Castle, Jayne
Summary: "'The witch will burn.' Ravenna Chastain could hear the chanting in the adjacent chamber. It was growing louder and more intense. The members of the witch hunter cult were working themselves up into a frenzy. 'The witch will burn. The witch will burn. The witch will burn.' Until a few minutes ago she had kept panic at bay by telling herself that help was on the way. All she had to do was stall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCasale, Alexia
Summary: When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn't the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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Summary: At 33 years old, Tabby receives an unexpected diagnosis that brings her picture-perfect life crashing down, jeopardizing the keystone she took for granted: having children. The fight is all consuming, demanding a steep price that forces an honest reckoning for nearly everyone in her life. As Tabby soon learns, her grandmother's age-old adage just might still be true: Black girls must die...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLJayne, Stephanie
Summary: Down-on-her-luck craft beer brewer Kat clashes with her new boss, but when he confides the brewpub is in financial trouble, they work together to save the business until she's offered the opportunity of a lifetime, making her wonder if she can craft a brew that allows her to have it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Throwing herself into her work to maintain her position as the news station's weekend anchor, new mother Tabitha Walker, when her husband issues her an ultimatum, turns to her friends for support as she comes to terms with her new life and faces her biggest challenge yet--choosing herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "Discovering she's pregnant--after she was told she may not be able to have biological children--Tabitha throws herself headfirst into the world of "single mothers by choice." When an unexpected turn of events draws Marc--her on and off-again ex-boyfriend--back into her world with surprising demands, and the situation at work begins to threaten her livelihood and her identity, Tabitha must make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCastle, C. A.
Summary: Accepting a position as live-in tutor for the Edwards family, Brontë Ellis arrives at Greenwood Manor where he is welcomed into the household with warmth until a tragic fire reveals dark secrets smoldering under the surface of this once elegant estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CASPayne, Nikki
Summary: "Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire Internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAYAllen, Samantha Jayne
Summary: "Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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Summary: "Pride and Prejudice meets Black-ish in this exciting new rom-com by debut author Nikki Payne. Liza B-The Only DJ That Gives a Jam-wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at their corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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Summary: "China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chang 2020Coyne, Matt
Summary: "Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate. And then Red moves in next door. Red is six. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of his mum and dad, a new school, and the demonic school bully. Red is curious,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CoyneKrentz, Jayne Ann
Summary: North Chastain has always had the mysterious ability to channel energy through crystals. He and his father both have the ability, which is what the doctors believe is the cause of his father's sudden coma. But North is convinced it was brought on by an artifact his father had been looking for, and found. With his unique talent, North has the best chance at recovering the artifact, but he also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2021
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Summary: After one of her artists sends her a painting before apparently taking her own life, Seattle gallery owner Virginia teams with private investigator Cabot Sutter to catch the true killer and uncover the truth about the cult they were a part of as children.
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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 KREPhillips, Jayne Anne
Summary: "In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: what really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents, and that question is on his mind. Annie accepts his case, not knowing then that she, too, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: "Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers co-host a podcast, The Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases. After receiving a tip, Pallas travels to Carnelian, California to explore an abandoned asylum when she's stopped by the women's mysterious tipster. Ambrose Drake is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Pallas and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Engaging in deep meditation therapy to navigate the darkness of his work as a cold-case arson investigator, FBI consultant Jack Lancaster is targeted by a returned Quinton Zane, who has resolved to eliminate Anson Salinas's foster sons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Krentz 2019Allen, Samantha Jayne
Summary: "From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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Summary: Olivia LeClair has a psychic ability that Harlan Rancourt--long believed dead--and her employer want her to use to find the legendary Vortex lab. There's just one problem--no one knows Harlan's real agenda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: They're hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists. A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen's life is good-two children approaching adulthood, a committed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAIWayne, Teddy
Summary: Presents the hilarious and incisive story of Paul, a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, who, outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, is plagued by indignities as he tries to right the world's wrongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022