Summary: This collection features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEEAllende, Isabel
Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMabanckou, Alain
Summary: "A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mabanckou 2017Ward, Amanda Eyre
Summary: When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WARWard, Amanda Eyre
Summary: "In this novel, award-winning author Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WARReid, Iain
Summary: This novel explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: "Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASQuinn, Anna
Summary: Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC QUIModiano, Patrick
Summary: In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2015Allende, Isabel
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015