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Martyr! / by Akbar, Kaveh,author.;
"Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past ... toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grief; Immigrants; Interpersonal relations; Painters; Terminally ill;
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Mom, dad, our books, and me / by Marcotte, Danielle.; Bisaillon, Josée,1982-; Li, Karen.;
A young boy who is beginning to read starts to notice that reading is all around him in everyday life.LSC
Subjects: Books and reading; Families;
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The man from Blood Gulch / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
"A hard man with a hard past, Garret 'Ghost' McCoy will never forget the day his family was brutally attacked by vicious marauders. It forced him to grow up fast, get tough even faster, and sharpen every skill to survive--by gun, by knife, or by fist. A true loner and silent stalker, Ghost is the kind of no-nonsense bounty hunter who always gets his man ... But it's only a matter of time before his reputation catches up with him in a dusty dead-end town called Coyote Flats"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Novels.; Bounty hunters; Frontier and pioneer life; Murder; Outlaws; Revenge;
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Emma in the night [sound recording] / by Walker, Wendy,1967-author.; Plummer, Thérèse,narrator.; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Therese Plummer and Julia Whelan."One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Women psychiatrists; Sisters; Missing persons; Dysfunctional families; Kidnapping;
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Tremor : a novel / by Cole, Teju,author.;
"A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, a traveler, drawn to many different kinds of stories: stories from history and epic; stories of friends, family, and strangers; stories found in books and films. Together these stories make up his days. In aggregate these days comprise a life"--
Subjects: Novels.; College teachers; Colonies; Identity (Psychology); Nigerian Americans; Nigerians; Photographers; Photography; Racism;
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Once more with feeling / by Cook, Méira,1964-author.;
"Set over the course of a single year in a western prairie city, Once More with Feeling tells the story of a community through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. Featuring a cast of eclectic characters, Once More With Feeling is about a city, about a community, about a family, and about the way time makes fond fools of us all. Award-winning author Méira Cook has crafted a haunting, profound novel that is at once funny, affecting, and yes, full of feeling."--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Psychological fiction.; City and town life;
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All we need is love and a really soft pillow! / by Reynolds, Peter H.(Peter Hamilton),1961-; Reynolds, Henry Rocket.;
Poppy believes that all they need in life is love, but the Little One keeps coming up with other things that will make their life comfortable--until it is all swept away in a storm.
Subjects: Picture books.; Love; Families; Personal belongings;
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Restless Dolly Maunder / by Grenville, Kate,1950-author.;
Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the 19th century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. 'Restless Dolly Maunder' is a tale of a pioneering woman working her way through a world of limits and obstacles, who is able -- despite the cost -- to make a life she could call her own.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Feminist fiction.; Novels.; Women; Rural poor; Patriarchy;
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Home of the American circus / by Larkin, Allie,author.;
"After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as bartender in Maine and returns to her suburban hometown of Somers, New York, to live in the house she inherited from her estranged parents. Despite attempts to lay low, Freya encounters childhood friends, familial enemies, and old flames--as well as her fifteen-year-old niece, Aubrey, who is secretly living in the derelict home. As they reconnect, Freya and Aubrey lean on each other, working to restore the house and come to terms with the devastating events that pulled them apart years ago. Set in the birthplace of the American circus, this deeply moving novel is an exploration of broken families, the weight of the past, and the complicated journey of finding home"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Homecoming; Inheritance and succession; Nieces; Women;
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Overkill [text (large print)] / by Brown, Sandra,1948-author.;
When Eban, the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support, gets an early release from prison, brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterback--and Rebecca's ex-husband--to make an impossible decision for justice.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large type books.; Novels.; Ex-convicts; Man-woman relationships; Public prosecutors;
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