Moretti, Kate
Summary: "Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he'll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANLovell, Susan B.
Summary: "Nestled in the safe haven of The Sandpiper, a white-shingled cottage perched above the endless blue of Lake Michigan, Nina Judd has always been the guardian angel of the three Cameron women. Ellie Cameron, widowed mother. Kate, her perfect older daughter. Jamie, the screw-up. Kate and Jamie are sisters bound in loyalty by a secret oath--two bright young women full of life and promise until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KRisSCroSS Press 2013
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Summary: Colin McGinty's grandfather, a famous artist, is best known for his haunting portrait Woman in Red, which happens to be of Alice Kessler's grandmother. In a tale that weaves the past with the present, we come to know the story behind the portrait, of a forbidden wartime romance between William McGinty and Eleanor Styles, and a deadly secret---one that is about to be unburied, as the ghost of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOUKatzenbach, John
Summary: Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He asks his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist, to meet him at an AA meeting later that day. When Ed doesn't show up, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene -- his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATBox, C. J.
Summary: Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BOXFante, Dan
Summary: A recovering alcoholic with a bad attitude and an ex-private investigator, J.D. Fiorella, having returned home to California, gets back in the game when his only friend is brutally murdered by a serial killer with an axe to grind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bourbon Street Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANBinchy, Maeve.
Summary: When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Binchy 2011Kies, Thomas
Summary: The newshound in Geneva Chase spurs her to bad if not downright dangerous choices as two unrelated crimes unexpectedly collide. A fifteen-year-old girl at her ward's high school has vanished along with her English teacher. Ant then there's the abused woman who torched her sadistic husband, and how to keep her out of the clutches of powerful mobsters and thus, out of the news. Out on the crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEBinchy, Maeve.
Summary: Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until a social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home.
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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 BINSmith, Haywood
Summary: When Pru, the black sheep of the Red Hat Club, falls of the wagon, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Summary: For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017
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Summary: For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CARCarr, Robyn
Summary: For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CARJones, Kaylie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONGardner, Lisa
Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will, searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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Summary: It's a crime scene worthy of Hieronymus Bosch, so shocking and so senseless it challenges the local law and intrigues veteran reporter Geneva Chase whose career may be dying alongside that of her small town newspaper.The Sheffield Post headline shouts, "Cops Call Murder Scene 'Slaughterhouse." On the scene, Genie spurs the Deputy Police Chief to tell her quietly, "Six bodies...all nude...hacked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEChapple, Simon
Summary: Are you tired of thinking about drinking? Hands up if you believe any of the following about drinking alcohol to be true: I can't have fun without alcohol. Imagine going to a party without drinking! it makes me feel less anxious or depressed; it helps me sleep; I can't relax without it; it makes me entertaining to be around; it fits the lifestyle of my boozy friends; I like the taste of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elevator Digital Ltd. 2019