Catalog Search Results
1) Leave me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
Author
Series
Bacombe volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. Her father never made it out of the House of Horrors he created, and her mother spent the rest of her life behind bars. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she intends...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To face his traumatic past, a boy must turn to the person he blames for his scars in the New York Times–bestselling author's affecting novel.
High school junior Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson that left him severely scarred, both physically and emotionally. When his mother disappears without a word, he has no one to help him heal, no money, and nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people...
8) That Winter
Author
Publisher
Tannenberg Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1948, Merle Miller's first novel, That Winter, is a book of disillusioned youth, of veterans in the post-war world, in a story of personal despair, individual tragedy. It is the winter after the war has ended. Peter lets his inaction lead to writing for a magazine in which he has no faith. Lew renounces his Jewish name and family. Ted realizes that his only home was the Army. Through Westing, a phony novelist, who serves as catalytic...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself? Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This vengeful tale that pits artistic genius against mental health and happiness will captivate fans of dark suspense." -- Library Journal , STARRED review A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl -esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees. Three campfire secrets....
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"If it was only about her, she might never have come back to Rose Bend. But it's not only about her anymore. Sydney Collins left the small Berkshires town of Rose Bend eight years ago, grieving her sister's death -- and heartbroken over her parents' rejection. But now the rebel is back -- newly divorced and pregnant -- ready to face her fears and make a home for her child in the caring community she once knew. The last thing she needs is trouble....
12) The number 23
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Walter Sparrow receives a book for his birthday from his wife, Agatha. The first words he reads changes his once placid existence into a whirlpool of psychological torture and mayhem. The book is a chilling murder mystery that seems to mirror Walter's life in dark and uncontrollable ways. The book's main character is a brooding detective named Fingerling who seems to copy Walter's own history. As the book comes to life, Walter becomes factuated by...
13) Gone baby gone
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths... The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed author Will Carver. ';Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain. After this, he'll have his own cult following' Daily Express 'Will Carver is an exhilarating and audacious new voice in literary crime fiction' Sarah Pinborough ';A new Will...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request