Brinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIBradbury, Jamey
Summary: "The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel -- think of the Brontë sisters and Stephen King." --John Irving...A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is afusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica -- A natural born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRADaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUAttenberg, Jami.
Summary: Six years ago, Jarvis Miller's husband, an artist whose career was just starting to gain momentum, fell into a coma. And ever since, Jarvis has been waiting. At first, she was waiting for him to wake up so that their happy marriage could be continued. But she's spent too many years of dwindling hope, living as a half-widow, and selling off more and more pieces of his artwork to power the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATTAmes, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEHendricks, Jaime Lynn
Summary: "When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There's broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2021
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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORFord, Jamie
Summary: With his friend Charlotte, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, escapes from a Seattle orphanage determined to find his mother Willow and discover his connection to the exotic film star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ford 2013Ford, Jamie
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FordFord, Jamie.
Summary: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday, William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORSorokin, Vladimir
Summary: "A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated-and most controversial-novelist. Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists. In his scabrous dystopian satire Day of the Oprichnik, American readers were introduced to his distinctive style, which combines an edgy avant-garde sensibility with a fondness for the absurd and even the grotesque-all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SORKubica, Mary
Summary: Jessie Sloane applies to college after years of caring for her ailing mother. But her social security number raises a red flag, exposing a shocking detail putting Jessie at the center of a bizarre mystery. Unable to sleep, Jessie questions everything she knows until she can't tell what's real.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KUBBenton, Janet
Summary: "In 1883 Philadelphia, Quaker schoolteacher Lilli de Jong finds herself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how can she keep her infant daughter after being cast out by her family, abandoned by her fiancé, and rejected by society? After the unexpected death of her beloved mother, a prominent Quaker in their Germantown community, Lilli de Jong's once-orderly life becomes increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENJames, P. D.
Summary: An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction James 2017Joyce, James
Summary: Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922 and remained banned in the United States until 1933. Among the innovations that shocked and outraged critics were Joyce's revolutionary use of the interior monologue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOYKirkwood, James
Summary: Actor and fledgling writer Jimmy Zoole finds his life caught in downward spiral as his girlfriend leave him, he loses his job, his best friend is dead, and his apartment has been robbed twice, a situation that culiminates on New Year's Eve when Eddie, a bisexual burglar, returns once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2003
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRLasdun, James.
Summary: Framed for murder, Lawrence Miller--an expatriate British professor--combs the streets of Manhattan and its neighboring suburbs in a nightmarish pursuit of the perpetrators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASLehrer, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEHPatterson, James
Summary: "Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, D.C. police department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he faced another huge challenge -- raising his children without their mother. Years later Alex is making a bold move in his life. He has left the FBI and set up practice as a psychologist once again. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random-Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother-have told him. Don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Alex Cross and Detective Sampson venture into the Montana wilderness. They become the prey when they're attacked by assassins controlled by the mastermind who has stalked Alex for years. No backup. No way out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021