Summary: Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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Summary: Charlotte Dawes, a New York architect who was raped as a girl, is frigid. She meets Roger Haywood, a developer who provides her with the capital she needs for a project. A romance ensues and Charlotte is cured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1997
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Summary: A beautiful and gutsy lawyer, Jennie is on the brink of marriage and is trying the most important case of her career. Then a shattering secret from her past threatens to destroy her world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1989
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Summary: In turn-of-the-century New York, Henrietta De Rivera falls in love with a radical young man who scorns so many things Hennie has been taught to covet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1986
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1990
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Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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Summary: Septuagenarian Iris Stern questions her beliefs about what it means to be a woman and a wife when her daughter's marriage crumbles, an event that is complicated by the revelation of a dark family secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: Violence, political upheaval, and clandestine love surround the St. Felice island estate, Eleuthera, and the flamboyant family that owns the estate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1982
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Summary: Few authors have understood the tender intricacies of relationships better than the incomparable Belva Plain. For three decades her deeply moving epics have captivated the hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere. Now, in her final novel, she comes full circle with the themes she took up in her very first work, Evergreen , bringing us this unforgettable story of family and friendship,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly raising their own children and Margaret's orphaned niece. Then one day the phone rings--and suddenly everything changes forever as a woman from Adam's university days reappears in his life, and an old affair re-ignites. At the same time, there are problems...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1996
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio 1996
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Summary: Adam Arnring, the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, leaves home in 1907 at the age of nineteen and travels to the American West where he is determined to shape his own destiny--creating what is to become one of the country's great retail companies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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Summary: Decades after her father kidnapped her from his ex-wife's home to save her from an unstable environment, a young woman struggles to come to terms with her father's criminal action and the deception that forms the foundation of her entire life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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Summary: Margaret and Adam Crane seem to have a near perfect life--she's a teacher, he's a computer executive, and together they are lovingly raising their own children and Margaret's orphaned niece. Then one day the phone rings--and suddenly everything changes forever as a woman from Adam's university days reappears in his life, and an old affair re-ignites. At the same time, there are problems...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte 1996
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1995
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Summary: The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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Summary: Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: A woman's life changes when the Nazis come to power in Germany. Caroline Hartzinger's boyfriend becomes a Nazi and abandons her because she is half-Jewish. She escapes to America, marries a fellow refugee and gives birth to the Nazi's son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1992
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLABland, Celia.
Summary: A brief introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of bats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kidsbooks, Inc. 1997