Thorpe, Helen
Summary: Powerful and moving, this account of teenaged refugees adapting to life in America offers a nuanced take on immigration, multiculturalism, and America's role globally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 373 THOGreer, Helena
Summary: One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan's All Year. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: With gang violence escaling in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURCooper, Helene.
Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 COOSchneider, Helga.
Summary: "Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8743 SCHTursten, Helene
Summary: Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her...
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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 TURTursten, Helene
Summary: From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still develops unhealthy fixations and makes rash decisions from time to time, she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURHealey, Jane
Summary: "In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings -- and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth's house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks. Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEAHorne, Sarah
Summary: Pudding the Panda makes everyone smile at Edinburgh Zoo. But what would make her truly happy is a family to take care of, like her heroine, Mary Poppins. Meanwhile, Callum is having a hard time at home. In a twist of fate, Pudding gets to help a child who needs her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HORHoang, Helen
Summary: A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make the heart tick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Hoang 2018Oyeyemi, Helen.
Summary: In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-- the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OYESimonson, Helen.
Summary: Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIMMacdonald, Helen
Summary: Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things, about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACMacdonald, Helen
Summary: From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk, a brilliant and insightful work about our relationship to the natural world. Our world is a fascinating place, teeming not only with natural wonders that defy description, but complex interactions that create layers of meaning. Helen Macdonald is gifted with a special lens that seems to peer right through it all, and she shares her insights--at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 824 MACHaley, Alex.
Summary: Alex Haley traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. He follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America/Sound library 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 929.2 HALBianchin, Helen.
Summary: Romy Picard will do anything to prevent her aged father from being imprisoned. But the only man who can help her is the rich, notorious Spaniard who stole her virginity and her heart three years ago. Xavier DeVasquez could drop all charges against Romy's father with a click of his arrogant fingers--but he sees an opportunity to have Romy in his bed one more time. This time, though, he'll make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BIAFielding, Helen
Summary: With her hotly anticipated third installment, Bridget Jones: Mad about the boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new, enticing phase of Bridget's life, set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, and the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FIEKeller, Helen
Summary: Helen Keller's personal recollections and correspondence reveal her relationship with her beloved teacher, Annie Sullivan, and the problems and obstacles she encountered as she struggled to overcome her handicaps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KELLER, HELEN KELHarrigan, Haley
Summary: Ten years ago, Julie Portland accidentally killed her best friend, Reba. What's worse is she got away with it. Consumed by guilt, she left the small town of Lawrence Mill, Mississippi, and swore nothing would ever drag her back. Now, raising her daughter and struggling to make ends meet in Manhattan, Julie still can't forget the ghost of a girl with golden hair and a dangerous secret. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARFerrante, Elena
Summary: In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERHeller, Joseph.
Summary: Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy, a bombadier named Yossarian is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. He has decided to live forever, even if he has to die in the attempt.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HELFerrante, Elena
Summary: The story begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets, the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow--and as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge--Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. These young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times while driving them apart at others. Each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FERFerrante, Elena
Summary: Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015