Chee, Alexander
Summary: Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHEAlender, Katie
Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEGray, Alexandra.
Summary: Ten men lays bare the the rules of sex, class and power in the twenty-first century dating game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRAHolahan, Cate
Summary: "The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town - and desperate for some kid-free conversation - she invites her new neighbors to join in on a week-long sublet with her and her workaholic husband.Over the course of the first evening, liquor loosens inhibitions and lips. The three couples begin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLAndrews, Alexandra
Summary: Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job the assistant to the brilliant, enigmatic novelist known as Maud Dixon -- whose true identity is a secret -- it appears that the universe is finally providing Florence's big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? The follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OATKleeman, Alexandra
Summary: "A missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person; an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television; and ... a wholly singular view of modern womanhood"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLEOliva, Alexandra
Summary: "For readers of Station Eleven and The Passage comes a dazzling and unsettling novel of psychological suspense. In Alexandra Oliva's thrilling fiction debut, survival is the name of the game, as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself--and one woman's mind and body are pushed to the limit. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLIHolahan, Cate
Summary: Ana Bacon, a beautiful young wife and mother, tumbled off a cruise ship into dark and deadly waters. Ana is gone--leaving behind her wealthy husband and adorable daughter--but not everything about her disappearance adds up. What secrets did she leave behind? Investigator Ryan Monahan is a numbers man. So when his company sends him the Bacon case, which could net a ten-million-dollar payout,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLStevens, Chevy.
Summary: Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest. But she has demons of her own, some she can barely think about and some she can't even remember. In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, she is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire--healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn't want to look too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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Summary: "Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't alone. . . She has her cat Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company. But something's about to change. Whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEHarbach, Chad.
Summary: A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HARHooper, Chloe
Summary: Englishwoman Liese Campbell visits the Melbourne country mansion of heir Alexander Colquhoun, with whom she shares a no-strings-attached affair until discovering deeper, more erotic aspects of his character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOHarbach, Chad.
Summary: "At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended."--from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAREssbaum, Jill Alexander.
Summary: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESSScott, Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOMartel, Yann.
Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: It seems like Cam and Lilly have the perfect marriage, the perfect life. When Cam dies, Lilly retreats to Maine's coast, a place where they came time and time again. As she revisits a lifetime of happy memories, she comes to a realization that will change her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIDLevine, Daniel G.
Summary: Mr. Hyde is trapped, locked in Dr. Jekyll's surgical cabinet, counting the hours until his inevitable capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell his story--the story of his brief, marvelous life. Summoned to life by strange potions, Hyde knows not when or how long he will have control of "the body." When dormant, he watches Dr. Jekyll from a remove, conscious of this other,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014