McCann, Colum
Summary: "Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCGaylin, Alison
Summary: Camille Gardner is a grieving mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women, Camille is drawn into a dark web fueled by mutual rage. These women orchestrate their own brand of justice through revenge killings, with individual members playing a small but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GAYCitkowitz, Evgenia
Summary: A year has passed since Catherine and Michael Hall lost their teenage daughter in a car accident, leaving them and their sixteen-year-old son, Rowan, reeling in the aftermath of the tragedy. After Rowan escapes to boarding school, Catherine withdraws from her life as a successful London gallerist to Hamdean, an apartment in a Georgian country manor, where she and Michael had hoped to spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CITDahl, Alex
Summary: "Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart. When Alison's beloved daughter Amalie drowns, her world turns impenetrably dark. Alison tries to hold it together throughout the bleak fall, but in the darkest days of the Norwegian winter she completely falls apart. In another family, Amalie's passing is a new beginning. After years of severe health problems, young Kaia receives a new heart on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHBowman, Akemi Dawn
Summary: Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWThayne, RaeAnne
Summary: "As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayne 2022Masad, Ilana
Summary: "Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SANLarson, Kirby
Summary: Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024