Waldman, Ayelet.
Summary: Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved husband Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALGundar-Goshen, Ayelet
Summary: From the award-winning author of Waking Lions comes a novel about how one lie can change everything, when a teenaged girl's scream--and the false assumption that comes from it--radiates through a street, a neighborhood, and a city, and turns lives upside down.side down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNRushdie, Salman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSHaldeman, Joe W.
Summary: A war breaks out between rich and poor nations over advanced technology which the rich refuse to share. Led by the U.S., the rich fight with robots, teleguided from chips in commanders' brains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1997
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Summary: "Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2020
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Summary: Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastor's wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012
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Summary: A fictionalized account of the post-war life of Peter, who hid in the secret annex with Anne Frank and her family, follows his survival of the Holocaust, his relocation to America, and his memories upon the publication of Anne's diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELParks, Adele
Summary: One last client. A week at a beautiful château in the south of France - it should be a straightforward final job for Dora. She's a smart, stunning and discrete escort and Daniel has paid for her services before. This time, all she has to do is to convince the assembled guests that she is his girlfriend. One last chance. It will be a last, luxurious look at how the other half live, before Dora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARFeldman, Joshua Max.
Summary: Jonah Jacobstein is a lucky man: young, healthy and handsome, he has two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him, and an enormously successful legal career that gets more promising by the minute. A bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party one night will change that forever. Hard as he tries to forget it, this upsetting sign is only the first of many Jonah will see,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A woman with a shocking secret is missing, presumed dead. And her two husbands are suspects in her murder. DCI Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things...Until a body is found, this sad case remains wide open. Stacie Jones lives a quiet life in a small village, nursed by her father as she recovers from illness, and shielded from any news...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M PARBurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURMartel, 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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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 MARAnshaw, Carol
Summary: When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2012