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Earliest Publication Date
2024
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Science Fiction
SF LIANG
1 available
SF LIANG
1 available
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"Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown Rivers is an epic historical fantasy about womanhood, war, sacrifice, and love against all odds as the fate of two kingdoms hangs in a delicate balance. Her beauty hides a deadly purpose. Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue--convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F REID*
2 available
F REID*
2 available
Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
BC REID
4 available
BC REID
4 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - New AV
CD F REID
1 available
CD F REID
1 available
Description
"Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
Description
"An insanely competitive housing market. A buyer pushed to the breaking point. How far would you go for the American Dream? Eighteen months and eleven lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC, suburbs, thirty-seven-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Biography
B LAND
1 available
B LAND
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP B LAND
1 available
LP B LAND
1 available
Description
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F STAVA
4 available
F STAVA
4 available
Description
"Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself - she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl's foot. With this lie, and chance encounter Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged life of Jay and Violet Lockhart. The...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F ACEVEDO
1 available
F ACEVEDO
1 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP ACEVEDO
1 available
LP ACEVEDO
1 available
Description
"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP KIM
1 available
LP KIM
1 available
Description
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby...
8) Heir
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Teen
YA TAHIR
1 available
YA TAHIR
1 available
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Told in alternating voices, three teens, whose fates intertwine to stop the murder of innocent children, journey across two warring nations to ensure a better future for their people.
9) Homeseeking
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F CHEN
1 available
F CHEN
1 available
Description
"A single choice can define an entire life."-- Publisher.
"An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland."-- Publisher.
"Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Flr - Teen
YA MARIE
1 available
YA MARIE
1 available
Description
"Six students at Blackwood Academy, an enigmatic boarding school located at the edge of the afterlife, must compete for the once-in-eternity chance to change their fate--or risk remaining at Blackwood forever"-- Provided by publisher.
Welcome to Blackwood Academy: the legendary school located at the fringes of the afterlife, where students are fated to spend the rest of eternity shepherding lost souls. Once a pupil enters the school's arched gates,...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Science Fiction
SF TORZS
1 available
SF TORZS
1 available
Description
Two estranged half sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power! For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements, books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP JIMENEZ
1 available
LP JIMENEZ
1 available
Description
"Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea ... and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2021
Description
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental...
14) Malas
Earliest Publication Date
2024
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F FUENTES
1 available
F FUENTES
1 available
Description
"A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"-- Provided by publisher.
"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2022
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F GUTIERREZ
1 available
F GUTIERREZ
1 available
Description
An evocative drama about a woman caught leading a double life after one husband murders the other, and the true-crime writer who becomes obsessed with telling her story--this masterful work of literary suspense marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. In 1985, Dolores "Lore" Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo, Texas, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - Book Club
BC JACKSON
4 available
BC JACKSON
4 available
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Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - New AV
CD F JACKSON
1 available
CD F JACKSON
1 available
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - now a hit Netflix series - returns with her first novel for adults: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder"-- Provided by publisher.
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she's still waiting for her life to begin. I'll do it later, she always...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2023
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F SHEARER
1 available
F SHEARER
1 available
Description
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2020
Description
"The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds--the WASP establishment of her father's family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with"-- Provided by publisher.
On her very first morning on the island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao-- and instantly can't stand him. Especially...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F GELFUSO
1 available
F GELFUSO
1 available
Description
Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son--but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn't, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the...
Author
Earliest Publication Date
2025
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Fiction
F RAWLE
1 available
F RAWLE
1 available
On Shelf
Geneva Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Large Type
LP RAWLE
1 available
LP RAWLE
1 available
Description
"Lily-a bored, beautiful twenty-something-wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras are catching all her angles, good...
