Moshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: Her Saturday night started normally. Recently separated from her husband, Ali has been persuaded by her friends to go on a date with a new man. She is ready, she is nervous, she is excited. She is about to take a step into her new future. By Sunday morning, Ali's life is unrecognisable. She wakes, and she knows that something is wrong. She is home, she is alone, she is hurt and she has no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture 2018
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Summary: Despite Melissa's outwardly glamorous and successful life, she needs her neighbor Hester's help. But taking help from Hester might not be such a good idea for a woman with as many secrets as Melissa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: An electrifying first collection of short stories from the author of Eileen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father--Pikeville's notorious defense attorney--devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hawthorne 2015Modiano, Patrick
Summary: In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODThompson, Lisa (Lisa Anne)
Summary: Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and does not come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION THOKubica, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KUBIgnatieff, Michael.
Summary: A woman's decline and death from Alzheimer's disease, told by her philosopher son, chronicling its impact on the family: a heart attack for the father, depression for the one son, a marriage breakdown for the other. Lots of reflections on the process of aging and dying, including the thought that having inherited her genes he, too, may end that way. By the author of Aysa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGNDostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary: "Raskolnikov, a failed student, is tormented by feelings of superiority--how can he convince the world of his greatness? He decides to commit a justifiable murder, one that will both rid the world of a parasite (a moneylender) and prove that higher beings like himself need not be bound by conventional morality. All goes as planned until the moneylender's simple-minded sister comes home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Borders Classics 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSHillier, Jennifer.
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed suspense novels Creep and Freak and whom Jeffery Deaver has praised as a "top of the line thriller writer," The Butcher is a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to die--until they kill again. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous "Beacon Hill Butcher" was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: "An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market. Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who "every now and then tries out a new father." Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his words--his favorite toys. One February morning his mom doesn't wake up to bring him to school, so Luca--with a father who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mander 2014Scott, Kieran
Summary: A hiking trip in the woods in upstate New York is out of the comfort zone for sixteen-year-old city girl Callie Velasquez, but she wants to bond with her new friends Lissa and Penelope, not to mention her new boyfriend, Jeremy--however, nothing could haveprepared her for the true human darkness that waits for her in the wood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCOJohansen, Iris.
Summary: Iris Johansen sets her readers' pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Summary: "In 1983, Dustin Tillman's family--his parents and his aunt and uncle--were murdered in a shocking massacre. His foster brother, Rusty, was convicted of the crime, in a trial that was steeped in the "Satanic Cult" paranoia of the 1980s. Thirty years later, Rusty's conviction is overturned, and suddenly Dustin, now a psychologist, must question whether his testimony that imprisoned his brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAIrving, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction IrvMiller, Sue
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on CD 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILRobotham, Michael
Summary: "Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie was sentenced to ten years for a Texas robbery in which four people died, including two members of his own gang. Seven million dollars have never been recovered from the robbery, and everybody believes Audie knows where the money is. For a decade Audie has been beaten, stabbed, and threatened by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: After accidentally setting free two serial pedophiles, Lucy Brenna, a once heroic Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, is transformed into a villain who cannot stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, and imprisons her client, Lena, who is obsessed with her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELGiffin, Emily
Summary: "It's 2 AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city--and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend Matthew. As Cecily reaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIFKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "Groundbreaking, wholly involving, eerily prescient and terrifyingly topical, Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk series sets a new standard for contemporary thrillers. Since her sensational debut in The Silent Corner, readers have been riveted by Jane Hawk's resolute quest to take down the influential architects of an accelerating operation to control every level of society via an army of mind-altered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House 2019