Albom, Mitch
Summary: The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TONMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Approached in the park by a shadowy figure, Angus Lordie is mistaken for a journalist and becomes privy to some controversial plans of the Scottish Parliament - but just what is he meant to do about it? At school, a new member of Bertie's class, Galactica MacFee, quickly comes between Bertie and Olive, leaving him no choice but to skip town. And the indomitable Irene finds herself yet again in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House 2024
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Summary: Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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Summary: "Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gulley 2016Ferber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERBerne, Suzanne
Summary: "A "brilliantly done" (Sunday Times, London) comedy of manners that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America from the Orange Prize-winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood. Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, full of psychologists and college professors, is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERJenkins, Beverly
Summary: A redemption-seeking recovering alcoholic and foster-child mentor seeks forgiveness from the woman he betrayed, while a store owner and his high school sweetheart consider a second chance at love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JENLight, John
Summary: "Brigg lives in a small, gray room in a large, gray city. When he finds a book in the library labelled 'Do Not Read', he cannot resist taking it home. In it, he comes upon pictures of bright, vibrant objects called flowers. He cannot find flowers anywhere in the city, but stumbles instead on a packet of seeds. This sets off a chain of events which bring about unexpected results, continuing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's Play 2006
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Summary: For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers both a chance to make peace with the men they once were and to find the dreams they thought they had lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGaines, Ernest J.
Summary: "Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order. After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: "In a tiny village in Italy, the self-appointed mayor (and vacuum cleaner repairman) Signor Speranza will do anything he can to save his beloved town. When he learns that the water is going to be cut off in sixty days unless he can come up with some quick cash, he tries to boost tourism by spreading a harmless rumor that major movie star Dante Rinaldi is planning to film a movie in the village....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon &Schuster Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMLethem, Jonathan.
Summary: "A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist and mercurial tyrant who terrorizes her neighborhood and her family with the ferocity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETThayne, RaeAnne
Summary: "Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation. To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she's passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn't come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope's Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury-- and a damaging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Books 2013
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Summary: When a young girl is found dead in the mountains outside Timber Creek, life-long resident Officer Mattie Cobb and her partner, K-9 police dog Robo, are assigned to the case that has rocked the small Colorado town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIZKing, Stephen
Summary: "When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINBarrett, Lorna.
Summary: Tricia Miles, owner of the Haven't Got a Clue bookstore, must solve her own mystery when a bestselling author is found dead in the washroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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Summary: Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular, head of student council, and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half. When word gets out that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction MitchellFlint, Eric.
Summary: A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia. Original. Freedom and Justice-American Style 1632. And in northern Germany things couldn't get much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2001
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Summary: "When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form of her stubborn and difficult new employer, Alice Bellamy. While Faith proves a worthy match for her sharp-tongued client, she often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wiggs 2015Maupin, Armistead
Summary: "The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Forna, Aminatta.
Summary: Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows, glass darkened with dirt, today stands open, and the lively chatter of English voices carries across the fallow fields. Laura and her teenage children have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORJenkins, Beverly
Summary: Trent July has been the mayor of this historic town for the past four years, but now he's ready to let someone else take up the mantle. Barrett Payne, a former Marine, decides he wants the job. But when a surprise candidate also enters the ring, the town has opinions on who would be the best candidate. And of course that's not the only drama, as Malachi "Mal" July continues to make reparations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jenkins 2020Whalen, Marybeth
Summary: After an accident at the community pool and the return of a long-absent community member, the secret-filled lives of the residents of Sycamore Glen, North Carolina can no longer remain hidden from view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016