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Summary: "Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOICook, Robin
Summary: "In this electrifying new medical thriller from New York Times bestseller Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the center of a terrifying danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by greed and corruption"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCook, Robin
Summary: "George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. George's initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating, when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOMcCann, 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 MCCTobin, Paul
Summary: Multi-Eisner award-winning writer Paul Tobin pens a fantasy epic of the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, a witcher--one of the few remaining monster hunters from the critically acclaimed video game fantasy The Witcher by CD Projekt Red!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOBHolm, Anne
Summary: After escaping from an east European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with a strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Summary: High schooler Matt's father is rich, powerful, and seemingly untouchable--a mobster with high hopes that his son will follow in his footsteps. Matt's older brother Lukas seems poised to do just that, with a bevy of hot girls in tow. But Matt has other ambitions--and attractions. And an attraction sometimes doesn't allow for good judgement. Matt wouldn't have guessed that Jason, the son of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIECoel, Margaret
Summary: When Arapaho Ned Windsong is shot to death, his fiance Marcy is the only witness. And when the men Marcy has accused of murdering her fiance are found dead in an abandoned barn, Vicky and Father John realize they are caught up in a web of lies and deceit woven by a master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEMcClain, Lee Tobin
Summary: Running a bookstore on a quaint Chesapeake Bay island is Deena Clarks dream job. but the offer comes with a catch - helping Luis Dominguez figure out fatherhood. Distrustful of men, Deena had hoped the billionaire would agree to pay child support for her late friend's baby and let her continue raising Willow alone. Instead, he plans to move to Teaberry Island with Willow, and he wants Deena in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCColes, 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 COLHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: After finally getting a cell phone, Babymouse tries to increase her popularity in middle school by becoming the queen of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Baby Holm 2018Cole, Teju
Summary: "A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSimon, Coco
Summary: Since all her Cupcake Friends have other activities besides making cupcakes, Katie tries her hand at softball and after much deliberation, steps up to the plate, realizing doing what you love always makes life sweeter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024
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1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series SimonSimon, Coco.
Summary: Katie starts to realize that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2011
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SIMCole, Joanna.
Summary: A sister enumerates the joys of welcoming a new baby to the family and the advantages of already being "big."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLSimon, Coco
Summary: Supported by her friends, Sierra enters a local singing contest, but her confidence falters when she sees her talented competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SIMSimon, Coco.
Summary: The Special Day wedding salon is running an ad in the local newspaper, and they want Emma to model in the advertisement. The ad is a huge hit and suddenly Emma is very much in demand. But after running all over New York City for auditions, Emma realizes being a model is a lot tougher than she thought. Does Emma really want to be America's next top model, or is being a part of the Cupcake Club...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2012
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SIMIggulden, Conn.
Summary: Two boyhood friends, Gaius Marius and Marcus, now grown to manhood, are thrust into the grip of bitter conflict as every Roman prepares to take sides in the coming civil war between Sulla and Marius. Their friendship is further tested as they vie for the the love of an extraordinary slave girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta trade 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGIggulden, Conn.
Summary: The three surviving sons of Genghis Khan vie for the crown while striving to protect their father's empire and establish independent legacies, agendas marked by efforts to build a city in the wilderness, conquer Southern China and tame the steppes of Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGIggulden, Conn.
Summary: Second in a series on the mighty Mongol conqueror who sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. In this volume, he sets his sights on Yenking (modern day Beijing, China). Follows "Genghis : birth of an empire" ; continued by "Genghis : bones of the hills."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGCoble, Colleen
Summary: "As a 911 dispatcher, Dana Newell takes pride in being calm in tough circumstrances. In addition to her emotionally-charged career, she's faced enough emergencies in her own life. She recently escaped her abusive fianc©♭ to move to tranquil Rock Harbor where she hopes life will be more peaceful. But the idyllic town hides more danger and secrets than it first appeared. Dana is continually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC COBAzim, Fahmida
Summary: This graphic novella recounts the true story of Zumrat Dawut, as originally published in the independent online news organization, Insider, through interviews conducted by Anthony Del Col and testimony given to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Friday, a Lev Gleason imprint 2023
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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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIBarrett, 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