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61) Salt the water
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they’ve got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. But a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, and Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait...
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
600 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a new year for Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, and that means new mysteries to solve in the icy depths of a bitter winter. It isn't the easiest way to commit suicide, but the dead woman seems to have simply curled up in the freezing snow and lain there until her heart stopped. There was no one to observe her death but the foxes and the hares. Yet she is riddled with bruises. Her demise is horrifying. Is it also suspicious? When two more bodies are...
63) Lord Jim
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When "Lord Jim" first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation - a ripping good yarn, if you like (one critic in The Academy complained that the narrator 'was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours'). Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires...
64) Button pusher
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tyler's brain is different. He has a hard time paying attention. He acts out in goofy, unpredictable, immature, and sometimes dangerous ways. Nobody, including Tyler himself, understands why he does these things until his doctor diagnoses him with ADHD. But the label is only the start of Tyler's journey. Between managing his medications, controlling his impulses, and dealing with his parents' fighting, Tyler's preteen years are full of challenges....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist's heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams....
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of the landscape. Magnetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational...
67) Fall down dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees the stunning Peak District backdrop prove fatal for one walking partyThey knew the danger, but they went anyway..."Almost before she'd stopped breathing, a swirl of mist snaked across her legs and settled in her hair, clutching her in its chilly embrace, hiding her body from view. It would be hours before she was found."The mountain of Kinder Scout offers the...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to...
69) Sleeping tiger
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1974, c1967]
Physical Desc
192 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce isn't sure what tomorrow will bring. Impulsively she has left behind her lawyer fiance in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She is searching for the father she has never known, but what she finds is the unexpected truth about herself and the man she plans to marry.
70) Pieces of blue
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Holly Goldberg Sloan, a hilarious and heartfelt novel for fans of Maria Semple and Emma Straub about a family trying to restore a ramshackle beachside motel-and their own lives. What good was thinking the future only held cloudy skies? Wasn't the reality that pieces of blue were always there, waiting to break through? When Paul Hill drowns in a surfing accident, he leaves his wife, Lindsey, and their three children...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attend the first meeting couldn't be more different -- a wealthy spinster determined to aid the war effort, an...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In New York City, winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything.
Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Randon House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side. That night, I fantasized about the separate spheres of our lives colliding ..." Introspective and headstrong, and fueled by an intensity she can't name, Margot Louve has lived as her parents' secret. For seventeen years, her father - an influential French politician with presidential ambitions - has led a double life, his only contact with Margot and her mother...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"An utterly heartwarming debut novel filled with fresh starts, unexpected love, and Scottish charm, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of her friends, and to top it off, she is let go from her office job--on Valentine's Day, of all days. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn't know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes's loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. When Samuel saves Hailey's brother from a runaway carriage, a friendship begins. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, they learn the topography of one another's innermost thoughts. Then the City of Glasgow Bank fails in 1878, destroying...
77) Blood grove
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else."--Publisher description.
1969. Easy Rawlins, the Black private...
78) Genesis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the...
80) The ice storm
Series
Criterion collection volume 426
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([15] p. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Conneticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their actions...
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