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      By Gruen, Sara
       c2010., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Gru    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Sara Gruen's WATER FOR ELEPHANTS has become one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of our time. Now Gruen has moved from a circus elephant, to a family of bonobo apes, whose kidnapping from a language laboratory and mysterious appearance on a reality TV show calls into question our assumptions about the relations between apes and humans, and humans' relationships to each other."--Publisher.
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      By Gable, Michelle
       2021., Graydon House Call No: Fic Gab    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who has a compelling story to tell.
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      By Naga, Noor
       2022., Graywolf Press Call No: Fic Nag    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: An Egyptian American woman visiting her parents' homeland begins a dark romance with an unemployed photographer who is addicted to cocaine and living in a rooftop shack in Cairo, in a novel about identity politics.
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      By Butler, Octavia E.
       1979., Doubleday & Company, Inc. Call No: BLK Fic But   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Dana, a young modern black woman is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him, as he will father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. After the first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and each time, the sojourns become longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.
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      By Grafton, Sue
       c2013., G. P. Putnam's sons Call No: MYS Fic Gra    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Includes stories that detail Alphabet series heroine Kinsey Millhone's origins, as well as true tales of the author's past.
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      By Steel, Danielle, 1947-
       2009., Delacorte Press Call No: Fic Ste    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
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      By Breslin, Abigail, 1996-  Foster, Jodie  Butler, Gerard, 1969-
       2008., General, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Nim's   Edition: [Widescreen ed.].    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her island. Now, the two must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer the island.
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      By Beck, K. K
       2003., Viking Call No: Bio O61b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Opal Whiteley became a sensation when her childhood diary was published in 1920. But who was Opal? Although she'd been raised in an Oregon logging town, the diary contained clues she might actually be a royal princess, and she is buried in London under the name of a French royal. Opal's many fans today cherish her childhood diary, but others dismiss it as a fraud. Mystery writer Kathrine Beck has written the most thoroughly researched and authoritative book on Opal, discovering never before revealed material from archives around the world, as she tells the story of a remarkable child and a remarkable woman -- a woman who mesmerized celebrities and aristocrats of her day on three continents and continues to enchant readers today.
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      By Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961-
       c2007., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Ros   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel<U+2019> d<U+2019>Hiv<U+2019> roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Veledrome's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode."--Publisher.