Atwood, Margaret
Summary: Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto, Italy. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWLü, Wenyan
Summary: "The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LU1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Cameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Watson 2012Genova, Lisa.
Summary: Two women in Nantucket, dealing with their own separate issues of death and heartbreak, find solace in each other's friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCisneros, Sandra
Summary: "An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CISWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: Christine wakes each morning unaware of who she is and unable to recognize the stranger in her bed. Prompted by her doctor, Christine writes a journal about her life and reads it each morning. And as fragments of her memory return, she uncovers the shocking reality of what triggered her condition.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WATGriffin, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022Banville, John.
Summary: Max Morden visits the seaside town where he spent his summers as a child after the death of his wife. There he remembers the Graces, the family that introduced him to a world of feeling he'd never experienced before. Interwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna--of their life together, of her death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBanville, John.
Summary: Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed in thoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Braunstein, Sarah
Summary: A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name. A novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Griffin, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRISteel, Danielle
Summary: "A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Drabble, Margaret
Summary: Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's life and finds profound changes occurring within her present-day London home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRABazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZGerard, Sarah
Summary: "One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERHoward, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOWSteel, Danielle
Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEBartz, Andrea
Summary: "Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate--and dangerous--than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARAbrahams, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AbrWhite, Kate
Summary: Bryn Harper, an accomplished self-help author, already has plenty to deal with. She's still recovering from a devastating car accident that has left her haunted by recurring, smoke-filled nightmares. Worse still, she can't shake the ominous feeling her dreams contain a warning. In the beginning, Bryn's husband Guy couldn't have been more supportive. But after moving into a new house together,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WHICorlett, Anne
Summary: "All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit ... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that's left of the dead....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORBlackburn, Venita
Summary: Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Desai, Kiran
Summary: In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006