Saramago, José.
Summary: Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago's spellbinding tale begins when an unnamed man, in an unnamed city is suddenly struck blind. In the days that follow, everyone he comes in contact with, in turn comes down with the mysterious condition. As the blindness spreads to epidemic proportions, the government responds by isolating the infected in an abandoned mental hospital where social conditions...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Saramago, José.
Summary: An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSaramago, Jos.
Summary: A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Inc. 1999
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Joss, Morag.
Summary: Moments after discovering that her husband has been having an affair, a woman driving along a winding country lane strikes and kills a woman on a bicycle and then drives away, in a psychological portrait of the repercussions of deception.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSNovakovich, Josip
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVBose, Disha
Summary: "A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jong, Erica.
Summary: "As the afternoon of life looms over Vanessa Wonderman, she watches her parents age, attends doctor appointments with her pregnant daughter, and sits by the hospital bed of her husband, Asher, fifteen years her senior. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discovering that beginnings are easy, but endings can be hard. Could her fountain of youth fantasies be fulfilled on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONMalerman, Josh
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie Josh Malerman comes the legend of a strange new monster unlike any other in horror. There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then the rumors begin--people in town whisper that Walter's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALMoss, Sarah
Summary: The light blinds you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside. In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2013
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Picoult 2013Picoult, Jodi
Summary: Comic book artist Daniel Stone never for a moment suspected that the same boy whom his fourteen-year-old daughter, Trixie, loved might inflict upon her the worst possible harm. Could the young man, who once made Trixie's face fill with light when he came to the door, have drugged and then raped her? She says that he did, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a man with a past he has hidden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICLourey, Jess
Summary: Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LoureyPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Picoult 2020Picoult, Jodi
Summary: A New Hampshire girl effects miraculous cures, becoming the center of a controversy involving doctors, priests and the media. The divorced father who blames the mother sues for custody and the result is a trial, pitting believers against skeptics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1999
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Picoult, Jodi
Summary: Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Picoult 2013Picoult, Jodi
Summary: Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason sexually assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION Picoult 2006Picoult, Jodi
Summary: Life is going well for Delia Hopkins. She has a daughter and a fiancé, and with her search-and-rescue bloodhound, she helps find missing persons. But as she plans for her wedding, she is haunted by inexplicable flashbacks to a devastating time she cannot recall.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICGehrman, Jody Elizabeth
Summary: Kate Youngblood is heading into an age where her eyes are less blue, her charm worn out, and soon no one will ever truly look at her, want to know her, again. Except one. Sam Grist is Kate's most promising student. An unflinching writer with razor-sharp clarity who gravitates towards dark themes and twisted plots, his raw talent is something Kate wants to nurture into literary success. But he's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEHPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "Dawn Edelstein's life instantly changes when the plane she's on crashes. Before impact, she thinks not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash. She could return [to] Boston, back to her husband, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. Or she could go to Egypt to find Wyatt, who works as an archaeologist,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PICPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Cassie Barrett, a world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as his wife, she is stunned but still doesn't remember anything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Lourey, Jess
Summary: "In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she's eager to settle down. Lilydale's motto, "Come Home Forever," couldn't be more inviting. And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICThomas, Joan (Sandra Joan)
Summary: "A riveting novel, set in the rainforest of Ecuador, about five women left behind in the wilderness when their missionary husbands are killed. Based on real-life events."--Flyleaf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Avenue 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCarlyle, Rose
Summary: "In the vein of The Wife Between Us and Something in the Water, a debut thriller about beautiful identical twin sisters sailing a luxury yacht and racing toward a one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020