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Summary: Growing up blaming her mother after the mysterious disappearance of her beloved nanny, an embittered woman is forced to return home decades later when the discovery of human remains forces her to question everything she thought she knew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacmillan, Gilly
Summary: "Childhood sweethearts Nicole and Tom are a normal, loving couple, until a massive lottery win changes their lives overnight. Soon they've moved into a custom-built state-of-the-art Glass Barn on the stunning grounds of Lancaut Manor in Gloucestershire. They have fancy cars, expensive hobbies, and an exclusive lifestyle they never could have imagined. But this dream world quickly turns into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACO'Callaghan, Billy
Summary: "Radiant with beauty, longing, and desire, and deeply touching, this literary novel, reminiscent of the works of William Trevor and Colm Tóibín, evokes the long love affair between a man and a woman, each married to another, who meet every month in a decaying hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn. These beautiful, carefully-rationed days have long sustained Michael and Caitlin's love, and have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCABelcourt, Billy-Ray
Summary: "A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Buchet, Nelly
Summary: "A young girl is thrilled to spend the day with her big sister, but things don't go as planned. It's so hot outside--legs-stick-to-the-seat hot--that her ice cream melts and then it rains. Their plans must change, and then change again as the library closes just before they arrive. But big sister knows just what to do next--even if it's nothing besides splashing in puddles and looking at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BUCPill, Maggie
Summary: In this second story of the series, our heroes are presented with two crime threads, one hot and one cold. The cold case is half a century old, which is okay, since many residents remember those days like they were yesterday. In 1967, on a warm night in Nashville, Tennessee, someone committed two brutal murders. It’s reported that person now lives in the park, hiding under a new identity. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PILGarrett, Kellye
Summary: For their romantic getaway to New York City, Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything--the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the luxury row house where they stayed. But on the final morning, when Breanna came downstairs, she found a dead white woman in the foyer, and Ty was gone. The woman is Janelle Beckett, a missing person with a social media following, #Justice4Janelle....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GARKeller, Holly.
Summary: Mouse hears a rumor that snakes do not like mice and while trying to avoid his former friend, Snake, he falls into a hole from which neither Hedgehog, Squirrel, nor Rabbit can help him out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELPill, Maggie.
Summary: A new series that’s suspenseful and humorous, with "mature" sleuths, couples with loving but sometimes contentious relationships. ONCE UPON A TRAILER PARK begins with a murder on the streets of the Beautiful Bird RV Park in Palm Hill, Florida. As residents learn bits and pieces about the crime (some true, some less so), they form and reform theories of the killer’s identity. It’s the park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gwendolyn Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC PILKealey, Imogen
Summary: "To the allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a Special Operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world. But at first, Nancy Wake was just another young woman living in Marseille and recently engaged to a man she loved." --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEAKelso, Megan
Summary: "Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between the two warring sides of a civil war, a graphic novel that takes place in a world that echoes our own, but whose people have artichoke leaves instead of hair"--From publisher's web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 KELHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Ellie's always disliked the local big estate agent--aka Great White Shark--so is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she's carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie's soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELBelli, Kate
Summary: "New York City, summer 1889. Society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart and wealthy Daniel McCaffrey have arrived at the docks to see their friends, Rupert and Esmie Milton, off on their honeymoon. But the romantic idyll comes to a screeching halt when a crazed man bursts into their stateroom screaming about demons and drops dead before their eyes. The dead man is Marcus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELGriffiths, Elly
Summary: "Norfolk is suffering from record summer heat when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery--a downed World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot, and DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. When the remaining members of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIHeley, Veronica.
Summary: Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't "do" murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust ... after which Denzil had, expectedly, died. Oliver, Bea's computer geek of an assistant, is delighted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELRowe, Kelis
Summary: Sparks fly when teens Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis, but these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROWMagoon, Kekla
Summary: Caleb Franklin and his big brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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3 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAGCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAGGriffiths, Elly
Summary: "In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England's Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. So when Ruth Galloway's druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and a dark blue cloak standing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M GRIForrest, Bella
Summary: Twenty-year-old Liana Castell must be careful what she thinks. Her life is defined by the number on her wristband -- a rating out of ten awarded based on her usefulness and loyalty to the Tower, and monitored by a device in her skull. A device that reports forbidden thoughts. Liana is currently a four, the lowest possible acceptable score. When her worst nightmare comes to pass and she drops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightlight Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA SF ForrestMcLean, Gill
Summary: Nelephant's friend Waggy finds a tricycle outside. Out of all their toy friends, Nelephant is the only one big enough to ride it. She tries it out excitedly, but soon crashes. Nelephant vows to never ride on the tricycle again. Then, she decides to draw about all the places the tricycle could take her with her friends. With new confidence and the support of friends like Waggy, Nelephant gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCLKiley, Alexandra
Summary: "Ready or Scot... Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world - anywhere but Scotland. But when she's sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands - and save her own job - Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm. Rugged as the land he loves, Logan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELShalvis, Jill
Summary: Most people wouldn't think of a bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn't most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she's been having since spending the night with her very secret crush, Lucas Knight. Nothing happened, not that Lucas knows that - but Molly just wants to enjoy being a little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020