Taddeo, Lisa
Summary: Joan has spent her life enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one commits shocking violence in front of her, she searches for the one person alive who can help her make sense of the past and forge the power to strike back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TADAitken, Molly
Summary: "A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AITTaddeo, Lisa
Summary: Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child--that has haunted her every waking moment--while forging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC TAD1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAD
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TADEllmann, Lucy
Summary: "Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Biblioasis 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLGreenwood, T. (Tammy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREAnshaw, Carol
Summary: A lesbian therapist in Chicago whose live-in lover disappears tracks her down in Morocco, only to find a different woman, a shock that puts her power of perception in question. If she could misread a lover for so long--a therapist's worst fear--perhaps she hardly knows her own mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANSHowatch, Susan.
Summary: High-powered London attorney Carter Graham's perfect life with her new husband is shattered by the revelation of her husband's secret ties to the occult and the Nazis, and an increasingly desperate Carter seeks aid from Nick Darrow, the mysterious head of St. Benet's Healing Center, as she struggles to come to terms with her own life and marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWSiddons, Anne Rivers
Summary: "Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Siddons 2014Siddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: "Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2014
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Summary: Every August, four women gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SIDNolan, Megan
Summary: The female narrator falls completely into the power of a male writer. When he suddenly rejects her, she resolves to hang on to him and his love at all costs...even if it destroys her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOLBirch, Carol
Summary: London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia . . . Pronounced by the most eminent physician of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRBradford, Barbara Taylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRASummary: Stories about women for women. The collection is divided into such categories as Initiation and Righteous Rage. The stories range from rape and murder, to women using brains and guile to have their way with men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGornick, Lisa
Summary: "A collection of linked short stories tracking an ensemble of interconnected characters from 1961 to the present, from the author of Tinderbox"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORKasischke, Laura
Summary: "Jiselle, a young flight attendant has just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Kasischke 2017DeMarco, Kathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMHurston, Zora Neale.
Summary: A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1998
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURFrench, Nicci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREGriffin, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIHummel, Maria
Summary: "Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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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 FRAOtoo, Sharon Dodua
Summary: "A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTOGriffin, Anne
Summary: "From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead--a talent which is both a gift and a curse. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022