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Ian McEwan
(453,815)
Summary: Three children lost their innocence --as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935-- and their lives are changed forever.
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Call #: F MCEWAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kristin Hannah
(31,695)
Summary: A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
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Call #: F HANNAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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John Hart
(35,133)
Summary: After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that...
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Call #: F HART
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kristin Hannah
(147,799)
Summary: The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
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Call #: F HANNAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kristin Hannah
(99,690)
Summary: After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her...
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Call #: F HANNAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Amanda Hodgkinson
(11,225)
Summary: In this tale of a Polish family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII, Silvana and Janusz travel to England where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace.
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Call #: F HODGKINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Lisa Genova
(33,021)
Summary: Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a...
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Call #: F GENOVA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Celeste Ng
(373,793)
Summary: "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of...
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Call #: F NG
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Fredrik Backman
(626,702)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
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Call #: F BACKMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Liane Moriarty
(792,605)
Summary: "A murder... a tragic accident... or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is...
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Call #: F MORIARTY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 3
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Diane Chamberlain
(65,425)
Summary: "Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North...
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Call #: F CHAMBERLAIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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S. J. Watson
(17,232)
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...
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Call #: F WATSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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John Williams
(111,338)
Summary: "Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and...
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Call #: F WILLIAMS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Katarina Bivald
(36,692)
Summary: "Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended....
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Call #: F BIVALD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Octavia E Butler
(114,149)
Summary: Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the...
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Call #: F BUTLER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kang Han
(100,716)
Summary: "Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind...
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Call #: F HAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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J P Delaney
(127,343)
Summary: 'Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.' The request seems odd, even intrusive -- and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Reeling from...
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Call #: F DELANEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Darcey Bell
(56,375)
Summary: "She's your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That's why she's so dangerous. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, in this chilling debut thriller in the...
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Call #: F BELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Susan Mallery
Series:
Mischief Bay - #2
(7,916)
Summary: While Gabby Schaefer reels in the face of crushing news that has thwarted her plans to return to work, Hayley Batchelor pursues high-risk fertility treatments and Nicole Lord fears falling in love...
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Call #: F MALLERY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Jojo Moyes
(19,044)
Summary: "When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo--|hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London...
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Call #: F MOYES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Sarah A. Denzil
(59,785)
Summary: Ten years after losing her son, Aiden, during a flood, Emma feels she is ready to move on. She's married and pregnant and starting a new family life. Then Aiden, now a teenager, returns, silent and...
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Call #: F DENZIL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kate White
(7,204)
Summary: A successful self-help author, recovering from a devastating car accident, finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control in the face of a caterer's murder and her husband's ominous secrets.
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Call #: F WHITE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Fredrik Backman
(44,155)
Summary: Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's...
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Call #: F BACKMAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Dennis Lehane
(30,200)
Summary: After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a...
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Call #: F LEHANE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Gail Honeyman
(792,619)
Summary: "Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HONEYMAN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 22
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
(286,791)
Summary: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the...
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Call #: F REID
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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Shari Lapeña
(86,333)
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to...
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Call #: F LAPENA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Wendy Walker
(25,919)
Summary: "One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping...
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Call #: F WALKER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Colleen Hoover
(57,954)
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. In Colleen Hoover's gripping novel,...
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Call #: F HOOVER
Location: Adult Fiction
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Liv Constantine
(144,145)
Summary: "Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves...
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Call #: F CONSTANTINE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Carol E. Wyer
(2,301)
Summary: When a young mother is found drowned in the bath, clutching a receipt saying 'all debts paid', Detective Robyn Carter knows it's just the beginning of a harrowing case. She recognises the signs of a...
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Call #: F WYER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Carol E. Wyer
(1,707)
Summary: "When, a girl's body is found at a Midlands storage unit, it is too decomposed for Detective Robyn Carter to read the signs left by the killer. No one knows the woman in blue who rented the unit; her...
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Call #: F WYER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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John Hart
(5,486)
Summary: It's been ten years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon's life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his...
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Call #: F HART
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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