Givhan, Jennifer
Summary: "When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Stone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIVWeingarten, Lynn
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEIFerris, Joshua.
Summary: Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERHepworth, Sally
Summary: Gabe and Pippa Gerard have just moved into their dream house: a cliffside cottage in a sleepy coastal town outside Melbourne. It's a fresh start to their marriage, and the perfect place to raise their two young daughters. But the houses perfect facade hides something more sinister: The Spot, where the tall cliffs have become a popular place for those wishing to end their lives. After talking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEPJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACKoppelman, Amy
Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPBoyle, T. Coraghessan
Summary: When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYConstantine, Liv.
Summary: Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONGadol, Peter
Summary: "Rebecca's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the "stranger game," a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GADSagan, Françoise
Summary: Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old CÃcile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her fatherâa handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eyeâfor a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. CÃcile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2009
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SAG FRENCHDonovan, Gail
Summary: Nine-year-old Sparrow Robinson blames herself for her elderly neighbor's accident, so she promises to take care of Mrs. LaRose's seven cats, all while trying to adjust to a new school--but things become complicated when she has to find new homes for all of the cats plus some unexpected kittens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DONO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: Comatose after a suicide attempt, Alice Raikes slides between levels of consciousness as her family gathers at her hospital bedside, where buried tensions emerge, and the more they talk, the more they conceal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC O'FAPlath, Sylvia.
Summary: This novel--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PlathBurton, Tara Isabella
Summary: "A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. LouiseWilson is an expert at just barely making it. She's mastered the tricks and shortcuts that a penniless small-town girl needs to survive in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCarter, Mary Dixie
Summary: "Delta Dawn comes from humble beginnings, but in her work as a photographer for the children's parties of New York's elite she is used to moving, unnoticed, through their luxurious homes. As she observes their seemingly perfect lives, she adds to this veneer by transforming the images of their crying children, stiff hugs and unsmiling faces-editing the images to make sure the parents see the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARSittenfeld, Curtis.
Summary: In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SITAlbom, Mitch
Summary: In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the disintegration of his life, until an encounter with his mother's ghost brings him new awareness and leads him to attempt to put his life back together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBAlbom, Mitch
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "After enduring years of a struggling marriage, Ronnie Farnham has decided to divorce her husband and is beginning to hope for a happy future--until the morning Jeff is supposed to move out, when he locks himself in their barn with a rifle. When a massive police presence arrives to control the 12-hour stand-off, the women in Jeff's life are pushed to their breaking points"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAHendricks, Greer
Summary: "When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HENStout, Rex
Summary: The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hard Case Crime 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STOYoung, Heather
Summary: IN THE SUMMER OF 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys her mother, who spends the rest of her life at the lake house, hoping in vain that her favorite daughter will walk out of the woods. Emily's two older sisters stay, too, each keeping her own private, decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YOUConstantine, Liv
Summary: "Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONGreaves, Abbie
Summary: "By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020