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Best American seriesObreht, Téa.
Summary: In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OBRObreht, Téa
Summary: "When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEObreht, Téa.
Summary: Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Obreht 2011Obreht, Téa
Summary: "In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parchedhousehold, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Obreht 2019Obreht, Téa
Summary: After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Obreht, Tea.
Summary: Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker 's twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011