Blum, Yoav
Summary: "The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLUSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engagesordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Tyler, Anne
Summary: When Willa Drake gets a call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything to look after this woman. But the impulsive decision will lead Willa into uncharted territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: Chicago celebrity and successful pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane cash. But thanks to a remarkable twist of fate, he's very much alive and ready for a second chance at life - and love. Narrowly escaping death has brought Charles some clarity: the money, the fame, the fast cars - none of that was making him happy. The last time he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She's a prankster and a risk-taker, and she's not afraid of anything except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night she experiences something she can't explain. The funny girl isn't laughing anymore. She's haunted by voices and visions - but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Text Publishing Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WAKEmerson, Kevin
Summary: Five years ago Elian was kidnapped. Physicall and emotionally abused, brainwashed, now his captor sends him into the mall-- with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. When Maya keeps Eli from detonating the bomb, nothing is the same. They are drawn together by their dark pasts-- and only time will tell if meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC EMEHatcher, Robin Lee
Summary: Samantha Winters lives her life the way a good accountant should-- measured, deliberate, and safe. After her father died in a skiing accident, she decided never to allow risk into her life again. She didn't count on falling for Nick Chastain. Against Samantha's warnings, Nick plans a dangerous kayaking trip over spring break, and she ends their fledgling relationship with harsh words. Two years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HATMacomber, Debbie
Summary: After living in the shadow of her overbearing parents for twenty-five years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her life. She moves from Chicago to Portland, reconnects with her favorite aunt, and finds a job as a high-school music teacher. Everything seems to be coming together-- except for her love life, which is going nowhere. Her friend Nichole introduces her to Sam, but the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACFison, Julie
Summary: "For months Kitty MacLean has been crushing on Rio Sanchez, who is probably the cutest boy in the world. But it looks like she might never get a chance to hang out with him until ... 1. Kitty goes camping with her best friends like she promised them, and finds out Rio just happens to be staying not too far away. But should she meet up with him? Or is a grubby camping holiday not the best time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISWeetman, Nova
Summary: "It's the last day of school and Frankie Jones is looking down the barrel of a long, hot, boring summer with only her guitar for company until ... 1. She gets a surprise chance to go to London. She's dying to go except that it will mean seeing her heartbreakingly cute British friend Jack again. Will things take up where they left off? Or can Frankie finally prove she's over him? 2. Her dad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEEScottoline, Lisa.
Summary: "Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS SCOColfer, Chris
Summary: Cash Carter, the young, world-famous lead actor of the hit television show Wiz Kids, is a favorite of the tabloids and paparazzi, who take notice of his every move. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked when he actually accepts their invitation. Getting a taste of the spotlight, this unlikely crew takes off on a journey of narrow escapes from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION COLKasischke, Laura
Summary: "On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens, the fragments of a nightmare--something she must write down--floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. On another Christmas morning thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric were in Siberia to meet the sweet, dark-haired Rapunzel they desperately wanted. How they laughed at the nurses of Pokrovka...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KASKelly, Jill
Summary: "Sixty-year-old Ellie McKay wakes up one morning with bruises all over her body. She finds her boyfriend in a chair next to the bed, dead of an alleged overdose. She has no recollection of the night before, and there are very few clues for the police to go on. She has no reason to believe she's in any further danger. As Ellie battles with the emotional scars of the attack, her growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELSnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2016Heller, Peter
Summary: "Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Years ago, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction HelDailey, Judy.
Summary: It's 1952. Maggie Kendall, an idealistic young doctor, must chose life or death for one of her patients under horrifying circumstances. She makes the wrong decision and loses her home, her husband, and her infant daughter. She flees to the south side of Chicago where she provides medical care to the poorest of the poor. Forty years later, Maggie sees a chance to return home and right a terrible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dailey 2014Ross, Helen Klein
Summary: "Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore--and gets away with it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION ROSBostwick, Marie
Summary: Grace Saunders has always assumed that bright, clear lines separate right from wrong. Now that idealism is blurred by dilemmas that test her beliefs about marriage and loyalty, and she must look to her new friends and inside herself for answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BOSDelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: "Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work -and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Delinsky 2015Cooper, Gwen
Summary: Losing her home when her owner passes away, Prudence the cat is taken in by her former owner's grieving daughter, who maintains a meticulously organized life to avoid the pain of past losses and memories about her dynamic relationship with her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOHemmings, Kaui Hart.
Summary: "The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed bestseller THE DESCENDANTS ("Audaciously comic" -The New Yorker), a novel about a mother grieving her son's death in a Colorado resort town who is faced with another shock-the appearance of astrange girl carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably. "--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMLee, Mira T.
Summary: "A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018