Schaitkin, Alexis
Summary: "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHCabot, Meg
Summary: Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEWeir, Keziah
Summary: From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes an intoxicating debut novel about a young journalist who discovers a short story that's inexplicably about her life--leading to an entanglement with the author's widow, daughter, and former best friend. Sal Cannon's life is in shambles. Her relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after its revealed that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Anna is a regular teenaged girl ... But one day at track practice, Anna falls unconscious ... but instead of falling down, she falls up, defying gravity in the disturbing first symptom of a mysterious disease. Anna's world is turned upside down ... Her friends don't seem to understand, running track is out of the question, and the other kids at the disease clinic she attends once a week are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAMFuller, Claire
Summary: "In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London--perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FULZiegler, Jennifer
Summary: William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEGoodman, Carol
Summary: When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Kyoshi's place as the true Avatar has finally been cemented-but at a heavy cost. With her mentors gone, Kyoshi voyages to the Southern Air Temple, where she can master the elements beyond what she could have ever imagined. But while her bending grows stronger, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World. To stop it, Kyoshi, Rangi, the daofei, and their reluctant allies must join forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YEERagnar Jonasson
Summary: "Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavaik. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skaalar seems like a small price to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAGGriffiths, Rachel Eliza
Summary: "New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters-Ezra and Cinthy-grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it is easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys--one of whom has a collection of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAYStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STRAdams, Sean
Summary: At the far reaches of the world, the Northern Institute sits in a vast expanse of ice and snow. Once a thriving research facility, its operations were abruptly shut down after an unspecified incident, and its research teams promptly evacuated. Now it's home to a team of three caretakers, Gibbs, Cline, and their supervisor, Hart, and a single remaining researcher named Gilroy, who is feverishly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAConklin, Tara
Summary: "A wise, bighearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONBaume, Sara
Summary: "A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another ... They make a promise to climb the mountain, but--over the course of the next seven years--it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Summary: "With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction StroutSnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONSchwartz, Leanne
Summary: "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa as a haven for his followers, but to keep the devil at bay, the church sends a child sacrifice to hell's entrance every season--often poor or plain girls just like Alesta. With a head full of ideas for inventions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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Summary: Plagued by the voices of Avatars before her for as long as she can remember, Yangchen travels to Bin-Er in the Earth Kingdom where she partners with an informant named Kavik and soon learns to rely on her own wisdom and continue her journey from uncertain young woman to revered leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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Summary: Sal Cannon's relationship is crumbling, and her career in journalism hits a low point after it's revealed that her profile of a playwright is full of inaccuracies. When she reads a short story by Martin Keller-- a much older author she met at a literary event years ago-- she discovers the story is about her and the moment they met. When Sal learns the story is excerpted from his unpublished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2023