Sosnowski, David.
Summary: All over the country people are sprouting wings. It's the result of a new virus and like any malady the wings give rise to new forms of prejudice, new support groups and new religious interpretations. A look at a new minority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOSDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAONavin, Rhiannon
Summary: Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: A gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist who becomes implicated in the dilemmas soldiers encounter both on and off the battlefield.--adapted from book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2022
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Summary: "Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: Elsa has been in a coma for five months. With all hope of reviving her gone, her family and doctors are having to face the devastating fact that it might be time to turn off her life support... They don't realise that in the past few weeks Elsa has regained partial consciousness; she knows where she is and can hear everyone talking around her bed, but she has no way of telling them she's there....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Avit 2016Shapiro, Dani
Summary: "Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ShapiroShapiro, Dani
Summary: "Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC SHAShapiro, Dani.
Summary: Enjoying her loving family and her work as an art restorer, Rachel Jensen finds her world unraveling after a terrible accident that leads to Rachel's discovery that her teenage daughter is threatening to destroy them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003
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Summary: "Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction ShapiroDavies, Katharine.
Summary: "By turns comic and moving, The Madness of Love is a deftly woven tale of mistaken identity, bold moves, and unrequited desires. Valentina, a clerk in a London bookstore, is still reeling after her twin brother broke a childhood promise and ran off without her to exotic lands. When she cuts her hair, masquerades as a gardener to the melancholic Leo, and moves to the remote seaside town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Claire
Summary: Remarrying years after the death of her first husband, scientist Nance challenges her personal demons by tracking rattlesnakes in Idaho, unaware of factors from her new husband's past that challenge her relationship with her younger sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABBBaldacci, 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: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Follows the story of nine ... New Hampshire correctional officers over the course of one year on the job. While veteran guards get by on what they consider survival strategies--including sadistic power-mongering and obsessive voyeurism--two rookies, including the only female officer on her shift, develop their own tactics for facing 'the system'"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Doctor Benjamin Schroder was a history teacher until a psychotic episode turned his world upside down. Benjamin now had memories, not just of his own life, but of an entire ghastly world where millions of civilians had been systematically slaughtered in 'extermination camps,' there is still a Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula is divided, thousands of nuclear warheads spread their threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBGuterson, David.
Summary: In Seattle, 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary, "a guy who weighs risk for a living", takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who's taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in...
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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 GUTGuterson, David.
Summary: This novel is about a teenage girl, Ann Holmes, who claims to see the Virgin Mary. A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Father Collins--a young priest new to North Fork--finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: "David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SANVann, David
Summary: In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis étranger-winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Halibut on the Moon traces the roots of mental illness in one man's life as he attempts to anchor himself to the places and people that once shaped his sense of identity. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANBaldacci, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BALDiop, David
Summary: "A 'Chocolat' soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. Injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind. He sees this refusal as cowardice. To avenge the death of his friend and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: When two boys--John William Barry and Neil Countryman-- meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington's remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008