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FICTION / African American / General FICTION / Coming of Age FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Family Life / General FICTION / General FICTION / Historical FICTION / Historical / General FICTION / Literary FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General Man-woman relationships FictionWade, James
Summary: After a horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb's moral compass will be tested as he and his brother travel the American Southwest and encounter those who have carved out a life there.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WADGregory, Philippa
Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREO'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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC O'DOMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: "A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try to take them down. An up-all-night story that fluentlymixes the super-natural, sci-fi, horror, social satire, and hearbreaking realism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mitchell 2014McEwan, Ian
Summary: Presents the story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s London who construct a perfect synthetic human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCEHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: "When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late Harriet Burden. Intrigued by her story, and by the explosive scandal surrounding her legacy, he begins to interview those who knew her, hoping to separate fact from fiction, only to find himself tumbling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSChoo, Yangsze
Summary: Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CHODe Veer, Elizabeth
Summary: Of three sisters, Riley has long been estranged from the family. Alex and Colleen are determined to reconcile with Riley. But the more they try to find their missing sister, the more they fear they may find only secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DEPanowich, Brian.
Summary: " "Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam Adult 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANDubow, Charles.
Summary: "Love, passion, and obsession are at the heart of Naked in the Moonlight, about a man's all consuming desire for a bewitching and beguiling woman"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOEMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: It's the most anticipated, and perhaps controversial, event of the decade--Lou and Bob's wedding--and everyone is invited. But the relative peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted. Outspoken Irene is returning home for a two-month stay, with plans to send young Bertie to a sleep-away camp. She also manages to come between the enigmatic nun, Sister Maria-Fiore dei...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCAllende, 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLMcBride, James
Summary: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A highly anticipated debut novel from 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor's apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOOFlournoy, Angela.
Summary: "A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flournoy 2015Nunn, Kem.
Summary: "In an intense tale of psychological suspense, a San Francisco psychiatrist becomes sexually involved with a female patient who suffers from multiple personality disorder, and whose pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective--from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author. Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant, lonely, forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNJohnson, T. Geronimo (Tyrone Geronimo)
Summary: "From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHFu, Kim
Summary: A group of young girls at summer camp find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or to guide them home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FUWallace, Wendy
Summary: Harriet Heron, an overprotected and reclusive invalid, leaves Victorian London with her mother, Louisa, and God-fearing aunt, Yael, for a trip to volatile Egypt, where the trio's sense of empowerment is threatened by Louisa's long-hidden past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALBartsch, Jeffrey
Summary: "TWO ACROSS is a funny and poignant debut novel about trust, forgiveness, and the wisdom of listening to your heart. Stanley and Vera, academically precocious but awkward teenagers, form a bond when they tie for first place in the National Spelling Bee. Though their mothers have big plans for them-Stanley will become a senator, Vera a mathematics professor-neither wants to follow these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarry, Sebastian
Summary: "In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of hislife with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARVapnyar, Lara
Summary: "A community college professor whose career has stagnated, and a wife and mother whose marriage has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust, Lena is frustrated at the seeming "impossibility of happiness." As Lena makes her way to present a paper at a remote New England conference, a chance encounter with an old schoolmate a once average-seeming teenager who has since achieved international...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAPHemmings, Kaui Hart.
Summary: "The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed bestseller THE DESCENDANTS ("Audaciously comic" -The New Yorker), a novel about a mother grieving her son's death in a Colorado resort town who is faced with another shock-the appearance of astrange girl carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably. "--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014