Blevins, Wiley.
Summary: A young girl adopted from China sees that her hair and skin color are different from that of her parents. She finds, however, that there's much more to making a family than sharing red hair and freckles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLECurato, Mike
Summary: At Mouse's house, Elliot the elephant finds more than a friend--he finds a family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CURZafrilla, Marta
Summary: A tale that explores themes of diversity, adoption, and alternative family life follows a little chick who shares a happy relationship with his loving mother, a cat with soft fur, tickling whiskers, and a long beautiful tail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ZAFWillett, Marcia
Summary: "As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Willett 2015Willett, Marcia
Summary: When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses he is holding on to a painful secret. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. There is Charlotte, a young navy wife struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea; William, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river. The terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls. The scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. It was a family house...As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILFreeman, Martha
Summary: "City girl Effie Starr Zook is not excited about spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm in Nowheresville, Pennsylvania, until she stumbles across a mystery that leads her smack into an old family feud"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FREMcPhee, Martha
Summary: "On a winter day in 1910, at a train station in Ohio, two girls wait in the cold with their mother to begin a new life in the West. Tommy, the eldest, feels responsible for her sister, and in the years to come, as their mother campaigns for women's suffrage and teaches in one-room schoolhouses across Montana, she takes care of Katherine: trapping animals, begging, keeping house, cooking, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCPHenry, Patti Callahan
Summary: On her wedding day ten years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a betrayal so painful that she fled the small town of Watersend, South Carolina, and reinvented herself in New York City. Though now a freelance travel writer, the one place she rarely goes is home - until she learns of her dads failing health. Returning to Watersend means seeing the sister she has avoided for a decade and the brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin returns to his beloved characters from The Water Keeper and continues to ask poignant questions about the memories that haunt us all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MartinMartin, Lee
Summary: "With Martin's signature insight, each story peers into the nooks and crannies of seemingly normal homes, communities, and families. The footprints of a midnight prowler peel back the veneer of a marriage soured by a long-ago affair. A con man selling faked UFO footage loses his wife to the promise of life outside the ordinary. And a troubled man, tormented by his own mind, lies in the street...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSagarra, Josep Maria de
Summary: "Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAGMartin, Kat.
Summary: "Teddy Williams was eight years old that Christmas, too young to understand all the undercurrents swirling around him in the tiny Michigan town of Dreyerville. He wasn't able to value that Christmas for the miracle it truly was. Teddy only knew he wanted to buy the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont's Antiques as a gift for his grandmother, Lottie Sparks, a woman desperate to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Pr. 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC MARMartin, Alexa
Summary: "Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn't anticipate inheriting her grandma's bookstore, The Book Nook. She's in way over her head even before the shop's resident book club, comprising six of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2022