Mailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAICline, Emma
Summary: Girls-- their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong-- are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cline 2016Griffin, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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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?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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Summary: A young widow opens a chocolate shop in a French village, transforming its normally austere inhabitants into unabashed sensualists. The event coincides with Lent, and the villagers' rejection of traditional self-denial angers the parish priest who declares war. A first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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Summary: "In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she's eager to settle down. Lilydale's motto, "Come Home Forever," couldn't be more inviting. And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
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Summary: "A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Deadhart, Alaska. Population: 673. Living. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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Summary: Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2009
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIClarke, Amy Suiter
Summary: A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone's minds--and may be covering up a murder. After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to never return. The man she loved, Lars, left her to marry the local golden girl Eve, and their romance is now the focus of Eve's viral blog espousing the pastor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLALewis, Kristyn Kusek
Summary: Greyhill, Virginia, refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't, just got a few new residents. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, she thinks she knows what to expect. But Bess quickly discovers that fitting in is easier said than done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEWCrook, Elizabeth.
Summary: On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before it was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. Monday, Monday follows three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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Summary: Although happily married now, Helena Pelletier was raised in Michigan's isolated marshlands by an abusive father. When he escapes from prison, only Helena will know just how to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, [2017] 2017
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Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: Five interconnected stories trace the experiences of soldiers whose relationships are shaped by war, from a World War II prisoner who endures his incarceration by imagining a cricket match to a man in a Victorian poorhouse who shamefully remembers the son he gave away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town--and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay--or does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WATGriffin, Anne
Summary: "From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead--a talent which is both a gift and a curse. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRILewis, Kristyn Kusek
Summary: Greyhill, Virginia is a refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, they'll be living across from his mother, and taking over the family's inn-keeping business. Bess lost her White House job under a cloud of scandal. She gets an opportunity to write an article for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEWFagerholm, Monika
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2010