Summary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Tennessee, 1866. According to the last Catriona O'Toole received from her twin brother, Ryan, he was being dispatched to Franklin, Tennessee. As a conscripted Confederate soldier he likely endured the bloody Battle of Franklin. Catriona leaves their Irish homeland in search of him with their seven-year-old spitfire sister, Nora, hoping to reunite the siblings. Wade Cunningham is a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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Summary: McKenna Ashford moves west with her rebellious younger brother Robert. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Caradon's well-meant attempt to help the young man brings him face-to-face with the one situation he never wanted to encounter--and the one woman who holds the key to helping him find his future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2009
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Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville hoping to buy land and begin farming, determined to stay as far away from thoroughbred racing as possible. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALESummary: "Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián's complicated situation."--IMDb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUAlexander, Tamera.
Summary: "Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
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Summary: Sheriff James McPherson was eager to hire a schoolteacher, but Dr. Molly Whitcomb isn't what he expected. His instincts about people--which rarely miss the mark--tell him she's hiding something. And when Molly's secret is revealed, her reinvented life begins to unravel. What's more, she risks losing her newfound relationship with the sheriff and her renewed faith in God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALETamura, Yumi.
Summary: Rescue workers Rei and Uozumi were looking for earthquake survivors when they uncovered man-made violence. Then their squad was attacked and murdered. Some secret lurks in those ruins. To find it, Rei and Uozumi join a privately funded hostage rescue organization run out of a Tokyo bar called Chicago. They help people while they look for their own salvation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIZambra, Alejandro
Summary: "My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers--brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2015
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Summary: When her home is converted into a Confederate hospital Lizzie Clouston must be true to her own heart while standing for what she knows is right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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Summary: After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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Summary: "Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, is shunned by proper society and gratefully accepts an invitation from "Aunt" Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Expecting to be the Harding's head housekeeper, Olivia is disillusioned when she learns the real reason Elizabeth's husband, Confederate General William Giles Harding, agreed to her coming....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2012
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Summary: "An exhilarating debut novel about members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification, for readers of Such a Fun Age and Dominicana. The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of the city, for over twenty years. When the crash of a wrecking ball signals the demolition of an old neighboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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Summary: When rescue workers try to help Tokyo after a great earthquake, Rei discovers that the team's members are murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIGalera, Daniel
Summary: "A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car - an SUV filled with survival gear - but does not drive to his friend's house as planned. Instead he glides through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by bodies and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALMatera, Lia.
Summary: Lawyer Willa Jansson, the wisecracking sleuth, stages a phony kidnapping with herself in the role of hostage to permit a falsely accused friend to escape from police. But now they have to evade the real killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATGalera, Daniel
Summary: "From Brazil's most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man's restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family's past - So why did they kill him? - I'm getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context. Because it's a good story, isn't it? A young man's father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALSamura, Hiroaki.
Summary: These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for. The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together), and try to avoid making life decisions while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OHIZambra, Alejandro
Summary: Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2023
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Summary: "A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. There's Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, and wealthy New Englander; Max, John's cousin and a shy pre-med major; Khaled, a wise-cracking prince from Abu Dhabi; and Ruby, a beautiful art history major. But Malin isn't quite like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Brockman 2019D'Amico, Carmela.
Summary: Ella is nervous about the first day of school in her new town, but wearing her grandmother's good luck hat makes her feel better--until the other students tease her and call her names.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine 2004