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2021., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: BLK Fic Bro Edition: First North American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life.
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By Lathen, Emma1968., Simon and Schuster Call No: MYS Fic Lat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: John Putnam Thatcher Volume: 8
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2009., Chatto & Windus Call No: Fic Nem Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind. Harry Sinner also comes to Paris to mingle in exclusive circles, until one day he buys two paintings which remind him of his past and the course of Ada's life changes once more...
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2011, c2010., Adult, McArthur & Co. Call No: Fic Pat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Edie Quentance is the odd one out in her family, a rebellious brunette amond charming blond conformists. For generations, Quentance Bank has managed the wealth of its rich and aristocratic clients, and when Edie is pushed into joining the family bank, she finds the work very dull indeed. She passes the time trying to uncover the truth about her great-grandfather Kit, whose love of the sea she has inherited. Kit Quentance was rumoured to have carried a fortune into the Titanic lifeboat with him - money that has never been found. Edie's excavations in the family archive unearth some shocking and far more recent secrets. She realises that Quentance Bank is not the paragon of old fashioned probity it pretends to be. As she tries to right her family's wrong-doings, Edie's position becomes increasingly dangerous. Her twin brother, her parents, her uncle - she no longer knows whom she can trust."--Back cover.
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2011., Open Letter Call No: Fic Vac Edition: First Open Letter edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
![Innocent as sin [LP]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Innocent as sin [LP]")
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-- Lost art of gratitude :c2009., Pantheon Books Call No: SC MYS Fic McC Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2022., Adult, Dzanc Books Call No: Fic Nov Edition: First US edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Falsely arrested in Russia for the murder of two Georgian wine importers, David, a bankrupt investment banker, soon discovers, after a visit from Putin, that the price of freedom is to assassinate the president of Georgia by slipping plutonium into his wine.
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1999, c1998., Adult, Berkley Call No: Fic San Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Prey novels Volume: [9]Summary Note: When a wealthy banker is shot during a hunting trip, Lucas Davenport suspects murder.
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2018., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Ste Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water. Suddenly the newlyweds must make a dangerous choice: to speak out or to protect their secret. After all, if no one else knows, who would be hurt? Their decision will trigger a devastating chain of events."--From publisher.
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c2012., General Store Pub. House Call No: Fic McK Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ottawa, Canada, 1934. Seventeen-year old Frances McFadden is plucked from the tedium of school routine and the control of a domineering mother to work for the new Bank of Canada. Like many hard-working women of her generation, she comes to wield tremendous power without any of the trappings of authority. Many noble acts, some skinny-dipping. In late August 1939, Frances is sent on a secret mission to Warsaw, where the Polish gold reserves tempt a rapacious neighbour.
