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St. Vincent, Sarah

Summary: A young widow living in the Pennsylvania mountains and flipping burgers for hunters and hikers befriends a stranger visiting from Uzbekistan and becomes embroiled in a manhunt after he confesses to committing a terrible crime in his home country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ST V

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Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023

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Tapper, Jake

Summary: In a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tapper 2021

Ackerman, Elliot

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that's held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024

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Levithan, David

Summary: "A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Shaara, Jeff

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Summary: "In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Doctorow, Cory

Summary: "It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023

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Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Lescure, Aube Rey

Summary: Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she’s never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva’s hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LES
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Lo, Malinda

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Summary: When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2021

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Sanchez, Jasper

Summary: Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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

Mora, Nicolás Medina

Summary: "Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa's MFA program. But Sebastián's life is shaken by the Trump administration's restrictions on immigrants, his mother's terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship with his American girlfriend, and his father's forced resignation...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Fountain, Ben

Summary: "Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'état, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOU

Singer, P. W. (Peter Warren)

Summary: "America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington's Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN

Ahmed, Jamila

Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHM

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AHM

Herron, Mick

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Summary: "Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HER

Gough, Julian

Summary: "In a world run by computers, hackers have power--and awkward, homeschooled Colt is among the best. But when Colt secretly submits his mother Naomi's breakthrough research to a biotech conference, and it is immediately shut down, mother and son are forced to go on the run. Now Colt is coding for his life. As the military, and Colt's father, hunt them through a Las Vegas of self-driving cars and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOU

Chen, Wendy

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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Donoghue, Emma

Summary: A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

Sandford, John

Summary: When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Huang, S. L.

Summary: Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUA

Hilderbrand, Elin

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Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.

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

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

Hur, June

Summary: 1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings. Seventeen-year-old Iseul has lived a sheltered, privileged life despite the kingdom's turmoil. When her older sister, Suyeon,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024

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