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City on the edge / by Swinson, David(Author),author.;
In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham's life will utterly change. Two men are murdered, his parent's marriage disintegrates, and Graham, along with his two ex-pat friends, run afoul of forces they cannot understand.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Noir fiction.; Historical fiction.; Americans; Espionage, American; Families; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nothing to lose [sound recording] / by Jance, Judith A.,author.; Ortego, Mike,narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Mike Ortego.Twenty years after he lost his partner Susan to her husband's murderous rage, Beau is drawn into a missing persons case when Susan's son needs his help, becoming tangled in a web of family secrets where a killer with nothing left to lose waits to take another life.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Beaumont, J. P. (Fictitious character); Family secrets; Missing persons; Police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The second woman / by Philby, Charlotte,author.;
"Two women are found dead. Both had a secret. Both had a choice ... Artemis leaves the remote Greek island she grew up on to start a shiny new life in 1990s London with her British husband, a successful entrepreneur. Finally, she has escaped the ghosts of her past. Until she is found hanging from the stairs of her beautiful family home. Two decades later, the apparent suicide of an heiress uncannily mirrors Artemis' mysterious death. And when the ensuing investigation uncovers links to a criminal cartel, National Crime Agency officer Madeleine Farrow begins to pull apart the web of deceit surrounding the two women."--Publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Criminal investigation; Family secrets; Greeks; Organized crime; Suicide; Truthfulness and falsehood; Women and death;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Goodnight Baby Bear / by Shoulders, Michael.; Weidner, Teri.;
Nightly, the members of a bear family that values books and reading share a personally inscribed book and a cookie with Baby Bear to celebrate milestones and memorable days in his life. Includes recipe for honey oatmeal cookies.LSC
Subjects: Bears; Books and reading; Families;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wishes / by Van, Muon.; Ngai, Victo,1988-;
"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Van, Muon; Refugees; Immigrants; Wishes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The day I fell off my island / by Bailey-Smith, Yvonne,author.;
"The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted from her island following the sudden death of her beloved grandmother. When Erna is sent to England to be reunited with her siblings, she dreads leaving behind her elderly grandfather, and the only life she has ever known. A new future unfolds, in a strange country and with a mother she barely knows. The next decade will be a complex journey of estrangement and arrival, new beginnings and the uncovering of long-buried secrets"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Family secrets; Immigrants; Jamaicans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fight night / by Toews, Miriam,1964-author.;
Set in Toronto, 'Fight Night' by Miriam Toews unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. Toews lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Women Talking', 'A Complicated Kindness', and 'All My Punny Sorrows'. Book Club.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Grandmothers; Women; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Cowboy's redemption & premeditated marriage / by Daniels, B. J.;
Cowboy redemption: A cult leader stole her baby. Now Lola Dayton is desperate for Colt McCloud's help. Learning he is the father is a shock to him, but family secrets and the threat of danger won't make this man back down.Premeditated marriage: All the men Charlotte Larkin cares for wind up dead. An attempt on Charlie's life convinces Gus Riley a murderer is behind her "curse." But their pretend affair to lure the killer out is becoming dangerously real.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; Western fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Cowboys; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Many a twist / by Connolly, Sheila,author.;
"Pub owner Maura Donovan hasn't seen her mother for over twenty years, so when she suddenly shows up in Maura's pub, Maura's not sure what to expect. Her mother is trying to find a life for herself back home and has taken up a position working with the new owners of the Crann Mor hotel just outside Skibbereen--until her new boss is found dead in the gardens, dumped down the hillside behind the hotel"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Family secrets; Mothers and daughters; Murder;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The last story of Mina Lee / by Kim, Nancy Jooyoun,author.;
"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Korean American women; Mothers and daughters; Mothers; Family secrets; Koreans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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