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Pamela L. Laskin
(1,359)
Summary: Pamela L. Laskin's beautiful and lyrical novel in verse delivers a fresh and captivating retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern-day...
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Call #: YA F LASKIN
Location: YA Fiction
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Marilynne Robinson
(83,536)
Summary: "Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and...
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Call #: F ROBINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Marilynne Robinson (read by Tim Jerome)
Series:
Gilead Series
(83,532)
Summary: In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F ROBINSON
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marilynne Robinson
Series:
Gilead Series
(21,219)
Summary: Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for...
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Call #: F ROBINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Marilynne Robinson
(21,219)
Summary: Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack, the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years, comes home too, looking for...
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by
Lydia Millet
(7,163)
Summary: This novel follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the...
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Call #: F MILLET
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Marilynne Robinson
Series:
Gilead Novels - #4
(2,793)
Summary: A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.
BOOK
Call #: F ROBINSON
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Marilynne Robinson
Summary: A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY F ROBINSON
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marilynne Robinson
(54,311)
Summary: In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister...
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by
Mary Lawson
(6,664)
Summary: The troubled relationship between two brothers--Arthur Dunn, the dutiful eldest son, and the mercurial, dangerous Jake--escalates when they are both drawn to a beautiful young woman.
BOOK
Call #: F LAWSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Samuel Richardson
(7,834)
Summary: From the Publisher: Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the charming...
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BOOK
Call #: F RICHARDSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gareth Hinds
(1,042)
Summary: "She's a Capulet. He's a Montague. But when Romeo and Juliet first meet, they don't know they're from rival families-- and when they find out, they don't care. Their love is honest and raw and...
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BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL HIN
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
W. Dale Cramer
(1,559)
Summary: "A family saga of pain and reconciliation set behind the closed doors of an Amish community. Spanning three generations, the story follows the life of Will McGruder, who having fled as a young man,...
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Call #: F CRAMER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Graver
(2,088)
Summary: Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders.
BOOK
Call #: F GRAVER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alan Brennert
(5,842)
Summary: Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great...
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BOOK
Call #: F BRENNERT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katharine McMahon
(4,569)
Summary: There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A gripping tale of a book-smart young woman's sensual...
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by
Sandra Brown
Summary: When she hears that her younger brother Danny has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relinquishes her vow to never return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave...
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Call #: CD BOOK F BROWN
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by
Ryan North
(3,635)
Summary: What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around the castle all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with robot suits? You get to decide if there...
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BOOK
Call #: F NORTH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kimiko Guthrie
(152)
Summary: Akiko "Jane" Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her mid thirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiance, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident,...
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BOOK
Call #: F GUTHRIE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Danielle Steel
(5,749)
Summary: Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a...
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by
Sandhya Menon
(2,307)
Summary: Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F MENON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Sandra Brown
Summary: When her younger brother commits suicide, Sayre Lynch returns to her hometown for the funeral and finds herself drawn into a web cast by her controlling and tyrranical father.
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Summary: Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
DVD
Call #: DVD COMEDY INTERN
Location: DVDs Comedy
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Susan Kietzman
(562)
Summary: An exploration of the shifting relationships among parents and children, and between the surface trappings that symbolize success and the real values that give meaning to lives.
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