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Bisexual men Fiction Bookstores Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Fiction Immigrants Michigan Detroit History 20th century Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Missing persons Fiction New York (N.Y.) Fiction Scotland Fiction Young women Michigan Detroit History 20th century FictionFalconer, Ian
Summary: Olivia decides there has to be a marching band at the fireworks display, even if she has to do it herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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Summary: When her best toy mysteriously disappears, Olivia the feisty pig is determined to find out who is responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FALCotterill, Colin
Summary: "Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and oddballs. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk, who rides out on his bicycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the refrigerator. Realizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTBarrett, Colin
Summary: "The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2024
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Summary: Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUCotterill, Colin.
Summary: Supervising an excavation for the remains of a U.S. fighter pilot who crashed in a northern Laos jungle a decade earlier, national coroner Dr. Siri becomes suspicious when a series of fatal accidents culminates in his team getting trapped in a cabin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTWalsh, Colin
Summary: "In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lannan at its white-hot center. But later that year, Kala disappeared without a trace. Now remains have been discovered in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALGörtler, Carolin
Summary: For curious kids ages 2 to 5! Packed with look-and-find fun, Wimmelbooks let kids be the storyteller. The bustling illustrations in A Day at School invite kids (and parents!) to imagine what's happening in the Wimmelschool classroom, at recess, on a field trip, and in more fun scenes. Millions of kids around the world already love Wimmelbooks. You will, too!
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021
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Summary: Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but more than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Boling 2017Coles, Jay
Summary: "There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLMcCann, Colum
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCUnferth, Deb Olin
Summary: Wait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling "The First Full Thought of Her Life," a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In "Voltaire Night," students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In "Stay Where You Are," two oblivious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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Summary: "Sugar, Baby follows Agnes, a mixed-race 21-year-old whose life seems to be heading nowhere. Still living at home, she works as a cleaner and spends all her money in clubs on the weekends searching for distractions from her mundane life. That is until she meets Emily, daughter of one of her cleaning clients, who lives in London and works as a model . . . and a sugar baby, dating rich older men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAIConklin, Tara
Summary: When she is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, renowned poet Fiona Skinner recounts the summer her family spent in a middle-class Connecticut town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conklin 2019Colgan, Jenny
Summary: When Flora MacKenzie traded her glum career in London for the remote Scottish island of Mure, she never dreamed that Joel--her difficult, adorable boss--would follow. Yet now, not only has Flora been reunited with her family and opened a charming caf©♭ by the sea, but she and Joel are taking their first faltering steps into romance. With Joel away on business in New York, Flora is preparing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COLColgan, Jenny
Summary: Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile--a mobile bookshop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLColgan, Jenny
Summary: An American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. Who can resist the narrow, historic street, the Victorian grey stone buildings, and a warmly lit shop window? Carmen Hogan, the bookshop's manager, is a bit horrified, but the money the studio is paying is too good to pass up. She'll use the money to enlarge the store after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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Summary: It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fianc J̌eff, the man who shattered her heart-- and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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Summary: The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first--and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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Summary: Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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Summary: "The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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Summary: "A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018