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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRI

Bradbury, Jamey

1 hold on 2 copies

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Daoud, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAO

Abu-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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABU

Attenberg, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATT

Ames, Jonathan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AME

Hendricks, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Ford, Jamie

1 hold on 1 copy

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOR

Ford, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ford 2013

Ford, Jamie

2 holds on 7 copies

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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOR

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOR

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ford

Ford, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

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 FOR

Sorokin, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOR

Kubica, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KUB

Benton, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

James, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction James 2017

Joyce, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOY

Kirkwood, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2003

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIR

Lasdun, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAS

Lehrer, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

Patterson, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

Patterson, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAT

Patterson, James

2 holds on 5 copies

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PAT

Patterson, James

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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Patterson, James

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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

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