Catalog Search Results
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
Author
Appears on these lists
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - LGBTQ Book Club sets
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - LGBTQ Book Club sets
Description
In a novel of love, family inheritance, and desperation, the author offers a fictional account of Virginia Woolf's last days and her friendship with a poet living in his mother's shadow
Author
Description
"Stanley and Vera, academically precocious but awkward teenagers, form a bond when they tie for first place in the National Spelling Bee. Though their mothers have big plans for them -- Stanley will become a senator, Vera a mathematics professor -- neither wants to follow these pre-determined paths. So Stanley hatches a plan to marry Vera in a sham wedding for the financial freedom to pursue his one true love: crossword puzzle construction. In enlisting...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"How far will she follow her dreams? Ohio farm country, 1897. Louisa, the spirited eldest daughter of Herzig and Clara Steinbacher, has her whole life ahead of her. She is seventeen, and dreams of the "outside world" beyond her doorstep. But when Clara dies in childbirth, Louisa is suddenly thrust into adulthood--with the burden of her mother's responsibilities...and the care of her younger siblings. The only world she has ever known closes around...
Author
Appears on list
Description
Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, Ana is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes secret narratives about neglected and silenced women. When she meets the eighteen-year-old...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Prosa hecha de aire, sin peso ni cuerpo pero que sopla con ímpetu y levanta en nuestras mentes bandadas de imágenes y visiones, vaso comunicante entre los ritmos callejeros de la ciudad y el soliloquio del poeta.y Octavio Paz zContranovelay, zcrónica de una locuray, zel agujero negro de un enorme embudoy, zun feroz sacudón por las solapasy, zun grito de alertay, zuna especie de bomba atómicay, zuna llamada al desorden necesarioy, zuna gigantesca...
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Marina, una mujer casada, con tres hijos, con una vida familiar resuelta, coreógrafa de cierto prestigio, se ve involucrada en un amorío improbable con un hombre impensable. Salvar el fuego retrata dos Méxicos completamente escondidos uno del otro, en los que Marina, que pertenece a la clase social más alta, se vincula con un hombre al extremo de la sociedad. Esta es una novela que retrata las contradicciones de un país y las contradicciones...
Author
Appears on list
Description
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting for the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Set during...
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.
Author
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
Author
Appears on these lists
CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
Author
Appears on list
Description
When Evelyn Dooley married her high-school sweetheart, she thought she was set for life. Now she is twenty-eight, single, and fleeing to Dublin from her hometown to avoid the gossip surrounding their break-up. Then a chance encounter with a gorgeous musician leads to an unlikely friendship, and soon the pair are running music nights together in one of the oldest pubs in Dublin. For the first time Evelyn is following her dreams rather than someone...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"A heartfelt debut, Fragile Saints follows the journey of a woman bruised by betrayal and divorce to her father’s ancestral home in Peru. Like the silkworms on the family farm, Elsa emerges from her cocoon transformed and ready to brave a new life. Fans of Isabel Allende will savor this lushly textured romance--Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad"--
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"A "sublimely creepy" psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover (Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author). Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen...
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories....