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10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
Author
Available Online
16 copies available.
Description
"In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham's The Firm. Everyone has something to hide... Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney...
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Series
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
189 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
186 copies, 967 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
213 copies, 1086 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
213 copies, 1086 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
54 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer....
Author
Series
On Shelf
56 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC THAI
1 available
FIC THAI
1 available
On Shelf
7 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Audio Video
BKONCD FIC THAI
1 available
BKONCD FIC THAI
1 available
Available Online
11 copies available.
Available from another library
26 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light"--
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life: a beautiful lake house,...
Author
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
74 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
eAudiobook
Checked Out
23 copies, 81 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
59 copies, 149 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
59 copies, 149 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
27 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at...
Author
Series
On Shelf
91 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC WILKER
1 available
FIC WILKER
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
11 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
11 copies, 14 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...
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Available from another library
23 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
21 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
Description
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""--
Author
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
129 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
eAudiobook
Checked Out
74 copies, 359 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
91 copies, 353 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
91 copies, 353 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
44 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
"Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious...
Author
On Shelf
298 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Nonfiction
FIC PICOULT
1 available
FIC PICOULT
1 available
On Shelf
45 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Audio Video
BKONCD FIC PICOULT
1 available
BKONCD FIC PICOULT
1 available
Checked Out
78 copies, 332 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
116 copies, 571 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
116 copies, 571 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
92 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Large Print
LP FIC PICOULT
1 available
LP FIC PICOULT
1 available
Description
"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...
Author
On Shelf
53 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC SHEPHERD
1 available
FIC SHEPHERD
1 available
Available Online
21 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
Author
Series
Available Online
38 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
25 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
Author
On Shelf
59 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC GRISSOM
1 available
FIC GRISSOM
1 available
Available from another library
11 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
10 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
10 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Married to a white fur trader in 1872, a Crow Native woman has her journey to Saskatchewan interrupted when she steals two guns and saves five Nakota women who were kidnapped by drunken whiskey traders, setting off a culture war"--
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan,...
Author
On Shelf
159 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC KINGSOL
1 available
FIC KINGSOL
1 available
On Shelf
29 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Audio Video
BKONCD FIC KINGSOL
1 available
BKONCD FIC KINGSOL
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
95 copies, 92 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
55 copies, 242 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
55 copies, 242 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
52 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Description
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves,...
Author
On Shelf
33 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC HOLSIN
1 available
FIC HOLSIN
1 available
Description
"An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna-the world's first category 6 hurricane-upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall,...
Author
On Shelf
42 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Nonfiction
932.009 OLSON
1 available
932.009 OLSON
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs'...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham mysteries volume 1
On Shelf
85 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC STEVEN
1 available
FIC STEVEN
1 available
On Shelf
12 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Audio Video
BKONCD FIC STEVEN
1 available
BKONCD FIC STEVEN
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
29 copies, 59 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
25 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
Description
Ernie Cunningham's brother is being released from prison for murder, and the family is gathering at a remote mountain resort to welcome him home. Since Ern is the one who witnessed the murder-- and turned his brother in to the police-- he's a bit reluctant to attend. The day before Ern's brother is due, a body is found frozen on the slopes. His airways are clogged with ash... in a pristine snowfield... without a single burn mark on him. The local...
Author
On Shelf
67 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Fiction
FIC SHIPMAN
1 available
FIC SHIPMAN
1 available
Description
Arriving in the lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan, Becky Thatcher--just turned forty years old with little to show for it--encounters eighty-year-old Mary Jackson, who has almost given up hope that someone will come along to carry on her legacy as the owner of The Very Cherry General Store.
For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside...
18) Finding me
Author
On Shelf
75 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Girard Free Library - Nonfiction
92 DAVIS VI
1 available
92 DAVIS VI
1 available
On Shelf
20 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Audio Video
BKONCD 92 DAVIS VI
1 available
BKONCD 92 DAVIS VI
1 available
Available Online
69 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and...
19) First lie wins
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Series
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
194 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
134 copies, 92 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
128 copies, 211 people are on the wait list.
Available Online
128 copies, 211 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
76 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
13 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
Author
On Shelf
96 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Paperback fiction
PB FIC WILLING
1 available
PB FIC WILLING
1 available
Available Online
39 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
26 copies available.
Girard Free Library - Large Print
LP FIC WILLING
1 available
LP FIC WILLING
1 available
Description
"From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try...