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General fiction, Bestsellers (Fiction), Adventure stories, Family stories
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Vogel Pharmaceutical sends pharmacologist Marina Singh to Amazonian Brazil to locate elusive employee Dr. Annick Swenson, who was once Singh's…
professor. While investigating the status of Swenson's fertility-drug research, Singh also hopes to uncover the fate of colleague Anders Eckman, whom Swenson reported dead. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
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Family stories, Animal stories, Humourous fiction, General fiction
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From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy…
series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious children's story about a slide made just for lambs. Nicolette Farmer is running for class president, and the rest of the Farmer family tells her she'll win by a landslide. A pack of overconfident lambs mistakenly hear lambslide and can't believe there's a slide made just for them. But when they can't find one on the farm, there's only one thing left to do: take a vote! They campaign. They bargain. They ask all the other animals if they, too, would like a lambslide. Will the lambs ever get their special slide? Find out in this epic collaboration between Patchett and Glasser, who create the perfect children's book. For preschool through grade three. 2019. For grades K-3
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Family stories, Bestsellers (Fiction), General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Deputy District Attorney Burt Cousins unexpectedly shows up at the christening party for cop Fix Keating's baby daughter. Burt meets…
Fix's beautiful wife, Beverly, and steals a kiss. The ramifications of this play out for both families over five decades. Strong language. Bestseller. 2016
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General fiction
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"'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were…
sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer." At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they're together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they've lost with humor and rage. But when at last they're forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are. Filled with suspense, you may read it quickly to find out what happens, but what happens to Danny and Maeve will stay with you for a very long time.
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Humourous fiction, Animal stories, General fiction
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From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth, Ann Patchett, comes a hilarious children's story about a slide…
made just for lambs. Nicolette Farmer is running for class president, and the rest of the Farmer family tells her she'll win by a landslide. A pack of overconfident lambs mistakenly hear lambslide and can't believe there's a slide made just for them. But when they can't find one on the farm, there's only one thing left to do: take a vote! They campaign. They bargain. They ask all the other animals if they, too, would like a lambslide. Will the lambs ever get their special slide?
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General fiction, Historical fiction
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1960's. Pregnant, Rose Clinton leaves behind in California the short-lived marriage she had misinterpreted as a sign of God, and…
starts the long drive to Kentucky. She plans a temporary stay at Saint Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers, but instead, her reluctance to give up her baby leads to an additional marriage. The next fifteen years at Saint Elizabeth's are narrated first by Rose's newest husband and then by her daughter Cecilia. Strong language. 1992.
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Bestsellers (Fiction), General fiction
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Vogel Pharmaceutical sends pharmacologist Marina Singh to Amazonian Brazil to locate elusive employee Dr. Annick Swenson, who was once Singh’s…
professor. While investigating the status of Swenson’s fertility-drug research, Singh also hopes to uncover the fate of colleague Anders Eckman, whom Swenson reported dead. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011.
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General fiction
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!From the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of…
Wonder, comes Ann Patchett’s most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are.At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures.Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.
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General fiction, Movie and television tie-ins
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Terrorists storm a gathering hosted by an underprivileged country to promote foreign interest and trade. When the translator plays a…
vital role in the subsequent relationships between different nationalities, it is the terrorist strike that most effectively promotes foreign relations. 2002.
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LGBTQ+ fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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After working as his assistant for more than 20 years, Sabine marries her beloved boss, Parcifal, knowing that he's gay…
and has just lost his lover. What she doesn't find out until after his death is that Parcifal was actually Guy Fettera from Alliance Nebraska and had a family he never spoke about. c1997.
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General fiction, Movie and television tie-ins
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Terrorists storm a gathering hosted by an underprivileged country to promote foreign interest and trade. When the translator plays a…
vital role in the subsequent relationships between different nationalities, it is the terrorist strike that most effectively promotes foreign relations. c2001.
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General fiction
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Drummer John Nickel becomes manager of Muddy's, a Memphis bar, after his son Franklin is born. When Franklin's mother moves…
him to Florida, the void in John's life is filled by young Fay, who applies as a waitress, and her troubled brother, Carl. As John becomes entangled in their lives and fantasizes about what their late father was like, he realizes it is impossible to keep everyone safe. Strong language and some violence
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General fiction, Historical fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Mysteries and crime stories, Serious and literary fiction, Romance, Adventure stories
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The private performance of soprano Roxane Coss entices Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa to attend a party in his honor in…
South America. During the performance, guerrillas occupy the mansion, taking everyone hostage. As the crisis continues, relationships between captors and captives come into play. Some strong language. PEN/Faulkner Award. 2001
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General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Contemporary romance
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The private performance of lyric soprano Roxane Coss entices Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa to attend a party in his honor…
in South America. While the audience applauds, guerrillas occupy the mansion taking everyone hostage. As the outer world recedes, relationships between captors and captives come into play. Some strong language. PEN/Faulkner Award. 2001
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General fiction
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Pregnant, Rose Clinton leaves be- hind in California the short-lived marriage she had misinterpreted as a sign from God, and…
starts the long drive to Kentucky. She plans a temporary stay at Saint Eliza- beth's, a home for unwed mothers, but instead, her reluctance to give up her baby leads to an addi- tional marriage. The next fifteen years at Saint Elizabeth's are narrated first by Rose's newest husband and then by her daughter Cecilia. Strong language
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Family stories, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of…
America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Family stories, Contemporary romance, Serious and literary fiction, Historical fiction, General fictionFamily and relationships
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"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they…
beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew." -- Provided by publisher