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Greenwood, T. (Tammy)

Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested unless she does as he says. Over the next two years Frank mentally and physically...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRE

Everhart, Donna

Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVE

Michallon, Clémence

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIC

Everhart, Donna

Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVE

Li, Winnie M.

Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LI

Quinn, Anna

Summary: Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Berman, Ella

Summary: "A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Miranda, Megan

Summary: Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden goes by Olivia. She's managed to stay off the radar for the last few years. But with the twentieth anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media will inevitably renew its interest in Arden. Where is she now? Soon Olivia feels like she's being watched and begins sleepwalking again, like she did long ago, even waking outside her home....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIR

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Miranda 2020

Lippman, Laura

Summary: Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIP

Lippman, Laura

Summary: Injured in a freak fall, novelist Gerry Andersen is confined to a hospital bed in his apartment, dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Then late one night, the phone rings. The caller claims to be the "real" Aubrey, the alluring title character from his most successful novel. Could the caller be one of his three ex-wives...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LIP

Madievsky, Ruth

Summary: "Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace. On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister, Debbie, to Salvation--a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAD

Paris, B. A.

Summary: The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Howard, Catherine Ryan

Summary: I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him ... At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker -- the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOW

Gustafson, Cassie

Summary: Told in flashbacks, dark fairytales, and present-day prose, fourteen-year-old Emma, whose best friend has accused her father of heinous crimes, must testify against her friend's word, and her carefully constructed "truths" about what she may or may not have witnessed between father and friend start to crumble.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GUS

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GUS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GUS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Gustafson

Collins, Megan

Summary: "When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern's husband is sure it's because of Astrid's famous kidnapping - and equally famous return - twenty years ago, but Fern has no memory of that, even though it happened an hour outside her New Hampshire hometown, where she's returning for the week to help...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COL

Collins, Megan

Summary: "When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern's husband is sure it's because of Astrid's famous kidnapping--and equally famous return--twenty years ago, but Fern has no memory of that, even though it happened an hour outside her New Hampshire hometown. And when Astrid appears in Fern's recurring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COL

Clark, Julie

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2020

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Wasserman, Robin

Summary: 'Wendy Doe' was found on a bus to Philadelphia with no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. She is diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment-- or never at all. Dr. Benjamin Strauss invites her to submit herself for experimental observation at his Meadowlark Institute for Memory Research. To...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAS

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns, forcing her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day-less than 24...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC OAT

Wilson, Carter

Summary: "How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist. His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, created by Alice's own father in a series of popular graphic novels. Over a decade...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Weingarten, Lynn

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEI

Clay, Dan

Summary: Mark Davis put the dress on for a joke: the other guys did it too, for the talent show. But when his boyfriend saw Mark in that dress, everything changed. Now Mark has given up on love. His older brother, Eric, tells him "Be yourself! Your full sequin-y self." When he realizes that Eric has problems of his own, Mark's escape to become someone else-- however briefly-- becomes an unexpected...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLA

Mackintosh, Clare

Summary: Two years ago, Tom and Caroline Johnson committed suicide, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their adult daughter Anna is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unable to comprehend why they chose to end their lives. Now with a young baby herself, she feels her mother's presence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as Anna...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAC

Rum, Etaf

Summary: Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUM

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