Summary: Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORFerry, Peter
Summary: "Tom Johnson has just turned eighty-five. When faced with a nursing home, he escapes to the Netherlands to find the woman he fell in love with during World War II. His children want him back, but Tom fights to stay in the Netherlands for love, family and all the remaining rights of an old man"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERMiller, Derek B.
Summary: Sheldon Horowitz, 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable, is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: M3CD FIC MILMistry, Rohinton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALDean, Debra
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEADorner, Marjorie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORBenioff, David.
Summary: When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion charges. Instead of the standard bullet in the back of the head, Lev and Kolya are given a chance at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENButler, Robert Olen
Summary: "A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTCardillo, Linda.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARMistry, Rohinton
Summary: Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISRobinson, Marilynne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROBTan, Amy.
Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZDressler, Mylène
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BlueHen Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DREEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: An old man reminisces about his first love, a young runaway who taught him more about life than anyone had before or since.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAGilbert, Elizabeth
Summary: In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GILGraham, Genevieve
Summary: "Canada, 2018: At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left. Soon she'll be gone, just like her husband, her daughter, and the many loved ones she's lost over the years, and the story of her shameful past will die with her. When her great grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAIronside, Virginia.
Summary: Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IROLundberg, Sofia
Summary: By age 50, Elin Boals has created for herself a perfect life: her wildly successful business as Manhattan's preeminent fashion photographer is flourishing. Her handsome, patient husband is devoted to her; her teenaged daughter, Alice, has been accepted to the ballet academy of her dreams. But then Elin receives an innocuous looking envelope. Folded inside is a star-chart, with an address...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Living alone in her Stockholm apartment, a ninety-six-year-old woman reminisces through the pages of a long-kept address book before starting to write down stories from her past, unlocking family secrets in unexpectedly beneficial ways.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lundberg 2019See, Lisa.
Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SeeRobinson, Marilynne.
Summary: In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America 2005