- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK HOF
1 available
CD BOOK HOF
1 available
Description
"The prequel to Alice Hoffman's PRACTICAL MAGIC, following the lives of Franny and Jet Owens (and their brother Vincent Owens) long before Sally and Gillian wound up on their doorstep"--
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK NG
1 available
CD BOOK NG
1 available
Description
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
23) The lying game
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK WAR
1 available
CD BOOK WAR
1 available
Description
On a cool June morning, Isa Wilde, a resident of the seemingly idyllic coastal village of Salten, is walking her dog along a tidal estuary. Before she can stop him, Isa's dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, she discovers it's not a stick at all but a human bone. As her three best friends from childhood converge in Salten to comfort a seriously shaken-up Isa, terrifying discoveries are...
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK QUI
1 available
CD BOOK QUI
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find...
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F HONEYMAN, G
1 available
F HONEYMAN, G
1 available
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK HON
1 available
CD BOOK HON
1 available
Description
""Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove)--there's a new curmudgeon to love."--Booklist (starred review). "Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows is absolutely gripping."--Jojo Moyes, #1New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You. "Deft, compassionate and deeply moving -- Honeyman's debut will have you rooting for Eleanor with every turning page."...
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F DANTICAT, E
1 available
F DANTICAT, E
1 available
Description
From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart--a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat--some of which have appeared The New Yorker--a romance unexpectedly...
Author
Formats:
Description
"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.
Author
Description
"An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world"--
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction
616.89 TAT
1 available
616.89 TAT
1 available
Description
A top law school graduate struggling with suicidal thoughts and an eating disorder describes her reluctant participation in a therapeutic support group that taught her the meaning of human connection and intimacy.
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F DELL'ANTONIA, K
1 available
F DELL'ANTONIA, K
1 available
Description
"Fannie Flagg meets Elin Hilderbrand in this deliciously charming debut novel about fried chicken, family feuds, and the foibles of the human heart"--
Merinac, Kansas. Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best friend chicken in the state. The legendary feud between the owners-- the Moores and the Pogociellos-- has caught widow Amanda Moore in the middle. She had worked for her mom at Mimi's before marrying...
Author
Formats:
Description
"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...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
M/T PEARSE, S
1 available
M/T PEARSE, S
1 available
Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...
Author
Description
Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogot�a.
34) Northern spy
Author
Formats:
Description
"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid - a robbery at...
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK DAV
1 available
CD BOOK DAV
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F WILLIAMS, T
1 available
F WILLIAMS, T
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and...
37) The paper palace
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother Elle Bishop to the precipice of a life-changing decision....
Author
Formats:
Description
"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
39) L.A. weather
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F ESCANDON, M
1 available
F ESCANDON, M
1 available
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
Author
Formats:
Description
A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.