Monroe, Mary
Summary: "With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary.
Summary: Longing to break free from her dead-end marriage, Christine Thurman, who has escaped her upbringing on the wrong side of the tracks, is drawn back into her old life when she has a torrid affair with a bad boy from her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMari, Michele
Summary: Italy’s great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last. On the cusp between autobiography and fiction, at the crossroads of memory andmyth, these stories by Italy’s answer to both Stephen King and Jorge Luis Borges find the obsessions of childhood coming back to haunt the present day in hilarious and unsettling ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARJenkins, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Bailer, Darice.
Summary: Instead of doing what other dogs do, Charlie Brown's dog imagines himself chasing the German World War I pilot, the Red Baron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUCampbell, Marcy
Summary: Future interior designer Maggie, a sixth-grader, focuses on an upcoming design contest to cope with friendship and family troubles, including having Tony, a half-brother she never knew existed, move in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAMMosse, Kate
Summary: Joining her fellow English villagers in a misty churchyard on St. Mark's Eve, a taxidermist's daughter reflects on the mysterious downfall of her father's once-famous museum before discovering the body of a stranger whose death unlocks dark memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSClifford, Aoife
Summary: Eliza Carmody returns home to the country to work on the biggest law case of her career. The only problem is this time she's on the 'wrong side' - defending a large corporation against a bushfire class action by her hometown of Kinsale. On her first day back Eliza witnesses an old friend, Luke Tyrell, commit an act of lethal violence. As the police investigate that crime and hunt for Luke they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Clifford 2019Moers, Walter
Summary: Malaisea is the unhealthiest town in the whole of Zamonia, home to Echo the Crat, a multi-talented creature that resembles a cat but is capable of speaking any language under the sun. When his mistress dies and Echo finds himself starving on the street, he is compelled to sign a contract with Ghoolion the Alchemaster, Malaisea' s evil alchemist-in-chief. This fateful document gives Ghoolion the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOETorre, Alessandra
Summary: Four years ago, I lied. I stood in front of the police, my friends and family, and made up a story, my best one yet. And all of them believed me. I wasn't surprised. Telling stories is what made me famous. Fifteen bestsellers. Millions of fans. Fame and fortune. Now, I have one last story to write. It'll be my best one yet, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave them stunned and gasping for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alessandra Torre 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TORCollins, Olive
Summary: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics, neglecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLAdams, Alane
Summary: "Sam Baron is about to get the shock of his life. First his substitute English teacher claims to have turned his old teacher into a lizard; then a strange dwarf named Rego arrives and claims Sam is from a magical realm called Orkney. When his friends are taken prisoner, it's up to Sam to save them. Sam embarks on a journey to Orkney through a stonefire to find his friends, but when he arrives,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SparkPress 2015
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADAMoor, Margriet de
Summary: "A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it's time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a tale of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident still holds her in its grasp. Why did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOArgy, Julia
Summary: "A razor-sharp and seductively hypnotic debut novel about the very fantasy of falling in love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARGRamsay, Caro
Summary: Anderson and Costello discover a body in macabre circumstances, and must figure out what happened to a girl who is found wandering through the West End Festival parade claiming to have been abducted by aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMSáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAEBergman, Mara.
Summary: Describes a chain reaction that is caused by Elizabeth pushing her classmate Joe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BERJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXAnie, Sussie
Summary: Moving to a new part of London, Kwasi finds refuge and inspiration in an eclectic and run-down charity shop where he forms an unexpected friendship with its owner, giving each of them a new sense of belonging until local politics threaten to divide them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANIJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JAMKlise, Kate.
Summary: When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLIMoore, Christopher
Summary: A disbarred lawyer making a precarious living as a private investigator in Bangkok, Vincent Calvino is about to close the books on a major drug piracy ring, until his client dies of a heart attack and he stumbles upon the body of a massage girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOGrabowski, Alina
Summary: "Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a bright young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP Lit, a Zando imprint 2024