Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAMHawkins, Paula
Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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Summary: "When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it's just another one of her sister's episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister's things, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCMBaxter, Greg
Summary: "An American living in London receives a phone call from a German policewoman telling him that his sister Miriam has been found dead of starvation in her Berlin apartment. Three weeks later the man, his father, and an American Consular official named Trish find themselves in the bizarre surroundings of a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is set to be loaded onto a commercial jet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXGoenawan, Clarissa
Summary: "Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut opens with a murder and shines a spotlight onto life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister, Keiko's, sudden death. Shewas viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOEWong, Cecily
Summary: From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built Kaleidoscope, a glittering, 'global bohemian' shopping empire sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Statuesque, design savant, and family pet--eldest daughter Morgan Brighton is most celebrated of all. Yet despite her favored status, both within the family and in the press,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WONJensen, Louise
Summary: "I did something terrible Grace. I hope you can forgive me..." Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's last words, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box of Charlie's. It soon becomes clear there was a lot she didn't know about her best friend. When Grace starts a campaign to find Charlie's father, Anna, a girl claiming to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P FIC JENSchaitkin, Alexis
Summary: "Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2020
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Summary: Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: N.A. Talese 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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Summary: "For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents' deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns, in a quest for answers, to the place where she once felt safest: her family's sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: "Two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROTChamberlain, Diane
Summary: "Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014