Nicholls, Sally
Summary: "It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NICLowry, Lois.
Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2003Robuck, Erika.
Summary: "Upstate New York, 1928. Laura Kelley and the man she loves sneak away from their judgmental town to attend a performance of the scandalous Ziegfeld Follies. But the dark consequences of their night of daring and delight reach far into the future.... That same evening, Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her indulgent husband hold a wild party in their remote mountain estate, hoping to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBMallery, Susan
Summary: "Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, new information about that terrible time causes Ashley to see that experience in a new light. In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor. As the dinner conversation goes on, Alice tells the young couple that her life was saved by a conversation with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson.
Summary: In this beautifully crafted novel, Icelandic writer Olaf Olafsson tells the moving story of a woman who, in the remaining months of her life, undertakes an extraordinary emotional journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLAKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINMallery, Susan
Summary: "Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALHood, Ann
Summary: A friendship between a widow and a homeless girl enriches both their lives. The widow is wealthy Olivia, 37, frustrated by not being a mother. The girl is poor Ruby, 15, pot smoking, manipulative and pregnant. Olivia takes her in and Ruby agrees to let Olivia have the child--hopefully without changing her mind when it is born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOODietrich, Sean
Summary: "When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her babyin the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIEEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVABenton, Janet
Summary: "In 1883 Philadelphia, Quaker schoolteacher Lilli de Jong finds herself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how can she keep her infant daughter after being cast out by her family, abandoned by her fiancé, and rejected by society? After the unexpected death of her beloved mother, a prominent Quaker in their Germantown community, Lilli de Jong's once-orderly life becomes increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENTodd, Terrie
Summary: "Winnipeg, 1942. War widow Maggie Marshall finds it hard to grieve for her abusive husband. But when Charlotte, the unwed pregnant teen in her care runs away, Maggie's childhood friend Reverend Reuben Fennel is happy join Maggie in her pursuit to Fort William to find Charlotte though it may cost him his job and his reputation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODGunnis, Emily
Summary: Read her letter. Remember her story ... Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried secrets will stay with you for ever. In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNAlexander, Kirsten
Summary: "In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALECenter, Katherine.
Summary: Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby--in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiance, Dean, started their family earlier than planned. But then one night Dean runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, and the very next day, Jenny goes into labor. She never anticipated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2007
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Summary: St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992
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Summary: Heather Reed thought she was making the right choice when she decided to raise her daughter, Angel, on her own. But three years later, Heather realizes she needs help. Her career as an actress is faltering, and Angel's more than she can handle alone. It's time to track down Angel's father only problem is, he doesn't know Angel exists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOKibler, Julie
Summary: In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth's red-light districts, the progressive home bucks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Kibler 2019Perry, Anne.
Summary: Just days before the French Revolution, a young woman's baby dies while in the care of a friend and she learns the true meaning of revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PERHarrington, Claudia
Summary: "Learn about diversity in a gentle manner through the eyes of a second grader Lenny. Join him as he shadows his classmates for a special report on the Students of the Week. Through innocent, simple questions, Lenny discovers his new friends' families aren't all that different from his own."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARKeegan, Claire
Summary: "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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Summary: Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DESRoberts, Nora.
Summary: "A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014