Yagi, Emi
Summary: "When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace-a company that manufactures cardboard tubes-she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups-because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGKumarasamy, Akil
Summary: "Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: A fictionalized look at the Holocaust told from the human perspective of four different characters: Paul Doll, commandant of a concentration camp; his wife, Hannah Doll, who is far more aware of what is going on around her than her husband realizes; Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, the privileged nephew of Hitler's personal secretary who falls for Hannah; and Szmul, a Jewish prisoner who works at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create amagic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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Summary: Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIEBatuman, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATWinslow, Emily (Emily Carroll)
Summary: When a Cambridge murder is tied to the inadvertent reading of a private letter, Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann is forced to consider a life-changing betrayal while investigating a hallowed university, a troubled young woman and a country manor overshadowed by a deadly secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012
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Summary: "In this dark, twisty mystery from the acclaimed author of Jane Doe January, two Cambridge detectives investigating a cold case murder become mired in a web of old secrets and deceit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINBrontë, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1982
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Summary: "It's 2 AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city--and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend Matthew. As Cecily reaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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Summary: Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNRobbins, Emily
Summary: "A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: A young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. It's two AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city and whether she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GifGiffin, Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Griffin 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: "On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three 'nudges' to change the outcome of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2021
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Summary: Visiting Nantucket with their children during a summer vacation, three women befriend a local youth and share their struggles with such challenges as infidelity, the loss of a job under scandalous circumstances, and health problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2007
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Summary: This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions nd has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations. New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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Summary: Nick Russo, pediatric plastic surgeon and husband of Tessa, a stay-at-home mom, is called in to treat a six-year-old burn victim; but as he becomes involved in the case, he also finds himself attracted to the child's mother, Valerie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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Summary: Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: The true feelings and secret relationships of four prominent Nantucket couples, who call themselves the Castaways, come to light after two of them drown when their boat mysteriously capsizes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009