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Lake in the Clouds 1Hamner, Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMHamner, Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMHammer, Alison
Summary: The heartbreaking, yet hopeful, story of a mother Alexis Gold and her daughter CeCe are struggling to be a family while the one person who holds them together, Tommy, struggles with a terminal cancer diagnosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHafner, Katie.
Summary: "When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAFHafner, Katie
Summary: A tour-de-force post-pandemic novel about love and the yearning for connection and the ways that childhood trauma plays out in adult life. When introverted, eccentric Ethan Fawcett falls in love with the vivacious Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. But then the global pandemic hits, and their relationship takes a turn for the worse. Ethan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAFMarr, Shirley
Summary: Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC MARHaien, Jeannette.
Summary: When a World War II veteran returns home he struggles with self-doubt as his wife and children have changed, his successful business is gone, and he questions how to face the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIFader, Molly.
Summary: Everything Hope knows about the Orchard House is from the stories of her late mother. So when she arrives at the northern Michigan family estate late one night with a terrible secret and her ten-year-old daughter in tow, she's not sure if she'll be welcomed or turned away. But as Hope works the orchard alongside her aunt, daughter, and a kind man she finds increasingly difficult to ignore, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICFaber, Sarah
Summary: The Maurer family prepares to leave Brazil a year after the disappearance and presumed death of the eldest daughter, a tragedy that gives way to the father's bipolar extremes, his long-suffering wife's consequential affair, and the growing awareness of their two surviving children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FABMarch, Emily
Summary: Widowed young, Genevieve Prentice dedicated her life to raising her four children. Now, though, they're all grown and scattered to the wind, and Genevieve is ready for a change. In a flash of inspiration, she puts her home on the market and heads to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, to renovate a rustic waterfront lodge with her sister. But just as they begin, Genevieve gets the shock of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MARHickam, Homer H.
Summary: Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICCramer, W. Dale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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Summary: "A family saga of pain and reconciliation set behind the closed doors of an Amish community. Spanning three generations, the story follows the life of Will McGruder, who having fled as a young man, seeks to heal the past by bringing his new family to meet his Amish relatives"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRACramer, W. Dale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAElmer, Robert.
Summary: Widowed farmer Gerrit Appeldoom and sophisticated piano teacher Joan Horton form an unlikely attachment to each other after meeting during Gerrit's granddaughter's lesson, but their growing relationship must face the challenges of their different lifestyles, beliefs, and pasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELMHorn, Dara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORGarza, Amber
Summary: Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren's house. She'd never met the parents, and usually she'd go in, but Amelia clearly wasn't going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the yellow roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARBauer, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUCard, Maisy
Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Card 2020Dark, Alice Elliott
Summary: The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARCard, Maisy
Summary: Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARBaker, Ellen
Summary: Decades after the women in her family and their friend are shattered by the losses of two beloved men during World War II, Julia is approached by her long-lost great-grandmother and untangles a dark secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011