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November 2020
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F YAN
1 available
F YAN
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F YAN
1 available
F YAN
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F YAN
1 available
F YAN
1 available
Description
"White Ivy begins as many coming-to-America stories do: Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant, grows up in a low-income apartment complex in Massachusetts desperate to assimilate with her American peers. She develops a crush on the golden boy Gideon Speyer, whose patrician New England family is the paragon of the WASP ideal. Ivy's mother is a Tiger Mom, berating Ivy regularly when she disapproves of her grades, her looks, her attitude. But that's where the...
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October 2020
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Science Fiction
SF SCH
1 available
SF SCH
1 available
Downtown Branch - Science Fiction
SF SCH
2 available
SF SCH
2 available
Hazel Green Branch - Science Fiction
SF SCH
1 available
SF SCH
1 available
On Shelf
Monrovia Branch - Audiovisual
CD F SCH
1 available
CD F SCH
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
CD F SCH
1 available
CD F SCH
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Large Print
LF SCH
1 available
LF SCH
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Large Print
LF SCH
1 available
LF SCH
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Large Print
LF SCH
1 available
LF SCH
1 available
Description
"Never pray to the gods that answer after dark." France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman named Adeline meets a dangerous stranger and makes a terrible mistake. As she realizes the limitations of her Faustian bargain - being able to live forever, without being able to be remembered by anyone she sees - Addie chooses to flee her small village, as everything she once held dear is torn away. But there are still dreams to be had, and a...
Author
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September 2020
Formats:
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F COL
1 available
F COL
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F COL
1 available
F COL
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F COL
1 available
F COL
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block -- her neighbor Theo....
44) The switch
Author
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August 2020
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On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F OLE
1 available
F OLE
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F OLE
1 available
F OLE
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F OLE
1 available
F OLE
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch. Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen.So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
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July 2020
On Shelf
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F STA
1 available
F STA
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F STA
1 available
F STA
1 available
Description
"Bea Schumacher is a leading fashion blogger, known for her warm, honest body-positive message. But after an unexpected heartbreak, Bea's confidence is shaken and she feels hopelessly alone. In the midst of her sadness (and some drunken internet rantings), she receives a surprising proposition: Would Bea like to be the first plus-size woman to star in the next season of reality dating competition sensation Main Squeeze? Against her better judgment,...
Author
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June 2020
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F BEN
1 available
F BEN
1 available
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F BEN
2 available
F BEN
2 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F BEN
1 available
F BEN
1 available
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Audiovisual
CD F BEN
1 available
CD F BEN
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Audiovisual
CD F BEN
1 available
CD F BEN
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
CD F BEN
1 available
CD F BEN
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Author
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May 2020
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F CON
1 available
F CON
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F CON
1 available
F CON
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F CON
1 available
F CON
1 available
Description
Westport, Connecticut. When Piper Reynard meets Leo Drakos, the wedding ring on his finger is the only thing she doesn't like about him-- but she knows no marriage is permanent. Joanna fell in love with Leo years ago. They have two children together, and Joanna has been waiting for Leo to re-emerge from the severe depression that has engulfed him. When she discovers that it's not her loving support that’s sparked his renewed happiness, Joanna is...
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April 2020
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HEN
1 available
F HEN
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F HEN
1 available
F HEN
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F HEN
1 available
F HEN
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
"Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In...
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March 2020
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Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F FOW
1 available
F FOW
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F FOW
1 available
F FOW
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F FOW
1 available
F FOW
1 available
Description
"A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably"--
50) Saint X
Author
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February 2020
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F SCH
1 available
F SCH
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F SCH
1 available
F SCH
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F SCH
1 available
F SCH
1 available
On Shelf
Hazel Green Branch - Audiovisual
CD F SCH
1 available
CD F SCH
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
CD F SCH
1 available
CD F SCH
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
"Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in...
51) American dirt
Author
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January 2020
On Shelf
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F CUM
1 available
F CUM
1 available
North Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F CUM
2 available
F CUM
2 available
South Huntsville Branch - Adult Fiction
F CUM
1 available
F CUM
1 available
On Shelf
Monrovia Branch - Audiovisual
CD F CUM
1 available
CD F CUM
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
CD F CUM
1 available
CD F CUM
1 available
eAudiobook
On Shelf
Madison Branch - Large Print
LF CUM
1 available
LF CUM
1 available
New Hope Branch - Large Print
LF CUM
1 available
LF CUM
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Large Print
LF CUM
1 available
LF CUM
1 available
Description
Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse...
Author
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December 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
1 available
F REI
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
1 available
F REI
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F REI
1 available
F REI
1 available
Description
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
Author
Series
The Brown sisters volume 1
Notes
November 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F HIB
1 available
F HIB
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F HIB
1 available
F HIB
1 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F HIB
1 available
F HIB
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Emerging from a life-threatening illness, a fiercely organized but unfulfilled computer geek recruits a mysterious artist to help her establish meaning in her life, before finding herself engaged in reckless but thrilling activities.
Author
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October 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
362.7309 CHR
1 available
362.7309 CHR
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
362.7309 CHR
1 available
362.7309 CHR
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
Author
Notes
October 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
362.7309 CHR
1 available
362.7309 CHR
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
362.7309 CHR
1 available
362.7309 CHR
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
Author
Notes
September 2019
On Shelf
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F PAT
1 available
F PAT
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F PAT
4 available
F PAT
4 available
Monrovia Branch - Adult Fiction
F PAT
1 available
F PAT
1 available
On Shelf
Madison Branch - Audiovisual
CD F PAT
1 available
CD F PAT
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
CD F PAT
1 available
CD F PAT
1 available
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Large Print
LF PAT
1 available
LF PAT
1 available
Gurley Branch - Large Print
LF PAT
1 available
LF PAT
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Large Print
LF PAT
1 available
LF PAT
1 available
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Author
Notes
August 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F WEB
1 available
F WEB
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F WEB
1 available
F WEB
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F WEB
1 available
F WEB
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Café is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother's estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid...
Author
Notes
August 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F WEB
1 available
F WEB
1 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F WEB
1 available
F WEB
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F WEB
1 available
F WEB
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Café is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother's estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid...
Author
Notes
July 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Cavalry Hill Branch - Adult Fiction
F JAC
1 available
F JAC
1 available
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F JAC
3 available
F JAC
3 available
Gurley Branch - Adult Fiction
F JAC
1 available
F JAC
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
When her loved ones are put in danger by a blackmailer who threatens to expose dangerous secrets, wife and mother Amy Whey struggles to keep the upper hand in an escalating war of betrayal.
Author
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June 2019
Formats:
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Adult Fiction
F JON
1 available
F JON
1 available
Hazel Green Branch - Adult Fiction
F JON
1 available
F JON
1 available
Madison Branch - Adult Fiction
F JON
1 available
F JON
1 available
On Shelf
Downtown Branch - Audiovisual
CD F JON
1 available
CD F JON
1 available
Madison Branch - Audiovisual
CD F JON
1 available
CD F JON
1 available
South Huntsville Branch - Audiovisual
CD F JON
1 available
CD F JON
1 available
Description
From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and USA Today Bestseller, The Other Woman, comes an addictive new domestic suspense audiobook about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.
THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful business, two children, and a beautiful house.
HER HUSBAND: Alice knows that life could have been different...