Gadol, Peter
Summary: "Rebecca's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the "stranger game," a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GADCenter, Katherine
Summary: "Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CENGabel, Aja
Summary: Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness String Quartet. In The Ensemble, each character picks up the melody, from the group’s youthful rocky start through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABPatel, Sajni
Summary: "Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer, takeout enthusiast, and happily single woman. The moment she realizes her parents' latest dinner party is a setup with the man they want her to marry, she's out the back door in a flash. Imagine her surprise when the same guy shows up at her office a week later -- the new lawyer hired to rescue her struggling company. What's not surprising:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPeters, Torrey
Summary: "[A novel] about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex..."-- Reese had what previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Ames...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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Summary: "Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she's celebrating the biggest achievement of her life--placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition--the next she's lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a "probably temporary" condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CENCenter, Katherine
Summary: "She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies-good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas - the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter - a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Summary: Sadie Montgomery suddenly went from being a finalist in an art competition to being diagnosed with a "face blindness." Struggling to cope, she falls in love with not one man but two. The timing couldn't be worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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Summary: From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CENLester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterBehrens, Peter
Summary: "CARRY ME is told from the perspective of Billy, born to a German father and an Irish mother who are employees on the summer estate of the German-Jewish Baron von Weinbrenner on the scenic Isle of Wight. The book's brilliant narrative twines together the love story of Billy and Karin, the baron's free-spirited daughter, during several crucial months in 1938, and their childhood journey,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Behrens 2016Swanson, Peter
Summary: Harry Ackerson has always considered his step-mother Alice to be sexy and beautiful, in an “other worldly” way. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years.Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it’s suicide. Devastated, he returns to his father’s home in Maine. There, he and Alice will help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SWAJames, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMeyer, Marissa
Summary: In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MEYMeyer, Stephenie
Summary: An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Meyer 2016Lester, Alison Jean.
Summary: "A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESMeyer, Marissa
Summary: an Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MEYBirch, Carol
Summary: London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia . . . Pronounced by the most eminent physician of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIROates, Joyce Carol
Summary: In "Evil Eye," we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband's brazen first wife visits one night, Mariana learns a terrible secret that could be a harbinger of doom for her marriage and very soul. In "So Near, Anytime, Always," shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming boy who offers this introverted girl the first sparks of young romance. Yet just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press/Grove Atlantic, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2013Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATSattler, Gail.
Summary: "Cinderella lives--except her name is Cindy and she resides in Seattle! Cindy is forced to run her late father's muffler shop. Will her step-sisters' shenanigans and Luke Princeton's charms only make her life even more unbearable? Cindy's step-sister Annie has reformed her ways. But how will she prove it to the man she loves? Step-sister Zella is writing her own love story. But is she using a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SATMartin, Gail Gaymer
Summary: "Josie Ryan arrives on Mackinac Island, looking forward to the Christmas season in the quaint setting with no automobiles and a back-in-time aura, but she learns that her longtime friend has to cancel her trip due to a family emergency. Disappointed, Josie decides to stay the day and then cancel her trip since it's no fun being alone. But her plans change when Chris Barnes, visiting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications 2017