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1. And their children after them

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Author:
Mathieu, Nicolas, 1978-
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
MATHIEU
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
MATHIEU
Middlecreek Community - Adult Fiction
MATHIEU
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"Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress. August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a lost valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to find out what it's like on the other side at the famous nudist beach. The trip ultimately takes...

2. An anonymous girl

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Author:
Hendricks, Greer
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3.8 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
HENDRICK
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
HENDRICK
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
HENDRICK
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"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding"--

3. Beach vibes

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Author:
Mallery, Susan
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3.8 stars
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10 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Zebulon Community - Large Print
LP MALLERY
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An unforgettable beach read about love, secrets, betrayal and the family we're born into--and the one we choose for ourselves.

4. Bellweather rhapsody

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Author:
Racculia, Kate
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2.7 stars
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A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide fifteen years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds. Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now high school musicians,...

5. The Briar Club: a novel

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Author:
Quinn, Kate
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4.3 stars
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153 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction has 2
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
QUINN
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 3
QUINN
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Washington, DC, 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 widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman's...

6. Color outside the lines: stories about love

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Author:
Mandanna, Sangu
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An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter.

7. Counting miracles: a novel

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Author:
Sparks, Nicholas
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4.4 stars
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170 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
SPARKS
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East Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
SPARKS
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"From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down....

8. The Davenports

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Author:
Marquis, Krystal
Series:
The Davenports (Krystal Marquis) volume 1.
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4 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult
YA MARQUIS
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YA MARQUIS
Green Road Community - Young Adult
YA MARQUIS
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The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.

9. Diggers

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Author:
Johnson, Amy (Editor)
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3 stars
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Young readers will dig down into the world of digging machines with this look at big, powerful, working vehicles. Through achievable text, they'll learn about machines that dig, dump, load, and lift things on construction sites. They'll discover the various parts of each machine and how they're used to get jobs done easily and safely.

10. The edge of falling

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Author:
Serle, Rebecca
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3.7 stars
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Caggie's life of privilege in Manhattan appears near-perfect but blaming herself for her younger sister's death and being acclaimed for saving a classmate from suicide cause her to withdraw from friends and family until Astor arrives at school, hiding a past at least as dark as her own.

11. The exchange

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Author:
Grisham, John
Series:
Firm volume 2.
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3.1 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
GRISHAM
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GRISHAM
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
GRISHAM
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"What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America's favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him...

12. The friendship club

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Author:
Carr, Robyn
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3.8 stars
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88 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
CARR
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Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
CARR
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"Four women who work on a popular cooking show band together when they discover the youngest member of their group has an abusive boyfriend. The Barefoot Contessa meets Big Little Lies in this drama-filled novel about the power of female friendships."--Provided by publisher.

13. The fury

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Author:
Michaelides, Alex, 1977-
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3.2 stars
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125 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
MICHAELI
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MICHAELI
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45 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time--it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private...

14. Golden Girl: a novel

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Author:
Hilderbrand, Elin
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3.3 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Large Print
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Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events.

15. The grey wolf

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 19.
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4 stars
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34 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly...

16. Here one moment: a novel

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
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3.8 stars
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181 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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MORIARTY
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 5
MORIARTY
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"Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future--age 103!--and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away...

17. The hunter: a novel

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Author:
French, Tana
Series:
Cal Hooper novels volume 2
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4.2 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Mystery
FRENCH
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FRENCH
Duraleigh Road - Mystery has 2
FRENCH
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....

18. If the shoe fits

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Author:
Murphy, Julie, 1985-
Series:
Meant to be volume 1.
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4.2 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Romance
MURPHY
Fuquay-Varina Community - Romance
MURPHY
Holly Springs Community - Romance
MURPHY
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"In this modern-retelling of Cinderella, plus-size Cindy dreams of becoming a shoe designer. But when a spot opens up on her stepmother's famous reality dating TV competition, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight in ways she never thought possible"--

19. The it girl

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Author:
Ware, Ruth
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3.9 stars
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142 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
WARE
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
WARE
East Regional - Adult Fiction has 3
WARE
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"April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends--Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily--during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing...

20. Kiss River

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Author:
Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-
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3.8 stars
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The arrival of Gina Higgins, a mysterious stranger who is determined to restore Kiss River's historic nineteenth-century lighthouse, profoundly impacts the lives of Lacey O'Neill and her brother Clay.