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Cameron, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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Wiseman, Ellen Marie

Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIS

Fishbeyn, Anna

Summary: "The Matrimonial Flirtations of Emma Kaulfield is an often laugh-out-loud comedy of conflicting manners, values, and customs, set against the backdrop of a Russian immigrant family's struggle to assimilate, their newfound love of capitalism, and their insistent push for their children's tangible success. Emma Kaulfield escaped the Soviet Union in the 1980s when she was 10--hers was one of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIS

Durham, David Anthony

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUR

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Griffin, Anne

Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRI

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEZ

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIT

Mengestu, Dinaw

Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEN

Mengestu, Dinaw

Summary: Coming of age during an African revolution, a brilliant university student-turned-fighter eventually flees the escalating violence of his country to resettle in the United States, where he is haunted by his past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEN

Morris, Kevin

Summary: "A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory." Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight. 1961. Outside...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Preston 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CHI

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

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Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman

Yoon, Paul

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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Stork, Francisco X.

Summary: Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STO

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STO

Ward, Annie Nigh

Summary: "Maddie and Ian's love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was serving in the British army and she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WAR

Tropper, Jonathan.

Summary: Judd Foxman is thrown together with his dysfunctional family when his father dies, while at the same time coping with his wife's infidelity and the end of his marriage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRO

Ellmann, Lucy

Summary: "Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Biblioasis 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

McLarty, Ron.

Summary: Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCL

McLarty, Ron.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCL

Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo

Summary: '"This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration."--Lorrie Moore. Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Berlin, and Connecticut, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki's son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront the mother who abandoned him when he was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUC

Rogers, Brian

Summary: "An aspiring actor, two truant teenagers, a musical composer and his wife, a single mother, an aspiring major leaguer, and a social climber accused of murder - these are the characters that populate The Whole of the Moon. Set along historic Route 66 and loosely linked by a library copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Brian Rogers' novel is about determination and failure and life in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nevada Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROG

Hood, Ann

Summary: An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the twentieth century is linked to a woman considering leaving her loveless marriage in 1963.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOO

Sindu, SJ

Summary: "Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN

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