Quick, Amanda
Summary: After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Quick 2018Quick, Amanda
Summary: "After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quick 2018Faqir, Fadia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAQCoupland, Douglas.
Summary: Liz Dunn has little to keep her going until a strange young man named Jeremy arrives in her life, upsetting her routine and triggering events that take Liz around the world, into danger, and for the first time, within reach of happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUFeeney, Alice
Summary: Amber Reynolds knows three things for certain: she's in a coma; her husband doesn't love her anymore; and that she's told lies, but only because she thought them to be the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEWilson, Susan
Summary: Contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast, " in which artist Alix Miller meets and falls in love with mystery writer Leland Crompton, a man who has withdrawn from the world due to a rare genetic disease that has left him disfigured.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSwierczynski, Duane
Summary: A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINShuker, R. Carl
Summary: "Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray. Tough and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHUFanning, Diane.
Summary: When several patients with dementia, including her father-in-law, disappear and later turn up dead, Virginia homicide detective Lucinda Pierce conducts an investigation that leads her to a strange place resembling a poor man's Disneyland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVIngelman-Sundberg, C.
Summary: Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends—The Genius, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)—won’t stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INGMinot, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINGaitskill, Mary
Summary: The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIYamanaka, Lois-Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAMBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: Shortly before the 5K Run for Breast Cancer Awareness, Harry and her pets find the corpse of well-liked OR nurse Paula Benton, one of the event's organizers, who appears to have died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet's sting. But was it murder?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICEndicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDWagner, Bruce
Summary: Traces the experiences of very young breast cancer survivor Telma, who crosses paths with actor Michael Douglas during the latter's efforts to achieve his professional dream against a backdrop of riotous Hollywood culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAGFranzen, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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Summary: Enid Lambert begins to worry about her husband when he begins to withdraw and lose himself in negativity and depression as he faces Parkinson's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: Halfway to Forever brings back two of Karen Kingsbury's favorite couples -- Waiting for Morning's Matt and Hannah, and Jade and Tanner from A Moment of Weakness -- who once again face traumatic issues. Matt and Hannah risk losing another daughter as they invest their emotions in a risky adoption, and Tanner dreads losing Jade when brain cancer threatens her first pregnancy. Kingsbury's latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2002