Author: Colgan, Jenny, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F COLGAN
Format: Books
Summary: In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop's manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire. An American production company decides that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie. Who can resist the narrow, historic street, the Victorian grey stone buildings, and a warmly lit shop window? Carmen Hogan, the bookshop's manager, is a big horrified, but the money the studio is paying is too good to pass up. She'll use the money to enlarge the store after the filming is done. While she is clearing out a storeroom, old McCredie secrets emerge... --adapted from jacket.
Author: Brady, Eileen (Veterinarian), author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: PB BRADY
Format: Books
Summary: "It's February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses Hudson Valley winters can be brutal...and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time to dread Valentine's Day (and the fact that she's alone on this holiday, once again) as the police investigation shows that all three fatalities are in fact homicides. But who would want the young couple dead, just as they were embarking on a new life together? And who pumped the temp employee full of enough animal tranquilizers to drop an ox? Kate doesn't know where to begin until she stumbles upon a connection between the three victims and decides she needs to investigate further. But will her investigation leave her any time to get to know the handsome large animal vet she's just met on a house call? And is the injured wild crow she's taken under her wing in fact an omen of more bad things to come?"--
Author: Autissier, Isabelle, 1956- author. Schmid, Gretchen, translator.
Published: 2023 2015
Call Number: F AUTISSIE
Format: Books
Summary: "In a gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives"--
Author: Lozada-Oliva, Melissa, author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: F LOZADAOL
Format: Books
Summary: "A sweeping, mystical, intergenerational novel about mothers, daughters, and unsettled pasts, Candelaria is a story of predetermined futures and love that eats us alive"-- Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston. Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet--for a reason you still cannot disclose--battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world. Author of Dreaming of You Melissa Lozada-Oliva delivers an unsettling, raucous debut novel written with tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism that unearths one troubled family's legacy, feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost. A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive.
Author: McBride, James, 1957- author.
Published: 2023
Call Number: LP F MCBRIDE
Format: Large print
Summary: "In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us"--
Author: Tremblay, Paul, author.
Published: 2021 2009
Call Number: F TREMBLAY
Format: Books
Summary: In Boston, a narcoleptic private detective dreams about a reality-show contestant asking him to help get her stolen fingers back and awakens to find on his desk a manila envelope containing revealing photos of her. Boston private detective Mark Genevich's narcolepsy and hallucinatory waking dreams complicate a case involving a district attorney's reality-show contestant daughter and a stalker who is blackmailing her with risque photos. Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he's narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnagogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living. Jennifer Times, daughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Star, walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers--or does she? He awakes from his latest hallucination alone, but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risque photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real? If so, is Mark hunting a blackmailer, or worse? --adapted from back cover.
Author: Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author.
Published: 2019
Call Number: F VUONG
Format: Books
Summary: "Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original--poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity"--
Author: Petras, Ross, author. Petras, Kathryn, author.
Published: 2016
Call Number: 421.54
Format: Books
Summary: "For word nerds and grammar geeks, an illustrated guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse. With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky linguistic situations but also provides fascinating cocktail-party-ready anecdotes. Entries reveal how to pronounce boatswain like an old salt on the deck of a ship, trompe l'oeil like a bona fide art expert, and haricot vert like a foodie, while arming us with the knowledge of why certain words are correctly pronounced the "slangy" way (they came about before dictionaries), what stalks of grain have to do with pronunciation, and more. With bonus sidebars like "How to Sound like a Seasoned Traveler" and "How to Sound Cultured," readers will be able to speak about foreign foods and places, fashion, philosophy, and literature with authority"--
Author: Schreiber, Flora Rheta, author.
Published: 2009 1973
Call Number: 616.8523
Format: Books
Summary: This is the amazing story of a woman who lived with 16 different personalities. Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse, victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.
Author: Hilderbrand, Elin.
Published: 2008
Call Number: F HILDERBR
Format: Books
Author: Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: Y PB HOROWITZ
Format: Books
Summary: After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
Author: Hannah, Kristin.
Published: 2000
Call Number: F HANNAH
Format: Books
Author: Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
Published: 1986 1982
Call Number: CL BURGESS
Format: Books
Author: Süskind, Patrick, author. Woods, John E. (John Edwin), translator.
Published: 1986
Call Number: F SUSKIND
Format: Books
Summary: In 1738, an orphaned child is given to the monks as a charity case. Although he has no smell at all himself, he possesses an absolute sense of smell. He can smell the very composition of objects, and their history. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift--an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"--the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
Author: Savage, Robert M. (Robert Michael), film director. Levy, Shawn, 1968- film producer. Levine, Dan (Film producer), film producer. Cohen, Dan (Producer), film producer. Beck, Scott, 1984- screenwriter.
Published: 2023
Call Number: BOOGEYMA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Author: Simien, Justin, film director. Dippold, Katie, screenwriter. Lin, Dan (Film producer), film producer. Eirich, Jonathan, 1981- film producer. Stanfield, LaKeith, 1991- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: HAUNTED
Format: Video disc
Summary: Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, this film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
Author: Ashford, Michelle, creator. Spalding, Esta, creator. Uppendahl, Michael, director. Carolyn, Axelle, director. Al-Mansour, Haifaa, 1974- director.
Published: 2023
Call Number: MAYFAIR SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: Rowan Fielding, an intuitive young neurosurgeon, discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
Author: Soderbergh, Steven, 1963- screenwriter, film director, editor of moving image work. Newmyer, Robert, film producer. Hardy, John (John S.), film producer. Lloyd, Walt, director of photography. Martinez, Cliff, composer (expression)
Published: 2018 1989
Call Number: SEX
Format: Video disc
Summary: Focuses on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession: videotaping women as they confess their deepest desires. A piercingly intelligent chamber piece, in which the video camera becomes a charged metaphor for the characters' isolation.
Author: Savage, Robert M. (Robert Michael), film director. Levy, Shawn, 1968- film producer. Levine, Dan (Film producer), film producer. Cohen, Dan (Producer), film producer. Beck, Scott, 1984- screenwriter.
Published: 2023
Call Number: BOOGEYMA
Format: Video disc
Summary: Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Author: Simien, Justin, film director. Dippold, Katie, screenwriter. Lin, Dan (Film producer), film producer. Eirich, Jonathan, 1981- film producer. Stanfield, LaKeith, 1991- actor.
Published: 2023
Call Number: HAUNTED
Format: Video disc
Summary: Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, this film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
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