Mapson, Jo-Ann.

Summary: After leaving her no-good rodeo boyfriend, Mary Madigan ends up in Oklahoma Creek where she meets journalist Rick, pregnant Phoebe, and HIV-positive Ness, all of whom join forces to help, comfort, and love each other.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAP

Balogh, Mary

Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society-even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL
2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Watson, Brad

Summary: "Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog- Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions ofthe South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAT

Summary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SAD

Baker, Mishell.

Summary: "A cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in the first book of a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAK

Brunstetter, Wanda E.

Summary: Confined to a wheelchair since childhood, Rebekah Stoltzfus believes it'll take a miracle for her to ever enjoy the blessings of marriage or self-sufficiency.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRU

Okorafor, Nnedi

Summary: When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKO

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OKO

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF OKO

Baker, Mishell

Summary: Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess. Now, in a final visit to the scene of the crime, Millie and her former boss Caryl encounter Teo's tormented ghost. But there's one problem: according to Caryl, ghosts don't exist. Millie has a new life, a stressful job, and no time to get pulled back into the Project,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAK

Delinsky, Barbara.

Summary: When a friend is charged with a fifteen-year-old murder, wheelchair-bound Poppy Blake at first refuses to believe the charges but then wonders if her friend may have justifiably changed her identity in order to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEL

Spanogle, Joshua.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPA

Summary: Mentally-challenged Pauline is obsessed with pretty flowers and her glamorous sister Paulette. When Pauline's caretaker-sister Martha dies suddenly, Pauline has to move in with her sister Paulette, and proceeds to interfere with the day-to-day running of Paulette's lingerie shop and her double life as an opera singer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAU

Pendziwol, Jean

Summary: When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at Elizabeth's retirement home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEN

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: "Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCO

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCO

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SCO