Catalog Search Results
1) Middlemarch
Author
Formats
Description
It was George Eliot's ambition to create a world and to portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift-she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt-angry, too-but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose.
The purpose turned out to be a town: Henry Adams, Kansas,...
5) Ulysses
Author
Formats
Description
Journey into the labyrinthine world of James Joyce's Ulysses, a literary masterpiece that reimagines Homer's epic Odyssey within the vibrant streets of 20th-century Dublin. This groundbreaking novel unfolds over a single day, June 16, 1904, as it follows the meandering paths of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, two complex characters navigating the mundane and the profound.
Joyce's stream-of-consciousness writing style delves into the innermost...
Author
Formats
Description
"An intoxicating, compact debut novel, Tides is the story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town by the winner of the Henfield Prize, Sara Freeman. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy beach town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming...
9) Got to dance
Author
Publisher
A Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A young city girl dances away the summertime blues with her grandfather.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
After retrieving fresh lobster nets from a local Laundromat, Cass Halloran rushes to attend a last-minute gathering with her knitting circle. But Cass cant stop worrying about the lonely boy seen hanging around the dryers, and the school uniform he left behind in a hurry. When the ladies return the lost clothing the next day, they find the child and his younger sister alone, seemingly abandoned by their mother . . . The knitters intend to facilitate...
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 11
Formats
Description
"When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form of her stubborn and difficult new employer, Alice Bellamy. While Faith proves a worthy match for her sharp-tongued client, she often finds herself at a loss for words in the presence of Mason...
Author
Formats
Description
"Annie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood sweetheart Sam are the owners and operators of Annie's, a gourmet sandwich shop, home to the legendary Paul Bunyan Special Sandwich--their nutritionally challenged continual source of income and marital harmony and local fame. But into their mostly charmed marriage comes the scary medical diagnosis for Annie--and the overwhelming challenge of finding a way to help Sam go on without her. Annie...
14) A late frost
Author
Series
Formats
Description
The New York Times-bestselling author of Seeds of Deception returns with a story about Granford, Massachusetts, orchard owner Meg Corey, who's on the search for the person who poisoned the wares at the WinterFare food festival. Includes recipes. Original.
Author
Formats
Description
"On her morning jog, Portia Paltrow comes upon the dead body of antiques store owner and college professor Owen Hill, sprawled across the back doorstep of Selma Parker's fabric and quilt shop on Elderberry Road. The site of their Saturday morning quilting bee just became a crime scene. Violent crime is rare in the charming village of Crestwood, Kansas, and rumors are soon circulating of a burglary gone wrong. But who would rob a quilt shop? No, Owen...
18) Rustler's moon
Author
Series
Description
"If there's any place that can convince Angela Harold to stop running, it's Ransom Canyon. And if there's any man who can reveal desires more deeply hidden than her every fear, it's Wilkes Wagner. Beneath the rancher's honorable exterior is something that just might keep her safe...or unwittingly put her in danger's path. With his dreams of leaving this small Texas town swallowed up by hard, dusty reality, all Wilkes has to show for his life is the...
20) Needful things
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Seemingly harmless Leland Gaunt has just opened a store in Castle Rock, Maine called Needful Things. Curiously, he doesn't accept cash for purchases, but instead allows his customers to pay by playing small pranks on fellow townspeople. While the pranks start out as innocuous jokes, they soon build into harmful occurrences. Now, Leland's influence has this once peaceful town in the midst of murderous turmoil.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for?
Search Hurst Public LibraryOr request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request