- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II-a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests-her sister, Flossie (known affectionately...
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Biographies & Memoirs
MEMOIR ZAMORA, J
1 available
MEMOIR ZAMORA, J
1 available
Description
"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of...
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK FOR
1 available
CD BOOK FOR
1 available
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
9 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
13 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
Description
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F EL-WARDANY, S
1 available
F EL-WARDANY, S
1 available
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
25 copies, 234 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
39 copies, 258 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
39 copies, 258 people are on the wait list.
Description
"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F STRINGFELLOW, T
1 available
F STRINGFELLOW, T
1 available
Description
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F WILKERSON, C
1 available
F WILKERSON, C
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 35 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...
10) The family
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F KRUPITSKY, N
1 available
F KRUPITSKY, N
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK TOW
1 available
CD BOOK TOW
1 available
Checked Out
11 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 40 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Biographies & Memoirs
MEMOIR WANG, Q
1 available
MEMOIR WANG, Q
1 available
Description
"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
Author
Description
"From a New York Times bestselling author, an astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"--
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - AudioVisual Area
CD BOOK REI
1 available
CD BOOK REI
1 available
Checked Out
8 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
8 copies, 51 people are on the wait list.
Description
August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby sister, Kit. The siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-- especially as the offspring of legendary singer Mick Riva. It's the day of Nina's annual end-of-summer party, and she's the only person not looking forward to it after being...
15) Great circle
Author
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F SHIPSTEAD M
1 available
F SHIPSTEAD M
1 available
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There -- after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna -- Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
Author
Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
11 copies, 104 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
11 copies, 104 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
7 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F CAMPBELL, B
1 available
F CAMPBELL, B
1 available
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Wiggin Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
F GRODSTEIN, L
1 available
F GRODSTEIN, L
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author