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Green, Cass

Summary: Despite Melissa's outwardly glamorous and successful life, she needs her neighbor Hester's help. But taking help from Hester might not be such a good idea for a woman with as many secrets as Melissa.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRE

Jameson, Hanna

Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAM

Modiano, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOD

Mander, Marina

Summary: "An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market. Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who "every now and then tries out a new father." Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his words--his favorite toys. One February morning his mom doesn't wake up to bring him to school, so Luca--with a father who's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mander 2014

Ware, Ruth

Summary: Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect: her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAR

Critchley, Simon

Summary: A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley’s office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

Quinn, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC QUI

McEwan, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCE

Torné de la Guardia, Gonzalo

Summary: "The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which henow sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOR

Kasischke, Laura

Summary: "On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens, the fragments of a nightmare--something she must write down--floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. On another Christmas morning thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric were in Siberia to meet the sweet, dark-haired Rapunzel they desperately wanted. How they laughed at the nurses of Pokrovka...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAS

Barry, Kevin

Summary: "A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane. It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to tryto find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an Imprint of Penguin Random House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Kleeman, Alexandra

Summary: "A missing-person mystery told from the point of view of the missing person; an American horror story that concerns sex and friendship, consumption and appetite, faith and transformation, real food and reality television; and ... a wholly singular view of modern womanhood"--Dust jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLE

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson

Summary: A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. Her past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while rumors spread of a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC OLA

Baker, Jo.

Summary: "An honest, affecting work of fiction about a young woman's search for her place in the world, Offcomer is the powerful first novel from the acclaimed author of Longbourn. Against the backdrop of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, recent Oxford graduate Claire is a mess. She's trapped in a disastrous relationship with a young academic, working a dead end job, stunned by the emergence of secrets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAK

Hannah, Sophie

Summary: "The latest in Sophie Hannah's internationally bestselling Zailer & Waterhouse series, named by The Sunday Times as one of the 50 Best Thrillers of the Last Five Years. When Gaby's plane is delayed, she's forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: Lauren, who is terrified of her. But why is she scared of Gaby in particular? Lauren won't explain. Instead, she blurts out something about an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Abbott, Megan E.

Summary: "With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic car accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ABB

Markovits, Benjamin.

Summary: "A work of supreme control and complicated emotional subterfuge, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS is the breakout novel for one of Amerca's great young fiction writers. A book that uses the framework of our present reality to build it's own world, it blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction in the best way, and asks urgent, unforgettable questions about the future of our once great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Schweblin, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

Reid, 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 REI

Padura, Leonardo.

Summary: "A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAD

Ward, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WAR

Essbaum, Jill Alexander.

Summary: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESS

Baxter, Greg

Summary: "An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him that his sister Miriam has been found dead of starvation in her Berlin apartment. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American Consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAX

Egan, Jennifer

Summary: "The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGA
2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EGA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF EGA

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