McDunn, Gillian
Summary: As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCDMcGahan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMcCann, Richard.
Summary: With the breadth and cumulative force of a novel, this book presents ten interwoven stories of an American family in the post-World War II suburbs of Washington, D.C., a world of identical brick houses and sunstruck, treeless lawns, a world of initial hopefulness from which shame and loss have seemingly been banished. This is the story of two adolescent brothers whose father has suddenly died,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCBrewer, Killian B.
Summary: When Marcus Sumter, a short order cook with dreams of being a chef, inherits a house in small town Marathon, Georgia, he leaves his big city life behind. Marcus intends to sell the house to finance his dreams, but a group of lovable busybodies called the Do Nothings, a new job at the local diner, the Tammy Dinette, and a handsome mechanic named Hank cause Marcus to rethink his plans. Will he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlude press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREMcGuane, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Summary: The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Summary: Depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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Summary: The acclaimed, best-selling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet--an electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattan's glittering Upper East Side, that explores the dark side of love, the limits of loyalty, and the high cost of truth. You can have everything, and still not have enough. Cassie Quinn may only be 23, but she knows a few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDFlynn, Gillian
Summary: Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Clues keep leading to dead ends, forcing Camille to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past to get at the story. Dogged by her own demons, Camille will have to confront what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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Summary: "A brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daughter of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Cather 2007Willis, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Summary: Life on the divide was a struggle for the pioneering Bergson family. Alexandra, both tough as nails and tender as a budding blossom, faces and conquers the harsh realities of early settlers in Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: A boy draws hearts and shows them to his family, learning a little bit about himself and about love along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 211 FIC CATWilliams, Andria
Summary: In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the country’s first nuclear reactors—an assignment that seems full of opportunity. Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliams, Kate
Summary: "Alive with rich characters and evoking love, loss, and one woman's surprising strength during the tumult of the 1920s and 30s, the new novel in the "Storms of War" trilogy brings this acclaimed series to a dramatic conclusion"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliams, 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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Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliams, Niall
Summary: The bedridden daughter of a dead poet struggles to find her father through the stories that are central to her world, an effort that takes her through family writings, oral traditions, her father's library, and her own writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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Summary: "Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEPennypacker, Sara
Summary: What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the towns librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever. From an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PENFaulkner, William
Summary: First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992