Jackson, Shirley
Summary: The Road Through the Wall explores the secret longings, petty hatreds and ultimate terrors that lurk behind the manicured lawns and picture-perfect domestic facades of a California suburb. In Hangsaman, precocious Natalie Waite grows increasingly dependent on a friend who may or may not be imaginary. The Bird's Nest pits four unforgettable characters against each other in a battle for control:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACRoth, Veronica
Summary: Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice--catastrophic events known as Drains--leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. On the tenth anniversary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiance who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes, a man bequeaths his estate to his unsuspecting assistant, who bonds with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGRendell, Ruth
Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rendell 2010Thorpe, Rufi
Summary: "Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: In the wake of a woman's discovery of human remains, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a boarding school reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Four girls are best friends and inseparable at Salten, a second-rate boarding school near the cliffs of the England Channel. They are notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies to both fellow boarders and faculty. Their little game has consequences when they soon learn their shared past was not as safely buried as they had once hoped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ware 2017Ware, Ruth
Summary: On a cool June morning, Isa Wilde, a resident of the seemingly idyllic coastal village of Salten, is walking her dog along a tidal estuary. Before she can stop him, Isa's dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, she discovers it's not a stick at all but a human bone. As her three best friends from childhood converge in Salten to comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: Rowan Caine's live-in nanny position in the Scottish Highlands turns from picture-perfect to a nightmare, leaving her in prison awaiting trial for murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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Summary: In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, at English...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home ends with her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to explain to her lawyer the unravelling events that led to her incarceration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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Summary: "Owen's wife was murdered. His best friend, Luna, found the body. Everything and everyone is thrown into question in this riveting suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger. Owen is rich, charming, and chronically dissatisfied. His life is forever entangled with Luna Grey, his no-nonsense best friend who is struggling to hide her dark past. From the fateful day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUTBrooks, Karen (Karen Ruth)
Summary: "Mallory Bright is the only daughter of London's most ingenious locksmith and has apprenticed with her father since childhood. After scandal destroys her reputation, Mallory has returned to her father's home and lives almost as a recluse, ignoring the whispers of their neighbors. But Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster and a frequent client of Mallory's father, sees potenial in...
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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: FIC BROFriedman, Aimee
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Aimee Friedman comes an inventive novel about fate, family secrets, and new love, told in split narrative. In this absorbing new novel, Summer makes a choice that changes the whole course of the season ahead of her. When her story divides, Summer finds herself alternately face to face with a longtime crush and worlds away. She is both living amid secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2016
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Harvey, Kristy Woodson
Summary: Now in their thirties, four childhood friends put aside their current tensions to come together and save the summer camp where they all met, and rediscover themselves in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge's phone number and the words "Next of Kin." Ravinia insists she doesn't recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn't believe her. He can tell that she's one of them - the Siren Song women. Five years after moving away from The Colony, Ravinia has carved out a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: Three teenage girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows--and the vow of secrecy they take. Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jackson 2017Jackson, Lisa
Summary: On the wild Oregon coast, tucked between the mountains and the sea, stands Siren Song, home to a group of women known as The Colony. Their aunt hoped the isolated lodge would be a sanctuary, a place where she could protect them and their special gifts. But nowhere is safe from the man who has marked them for death. The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022