Mazari, Najaf
Summary: "This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth. This extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph withintelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape. A musician conjures stones to rise in the air...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAZSpencer, Scott
Summary: Meeting at a vast Hudson River estate, two couples become estranged by unexpected successes and reactions that shape the lives of diverse friends and family members over the course of two decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Spencer 2017Mukherjee, Oindrila
Summary: "After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing--and no one--here is as it appears. Ultimately, it will take an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Approached in the park by a shadowy figure, Angus Lordie is mistaken for a journalist and becomes privy to some controversial plans of the Scottish Parliament, but just what is he meant to do about it? At school, a new member of Bertie's class, Galactica MacFee, quickly comes between Bertie and Olive, leaving him no choice but to skip town. And the indomitable Irene finds herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATTHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the best selling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HORClose, Jennifer
Summary: "A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLOBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "Working at his father's market stall in Victorian England, James Lionel Falconer determines to become a merchant prince. Hardworking and trustworthy, he catches the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious London shipping company. When threats against his reputation--and his life--emerge, James must prove that he truly is the master of his fate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURGraver, Elizabeth
Summary: Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2014Shafak, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
Summary: Americans Sara Porter and Tim Garton entertain beautiful and talented visitors at their farmhouse in neutral 1938 Switzerland, as war in Europe gathers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISBarrows, Annie.
Summary: "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barrows 2015Prose, Francine
Summary: "A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROBauer, Carlene.
Summary: Traces the intense friendship and literary bond shared by two mid-twentieth-century New York writers through an exchange of letters that explores their beliefs about faith, passion, and the nature of acceptable sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUSerle, Rebecca
Summary: Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it, the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she'd spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2024
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Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEO'Donnell, Michael
Summary: Doug and his son set out on a backpacking trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. But when reports of social collapse reach the ranger station, Doug withdraws even further into the backcountry. The alpine winter presents its own dangers, as father and son must endure the elements, the solitude, and the ever-present threat of outsiders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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Summary: " From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood. In Paolo Giordano's highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the mostdangerous places on earth. Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit scorched by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIODavies, Carys
Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024