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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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Call #: F RICHARDSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Natalia Ginzburg
(1,523)
Summary: "A hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel. At the heart of the story is an absence, an abyss that draws everyone nearer to its edge, created by the departure of a family's wayward only son, Michele,...
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Call #: F GINZBURG
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer Cody Epstein
(4,548)
Summary: "East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war?...
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Call #: F EPSTEIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Cynthia Hand
(2,148)
Summary: "Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F HAND
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Tom Greenwald
(1,185)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery--and...
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Call #: YA F GREENWALD
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Holly Goldberg Sloan
(5,798)
Summary: Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up....
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Call #: YA F SLOAN
copies in: 1 of 1
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Holly Goldberg Sloan
(5,827)
Summary: Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY YA F SLOAN
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
Mary Ann Shaffer
(625,175)
Summary: In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F SHAFFER
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mariana Zapata
(24,928)
Summary: Some days, all you need is a message from a stranger. Ruby Santos knew exactly what she was getting herself into when she signed up to write a soldier overseas. The guidelines were simple: one letter...
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Call #: F ZAPATA
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ocean Vuong
(75,610)
Summary: "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began...
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Call #: F VUONG
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katherine Reay
(13,253)
Summary: When an anonymous benefactor offers to put Samantha Moore through school, with the stipulation that she write frequent letters to him on her progress, Sam finds safety in the letters as her program and her peers force her to confront her past.
BOOK
Call #: F REAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Meg Cabot
Series:
Boy - #1
(63,781)
Summary: Gossip columnist and single New York City girl Mel lives in the most exciting place in the world, yet she's bored with her love life. But things get interesting fast when the old lady next door is...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F CABOT
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Youngson
(8,371)
Summary: A professor in Denmark and a grandmother in England begin a correspondence, and a friendship, that develops into something extraordinary.
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by
Lygia Day Peñaflor
(2,693)
Summary: When Long Island teens Miri, Soleil, Penny, and Jonah befriend a bestselling YA novelist, they find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next novel, with devastating consequences. Told...
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Call #: YA F PENAFLOR
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Adkins
(3,352)
Summary: Iris Massey is gone. But she's left something behind. For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by...
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Call #: F ADKINS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer Ryan
(25,736)
Summary: Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
BOOK
Call #: F RYAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Leah Thomas
Series:
Because You'll Never Meet Me - #1
(5,493)
Summary: Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is...
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Call #: YA F THOMAS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer Ryan
(25,688)
Summary: Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
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by
Hazel Gaynor
(9,360)
Summary: "August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by...
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Call #: F GAYNOR
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Peter Bognanni
(1,454)
Summary: "When tragedy strikes, Tess drops out of school and moves in with her funeral director dad, forcing her to examine life, death, and the boy she thought she knew and loved in a brand new light." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: YA F BOGNANNI
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nic Stone
(48,138)
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
BOOK
Call #: YA F STONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Hazel Gaynor
(10,444)
Summary: "August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by...
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by
Steve Kluger
(4,453)
Summary: Joey Margolis, a young boy whose father has deserted the family, begins writing baseball player Charlie Banks and forms a relationship with the third baseman that changes both their lives for the better.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KLUGER
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Nick Lake
(2,222)
Summary: Told through letter-writing flashbacks, Cassie is a New Jersey shore teen who over the course of one summer experiences the exhilarating highs of new love, the frightening free-falls of personal...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F LAKE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Youngson
(8,462)
Summary: A professor in Denmark and a grandmother in England begin a correspondence, and a friendship, that develops into something extraordinary.
BOOK
Call #: F YOUNGSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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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BOOK
Call #: F ROBINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Aravind Adiga
(160,617)
Summary: Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and...
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Call #: F ADIGA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Ann Shaffer
(622,316)
Summary: As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are...
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BOOK
Call #: F SHAFFER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Ann Shaffer
(622,210)
Summary: "I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of...
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Lorna Landvik
(1,087)
Summary: Alienating everyone with her public misbehavior and fresh from a stint in rehab, heiress Caroline Dixon is looking to turn her life around, going into seclusion to avoid vicioius paparazzi haunting...
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BOOK
Call #: F LANDVIK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Aravind Adiga
(118,968)
Summary: No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.This is India now.Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven...
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by
Aravind Adiga (read by John Lee )
(160,613)
Summary: Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY F ADIGA
Location: Adult Playways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Barbara Kingsolver
(63,802)
Summary: "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of...
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BOOK
Call #: F KINGSOLVER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
George Bishop Jr
(1,096)
Summary: A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is left to fret and worry--and begins writing a letter to her...
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BOOK
Call #: F BISHOP
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Melissa Jones
(376)
Summary: After the start of the Civil War, orphaned Emily Hudson must go to live in Newport, Rhode Island with her puritanical uncle, who attempts to marry her off, only to have Emily journey to London with...
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BOOK
Call #: F JONES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Barbara Kingsolver
(63,802)
Summary: The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events.
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by
Bekka Black
(847)
Summary: An updated version of Dracula told through a series of text messages, instant messages, e-mails, and Web browser images. Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Harker comes down with a rare blood disorder after...
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