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2018., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Gif Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nina Browning married a third-generation Nashvillian, enjoys a newly lavish lifestyle thanks to the sudden success of her husband's tech business and has a son, Finch, who just got accepted to Princeton. Thomas Talone is a single dad, works multiple jobs and has a daughter, Lila, who was recently accepted to Nashville's most prestigious private high school on a scholarship. They couldn't be prouder. Then scandal strikes, and the worlds of these very different families collide. Lila passes out at a party, drunk and half-naked. Finch snaps a picture, types out a caption and click--sends it out to a few friends. The photo spreads quickly, and soon heated reactions bubble throughout the already-divided community. Before long, the families find themselves in the midst of an ethical war as their community takes sides, throws blame and implodes. The gray area between right and wrong grows thick, and Nina and Tom are forced to question every assumption they've held about love and family loyalty.
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2001., Pocket Books Call No: MYS Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A bereaved widow asks a psychic to help her contact her husband. But her husband is very much alive and with the help of the psychic is trying to ruin her.
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-- Mad about the boyc2013., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Fie Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A new phase of Bridget's life set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by and the nightmare of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need 90 buttons and three remotes to simply turn on.
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2020., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Maj Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: " For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise--to the middle class, to politcal power, to fame in the movies--and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely--an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humour--has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear. Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut. A novel about fate, power, opportunity, and class; about innocence and guilt, betrayal and love, and the corrosive media cycle that manufactures falsehoods masquerading as truths--A Burning is a debut novel of exceptional power and urgency, haunting and beautiful, brutal, vibrant, impossible to forget."--
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By Eggers, Dave2014., Vintage Books Call No: Fic Egg Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company. The story of one woman's ambition and idealism becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
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c2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Mul Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the story of Leah, Maggie and Katie, the infamous Fox Sisters, who in the mid 1880s, convinced the world that they could communicate with spirits, until middle sister, Maggie confessed it had all been an elaborate hoax. In 1893, only Maggie is left alive. Ill, penniless and forgotten, a mysterious caregiver named Mrs. Mellon is her only lifeline to the world. Mrs. Mellon prompts Maggie into revealing her family's darkest secrets, but is Maggie confessing, or is she practicing her finely honed art one last time?.
![Final justice [LP]](/Library/images/~imageCT71014.JPG "Final justice [LP]")
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2023., Adult, Tin House Call No: NEW SC Fic Sal Edition: First US edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1920s Edinburgh, Scotland, Evelyn Hazard is a young, middle-class housewife living the life she's always expected--until her husband, Robert, upends everything with a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead. The couple is pulled into the spiritualist movement--a religious society of mediums and psychics that emerged following the mass deaths of the Spanish flu and First World War--and Evelyn's carefully composed world begins to unravel.
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Ã2017., Adult, Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Ingrid Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unstable young woman with a checkered past of obsessive behavior. She secretly moves to Los Angeles to befriend Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) -- an Instagram "influencer" with a fabulous artist boyfriend, a camera-ready terrier, and an array of new products and brands to promote to her followers. After Ingrid adopts a Taylor-made identity for herself, her attempts to prove she's BFF material are underway -- that is, until she meets Taylor's obnoxious brother Nicky, who threatens to tear down her facœade. Ingrid Goes West is a savagely hilarious dark comedy that brilliantly satirizes the modern world of social media and proves that being #perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be" -- Container.
![Ingrid goes west [DVD] (2017). Directed by Matt Spicer](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Ingrid goes west [DVD] (2017). Directed by Matt Spicer")
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2021., Titan Books Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
![Later [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101539.JPG "Later [eBook]")
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2022., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic She Edition: 1st ed.. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The golden days of MaryAnne's singing career, of sold-out concert halls and hit records have given way to shabby rooms and paltry CD sales, battered by YouTube and streaming. But, MaryAnne, nearing 60, refuses to retire. When her party-animal single daughter becomes pregnant, MaryAnne rebels against becoming a grandmother and putting her dwindling career aside to help her daughter raise an infant. It's left to her live-in lover to try and sew the family back together while MaryAnne clutches her six-string for dear life"--
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c2008., Ecco Call No: Fic Oat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.
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2021., Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Loc Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.
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2008., Bantam Books Call No: Fic Koo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks--his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board--is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.
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2013., General, Bantam Call No: Fic Koo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Catch up with Odd Thomas in Odd Interlude, a special three-part eBook series by the master of suspense Dean Koontz! Here is the spine-tingling first installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure. THERE'S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs--a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms... and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that there's more to this secluded haven than meets the eye--and that between life and death, there is something more frightening than either."--OverDrive.
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c2012., General, Bantam/Random House Publishing Group Summary Note: "Catch up with Odd Thomas in Odd Interlude, a special three-part eBook series by the master of suspense Dean Koontz! Here is the spine-tingling first installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure. THERE'S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs--a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms... and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that there's more to this secluded haven than meets the eye--and that between life and death, there is something more frightening than either."--OverDrive.
![Odd interlude #1 [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74305.JPG "Odd interlude #1 [eBook]")
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2019., Adult, Hogarth Call No: NEW Fic Enr Edition: First US edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals. For Gaspar, the son, this cult is his destiny. As Gaspar grows up he must learn to harness his developing supernatural powers, while struggling to understand what kind of man his mother wanted him to be. Meanwhile Gaspar's father tries to protect his son from his wife's violent family while still honoring the woman he loved so desperately.
