Crosley, Sloane.
Summary: "Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly, relentlessly funny" Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROGosling, Victoria
Summary: That summer, there were four of them, all on the cusp of adulthood: Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em, whiling away the hours in a deserted manor house with a rich, sordid history. Sorely without the ambition and opportunities that her friends have always counted on, Andy finds herself terrified of a future that will take them all down very different paths. Her newfound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOSCrosley, Sloane
Summary: "Three friends are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. When they learn of a valuable necklace that disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France, they embark on a madcap adventure to locate it, learning some valuable lessons along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CROModiano, Patrick
Summary: Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer . . . this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most noirish work to date. Set in Nice--a departure from the author's more familiar Paris--this novel evokes the bright sun and dark shadow of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODCarcaterra, Lorenzo
Summary: A wealthy woman alleges a valuable necklace was stolen from her hotel room on island of Ischia. The necklace, she claims, has been in her family for decades. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect-- a young woman who is Nonna Maria's goddaughter. She takes the heat, but privately, she proclaims her innocence. Then the body of an unidentified...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARMcMillan, Claire
Summary: "This intoxicating novel set in the rarified world of money and society alternates between two generations of the Quincy family: the wealthy robber baron brothers who vied over a bewitching Jazz Age beauty and the young woman who inherits a spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace and its secrets. Always the black sheep, Nell Quincy is summoned to her family's elegantly shabby manor after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMeadows, Daisy.
Summary: "The Fashion Fairies use their magic accessories to make sure that fashion everywhere is fun and fresh. But when jealous Jack Frost steals their magic away, it could lead to a fashion flop! Luckily, Rachel and Kirsty are ready to dive into another fairy adventure...Claudia the Accessories Fairy's magical necklace has been taken by goblins! Without it, scarves tear, gloves get lost, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEASamuels, Barbara.
Summary: Dolores has agreed to stop "borrowing" things from her older sister Faye's dresser, but then she discovers a special Valentine's Day necklace there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006