Himes, Leigh
Summary: "In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road Not Taken. Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMHimes, Chester B.
Summary: "This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The novel takes place in the space of four days in the life of Bob Jones, a black man who is constantly plagued by the effects of racism. Living in a society that is drenched in race consciousness has no doubt taken a toll on the way Jones behaves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMKimmel, Haven
Summary: From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Within the twisty logic of abuse, her desperate love for him took on a romantic cast that persists to this day, though she's had no contact with her family since she ran away from home years ago. Alone but for her beloved dog, she's eked out an impoverished but functional existence, living in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMNiven, Jennifer
Summary: Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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Summary: "Anne Rivers Siddons tells the beautiful, tragic, and redemptive story of a woman who searches for meaning after her husband dies"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: Anny Butler, director of an agency devoted to child welfare, has resigned herself to being single, but she is swept off her feet by older doctor Lewis Aiken who introduces her into his clique of lifelong friends, and she soon becomes caught up in the joys, secrets, and sorrows of high-society Charleston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDSiddons, 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 SIDGiles, Stephen M.
Summary: "Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say goodbye. Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: A grieving widow takes a solitary road trip to her late husband's favorite getaway on pristine coastal Maine, where she remembers their many happy years of family life, reevaluates the time before they met, and considers her future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. Large Print 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIDSummary: The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short horror fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Andy Davidson, Tananarive Due, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Angela Slatter, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMiller, Andrew
Summary: Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to helpwith a dubious family endeavor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILPatterson, James
Summary: A jet crashes at a DC airport, shot down by a Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. Even shorter is the time until Alex Cross is the next target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HachetteAudio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random-Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother-have told him. Don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATBurroughs, William S.
Summary: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2009
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Summary: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017