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Au pairs Fiction Cornwall (England : County) Fiction Families Fiction Hockey players Fiction Inheritance and succession Inheritance and succession Fiction Large type books Man-woman relationships Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etcBoyne, John
Summary: "This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Brunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Businessman Joel Byler who has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father who is done bailing out his spoiled son. When will Joel learn he most pay for his own mistakes-- and at what cost to his business, his fiancée, and his Amish siblings?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BrunSmiley, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMILim, Rebecca
Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: In 1918 the Great War has taken so much from so many and it threatens to take even more still from the Hunters, their friends and their servants. Edward, in a bid to run away from problems at home, decides not to resist conscription and ends up at the Front. Sadie's hopes for love are unrequited, and Laura has to flee Artemis House when it is shelled and she finds herself in London driving an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: The year is 1915, and the war is raging on, in this second book in the new series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The series is an epic family drama set against the evocative backdrop of World War I, with a book a year for each year of the war. Set against the real events of 1915, this is a rich and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARColgan, Jenny
Summary: "It's summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan's utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls' boarding school in Cornwall. For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . . Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLColgan, Jenny
Summary: "Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLTan, Amy.
Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TANJohnson, Jane
Summary: "One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHRash, Ron
Summary: Maggie Glenn, a newspaper photographer sent to cover an incident in her home town, becomes caught in the middle of the conflict, opening old wounds and forcing her to revisit a past she wanted to leave behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASBarnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: "Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her luck changes in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves her virtually his entire fortune. The only catch? Avery must move into his sprawling mansion, full of secret passages, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BARArimah, Lesley Nneka
Summary: "A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMGroff, Lauren.
Summary: "From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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Summary: "As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayne 2022Bailey, Tessa
Summary: "Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She's also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween. Her tween charge isn't the only one who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024