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Watch me disappear : a novel / by Brown, Janelle,author.;
"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously, but when she meets Jonathan, a tech magazine editor and all around good guy, she settles easily into the life of an eco-conscious, stay-at-home suburban yoga mom. Their daughter Olive, under her mother's watchful gaze, becomes a lovely, introverted, slightly eccentric girl. As she reaches adolescence and needs Billie's full-time attention less, Billie throws herself into extreme sports--marathons, scuba diving, rock climbs, solo hikes. On one of these expeditions, Billie vanishes from the trail--only a hiking boot is found. The family is devastated--a year of intense mourning passes in which they await the closure that a body and a death certificate will bring. Jonathan drinks; Olive grows remote. But then she starts having waking dreams--hallucinations?--in which her very vibrant mother urges the girl to look for her, and Olive begins to believe her mother is still alive and in trouble. Jonathan believes the trauma and anxiety of losing her mother is making Olive ill, until he uncovers a secret that that compels him to consider that Billie may not be dead after all and sends him on his own quest for the truth--about Billie, their marriage, and the things people do in the name of love ..."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Mothers; Missing persons; Loss (Psychology); Secrets; Relationships; Families; Fathers and daughters;
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The Witchfinder. by Gibbons, Neil,film director.; Gibbons, Rob,film director.; May, Daisy,actor.; Rigby, Daniel,actor.; Hynes, Jessica,actor.; Key, Tim,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Daisy May Cooper, Daniel Rigby, Jessica Hynes, Tim KeyOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2022.It's 1647. England is plagued by, well, not plague, but puritans like Gabriel Bannister, a small-time witchfinder who dreams of being one of the big boys. And now he's got his chance - an untimely death means there's an opening at the top. All he has to do is transport unruly witch suspect Thomasine Gooch to trial. The trouble is she's the worst travelling companion in all the land. It's going to be a bumpy journey.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Historical films.; Television comedies.; Television series--Great Britain.;
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Up to no gouda / by Reilly, Linda S.;
Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream--opening Carly's Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions. All but Lyle Bagley, Carly's one-time high school boyfriend and now town bully who just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants Carly out. After a muenster of a fight, Carly's forced to put her nose to the rind and find a solution to keep her business afloat. That is...until Lyle is discovered dead behind the dumpster of Carly's shop, and one of her employees becomes the prime suspect. In order to save her eatery and prove her friend's innocence, Carly must sleuth out the killer before she's the one who gets grilled.
Subjects: Cozy mysteries.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Restaurants; Women detectives;
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The Devil wears Prada [videorecording]. by Grenier, Adrian; Tucci, Stanley; Blunt, Emily; Baker, Simon; Streep, Meryl; Hathaway, Anne;
Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier.Andy, a young assistant to an impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor, has a job that every girl would dream of. Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as a personal whipping girl just might be the death of her!CHVRS rating: PG.DVD.
Subjects: Comedy.; Comedy.;
© 2006., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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Ancestry : a novel / by Mawer, Simon,author.;
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea. Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city. George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known, the unbreakable bond of family.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mawer, Simon; Census; Families; Genealogy;
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Eighty days to elsewhere / by Dyer, K. C.,author.;
"The Amazing Race meets Around the World in Eighty Days as a woman desperate to save her family bookstore falls for her competition. Born and raised in New York City, Ramona Keene dreams of attending film school and traveling to Paris, but her reality never quite catches up with her imagination. Instead, she works at her uncles' quaint bookstore, where the tea is plentiful and all the adventures are between the covers of secondhand books. But when the new landlord arrives with his Evil Nephew in tow, Romy's quiet life comes crashing down. He plans to triple the rent, something her uncles can't afford. In order to earn the money to help save the bookstore, Romy applies for a job at ExLibris Expeditions, a company that re-creates literary journeys. Romy snags the oddest internship ever: retrace Phileas Fogg's journey from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days and plan a suitable, contemporary adventure for a client. The task is close to impossible; sticking to the original route means no commercial aircraft permitted, and she's got a lot less to work with than eighty days. Shaking off her fear of leaving home, Romy takes on the challenge, only to discover she's got competition. Worse, Dominic Madison turns out to be the--unfortunately hot--nephew of her family's worst enemy. Can Romy win the race and circle the globe in time to save the bookstore? And what happens when she starts to fall for the very person who may just be the death of her dreams?"--
Subjects: Chick lit.; Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.; Bookstores; Nieces; Landlords; Man-woman relationships; Voyages around the world;
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Outlawed : a novel / by North, Anna,author.;
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga aboutthe search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Outlaws; Outcasts; Midwives; Infertility; Influenza; Epidemics; Pregnancy;
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An unlasting home : a novel / by Al-Nakib, Mai,1970-author.;
"In 2013, Sara is a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, having returned to Kuwait from Berkeley in the wake of her mother's sudden death eleven years earlier. Her main companions are her grandmother's talking parrot, Bebe Mitu; the family cook, Aasif; and Maria, her childhood ayah and the one person who has always been there for her. Sara's relationship with Kuwait is complicated; it is a country she always thought she would leave, and a country she recognizes less and less, and yet a certain inertia keeps her there. But when teaching Nietzsche in her Intro to Philosophy course leads to an accusation of blasphemy, which carries with it the threat of execution, Sara realizes she must reconcile her feelings and her place in the world once and for all. Interspersed with Sara's narrative are the stories of her grandmothers: beautiful and stubborn Yasmine, who marries the son of the Pasha of Basra and lives to regret it, and Lulwa, born poor in the old town of Kuwait, swept off her feet to an estate in India by the son of a successful merchant family; and her two mothers: Noura, who dreams of building a life in America and helping to shape its Mid-East policies, and Maria, who leaves her own children behind in Pune to raise Sara and her brother Karim and, in so doing, transforms many lives. Ranging from the 1920s to the near present, An Unlasting Home traces Kuwait's rise from a pearl-diving backwater to its reign as a thriving cosmopolitan city to the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion. At once intimate and sweeping, personal and political, it is an unforgettable epic and a spellbinding family saga."--
Subjects: Feminist fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cultural property; Families; Women, Arab;
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Young titan : the making of Winston Churchill / by Shelden, Michael.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelude: the prime minister -- Introduction: the young titan -- 1901-1905. -- A new world -- A family affair -- Born for opposition -- The duke's smile -- Empire dreams -- The great rift -- Departures -- The bachelor and the heiress -- Fortunate son -- 1906-1910. -- Winners and losers -- The world at his feet -- Private lives -- The political maiden -- A place in the sun -- Best laid plans -- The castle -- Eminent Edwardian -- Sound and fury -- Life and death -- 1910-1915. -- Valiant -- Storm signals -- Armada -- The old man and the sea -- Wings -- Countdown -- Last stand.
Subjects: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Cabinet officers; Prime ministers;
© c2013., Simon & Schuster,
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Atlas : the story of Pa Salt / by Riley, Lucinda,1965-2021,author.; Whittaker, Harry,author.;
1928, Paris : A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn't dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep. But across Europe an evil is rising, and no-one's safety is certain. In his heart, he knows the time will come where he must flee once more. 2008, the Aegean. The seven sisters are gathered together for the first time, on board the Titan to say a final goodbye to the enigmatic father they loved so dearly. To the surprise of everyone, it is the missing sister who Pa Salt has chosen to entrust with the clue to their pasts. But for every truth revealed, another question emerges. The sisters must confront the idea that their adored father was someone they barely knew. And even more shockingly: that these long-buried secrets may still have consequences for them today.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Adopted children; Families; Family secrets; Fathers; Generations; Quests (Expeditions); Sisters;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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