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2013., Harper Perennial Call No: Realistic FIC ODonnell O'D Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: On her fifteenth birthday, Christmas Eve, Marnie and her little sister, Nellie, bury their parents in their back yard. They refuse to even tell anyone that they are dead. Marnie just has to get through a year, to her sixteenth birthday, then she can legally be Nellie's guardian. Lennie, the old neighbor from across the street, suspects they need his help. However, as the year drags on, more people begin asking tougher questions, and in the end Marnie, Nellie, and Lennie have only each other to answer for.
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2018., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: SCI-FI F HAR Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This virtuosic novel, set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.
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[2016], G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYSTERY F FAY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Jane Steele's favorite book is Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," and while her life is like Eyre's in many ways, there is one important difference--Steele is a murderess. After escaping life with her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, Jane spends several years in a grim boarding school, escaping at last, leaving a trail of bodies as she hides from the authorities in London. When she learns her aunt and cousin have died and someone named Mr. Charles Thornfield has bought her childhood home, Jane returns there undercover as governess, hoping to discover if she is the true heir and, if so, what she can do to take what is rightfully hers.
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2016., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: Realistic SC Cam Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A collection of short stories chronicling the heartbreaks and triumphs of tough mothers and their even tougher daughters. Some of the stories include: a gang-rape victim and single mother who regrets her choices; a paranoid woman who accuses her boyfriend of liking her teenage daughter; a pregnant new bride; and a cancer-ridden woman who apologizes to her daughter.
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[2023]., Dutton Call No: SUPERNATURAL F HUA Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also stunningly talented musicians-who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future as a pianist and accepts a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City. Holistik is known for its remarkable products and outrageous procedures: remoras that suck cheap Botox from the body, eyelash extensions made of spider silk, emotional support ducklings bred to imprint on their owners. Every product is ethically sourced and made with nothing but the highest quality ingredients. Our narrator's new job is a coveted one among New York's beauty-obsessed, and it affords her entry into a new world of privilege. She becomes transfixed by Helen-a model, and the niece of Holistik's charismatic owner-and the two strike up a close friendship that hazily veers into more. All the while, Holistik plies our narrator with products that slim her thighs, smooth her skin, lighten her hair, and change her eye color. But beneath these fancy creams and tinctures lies a terrible truth that threatens to consume her. After all, beauty is nothing without ugliness. NATURAL BEAUTY is a piercing, terrifying, and darkly funny debut that eviscerates the beauty and wellness industry, exploring questions of consumerism, self-worth, race, and identity. This propulsive novel takes a world that feels familiar and pushes it to a conclusion that at first might seem jarring, but when we inch closer, settles on us as truth."
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2015., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: REALISTIC FIC019000 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Young Pip Tyler knows very little about who she is or where she came from. Her mother has been living under an assumed name and never told Pip who her father was. All she really knows is that her name is Purity and she's coming out of college with $130,000 in student debt. When she travels to South America for an internship with the Sunlight Project, she will face the truth of who she truly is as her feelings for a man on the run turn her ideas of right and wrong upside down.
