Ohlin, Alix.
Summary: 1996: Grace, a psychiatrist, juggles a suicidal boyfriend and a young patient's impending abortion. 2002: Annie, a struggling actress, takes pity on a homeless girl and invites her into her New York apartment. 2006: Mitch, a divorced counsellor, finds that listening to other people's problems takes his mind off his own. Ten years. Three lives. One truth: helping other people is infinitely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHLNathan, Alix
Summary: Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits on a radical experiment in isolation: For seven years a subject will inhabit three rooms in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATSummary: 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 Adult, Call number: FIC ATWHood, Joshua
Summary: A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOOBrod, Chanie
Summary: Clap, play, and giggle as you spin the dreidel, light the menorah, and fill the plate with latkes! Inspired by Hervé Tullet's Press Here, Let's Play Dreidel is the perfect Chanukah gift for the preschoolers in your life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Menucha Publishers, INC. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE BROWood, James
Summary: In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. When Vanessa's boyfriend sends word that she has fallen into a severe depression and he's worried for her safety, Alan and daughter Helen fly to New York and take the train to Saratoga Springs. Over the course of six wintry days in upstate New York, the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOWood, Maryrose
Summary: Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOHood, Ann
Summary: Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: Conclusion of the series about Matty Roth, aspiring photojournalist, who continues his to report on the struggle of the civilians caught in this no-man's-land during the Second American Civil War. Nothing will be the same again because the unimaginable can indeed happen on American soil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WOOWood, Simon
Summary: When Derek Deacon threatens to kill his championship rival, Alex Fanning, rookie driver Aidy Westlake and the rest of the drivers don't put much stock in the death threat- it's typical of the intense competitiveness and aggression in their world. But when Fanning dies after making contact with Deacon's car during the race, a conspiracy ensues. The TV coverage is edited to omit all mention of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme De La Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOWood, Brian
Summary: "In this new DMZ volume collecting issues #35-41, the status quo is tossed out the window as embedded war journalist Matty Roth returns from his misadventure in Staten Island to find Parco Delgado in office as provisional governor of New York and details his first 100 days at breakneck speed. Matty's first task under the Delgado regime? Tracking down the source of one of the DMZ's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WOOKumarasamy, Akil
Summary: "Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUMJoof, Emily
Summary: A small child learning to swim becomes familiar with the water through quiet lakes, friendly rivers, and family storytime before attempting a bigger body of water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOOClare, Alys.
Summary: Lassair awakes in the morning in 1092 with the feeling that something in the spirit world is trying to reach her. When Lassair learns that a nun has been murdered at the same nunnery where her sister lives, Lassair sets out to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClare, Alys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New English Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAHood, Christopher M.
Summary: "When their daughter joins a cult 3,000 miles away in Bishop, California, Bill and Penelope set out on a harrowing journey across the hollowed-out remains of America to save her, and even though the world has changed, their hopes and fears remain the same"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOMaalouf, Amin.
Summary: The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAAMukherjee, Abir
Summary: A breakout thriller from an "enthralling" (New York Times Book Review) and award-winning author: Can two parents find their lost children before disaster strikes? It's a week until the US presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter. In Florida, a mother makes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUKReynolds, Allie
Summary: "Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost ... even murder"-- Three years ago, passionate surfer Kenna Ward lost her two great loves--after her boyfriend drowned, she hung up her surfboard and swore off the water for good. But she is drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYJenkins, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2011
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Summary: Linh searches for blueberries in her rooftop garden. Includes recipe for blueberry and banana pancakes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOGerber, Daryl Wood
Summary: Book clubs from all over have descended on Crystal Cove to celebrate the library's Book Club Bonanza week, and Jenna Hart has packed the Cookbook Nook with juicy reads and tasty cookbooks. But she's most excited about spending an evening with the Mystery Mavens and their moveable feast, when they will go from house to house to share different culinary treats and discuss the whodunit they're all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cengage Gale 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERGerber, Daryl Wood
Summary: As the annual Renaissance Fair comes to Crystal Cove, Jenna Hart's Cookbook Nook is packed with tasty treats and all things medieval, while her pal Bailey is ready to swoon over her upcoming nuptials at a local vineyard. But when the two friends discover the body of the vineyard's owner bludgeoned by a winepress, all their merriment fades, along with their hopes for a vintage year. Which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2018