Helle, Helle
Summary: "Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per - the first boyfriend she tells usabout, and the first she leaves - as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHeron, Farah
Summary: "For Kamila Hussain, life is good. She's got plenty of friends, a doting father, and her dog has more Instagram followers than most reality stars. But when she notices her longtime friend Rohan is spending much more time with another woman, Kamila wonders for the first time if a little self-improvement might be in order. First step: take her weekly Bollywood viewing parties to levels unreached,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERKostova, Elizabeth.
Summary: His ordered life thrown into disarray when he begins treating an unstable genius artist who has recently attacked a canvas at the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist and art hobbyist Andrew Marlowe struggles to understand the secret that torments the artist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOSGerritsen, Tess.
Summary: Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GERGeorge, Nina
Summary: ""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEOGeorge, Alex
Summary: "For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan s budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEOGeorge, Alex
Summary: "From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2017George, Nina
Summary: Comatose after an act of heroism, Henri Skinner revisits memories of his British youth, while a woman from his past forges an unexpected, profound friendship with Henri's teenage son, Sam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GEOGeorge, Nina
Summary: "Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairy tales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Hoping to start over after serving eight years in prison, Lorenzo Brown returns to the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of his youth to take a job as a Humane Society officer but finds challenges from a local drug boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELEco, Umberto.
Summary: When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, he loses all sense of who he is, but retains memories of all the books, poems, songs and movies he has ever experienced. To reclaim his identity, he retreats to the family home and rummaged through the old letters, photographs and mementos stored in the attic. Yambo's mind swirls with thoughts, and he struggles to retrieve the one memory that may be most...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ECORoth, Philip.
Summary: After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROTWalker, Caroline Louise
Summary: Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor's just-named Man of the Year, is the envy of his friends and neighbors. His medical practice is thriving. He has a beautiful old house and a beautiful new wife and a beautiful boat docked in the village marina. Even his wayward son, Jonah, is back on track, doing well at school, finally worthy of his father's attentions. So when Jonah's troubled college roommate,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALVigan, Delphine de
Summary: Respectable facades fall to the wayside when a secret between two young friends raises the suspicions of an increasingly obsessed teacher and a mother who has discovered sinister truths about her husband's nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIGCasey, Maud.
Summary: In a trance-like state, Albert walks--from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia--all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CASKrauss, Nicole.
Summary: A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his wife. And a Jerusalem antiques dealer uses the desk in his family's study, which was devastated by the Nazis in 1944.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRAMcTiernan, Dervla
Summary: Nina and Simon leave for a weekend getaway, but only Simon comes home. When Simon's explanation doesn't add up, Nina's parents go to the police, while Simon's family and the media get involved.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024