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by
Yara Zgheib
(3,007)
Summary: Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a...
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BOOK
Call #: F ZGHEIB
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Thrity N. Umrigar
(29,809)
Summary: Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case...
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BOOK
Call #: F UMRIGAR
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Danielle Steel
(9,607)
Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers...
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BOOK
Call #: F STEEL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rachel Lynn Solomon
(29,559)
Summary: Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weather reporter Torrance Hale, is too...
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BOOK
Call #: F SOLOMON
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Dana Stabenow
Series:
Eye Of Isis - #2
(341)
Summary: Alexandria 47 B.C., Cleopatra -- seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt -- watches over her city. The war is over but Alexandria, that once great beacon of...
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BOOK
Call #: F STABENOW
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brad Taylor
Series:
Pike Logan Thrillers - #16
(2,809)
Summary: When a para-gliding trip over the picturesque mountains of Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mossad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana...
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BOOK
Call #: F TAYLOR
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Toni Morrison
(11,993)
Summary: In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow...
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BOOK
Call #: F MORRISON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Weike Wang
(10,863)
Summary: Joan is a thirty-something ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely...
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BOOK
Call #: HOT PICK F WANG
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Paul Vidich
(1,706)
Summary: Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee...
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BOOK
Call #: F VIDICH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Charmaine Wilkerson
(80,628)
Summary: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a...
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BOOK
Call #: F WILKERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 3
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Summary: When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
DVD
Call #: DVD COMEDY GHOSTBUSTERS
Location: DVDs Comedy
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lani Lynn Vale
(2,170)
Summary: A few years ago, when his sister went missing, Haggard Crow turned into something he never wanted to be. A killer. Even after his sister is rescued a year after she was kidnapped and sold, Haggard...
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BOOK
Call #: F VALE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Donna VanLiere
Series:
End-times Trilogy - #3
(80)
Summary: After his apparent resurrection, beloved leader Victor Quade is hailed internationally as God. Yet when Victor mandates that everything from purchasing groceries to seeing a doctor will require a...
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BOOK
Call #: F VANLIERE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sue Lynn Tan
Series:
Celestial Kingdom - #1
(38,310)
Summary: Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing the elixir of immortality. But when...
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BOOK
Call #: F TAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Catriona Ward
(9,753)
Summary: All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. Far from her childhood home, Sundial, hidden deep in the wild Mojave Desert. But beneath...
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BOOK
Call #: F WARD
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
David Wright Falade
(678)
Summary: By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways...
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BOOK
Call #: F WRIGHT FALADE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Charles Todd
Series:
Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries - #24
(3,800)
Summary: Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex. At Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past, the lady of the house claims...
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BOOK
Call #: F TODD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Peter Swanson
(24,665)
Summary: Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list....
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BOOK
Call #: F SWANSON
Locations: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals, Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Sarah Sundin
(3,235)
Summary: As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. She struggles to run Green Leaf Books due...
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BOOK
Call #: F SUNDIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Erin Young
(2,466)
Summary: Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body -- a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture....
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BOOK
Call #: F YOUNG
Locations: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals, Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Rosie Walsh
(40,526)
Summary: I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do...
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BOOK
Call #: HOT PICK F WALSH
Locations: Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 4
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by
Tracie Peterson
Series:
Treasures Of Nome - #3
(444)
Summary: Nome, Alaska, 1905. On the surface, Whitney Powell is happy working with her sled dogs and welcoming the new additions to her family through her sisters' marriages and an upcoming birth. But her life...
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BOOK
Call #: F PETERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Tyler
(33,093)
Summary: The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble...
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BOOK
Call #: F TYLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 3 of 3
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by
Danielle Steel
(7,826)
Summary: Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent...
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BOOK
Call #: F STEEL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jacqueline Winspear
Series:
Maisie Dobbs Novels - #17
(10,463)
Summary: October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire -- the fastest fighter aircraft in the world -- to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting...
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BOOK
Call #: F WINSPEAR
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Ashley Winstead
(5,684)
Summary: Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that's better than Tesla, thank you) and after work she is...
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BOOK
Call #: F WINSTEAD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: A betrayed pop star, slated to marry her pop star fiancee on stage, instead marries a stranger from the audience, a high school math teacher. Against the odds, their sham relationship develops into...
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DVD
Call #: DVD COMEDY MARRY
Locations: Adult Displays - Circ 1, DVDs Comedy
copies in: 3 of 3
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by
Janelle Monae
(2,560)
Summary: Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monae and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful...
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BOOK
Call #: F MONAE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Hanya Yanagihara
(28,900)
Summary: In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family...
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BOOK
Call #: F YANAGIHARA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Simone St. James
(82,497)
Summary: In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect...
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BOOK
Call #: F ST. JAMES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 3
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by
Olga Tokarczuk
(5,131)
Summary: In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only...
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BOOK
Call #: F TOKARCZUK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Don Winslow
(13,076)
Summary: Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance,...
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BOOK
Call #: F WINSLOW
Locations: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals, Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Lani Lynn Vale
(1,515)
Summary: It's not every day that you see a dead body at the beach. Or the woman of your dreams sitting next to that dead body. Price Crow first saw Sabrina Proctor in the middle of a hurricane. She'd been...
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BOOK
Call #: F VALE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer Weiner
(39,542)
Summary: When her stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta,...
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BOOK
Call #: F WEINER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 4 of 4
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by
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
(9,317)
Summary: Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to...
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BOOK
Call #: F ZHANG
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Camilla Sten
(5,873)
Summary: The medical term is prosopagnosia. The average person calls it face blindness -- the inability to recognize a familiar person's face, even the faces of those closest to you. When Eleanor walked in on...
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BOOK
Call #: F STEN
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sheila Williams
(993)
Summary: Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace -- a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will...
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BOOK
Call #: F WILLIAMS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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(739)
Summary: "27 authors. 27 stories. No names attached. A bold collection of stories about sex that leaves you guessing who wrote what. Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an...
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BOOK
Call #: F STORIES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carolyne Topdjian
Series:
Mave Michael
(201)
Summary: The Château du Ciel was once the destination for the rich and famous, but has fallen into disrepair. During the hotel's last hurrah New Year's Eve party, a blizzard descends, trapping the guests...
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BOOK
Call #: F TOPDJIAN
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
copies in: 1 of 1
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