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Flesh
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Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor -- a married woman close to his mother's age -- as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that Istvan himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.
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LP FIC Sza
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The Hong Kong widow
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In 1950s Hong Kong, Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist Revolution struggling to put her past in Shanghai behind her. When she receives a shocking invitation--to take part in a competition pitting six spirit mediums against one another, in a series of six séances, over six nights, until a single winner emerges, in one of Hong Kong's most notoriously haunted houses--she has every reason to refuse. Except that the hostess, a former Shanghainese silent film star, is none other than the wife of the man who once destroyed Mei's entire life. The winner is promised a fortune, but there is only one prize Mei wants: Revenge. Decades later, the final night of that competition has become an infamous urban legend: The police were called to the scene of a brutal massacre but found no evidence, dismissing it as a collective hallucination. Mei knows what she saw, but now someone else is convinced they know what she did. Mei must uncover the truth about that fateful night in that cursed house at last--even if the ghosts of her past are waiting for her there."
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Book
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LP FIC Loe
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Agnes Aubert's mystical cat shelter
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Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it's the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a space to a cat rescue is a mysterious man called Havelock. Havelock also happens to be the world's most infamous magician, running an illegal magic shop out of his basement. He is cantankerous and eccentric, and rumors swirl about his past, including whispers that his dark magic once almost brought about the apocalypse. When another magician comes looking for Havelock, putting the magic shop--and the cat shelter--in jeopardy, Agnes will have to team up with the magician. Havelock is everything Agnes thinks she doesn't need in her life: chaos, mischief, and a little too much adventure. But as she gets to know him, she discovers she may be ready for a little intrigue--and romance--in her life.
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Book
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LP FIC Faw
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The foursome : a novel
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When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity, they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now they're looking for wives. In a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge. Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins' fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn't so sure. When the twins' lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything--including race, class, and gender--is rigidly defined.
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Call Number:
LP FIC Kli
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The girl in the green dress : a mystery featuring Zelda Fitzgerald - VIEW IN CATALOG
The girl in the green dress : a mystery featuring Zelda Fitzgerald
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At the dawn of the Jazz Age, Morris Markey arrives in New York to become a writer. Having served in France, he needs to be in a place so distracting he cannot hear himself think. Markey hovers at the edge of the city's revels, unable to hear the secrets that might give him his first Big Story. One night he spots Joseph Elwell, a man about town known for courting wealthy married women, with a glorious girl in a dress of silver and dollar green. The next morning, Elwell's housekeeper runs out into the street screaming that Elwell has been shot. At last, Morris Markey has his story. To penetrate the glittering world of Joseph Elwell, Markey turns to the newly famous Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, who met Elwell the same fateful night he night. Together, Markey and Zelda learn that there were many people in Elwell's life who had reason to want him dead. And when a second man is found shot in his home in a very similar way, Markey begins to suspect that this story is more complicated, and so dangerous that after he finishes it three decades later, he himself is found dead in his home, a single bullet through his head.
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LP FIC Fre
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The queen's coronation : a novel
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London, 1953. Buckingham Palace and the employees who are vital to the smooth running of the monarch find themselves in bedlam as the coronation approaches. Caroline Brimstone, assistant dresser to the queen, watches as the queen finds the strength to rule. Lucy Jones is a young, idealistic, eager junior wardrobe assistant who yearns to become a famous singer. Miranda Miller is an American temporary secretary. As all three women discover, just because a woman will soon be sitting atop the throne, it doesn't mean the society will change over night. If they want to make a place for themselves in the world, they will have to carve it out together.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Rya
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Irish goodbye : micro-memoirs
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A new volume of Fennelly's genre-defying micro-memoirs that explore family, marriage, motherhood, place and coming of age with singular wit and emotional clarity.
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Book
Call Number:
LP 811.6 Fen
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It's me they follow : a novel
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'It's Me They Follow' is an allegorical love story set in a not so distant past. It follows The Shopkeeper, a bookseller and reluctant matchmaker. Helping others find love through books comes easily for The Shopkeeper, until it is time for her to find love for herself. She secretly yearns for her first customer, ME, who took both her most prized book and a piece of her heart when he left. But just when she begins to lose hope, she discovers that she may hold the key to her own happily ever after as well.
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LP FIC Coo
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When we were brilliant
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In 1951, Norma Jeane Baker follows documentary photographer Eve Arnold into a powder room, the first night they meet. She has a proposition for her: Norma Jean built Marilyn Monroe to be photographed, and she wants Eve to do it. Eve, who is better than anyone she's seen at capturing beauty, at shedding light on her subjects. Together, they can help each other. Together, she says, they can make something brilliant. Skeptical of this cipher of a young woman, Eve demurs. But she keeps getting drawn back into Marilyn's orbit. Until the women come to recognize something in each other, something fundamental. Nothing will get in the way of what they want, and when Marilyn's star takes off to teetering heights, neither will ever be the same. A lavish and transporting novel, When We Were Brilliant captures the halcyon days of an icon and the grit of women determining their own futures as it explores the exceptional and complicated friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Cul
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A rose of blood and binding
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The battered Middlemist can barely hold itself together. Olden monsters terrorize the land and the gods are awakening from their ancient slumber. But if the vengeful Kilraith destroys them, all will be lost. It's up to the Ashbourne sisters, daughters of the goddess Kerezen, to stop him. But they're spread thin. Gemma and Talan travel the world searching for the gods, while in the capital, Farrin and Ryder shelter countless refugees amid roiling unrest. And Mara, bound to the Middlemist, is just trying to survive. Every day she battles invaders and fights to protect her fellow Roses. The presence of librarian Gareth Fontaine doesn't help. Charming, brilliant, far too confident, and annoyingly reverent of the Roses, he's a distraction Mara can't avoid or afford. She can see shadows of violence and shame underneath his dazzling smile. As Mara and Gareth search the Old Country for Kilraith's final three curse-anchors, a passion born of sorrow and solace sparks between them, one that could finally bring Mara home, or bring both worlds crashing down alongside her.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Leg
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A ghastly catastrophe
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When the corpse of an entitled young man is found entirely drained of blood in a carriage next to Highgate Cemetery, Veronica's interest is piqued. And then a second victim is found, his death made to look like a suicide, and Veronica and her intrepid beau, Stoker, know the hunt is on. The two men share one link: they were both members of a society so secretive that only a singular mention of it can be found anywhere. Thirsty for more clues, Veronica and Stoker hear that a young Roma boy may know more about their first victim, but the only way to the boy is through an old acquaintance of Stoker's, Lady Julia Brisbane. Lady Julia and her dashing husband, Nicholas, occasionally track down murderers and are only too happy to help. But as it becomes clear the secret society is a dangerous sect looking to entice immortality seekers, Veronica and Stoker find themselves ensnared by a decidedly more sinister couple.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Ray
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Departure(s)
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Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a story--or a story within the story--but not just yet." Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly fiction or not, there is a lot of its author in it, including Barnes's reckoning with the blood disorder he has been living with since he was diagnosed in 2020, his long preoccupation with dying and grief, and his mordant sense of the indignities and lost opportunities we're prey to in love. The story he promises to deliver is a love story, that of two friends he met at university in the 1960s, that time of touted but rarely experienced sexual freedom. Julian played matchmaker to Stephen (tall, gangling, uncertain) and Jean (tart and attractive); as the third wheel he was deeply invested in the success of their love and insulted when they broke up. Time is swift, and forty years later, he tries again, watching as their rekindled affair produces joys, betrayals, and disappointments of a different order.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Bar
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Beach thriller
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It's been nearly twenty years since Holly last visited the charming town of Beauport, Massachusetts, and it remains as enchanting as she remembers. However, Holly's painful memories still linger. She feels intense pangs of guilt, because when her sister tragically died here, Holly feels she did nothing to stop it. Worse, as she's struggling with writer's block, she must live in the last place she wants to: her family's long-abandoned beach house, where she last saw her sister alive. But she's been tasked by her literary agent to write a best-selling book. Reinventing herself won't be easy, but she does make some friends along the way. Gail, the property-obsessed realtor who introduces her to a friendly handyman named Ethan, and the local psychic, Serena, who supports Holly but warns of impending danger. Then there's the young, mysterious Jade, a runaway teen in Beauport on a secret mission. With nowhere to go, Holly takes her in. Then Jade lands a job with the powerful Carmichael family, and Holly feels overwhelmed with dread that their hidden secrets could also endanger young Jade, who she's determined to protect. But Holly is not the only one with an agenda. The Watcher knows what Holly doesn't, and some secrets must remain buried.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Day
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The merge : a novel
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Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer's. Her daughter Amelia, a once fiery and strong-willed activist, can't bear to see her mother's mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world's first experimental merging process for Alzheimer's patients, in which Laurie's ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia's healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one. Soon Amelia and Laurie join the opaque and mysterious group of other merge participants: teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fiancée Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is his addict daughter Lara. As they prepare to move to The Village, a luxurious rehabilitation center for those who have merged, they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Wal
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The case of the murdered muckraker
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Chicago, 1898. In the midst of the Progressive Era, twenty-one-year-old junior detective Harriet Morrow is determined to prove she's more than a lucky hire as the Prescott Agency's first woman operative. But her latest challenge--a murder case steeped in scandal--could become a deadly setback.
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Book
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LP FIC Osl
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White River Crossing : a novel
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A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty more like it further north at a place called Ox Lake. The outpost's chief factor, Magnus Norton, dreams of instant riches and launches a secret and perilous expedition to find the treasure and bring it back. Led by a family of native guides, the party of prospectors includes Norton's brutish deputy, John Shaw, and Thomas Hearn, the insular and intellectual first mate from the factory's whaling sloop. During their long journey north, Shaw's callousness and arrogance lead him to commit an act of sexual violence whose disastrous consequences will only fully emerge once they reach their final destination. There, amidst the bleak beauty of the Barren Grounds, as Norton's carefully crafted plans begin to fall apart and the brutal arctic winter starts to descend, Hearn is forced to make a choice that will define his character and determine his future forever.
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Book
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LP FIC McG
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Where the false gods dwell
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Chicago, 1935. Othella is an orphaned con-artist who needs to escape the city's brutal underworld. Vivian Jean is a wealthy wife, student, and anthropologist eager to prove herself professionally and personally. Zinzi is a Jamaican labor union activist determined to bring change to her homeland's plantation system. Thanks to a series of coincidences, all three join Katherine Dunham's voyage to Jamaica. Othella becomes a valued member of the expedition, even as she struggles to conceal her past. Zinzi's knowledge of the area allows the expedition to explore uncharted territory, even as a forbidden love and fierce resistance threaten everything she seeks to protect. And Vivian Jean's observations help Dunham make unprecedented discoveries, as she grapples with her second husband's guilt and accusations. Amidst their private battles, nature presents an even greater challenge.
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Book
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LP FIC Bry
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Vengeance : the last stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull - VIEW IN CATALOG
Vengeance : the last stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
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On June 25-27, 1876, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was fought between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Along the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, the battle resulted in the devastating defeat of U.S. forces and was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. This dramatic look at the Little Bighorn battle includes not only the Native American point of view--with two dynamic Native figures, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, on prominent display--but also the impact it had on the Plains Indians. It turned out to be their last stand too because a vengeful nation quashed any remaining resistance, with a conclusive massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, almost simultaneous with the murder of Sitting Bull. In addition, Custer's character by June 1876 is at the heart of this world-famous disaster. For all his celebrated bravery, especially at Gettysburg 13 years earlier, Custer became a devout media hound, desperate to gain fame. Even, some say, his own demise was a misguided attempt at grabbing national headlines: He envisioned a massacre - just not his own. As both the camera and the tabloid came of age, George Armstrong Custer became America's first bona fide celebrity. Vengeance is a thrilling read, filled with action, legendary characters, and poignance for the impact this had on Native Americans and the shape of the American West.
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Book
Call Number:
LP 973.82 Cla
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Summer of love
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1967: Concerts, hippies, and war protests define the Summer of Love in San Francisco. No one is more into the messages than Winifred (Winnie) Hartley, just graduated from UC Berkeley, and determined to make it as a poet. When she reconnects with her high school boyfriend Lincoln Sawyer, it feels like her life is finally on the right path. Her sister Miranda throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard, determined to make a California wine that rivals the French. Little do they know that the choices they make and the secrets they keep will set their lives down radically different paths. 2015: Dawn Hartley has a secret that she can't share with her mother Miranda, who has long been her closest confidant. When a work assignment leads her to research the Vineland novels by a famously anonymous writer, she starts a journey that will have a profound impact on her life.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Mah
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Japanese gothic
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Lee Turner doesn't remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge--his father's new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls. Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father's face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window. One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie. Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
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Book
Call Number:
LP FIC Bak
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The delivery : a novella
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Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family together. She's healing from the pain of a miscarriage, he's drowning in pressure at work, and their neurodivergent daughter, Maddy, needs all the care she can get. So when a cutting-edge tech company offers the perfect solution, they jump at the chance, and they welcome 'Mr. Man' - a humanoid AI companion - into their home. Designed to anticipate their needs, he's like a miracle at first. And Maddy thrives under his patient attention. But when inexplicable tragedies start to strike the neighbourhood, Rebecca glimpses a darker pattern at play. Each incident is an answer to an unspoken fear, each kindness shadowed by violence. Mr. Man isn't just following instructions, he's anticipating what they want. Even the things they never dared to say. And if he's executing their darkest desires, it's their responsibility to stop him.
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Book
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LP FIC Hur