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Ford, Richard

Summary: Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOR

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Schlitz, Laura Amy.

Summary: A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 812.6 SCH

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 812.6 SCH

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word Schlitz

Griffin, Anne

Summary: If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRI

Cullen, Jonathan.

Summary: Winters are long on the windswept coast of Connemara, where Tara Doherty has come to live after the death of her husband. The isolation is all but unbearable until a mysterious tenant moves into the house at the bottom of the hill. James Dunford has come from America but he won't say why. He spends his days fixing up the old cottage and walking the beach with a stray dog that showed up on his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liquid Mind Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cullen

Rendell, Ruth

Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rendell 2010

Roth, Philip.

Contents: Operation Shylock: a confession -- Sabbath's theater -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- notes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROT

Thayer, Nancy

Summary: "Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts -- complete with a husband who runs his own business and a son to take up his mantle one day. But now that her marriage has fizzled out and Ross, her only child, is graduating from college and getting serious with his girlfriend, Heather wonders if that life is the one she really wants. Ready to seek out her own happiness and discover...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayer

Shipman, Viola

Summary: "For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she's believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy -- the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHI

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Rottschafer, Shelli

Summary: "Marriage is tough and relationships are always complicated.... Harry and Noelle Phillips know this all too well. In order to refocus their lives together after eighteen years, the couple begins a long weekend excursion in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The trip is an attempt to put their marriage back on course. For their Stay North they choose Grand Island, situated off Munising Harbor and due...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atmosphere Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROT

McMillan, Shirley-Anne

Summary: "The pressure – social and academic – is high for the teenage students of an elite secondary school in Belfast; Can poetry, friendship and a trip to Spain give them the courage to be true to themselves? Wealthy, popular Charlotte and quiet, working class Drew couldn’t be more different, but both face a common enemy at Cooke’s Academy in the form of the Stewards – an elite group of students...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Island Books 2023

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Werlin, Nancy

Summary: "Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their French village at the end of the Middle Ages, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mère deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they're a bit . . . witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use her untrained magic to heal her mother's grief yields tragic consequences, Sylvie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WER

Hannah, Kristin

24 holds on 12 copies

Summary: "'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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McLaughlin, Emma

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like 'taking a break' from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCL

Newman, Catherine

20 holds on 3 copies

Summary: While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2024

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Kürthy, Ildikó von

Summary: Was soll jetzt noch kommen? Judith ist fast fünfzig, und auf diese Frage fällt ihr leider keine zufriedenstellende Antwort ein. Die Kinder sind gross, ihr Mann ist in die Jahre gekommen und das Leben auch. Von der Liebe und dem Bindegewebe mal ganz zu schweigen. Dann stirbt ihre Mutter, und Judith kehrt nach zwanzig Jahren in die alte Heimat zurück, wo sie ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis, ein...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wunderlich, Rowohlt Verlag 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC KUR

Gaughen, A. C.

Summary: Scarlet's true identity has been revealed and she has been forced to marry Lord Gisbourne and participate at court, acting the part of a noblewoman in hopes of helping her beloved Robin Hood's cause and forging a future with him.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GAU

Wegert, Tessa

Summary: Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home. The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEG

Avi

Summary: As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2010

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AVI

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2010

Benson, Adrienne

Summary: "An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family. Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely expat wife, follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life is. Simi, a barren...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benson 2018

Perrotta, Tom

Summary: "Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PER

Palacio, R. J.

Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espan̋ol 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: J468 PAL SPANISH

Acampora, Lauren

Summary: "Celebrated by the Boston Globe as "a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs," the seductively weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush world that got us all hooked on the NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Connecticut haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide. Formerly a model and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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Braunstein, Sarah

Summary: A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name. A novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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Green, Jane

Summary: "Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRE

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