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-- Afterbirthc2015., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Alb Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it 'birth' and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots, struggling to keep her branches aloft. When Mina, a one-time cult musician--older, self-contained, alone, and nine-months pregnant--moves to town, Ari sees the possibility of a new friend, despite her unfortunate habit of generally mistrusting women. Soon they become comrades-in-arms, and the previously hostile terrain seems almost navigable."--Amazon.com.
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c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Smi Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Virgil Cain mysteries Volume: 2Summary Note: "For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up anchor, he hooks on to a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil's strange catch spreads around the local marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder and Virgil's boat. Soon, an old drug deal gone sour surfaces, and to get to the bottom of it - and to get his boat back - Virgil teams up with a captivating single mom, Dusty, who knows far too much about the cylinder and the pure cocaine it contains. The landscape is soon cluttered with the dealer who claims ownership of the cylinder, his murderous sidekick, and a wild card in the form of a crazy Russian cowboy. Virgil and Dusty find themselves trapped in the middle and desperate for a way out."--Author's website.
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c2012., Adult, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Pat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Michael Bennett suspense novels Volume: 5Summary Note: Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
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By Schrank, Benc2013., General, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Sch Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. 'Marriage Is a Canoe', his legendary, decades-old book on love and relationships, has won the hearts of hope ful romantics and desperate cynics alike. He and his beloved wife lived a relatively peaceful life in upstate New York. But now it's 2010, and Peter's wife has just died. Completely lost, he passes the time with a woman he admires but doesn't love - and he begins to look back through the pages of his book and question homilies such as: A good marriage is a canoe - it needs care and isn't meant to hold too much - no more than two adults and a few kids. It's advice he has famously doled out for decades. But what is it worth? Then Peter receives a call from Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor who wants to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 'Marriage Is a Canoe' with a contest for struggling couples. The prize? An afternoon with Peter and a chance to save their relationship. The contest ensnares its creator in the largely opaque politics of her publishing house while it introduces the reader to couples in various states of distress, including a shy thirtysomething Brooklynite and her charismatic and entrepreneurial husband, who may just be a bit too charismatic for the good of their marriage. There's the middle-aged publisher whose imposing manner has managed to impose loneliness on her for longer than she cares to admit. And then there is Peter, who must discover what he meant when he wrote 'Marriage Is a Canoe' if he is going to help the contest's winners and find a way to love again. In Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other."--Publisher.
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-- Mud womanc2012., Adult, Ecco Call No: Fic Oat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
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c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Smith Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the moment he sees cops at the foot of his farm driveway, Virgil Cain knows there will be trouble. Mickey Dupree - one of the most successful criminal attorneys in upstate New York, a man with a lot of enemies-has been found dead at his exclusive country club, the shaft of a golf club driven through his heart. Two weeks earlier Virgil told a crowded bar that "somebody ought to blow Mickey's head off." Now Virgil is suspect number one. Tossed in jail with no questions asked, Virgil knows the fix is in. To set things right, Virgil must escape and find Mickey's killer himself. Red Means Run is a fast, funny country-noir caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard - with half-wit cops, crazed crooks, and a clever, laconic charmer named Virgil Cain."--Publisher.
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c2014., General, Random House Call No: Fic Qui Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
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2016., Adult, Random House Call No: MYS Fic Car Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the small town of Surrender in upstate New York, Dr. Jones, a psychological profiler, and Dr. Michael Li, a trace evidence expert, teach online courses in profiling and forensic science from Jones's family farm. Once famed advisors to the New York City Police Department, Trajan and Li now work in exile, having made enemies of those in power. Protected only by farmhands and Jones's unusual 'pet,' the outcast pair is unexpectedly called in to consult on a disturbing case. In rural Burgoyne County, a pattern of strange deaths has emerged: adolescent boys and girls are found murdered in gruesome fashion. Senior law enforcement officials are quick to blame a serial killer, yet their efforts to apprehend this criminal are peculiarly ineffective. Jones and Li soon discover that the victims are all 'throwaway children,' a new state classification of young people who are neither orphans, runaways, nor homeless, but who are abandoned by their families and left to fend for themselves. Two of these throwaways, Lucas Kurtz and his older sister, Ambyr, cross paths with Jones and Li, offering information that could blow the case wide open. As the stakes grow higher, Jones and Li must not only unravel the mystery of how the throwaways died but also defend themselves and the Kurtz siblings against shadowy agents who don't want the truth to get out. Jones believes the real story leads back to the city where both he and Dr. Kreizler did their greatest work. But will Jones and Li be able to trace the case to New York before they fall victim to the murderous forces that stalk them?"--From publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Bar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son, Scott, died in a tragic drug-related accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief he can't move past. And maybe that has clouded his judgment. Because he made a grave mistake driving home on a very rainy night. A drenched young girl tapped on his window as he sat at a stoplight and asked for a ride. And even though he knew a forty-something man picking up a teenage hitchhiker is a fool, he let her in the car--she was the same age as Scott and maybe she could help him find the dealer who sold his son the drugs that killed him. However, after a brief stop at a roadside diner, Cal senses that something's not right with the girl or the situation. But it's too late. He's already involved. Soon Cal finds himself mired in a nightmare of pain and suspicion. Something is horribly wrong in the small town of Griffon in Upstate New York. There are too many secrets, too many lies. And Cal decides to expose those secrets one by one.
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c2011., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Tor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. Written in magical language with unforgettable images, this is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up, how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds, and how we are ultimately propelled at escape velocity toward our futures"--Publisher.
