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10 copies, 64 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 145 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to understand that though their money may have been what put...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F JIMEN
2 available
F JIMEN
2 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F JIMEN
1 available
F JIMEN
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F JIMEN
1 available
F JIMEN
1 available
Description
"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F JACKS
1 available
F JACKS
1 available
Aurora Hills - Recently Returned
F JACKS
1 available
F JACKS
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction - NEW
F JACKS
1 available
F JACKS
1 available
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8 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F JACKS
1 available
LT F JACKS
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Large Type
LT F JACKS
1 available
LT F JACKS
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type
LT F JACKS
1 available
LT F JACKS
1 available
Description
"Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated...
4) The nest
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SWEEN
2 available
F SWEEN
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F SWEEN
2 available
F SWEEN
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SWEEN
1 available
F SWEEN
1 available
Description
"A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F BRODE
1 available
F BRODE
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BRODE
1 available
F BRODE
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F BRODE
2 available
F BRODE
2 available
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4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children off at his place and simply not return. He had been working so hard to...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F TROPP
1 available
F TROPP
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F TROPP
1 available
F TROPP
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F TROPP
1 available
F TROPP
1 available
Description
Judd Foxman's wife, Jen, has left him for his boss, but after the death of his father and a week of sitting shivah with his enjoyably dysfunctional family presided over by their mother, a celebrated parenting expert despite her children's difficulties, the mourning period brings each of the family members to unexpected epiphanies about their own lives and each other.