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Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Women Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Male friendship Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Police California Los Angeles Fiction Psychologists Fiction Single mothers Fiction Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character) FictionBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACCline, Emma
Summary: Girls-- their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong-- are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLIGriffin, Anne
Summary: Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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Summary: Greyhill, Virginia, refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't, just got a few new residents. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, she thinks she knows what to expect. But Bess quickly discovers that fitting in is easier said than done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEWBennett, Brit
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENJackson, Lisa
Summary: The Cahills of San Francisco are famous for two things: their vast wealth and the scandals that surround them. The betrayal you can't imagine may be the most terrifying weapon of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACGrisham, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: When a series of murders are connected with a shadowy psychology practice, Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis must immerse themselves in a world of manipulation and unethical "therapeutic" practices. Delaware must bring his moral clarity to bear on these wrongs, and do his best to see them righted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELDionne, Karen
Summary: Although happily married now, Helena Pelletier was raised in Michigan's isolated marshlands by an abusive father. When he escapes from prison, only Helena will know just how to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, [2017] 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIOTaddeo, Lisa
Summary: Joan has spent her life enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one commits shocking violence in front of her, she searches for the one person alive who can help her make sense of the past and forge the power to strike back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TADKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: Phychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the aunt of a former patient, after she confesses to a crime shortly before she dies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KELReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: "Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC REIKellerman, Jonathan
Summary: Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead. Early one morning, the two of them find themselves in a neighborhood of pretty houses, pretty cars, and pretty people. The scene they encounter is anything but. A naked young man lies dead in the street, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GolPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Cassie Barrett, a world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as his wife, she is stunned but still doesn't remember anything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is surprised to get the call when well-known TV actress Zelda Chase turns up half-naked, half-mad in the LA's rural Westside. He has little connection to the starlet, save a psychiatric evaluation he performed on her adopted daughter several years ago, a child who has since vanished without a trace and whom Zelda refuses to talk about. When the actress turns up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2016
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELSpragg, Mark
Summary: Jean Gilkyson and her daughter Griff run to Wyoming to escape an abusive relationship and move in with Einar Gilkyson, the grandfather Griff never knew she had, but Einar still blames Jean for the accident that killed his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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Summary: Brit Teddy Mundy and German Sasha are unlikely friends who become double agents in the 1980's. By the time the Berlin Wall crumbles, they've been pensioned off and forgotten, but they reunite in 2003 to fight America's Operation Iraqi Freedom. But how far will their opponents go to justify their war on terrorism?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LECPetterson, Per
Summary: Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were abandoned by their mother and later by their abusive father, and Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high school and became a socialist. Then one winter, Jim started to doubt whether he was deserving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETFranklin, Tom.
Summary: Silas Jones, Chabot's lone lawman, hasn't had a lick of trouble in recent memory. In fact, the last thing to disturb Chabot was the disappearance of a teen girl nearly twenty years ago. However, when somebody tries to kill the town recluse, another young woman vanishes, and a drug dealer is found murdered all in a short amount of time, the quaint Mississippi town is shaken to the core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRABaldacci, David
Summary: Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene's unusual request for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023