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Resurrection [text (large print)] : a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.;
A successful influencer and one part of a power couple on the international stage, 42-year-old Darcy Gray, after her perfect life comes crashing down, must stay indefinitely in France during an escalating worldwide health crisis and, through her newfound friendships with others who are stranded, begins to see glimpses of new possibilities.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wildfire : a novel / by Philbrick, W. R.(W. Rodman);
Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running for his life, together with a girl, Delphy, from a different camp--finding an old jeep keeps them going, but in the wilds of Maine, there are only logging roads and the deadly crown fire is everywhere.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Survival; Friendship; Forest fires;
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Corinne : a novel / by Morrow, Rebecca,author.;
"You want to walk away from the things that were bad for you and never look back. That's what Corinne Callahan wants. Cast out of the fundamentalist church she was raised in and cut off from her family, Corinne builds a new life for herself. A good one. But she never stops missing the life--and the love--she's left behind. It's Enoch Miller who ruins everything for her. It was always Enoch Miller. She'll never get him out from under her skin. Set over fifteen years and told with astonishing intimacy, Rebecca Morrow's Corinne is the story of a woman who risks everything she's built for the one man she can never have"--
Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Self-realization in women; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outlander : a novel / by Gabaldon, Diana.;
In 1945 a former combat nurse is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon, when she innocently touches a boulder on an ancient stone circle. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an "outlander," in a Scotland torn by war in the year 1743. She enters a world of lairds and spies that threaten her life during the Jacobite Rebellion.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Time travel; Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746; Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Stealing : a novel / by Verble, Margaret,author.;
"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's company. But malice lurks near their quiet bayou and Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of tragic, fatal crime"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Indigenous children; Cherokee; Residential schools;
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Queenie : a novel / by Carty-Williams, Candice,1989-author.;
"Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places--including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Women; Self-realization in women; Multiculturalism; Jamaicans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Confidence : a novel / by Frumkin, Rafael,author.;
"At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He's also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what promises to be a fruitful career of scam artistry. But when they try to pull off their biggest scam yet--Nulife, a corporation that promises its consumers a lifetime of bliss--things start to spin wildly out of control."--Publisher marketing.
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Gay men; Swindlers and swindling;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Katabasis : a novel / by Kuang, R. F.(Rebecca F.),author.;
"Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; College teachers; Graduate students; Hell; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Spirits; Voyages and travels; Women graduate students;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Benevolence : a novel / by Janson, Julie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Benevolence" is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging (Mary James), born around 1813. Mary's was one of the earliest Darug generations to experience the impact of British colonisation. At an early age Muraging is given over to the Parramatta Native School by her Darug father. From here she embarks on a journey of discovery and a search for a safe place to make her home. Set around the Hawkesbury River area, the home of the Darug people, Parramatta and Sydney between 1816 and 1835, the author interweaves historical events and characters, shatters stereotypes, and puts a human face to this Aboriginal perspective.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Dharug (Australian people); Women, Aboriginal Australian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Exiles : a novel / by Coile, Mason,1968-author.;
A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray--the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is missing. In this barren, hostile landscape where even machines have nightmares, the astronauts will need to examine all the stories--especially their own--to get to the truth. Exiles is a terrifying, taut, one-sitting read, and Mason Coile once again blends science fiction and psychological horror to engage some of humanity's deepest questions.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Human-robot interaction; Martian bases; Paranoia; Robots;
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