Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Summary: "An overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose fiancé is desperate to untangle her untimely death. A mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. These are the three women who animate Olaf Olafsson's brilliantly rendered One Station Away. Magnus, a New York neurologist -- son to one, lover to another, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLABennett, Brit
Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENMachado, Carmen Maria
Summary: Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACWoolf, Virginia
Summary: A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOStevens, Chevy.
Summary: Captured by a psychopath posing as an interested house buyer, realtor Annie spends a brutally traumatic year in captivity in a remote mountain cabin and recounts her experiences and dramatic escape to her therapist while agonizing over the ongoing police search for her captor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SteBenedict, Marie
Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BENHooper, Kim
Summary: "Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion Drew once showed her is transferred to his ailing mother. When she's thrust into an enforced caretaker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCarty-Williams, Candice
Summary: "'[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.'--Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You; Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Carty-Williams 2019Shepard, Karen
Summary: Karen Shepard's Kiss me someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex, but for all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEOlsen, Rena
Summary: "In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman's life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true. wasn't? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLSSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: When her husband drops her for a younger woman, Molly Redwine of Atlanta--mother of two adult children and a woman accustomed to comfort--thinks it is the end of the world. But as she recuperates in Martha's Vineyard, Molly discovers other reasons for living--lots of people need her--and gradually she regains confidence and happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDCohen, Sam
Summary: "In Sarahland, Sam Cohen ... explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love, and new possibilities for life itself. A Jewish college Sarah is passively swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. A Sarah unmoored by late capitalism plays dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COHD'Erasmo, Stacey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DERTaylor, Sara
Summary: "A stirring and ambitious debut that traces the history and future of a small group of islands off the coast of Virginia through the lives of generations of the women who live there" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYMackintosh, Sophie
Summary: Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF MACFranzen, Jonathan
Summary: "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother-- her only family-- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFranzen, Jonathan
Summary: "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young. Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMoggach, Lottie.
Summary: Leila, a sheltered young misfit, discovers an online chat forum where she feels accepted and falls under the spell of the website's charismatic founder, who entices her into assuming the stolen identity of a glamorous but desperate woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOGWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger online, she starts losing herself ... losing control ... perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATHarman, Patricia
Summary: When Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and she runs away to start over in a place where no one knows her or about the mess she left behind in West Virginia. She learns that no matter how far you run, you can never truly hide from your past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of Harpercollins 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harman 2017Freiman, Lexi
Summary: "A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics. Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREKeyes, Marian.
Summary: Surviving an illness that kept her hospitalized for months, Stella Sweeney discovers that a successful book has been published about her case that compels her to relocate to New York and pursue a career as a self-help memoirist.
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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 KEYBoyle, T. Coraghessan.
Summary: Deaf Dana Halter is falsley arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing bad checks, while William Wilson has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense. Dana and her boyfriend Bridger set out to track him down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she's spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is--and what she's done--is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will Maggie walk away from her ten-year marriage and her responsibility as a foster mother in her desperate desire to escape the mantle of depression that is cloaking her? Or will she allow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2006