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Thorndike Press large print core seriesAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alvarez 2020Alvarez, Julia
Summary: A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALVChabon, Michael
Summary: A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chabon 2016Chabon, Michael.
Summary: When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHAPotok, Chaim
Summary: The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC POTMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song that has been passed through the generations of her family since 1759, and her only hope of remembering the song, and preserving her family legacy, lies with a mountain wisewoman who talks to both the living and the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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Summary: Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DIMPotok, Chaim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: A Jewish girl in 1930s New York looks past her parents' idealism in search of something to comfort her as she observes discord and disunity everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTGomera-Tavarez, Camille
Summary: Buenos Espíritus es una colección de once cuentos, interconectados con la diáspora dominicana, de la autora debut Camille Gomera-Tavarez. Es un libro centrado en una familia extensa, los Belén, a través de múltiples generaciones. Está ambientado en la pequeña ciudad ficticia de Hidalpa, y también en Santo Domingo, Paterson, San Juan y Washington Heights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH GOMChabon, Michael.
Summary: When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth richest black man in America, decides to open his newest Dogpile megastore on Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy, the owners of Brokeland Records, fear for their business until Gibson's endeavor exposes a decades-old secret history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chabon 2012Canin, Ethan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCLapeña, Shari
Summary: Neighbors begin to turn on each other after a series of break-ins is followed by a murder --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lapena 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LAPGillespie, Karin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILCreech, Sharon
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CREOwens, Sharon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OWEBala, Sharon
Summary: "For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bala 2018Owens, Sharon
Summary: When their quaint Victorian pub is threatened by plans for a shopping mall, Jack and Lily Beaumont, their employees, and their loyal patrons work to either save the pub or to make the most of the time that remains before it is torn down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OWEOwens, Sharon
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OWEBohjalian, Chris
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOHBohjalian, Chris
Summary: The devastating loss of their twin daughters in a flash flood turns the lives of Terry and Laura Sheldon upside down as their marriage is tested by grief, Terry's brief love affair, and their growing relationship with their foster child, a ten-year-old African American boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOHCander, Chris
Summary: In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cander 2019Whitaker, Chris
Summary: "There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he's still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. Duchess is a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021