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1) Benediction
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| [2013] | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 257 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F HARUF Shirlington - Adult Fiction F HARUF Westover - Adult Fiction F HARUF |
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| [2013] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 7 audio discs (540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Columbia Pike - Adult Audiobooks CD F HARUF |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.
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Nobody's fool volume 2
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F RUSSO
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F RUSSO
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2016. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 477 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F RUSSO Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F RUSSO Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F RUSSO |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape : | 15 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Plaza - Adult Audiobooks CD F RUSSO Westover - Adult Audiobooks CD F RUSSO |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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"A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in...
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| 1951. | Viking Press | 6 unnumbered pages, 240 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available 6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F GREEN Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F GREEN Westover - Adult Fiction F GREEN |
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| [2014] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 6 audio discs (approximately 420 min.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Checked Out |
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| [2001] | G.K. Hall | 269 pages (large print) ; 25 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F GREEN |
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Account of a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God.
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F JOYCE
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F JOYCE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | First U.S. edition. | Random House | 366 pages : illustration ; 22 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F JOYCE Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F JOYCE Westover - Adult Fiction has 2 F JOYCE |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014. | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 7 audio discs (420 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks CD F JOYCE Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F JOYCE |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers, and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in [the author's previous book] The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold...
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2015. | First Gallery Books hardcover edition. | Gallery Books | 343 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 2 F GENOV Central - Adult Fiction F GENOV Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F GENOV |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Gallery Books | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection |
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| ©2015. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 523 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Checked Out |
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Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
"From award-winning,...
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F GUSKI
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2016. | First U.S. edition. | Flatiron Books | 357 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F GUSKI Westover - Adult Fiction F GUSKI |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Flatiron Books | English | Available Online 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection |
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| 2016. | Thorndike Press | 533 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F GUSKI |
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"Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops. For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is approaching the end of his life. His first thought - I'm...
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7) Host
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 406 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 5 F COOK Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F COOK Shirlington - Adult Fiction F COOK |
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| 2015. | Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 633 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F COOK |
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Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.
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8) The hours
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| 1998. | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | 229 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F CUNNI |
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| [2017] | RBdigital | Unabridged. | Macmillan Audio | 1 online resource (6 hr., 15 min.) | English | Available Online RBdigital |
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| [1999] | G.K. Hall | 252 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F CUNNI |
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Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.
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| 2002. | First edition. | St. Martin's Press | viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F LANDI |
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| [2002] | Thorndike Press | 413 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F LANDI |
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Ruth, trying to escape her dead-end life, is befriended by Rose, an elderly reporter who refuses to except her lung cancer.
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| ©2018. | First edition. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 391 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F HALLG Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F HALLG Shirlington - Adult Fiction F HALLG |
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| 2018. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 657 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F HALLG |
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"A spirited eighty-year-old Icelandic woman reflects on her life as she lies alone in a garage in Reykjavik, waiting to die"--
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11) Census
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2018. | First edition. | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | ix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F BALL Shirlington - Adult Fiction F BALL |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
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12) Last act
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Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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[1979]
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| [1979] | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | 251 | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F HODGE |
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Black Dagger Brotherhood volume 13
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| ©2015. | New American Library | xiii, 576 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F WARD Westover - Adult Fiction F WARD |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out |
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Trez "Latimer" doesn't really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the underbelly of the human world. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the S'Hsibe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer in Caldwell, NY for years -- all the while on the run from a destiny of sexual servitude. He's never had anyone he could totally rely on... except for his brother, iAm. iAm's...
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| [2015] | First U.S. edition. | Ballantine Books | 342 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F COLEM Shirlington - Adult Fiction F COLEM |
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| 2017. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 499 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F COLEM |
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Hospice nurse Stella prefers the night shift. Afghanistan left her veteran husband a changed man, haunted at night by memories he can't bring himself to share. Writing final letters for her hospice patients to their loved ones gives Stella the chance to help others communicate as she otherwise cannot. She only has one rule: she mails the letter only once her patient is no longer alive. When she meets a patient with a chance at redemption, she finds...
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Broadway Books
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[2001]
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| [2001] | Broadway Books | 243 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F LIP |
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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2016.
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English
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| 2016. | First English language edition. | Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company | 407 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 3 F AXAT |
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"Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become...
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| [2015] | Pamela Dorman Books/Viking | x, 368 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F BRIZZ |
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| ©2016. | Thorndike Press | 544 pages (large print) ; 24 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F BRIZZ |
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What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? So begins the last hundred days of Lucio's life, as he attempts to care for his family, win back his wife (the love of his life and afterlife), and spend the next three months enjoying every moment with a zest he hasn't felt in years.
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18) Moon tiger
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Grove Press
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1987.
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| 1987. | Grove Press | 208 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction F LIVEL Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F LIVEL |
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The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center -- forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world -- is the...
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| 2017. | Viking | 274 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F REDEL |
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| 2017. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 369 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F REDEL |
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"A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill--the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now, mortality Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known one another since they were girls. They've faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group's trailblazer and brightest spark,...
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017. | First U.S. edition. | Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press | 306 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F SHIPM Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F SHIPM |
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| 2017. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 497 pages ; 23 | English | Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F SHIPM |
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"The Hope Chest is a deeply emotional novel about three people who have seemingly lost all hope until one woman's heirloom hope chest is rediscovered in the attic, along with its contents and secrets. Mattie is a fiercely independent woman battling ALS; Don, her deeply devoted husband is facing a future without his one true love; and Rose, their struggling caregiver, is a young, single mother who feels trapped in her life. With each item that is discovered--including...
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