Amis, Martin
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: 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 GifHilderbrand, Elin
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: 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
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Summary: Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLIKelly, Erin
Summary: Louisa is a 39-year-old still haunted by a tragic love affair from her youth. Seeking peace of mind, Louisa busies herself restoring an Elizabethan garden. But when she meets Paul--a 19-year-old with demons of his own--and the two become lovers, Louisa discovers that she can't outrun the past forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELHoneyman, Gail
Summary: A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2017
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Summary: Girls-- their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong-- are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLIDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks, young Trian and old Cormac, he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the island now known as Skellig Michael, an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The missing don't always want to be found. Kate Harlow recognizes this painful truth, even as she keeps searching for her daughter, Sophie, who disappeared two years ago. The police have stopped investigating -- after all, Sophie has sent postcards home, insisting that she's fine. To fill the space in her increasingly empty days, Kate volunteers at Message in a Bottle, where runaways can leave...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019