Summary: When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired school-teacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. They then embark on a trip to find his father whom he has never met.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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Summary: "Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Strout 2019Strout, Elizabeth
Summary: "Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: "Olive has ... returned, as indomitable as ever, navigating her next decade and the changes--sometimes welcome, sometimes not--in her own life. Here is Olive, strangely confident in her second marriage, in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, and crossing paths with a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Strout 2019Washburn, L. J.
Summary: "It's early summer in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teacher/amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom and fellow retiree Carolyn Wilbarger are taking British cooking classes at the local senior center in this suspenseful Fresh-Baked mystery. In the latest from Livia J. Washburn, the nationally bestselling author of the Fresh Baked Mystery Series, Phyllis Newsom learns to make a trifle that's to die...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: After his estranged brother and sister-in-law die in a mysterious house fire that his niece escaped, a mourning professor is shocked into action when she shows up at his house being chased by the criminals who set the blaze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAHassler, Jon.
Summary: Sixty-something Agatha McGee is feisty, intelligent, honorable, quick witted, hot-tempered, and nurturing. A problem at the school where she teaches propels her to leave America for Ireland and look for the pen pal with whom she has corresponded for years. It may be a little late in the game, but for once in her life Agatha follows her heart in search of a dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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Summary: "Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2020
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Summary: "Hollywood comes to Weatherford, Texas, as a movie company arrives to shoot scenes for a film based on the novel by Phyllis Newsom's friend Eve. But movie fantasy turns to deadly reality as a murder recreated for film turns out to be the genuine article, and once more Phyllis has to track down a cunning killer to see that justice is done"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WASSummary: The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, deplores the changes taking place in her little town of Crosby, Maine.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: "A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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Summary: At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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Summary: Georgia Hallerbee asks Phyllis Newsom to have her house featured in the annual Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes but before the tour can get underway, someone has broken a decorative gingerbread man over Georgia's head and with the police baffled, it is up to Phillis to catch the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WASSummary: Based on Lee Child's bestselling novel Never Go Back, finds the itinerant problem-solver accused of murder, and learning that he may have a child he has never met.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple ... and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While on the run trying to clear himself of murder and a former colleague of treason, itinerant former U.S. Army Major Jack Reacher discovers both a conspiracy involving the murder of soldier and a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what actually happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving like a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before swiftly grabbing the dead woman's purse and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022