Abu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUBell, Madison Smartt
Summary: "Julie takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of an underground cave, which opens into a gallery filled with remarkable ancient paintings. Lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Julie travels in a seductive parallel universe populated by a prehistoric human sensibility, while Marissa, who gave Julie up for adoption 15 years earlier, attempts to draw her back to consciousness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELNadzam, Bonnie.
Summary: "Lamb" traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NADKlavan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAGuterson, David.
Summary: This novel is about a teenage girl, Ann Holmes, who claims to see the Virgin Mary. A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Father Collins--a young priest new to North Fork--finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTCline, Emma.
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: FIC CLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cline 2016Moretti, Kate
Summary: In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field. Baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife, Alicia, are well respected throughout town, until a reporter investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy motel. Lucia soon buoys the scandal by claiming that she and Nate are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: LP FIC MORCline, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLIRobotham, Michael
Summary: Seven years ago Evie Cormac was discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Her ability to tell when someone is lying helped Haven crack an impenetrable case. He starts digging into her past, but the closer he gets to uncovering answers about Evie's dark history, the more he exposes her to danger. Ultimately, both will have to decide if some secrets are better left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBGentry, Amy
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENHalpern, Sue
Summary: A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer, and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HALHealey, Jane
Summary: "In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings -- and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth's house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks. Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEAAlsaid, Adi
Summary: "Isabel is having an existential crisis. She's three years into high school, and everything she's learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet--a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALSDesai, Kiran
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DESEgan, Jennifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGAGoodman, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOGreen, Tim
Summary: Jack Ruskin is uniquely qualified to commit a series of perfect murders. A former prosecuter, and now the respected partner of a prestigious law firm, he has the means and the knowledge to kill without leaving a trace of evidence behind. His targets are criminals themselves, sexual predators beyond reform. He has no connection to them; he simply finds their names in public records. Jack knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMcCullers, Carson
Summary: In a small Georgia mill town during the depression, four misfits form a group that revolves around a deaf-mute whose sole companion has been sent to an insane asylum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCRaymond, Jonathan.
Summary: The discovery of two skeletons during the filming of a movie in the Pacific Northwest intertwines the lives of two pairs of friends, separated by generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAYRussell, Kate Elizabeth
Summary: "2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RussellSittenfeld, 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 SITAssadi, Hannah Lillith
Summary: "Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam's imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura, the two fall into infatuated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASSEllison, J. T.
Summary: In a world where appearances are everything, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ELLErnaux, Annie
Summary: "Set in the mid-1970s, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne, who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2022