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Thorndike Press large print basicCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMCogan, Priscilla
Summary: "When a botched bank robbery leaves Billy T. Pickle in need of hostages, he winds up with more than he bargained for: a girl named Phoenix, who's filled with teen angst, and Kate, who's filled with wisdom that only comes with age. As they make their way across the country, Billy finds he needs these women more than he could have ever known"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG
Ware, Ruth
Summary: Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect: her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARBlake, Matthew
Summary: What if your nightmares weren't really nightmares at all? We spend an average of 33 years of our lives asleep. But what really happens, and what are we capable of, when we sleep? Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive-and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. How does a North Korean defector connect with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC YOOBourne, Brianna
Summary: Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: "Lil and Frank married young, having bonded over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCJenner, Natalie
Summary: "Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JENPachico, Julianne
Summary: "Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways and whose stories, taken together, provide a lens on the intensity of life in Colombia during the violent years of guerrilla insurgencies and corruption. A teenager hides alone in her family's mansion until she hears a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACTallo, Katie
Summary: "Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother - her last living relative - has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother's possessions, Gus stumbles across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALJewell, Lisa
Summary: On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEWTucker, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCCharyn, Jerome
Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAGoldhagen, Shari
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLHaynes, Elizabeth
Summary: When her handsome new neighbor encourages her to confront her fears, Catherine Bailey, the victim of a violent attack at the hands of a man whose good looks hid a dark, violent nature, finally believes in the possibility of love and a normal life until one phone call changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAYHaynes, Elizabeth
Summary: When her handsome new neighbor encourages her to confront her fears, Catherine Bailey, the victim of a violent attack at the hands of a man whose good looks hid a violent nature, finally believes in the possibility a normal life until one phone call changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYKorkeakivi, Anne
Summary: Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, Shining Sea quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three-year-old Michael Gannon's widow and offspring. Brilliantly described and utterly alive on the page, the Gannon clan find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, for decades to come. Told with a cinematic sweep, Shining Sea transports us from World War II to the present day, crisscrossing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KORAhern, Cecelia
Summary: How can you know someone you've never met? Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Joyce Conway leaves the hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AHEHodgkinson, Amanda.
Summary: In this tale of a Polish family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII, Silvana and Janusz travel to England where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HODOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OATQuick, Matthew
Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIBerry, Anne
Summary: Presents the stories of four individuals whose lives are irrevocably shaped by the pull and spirits of the water, from Owen, who believes his younger sister was stolen by merfolk in childhood; to abused orphan Naomi, who escapes into the ocean while harboring a powerful secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERGiordano, Paolo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIOJoyce, Eddie.
Summary: " "Eddie Joyce's terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty. His Amendola family and their beloved Staten Island may be flawed, but they represent what's best and most necessary in the American character, what our tired and poor still yearn for." -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2015