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2020., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Canada Call No: Fic Gar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An electrifying debut from the Giller Prize-nominated author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives that takes readers for a wild ride with urban-gothic flair and delectably wicked humour. Lucy is a lapsed-Catholic whose adolescent pretentions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived. It all starts when her cousin Zoltan, in hospital following a bizarre incident at a party, offers her a disturbing deathbed confession. Lucy's grief takes an unusual turn: Zoltan's death appears to have turned her into a magnet for the unshriven. Lucy is transformed into a self-described "flesh-and-blood Wailing Wall" as strangers unburden themselves to her. She becomes addicted to the dark stories, finds herself jonesing for hit after hit. As the confessions pile up, Lucy begins to wonder if Zoltan's death was as random and unscripted as it appeared. She clutches at alarming synchronicities, seeks meaning in the stories of strangers. Why do the stories seem connected to each other or eerily echo elements of her life? Could it be because Lucy has her own transgressions to acknowledge? And then there is that stubbornly resurfacing past, like a tell-tale ribbon of hair snagged on a fish hook. With ruthless wit and dizzying energy, The Beguiling explores blessings and curses, sainthood and sin, mortality and guilt in all its guises. Weaving together tales of errant mothers, vengeful plants, canine wisdom, and murder, it lays bare the flesh and blood sacrifices people are willing to make to get what they think they desire."--Provided by publisher.
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c2012., Adult, Atria Books Call No: Fic McL Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade has built a life for herself in New York City, far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. But when she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant, it's an offer she can't refuse. Yet the joy at their reunion is overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her controlling parents. As Kelsey grasps desperately at a "real" life, Logan risks everything to try and give her cousin the one thing she has never known--happiness.
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c2011., Juvenile, Tundra Books Call No: Fic Sch Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Teaspoon detectives Volume: [1].Summary Note: "Five cousins are looking forward to their annual vacation at their grandmother<U+2019>s cottage. None of them knows that this may be their last such summer. A mining company has set its sights on the land and is determined to seize it. Grandma must produce the deed to prove that the property is really hers, but her memory is not what it used to be, and she can<U+2019>t find it. The children suspect there may be clues to the deed<U+2019>s whereabouts somewhere in the family<U+2019>s cherished trove of recipes. But can they solve the mystery in time?"--From publisher.
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By Jenoff, Pam2023., Park Row Books Call No: Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiance was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.
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2006., Putnam Call No: MYS Fic Woo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Investigating the unlikely murder-suicide case of his cousin, who secretly worked for the CIA, Stone Barrington is surprised to learn that his cousin had named him the executor of his estate just prior to his death. By the author of Two-Dollar Bill. 250,000 first printing.
![Dark harbor [McN] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT64775.JPG "Dark harbor [McN] : a novel")
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2020., Riverhead Books Call No: BLK Fic Eme Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds"--
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2023., HarperCollins Call No: NEW BLK Fic Ace Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her own death, or someone else's, or does she have other motives? She refuses to say. But Flor isn't the only person with secrets. Matilde has tried for decades to cover the extent of her husband's infidelity, but she now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora is typically the most reserved sister, but Flor's wake motivates this driven woman to attempt to solve her sibling's problems. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own: Yadi, reuniting with her first love, who was imprisoned when they were both still kids; and Ona, married for years and attempting to conceive. Ona must decide whether it's worth it to keep trying-in having a child, and in the anthropology research that's begun to feel lackluster. Spanning the three days prior to the wake, FAMILY LORE traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, the Dominican Republic and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces--one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come.
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-- Fantastic Mister Fox.(2010, p2009)., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Fantastic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristofferson. But after twelve years of quiet domesticity, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr. Fox's wild animal instincts.
![Fantastic Mr. Fox [DVD] (2009). Directed by Wes Anderson.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Fantastic Mr. Fox [DVD] (2009). Directed by Wes Anderson.")
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2006., Headline/Review Call No: Fic Cha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Emily arrives at the church for her Great Aunt Mary's funeral, she has no idea that her life is about to change completely. Still grieving for her broken relationship with Ted, she sobs her heart out in the church. At the wake afterwards she and her cousin Clemmie are told that Mary has appointed them executors of her will.
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By Smith, Zadie2023., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: BLK Fic Smi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believedIt is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.The "Tichborne Trial"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . .Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of "other people."
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2006., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Ega Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story--a story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castle--that brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.--From publisher description.
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By Lennox, Mattc2015., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Len Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ashley Rosco works as a bouncer at the only nightclub in a small town, spending his off-hours training as a bodybuilder. He occasionally acts as muscle for his best friend, Darren, a small-time drug dealer whose business is growing under the influence of his criminal father. Darren's girlfriend, Chass, short for Chastity, has had her own problems with drugs, and has lost custody of her young daughter. For years, Chass made money by picking produce alongside migrant workers, known locally, derisively, as Amigos. Both Darren and Chass have been acting strangely, tense and jittery, but things really change when Ash gets a call from Chass on a bad connection, asking for his help. Chass is Ash's cousin--and, as we discover, the secret love of his life. Chass disappears the next day, and Ash can't shake the feeling that something has gone terribly wrong.
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c1992., Everyman's Library Call No: Fic Aus Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryContributor biographical information Publisher description Series Title: Everyman's library Volume: 52.Summary Note: Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose influence are felt by everyone.
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2022., Adult, Grand Central Publishing Call No: MYS Fic Cob Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Wilde Volume: 2.Summary Note: After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare. Was his cousin's downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a treacherous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time?
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2017., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Cousin R Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The movie is based on the 1951 novel by Daphne Du Maurier and tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian.
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2020., Adult, 101, Universal Studios Canada Call No: DVD Fic NeverR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always' is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery and compassion.
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2003., Tor Call No: Fic Tur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Menedemos and Sostratos, those dauntless capitalists of the third century B.C., have set sail again--this time to Phoenicia. There Menedemos will spend the summer trading, while his cousin Sostratos travels inland to the little-known country of Ioudaia, with its strange people and their even stranger religious obsessions.
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2018., Adult, Washington Square Press/Atria Call No: Fic Dun Edition: First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Laila Lawrence becomes an orphan at twenty-three, the sudden loss unexpectedly introduces her to three glamorous cousins from New York who show up unannounced at her mother's funeral. The three siblings are scions of the wealthy family from which Laila's father had been estranged long before his own untimely demise ten years before. Two years later, Laila has left behind her quiet life in Grosse Pointe, Michigan to move to New York City, landing her smack in the middle of her cousins' decadent world. As the truth about why Laila's parents became estranged from the family patriarch becomes clear, Laila grows ever more resolved to claim what's rightfully hers. But will Laila ever, truly, belong in their world?"--Amazon.com.
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c2012., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Kla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ""Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, TIGERS IN RED WEATHER is an unforgettable DEBUT novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment. Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the WWII, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their súreal lives."--Publisher.
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2014., Killard Publishing Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Two women worlds apart ...one secret that changes everything. Erin and Laura are cousins and best friends who share a love of languages and travel. Erin, a French teacher in Dublin, reaches crisis point and drops everything to move to Australia. In Sydney, not only does she land the perfect job, but she meets the perfect man. Finally, her life is falling into place. Except Sydney isn't home, and never can be. Back in Ireland, Laura is struggling. Her husband appears distant, her work life is spinning out of control and her daughter's strange new nanny is undermining her at every turn. She longs to travel in Erin's footsteps, to drop everything and run far away. But these are dangerous thoughts for a mother and wife. As Erin and Laura desperately try to find their place in the world, a shocking family secret comes to light, and nothing will ever be the same again. 'Ber Carroll has given us a cast of warm, engaging characters in a sparkling story that crosses the globe between Ireland and Australia. I enjoyed every page of this touching, authentic novel.' - Liane Moriarty. 'This novel is a wonderful full-bodied read. Ber Carroll has a clever eye for characterisation and story.' - Cathy Kelly 'With all the humour and empathy of Binchy ... Carroll captures the conflicts and compromises women make.' - Daily Telegraph.
![Worlds apart [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT82151.JPG "Worlds apart [eBook]")