Williams, Andria
Summary: In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the country’s first nuclear reactors—an assignment that seems full of opportunity. Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILDubus, Andre
Summary: Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls. In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? Can he find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. As Alfred and the Professor encounter towns with familiar names but where Black residents speak only in sign...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coach House Books 2019
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Summary: "Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERJones, Sandie
Summary: "In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones's heart-pounding new novel The Blame Game will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly. As a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi has found it hard to avoid becoming overly invested in her clients' lives. But after helping Jacob make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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Summary: Believing she has finally achieved happiness in her second marriage, children and best friendship with the most loyal woman she has ever known, Alice turns suspicious when her husband and best friend start disappearing for extended times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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Summary: He loves you. Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. But she loves you not. Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. And she'll stop at nothing. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: "From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CruzWilliams, Shanora
Summary: "Samira Wilder has never had it easy ... Until she unexpectedly meets a man who will change her life forever. Renowned pro golfer Roland Graham is wealthy, handsome, and caring, and ... though their relationship moves a bit fast, when Roland proposes, Samira accepts. She even agrees to relocate to his secluded Colorado mansion ... Samira settles into the mansion, blissfully happy--until she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022
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Summary: As the spirit of experimentation swirled around him in the 1960s and '70s, John Williams, working in relative obscurity as an English professor, wrote finely crafted novels distinguished by precise form, powerful but restrained prose, and close attention to physical detail and its symbolic import. His three major works Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and the National Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliams, Charlotte
Summary: While trying to keep her marriage and family together, therapist Jessica Mayhew treats the handsome but fragile son of a famous stage director and becomes drawn into an explosive scandal that puts her directly in harm's way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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Summary: "Kelly's new life in Philadelphia has turned into a nightmare: She's friendless and jobless, and the lockdown has her trapped in a tiny apartment with the man she gave up everything for, who's just called off their wedding. The only bright spot is her newly rekindled friendship with her childhood friend Sabrina -- now a glamorous bestselling author with a handsome, high-powered husband. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BARBartz, Andrea
Summary: Staying with a friend and her husband is sexier--and deadlier--than anyone could imagine in this provocative domestic suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reeses Book Club pick We Were Never Here. Kellys new life in Philadelphia has turned into a nightmare: Shes friendless and jobless, and the lockdown has her trapped in a tiny apartment with the man she gave up everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: In 2009, Edie had New York's social world in her thrall, the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft. When Edie's body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the friends and brought the era to an abrupt end. A decade later, her best friend Lindsay has come a long way from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARContos, Andrea
Summary: Nora and Sophie Linden may be sisters, but they haven't been friends since the party last month. The night Sophie's boyfriend, Garrett, disappeared. Half the town thinks Garrett is dead, the other half believes he ran away, but Sophie knows something no one else does: Garrett left that party with Nora. Then Sophie starts receiving messages from someone who claims to be Garrett, promising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate--and dangerous--than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Summary: Traumatized after a life-threatening attack by Gordon Mallory, who died in an accident after assaulting her, radio personality Taylor Halstead receives a threatening e-mail and wonders if she can trust Gordon's twin brother, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANNiffenegger, Audrey.
Summary: Julia and Valentina Poole are American twenty-year-olds whose attachment to one another is intense. Their aunt, Elspeth Noblin, has died of cancer and left them her London apartment under two conditions: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother. The girls move to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC CRUNiffenegger, Audrey.
Summary: When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Summary: "'[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.'--Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You; Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHimmel, 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