Hannah, Kristin.
Summary: In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest - a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious land, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A young, voluptuous New York City woman is intensely shy and physically unable to speak. Her naive beauty provokes the aggressive attention of all men. One evening while walking home, she is assaulted at gunpoint and brutally raped by two thugs. Her enormous fears, which had driven her inward before, now push her to an outward course of action. After killing one of her assailants, she cuts his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Summary: A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier. At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume 17-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC SAGSummary: Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion--known as the Godolphin Arabian--brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed-- and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
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Summary: A mother, a boy and a dog against the night. Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his 11 years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction KooTaylor, Andrew
Summary: Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYCreech, Sharon
Summary: "One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of people would leave their child with strangers? All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. As their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, but how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Creech 2013Summary: With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PIAMarshall-Ball, Sara.
Summary: "Lily Emmett prefers to stay silent. Having suffered from selective mutism since childhood, she still struggles to see the value of everyday speech. Her sister, Connie, has always spoken for her, and her partner, Richard, has learnt to translate her movements so that they share a unique form of communication. When the two sisters return to their childhood home after their mother's death, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Myriad Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARWebber, Georgia
Summary: "Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 WEBEverhart, Donna
Summary: For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though not for the tenderhearted. While her older sister, Laci--a mute, musically gifted savant--is constantly watched over and protected, Wallis Ann is as practical and sturdy as her name. When the Tuckasegee River bursts its banks, forcing them to flee in the middle of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Everhart 2018King, Dave
Summary: Wounded years earlier in Vietnam, Howard Kapostash is unable to speak, read, or write, although his intelligence is normal. Now middle-aged, he lives a lonely existence, deliberately avoiding contact with others whenever possible. But then his former high school sweetheart entrusts her nine-year-old son to Howard when she enters drug rehab. Suddenly a father figure, Howard begins to open up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALAnderson, James
Summary: "A trucker sets out to protect an abandoned child in the Utah desert...Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDMurakami, Haruki
Summary: In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURStrout, Elizabeth.
Summary: In the small town of West Annett, Maine in the 1950's, the minister Tyler Caskey is still grieving two years after the death of his wife. One daughter, Jeannie is sent upstate to live with his overbearing mother. The other Katherine has become antisocial. Tyler turns to his housekeeper Connie Hatch when her teacher suggests Katherine speak to the school counselor. This starts gossip about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC StrouWroblewski, David.
Summary: A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC Wroblewski 2008Sager, Riley
Summary: At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDDart-Thornton, Cecilia.
Summary: Imrhien, a mute, scarred foundling whom the other Stormriders despise, scales the Tower walls in search of a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARO'Donnell, Paraic
Summary: "In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
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Summary: This is the novel of the idea that inspired the motion picture. An other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Cold War-era United States circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORWall, Carolyn D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wall 2012Alender, Katie
Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020