Dubus, Andre
Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBWillett, Marcia.
Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGudenkauf, Heather
Summary: "The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M GUDCrais, Robert.
Summary: Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CRAYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHULaCour, Nina
Summary: A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LACThayne, 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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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on CD 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILTishy, Cecelia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TISMosley, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSDelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: Three years after an accident leaves her mother comatose, Casey Ellis loses the father she barely knew and inherits his Boston townhouse, which leads her to discover his harrowing experiences with a mysterious woman named Jenny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DELClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CLAMiller, Sue
Summary: After being diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1919, a young woman is sent to a sanitarium, where she rediscovers the pleasures of unfettered youth and falls in love with a doomed man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMosley, Walter.
Summary: Charles Blakey, a young man who can't find a job and who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments for the home that's been in his family for generations, cannot say no when a stranger offers to rent the basement for $50,000 in cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSNaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIClark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLALindskold, Jane M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINWilliams, Sheila.
Summary: Starting over in the Appalachian river country after leaving her abusive husband, Opal Sullivan takes refuge in a dilapidated but proud old house while befriending a parade of locals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGleiter, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFSaul, John.
Summary: A family discover that a house they inherited in Louisiana is haunted. The house, which they are refurbishing to turn into a hotel, was left by an aunt and it is rumored that she smothered her baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAURoberts, Nora.
Summary: There was something about the house that called out to Declan Fitzgerald. The dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, rumored to be haunted, and long taken over by spiders and dust, would require countless hours of labor to restore to its former splendor. Perhaps that was part of the appeal. Having finally purchased Manet Hall after dreaming about it for years, Declan left his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001