Kimmel, 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 KIMHimmel, Andrew
Summary: "The Reluctant Healer tells the story of a young attorney who is torn between mounting evidence that he has the spiritual ability to heal others and his life-long skepticism of alternative views. Will Alexander is cautious and conventional. But when he meets Erica, a beautiful, intense energy healer, he becomes troubled not only by her unorthodox endeavors but also by the limitations of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMBeck, Haylen
Summary: "Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She's just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can't she stop looking over her shoulder or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOTimmer, Julie Lawson.
Summary: Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TIMJakobson, Haley
Summary: "Savannah 'Sav' Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It's the second semester of her sophomore year. She's finally come out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer 'situationship.' She is cautiously optimistic that her life is about the begin. But when she learns that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKHansen, Dörte
Summary: "All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty farmhouse she arrived in as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. 60 years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son -- Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg neighborhood she never fit into when her relationship implodes. Vera and Anne are strangers to each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANDunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNHarvey, Kristy Woodson.
Summary: " A moving debut novel about two mothers-one biological and one adoptive-from a compelling new voice in Southern women's fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they'll ever make. Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-everything except the second child she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2015