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Summary: Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBaldacci, David.
Summary: Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALMirren, Lilly
Summary: "After her grandmother's death, Reeda Summer decides to try to solve a family mystery and run from her troubled marriage; following the clues in her grandmother's journals to Italy. Under the Italian sky, Reeda discovers that the joy she was searching for was hidden inside her all along. And instead of running from her problems, she embraces the healing she needs to face them."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRMorgan, Sarah
Summary: "To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Grace has planned the surprise of a lifetime for her husband--a romantic getaway to Paris. But she never expected he'd have a surprise of his own: he wants a divorce. Reeling from the shock but refusing to be broken, a devastated Grace makes the bold decision to go to Paris alone. Audrey, a young woman from London, has left behind a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P MORLamprell, Mark
Summary: ""New York, Paris, London every grand metropolis has its own irresistible attraction but Rome so swirls with stories of saints and sinners lovers and fighters, that she compels you towards her, like gravity. No one leaves her unaltered. Part of you always loves her. This is the place where passions are aroused, senses inflamed, and lovers fall into each other's arms. It all appears to unfold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMHarris, Terah Shelton
Summary: "A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Summary: "When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers. The women decide to dig into the mystery together at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira/Harlequin Enterprises, Limited 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVSerle, Rebecca
Summary: When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SERNovak, Brenda
Summary: "When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers. The women decide to dig into the mystery together at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NOVSummary: An aspiring artist and the aspiring singer he loves join the most berserk brood of sun-and-funners on Nantucket Island in New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONENovak, Brenda
Summary: When Serenity Alston discovers she has two half sisters through 23andMe, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. Meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOVCrews, Nina.
Summary: Relates a child's activities in the heat of a summer day punctuated by a thunderstorm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CRESerle, Rebecca
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. "When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERBurkhart, Kiersi
Summary: "To learn to ride Prince, gamer Paley is forced to identify her real-life powers. But her newfound courage will be tested when ranch neighbors threaten to steal an exciting discovery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURSpencer, Kate
Summary: "Clara Millen's life is spiraling out of control: her dream job is a nightmare, she's resoundingly single, and it's been years since she's taken some time off. Thankfully, the last problem she can fix - this year she'll join her friends on their annual summer vacation to their beloved childhood sleepover camp for a much-needed escape. But when Clara arrives at Pine Lake Camp, she faces yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WILGow, Robin
Summary: It's the summer before senior year. Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia. At her job in the local nursing home, she meets Lena, an eighty-year-old lesbian woman, who tells her stories about what it was like growing up gay in the 1950s and 60s. As Claire becomes more confident in her identity, she is caught...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOWGutman, Dan
Summary: School's almost out for the summer, and A.J. is dreaming about all the fun things he's going to do on vacation. But A.J.'s dream quickly turns into a nightmare when three familiar spirits appear to show him summers past, present, and yet to come. Will they be able to convince him to leave his bad ways behind? Or will this summer end up being a total bummer? Best selling author Dan Gutman brings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GUTWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: "Her devastating marriage behind her, Raylene Hammond is truly thankful for her best friends, the Sweet Magnolias. They've taken her in, shielding her from the world. Then she meets sheriff's deputy Carter Rollins, and suddenly Raylene's haven no longer feels quite so safe. Carter understands why Raylene is trapped inside. He's even taken to bringing the outside world to her. But with two kid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: Three granddaughters. Three months. One summer house. In this trilogy set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the author captures the complex relationships between three half sisters scattered across the country, and a grandmother determined to help them rediscover their family bonds. Set amid ancient live oaks and palmettos, overlooking the water, historic Sea Breeze is Marietta Muir's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: "This heartwarming women's fiction series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers on Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivan's Island called Conquest, and her three granddaughters Carson, Eudora, and Harper. It's summer once again on idyllic Sullivan's Island, but Eudora, or Dora as she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MONSummary: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NICSummary: Follow three three teenage girls as they explore their first taste of freedom. Charlotte, the recently hearbroken, Megane, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, a virgin who dreams of love, all three smitten by the guys at the Toy Depot. After applying for their first part-time job at the store during this one fateful summer, the three girls experience for the very first time what it is like to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019