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUM

Brock, Kimberly

Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Woods, Stuart

Summary: When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. But the world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WOO

Paul, Gill

Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAU

Jenkins, Beverly

Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JEN

Garwood, Julie

Summary: "Family secrets and a hidden past-a woman's search to uncover the truth ignites danger and passion in the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl-her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GAR

Hooper, Judith

Summary: "Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Benjamin, Melanie

Summary: "Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer struggling to compete in a male-dominated sport -- and her daughters, Mindy and Ginger, bear the weight of Carol's unconventional lifestyle. The Donnelly sisters...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BEN

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Benjamin

Holing, Dwight

Summary: Living is hard on the high lonesome, but dying is easy. When two of Nick Drake's oldest Paiute friends disappear during a robbery of ancient relics that leads to a double murder, his race to find them puts him on a collision course with an obsessed killer. And that's only for starters. A plane crash on a snowy mountainside after a wedding and with a baby on the way leads to a desperate fight...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jackdaw Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOL

Yang, Iris

Summary: Sworn brothers—one American, one Chinese—captured, imprisoned, tortured. Survival is just the beginning of the battle... In 1942, Birch Bai, a Chinese pilot, and Danny Hardy, a downed American pilot, become sworn brothers and best friends. In the summer of 1945, both airmen’s planes go down in Yunnan Province of China during one of many daring missions. They are captured, imprisoned, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

Finkbeiner, Susie

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys -- she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIN

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Finkbeiner

Hambly, Barbara

Summary: "New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

White, Roseanna M.

Summary: "Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago's leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turns out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. Ambushes, bribes, murder, prostitution -- all her life, her father sheltered her from his crimes, but now she can no longer turn away from the truth. Maybe Lorenzo, the fiancé who barely paid...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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