Zentner, Alexi.
Summary: A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENMartin, Alexa
Summary: Maxwell has finally met an opponent that he can't best in this new football romance from the author of Fumbled. According to Brynn Larson, Maxwell Lewis is more trouble than he's worth. She doesn't care if he's a football god with a rock-hard body that brings most women to their knees. After an encounter that ends poorly, she's not interested in giving him a second chance. The last thing Brynn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMartin, Alexa
Summary: "Two rival candidates for a homeowner's association presidency are about to find out how dirty suburbanites fight in this steamy new romantic comedy from Alexa Martin. After years of hustling, Collins Carter has finally made it... back to her parents' house. Between tending to the compost with her newly retired dad and running into her high school nemesis at the only decent coffee shop in town,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WITBrunkhorst, Alex
Summary: Collecting quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, young journalist Thomas Cleary is invited by the man's eccentric daughter to tour the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society, where he pursues a romance with an enigmatic shut-in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBeecroft, Alex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEEKatsu, Alma.
Summary: Dr. Luke Findley arrives at his Maine hospital expecting another unremarkable day. Instead, he meets Lanore McIlvrae, who is brought in under arrest for murder. As Luke treats Lanore, she shares the secret of her immortality and reveals the love that has possessed her for centuries. It is a love that has been brutal at times, yet Lanore has remained true--until now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KATSummary: Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWEEAdler, Sarah
Summary: "A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she didn't expect that would mean traveling to Key West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADLAdler, Sarah
Summary: "Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she'd like to think she's a beneficent one. So if "cleansing" the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: Now widowed, Josslyn seeks the one thing her beloved husband couldn't give her: dominance. Lonely, searching for an outlet for her grief and wanting only a brief taste of the perfection she once enjoyed, she seeks what she's looking for at an exclusive club that caters to people indulging in their most hedonistic fantasies. She never imagined that what she'd find would be the one man who's long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANAllen, Rachael
Summary: "The moment Spencer meets Hope the summer before seventh grade, it's ... something at first sight. He knows she's special, possibly even magical. The pair become fast friends, climbing trees and planning world travels. After years of being outshone by his older brother and teased because of his Tourette syndrome, Spencer finally feels like he belongs. But as Hope and Spencer get older and life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLHall, Alexis J.
Summary: "Rosaline Palmer is just barely holding her life together. Her paycheck might as well be parchment paper, her house is falling apart, and help from her parents is always served with a generous slice of disappointment and judgment. And the cherry on top? Now her daughter's school is charging all sorts of outlandish extra fees for trips that Rosaline can't afford. But where there's a whisk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALAllen, Samantha
Summary: When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they mentally prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and of course, the salacious drama that viewers nationwide tune in to eagerly devour. Each woman came on "The Catch" for her own reasons--brand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLHlad, Alan
Summary: "It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HLAFurst, Alan.
Summary: Set in the shadowy back streets and glittering salons of wartime Paris. Film producer Jean Casson, a Paris sophisticate struggles to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, as he becomes caught up in the activities of what was to become the French Resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find themselves in a crumbling Italian villa in the midst of a disturbing culture clash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLHollinghurst, Alan.
Summary: Embraced by the family of his Cambridge schoolmate, Cecil Valance writes an inspiring poem in an autograph album that becomes a staple of every English classroom after he is killed during World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLSummary: A song and dance man leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. A former partner joins him and the two find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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Summary: Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life, and has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will is acerbic, moody, and bossy. But Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYVan Allen, Lisa
Summary: "In the Pennywort [farm], there is a garden of edible flowers, a garden meant for touching, and one in which the flowers only bloom at night ... Since her mother's death 5 years ago, Olivia has been carrying on her legacy, caring for Pennywort Gardens and running an informal program that provides safe haven to women in exchange for their help with the lush gardens. The townspeople hate having...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANAllen, Sarah Addison.
Summary: The Blue Ridge Madam was built by Willa Jackson's great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water's heyday. It now stands as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. But Willa has lately learned that socialite do-gooder Paston Osgood has restored the Madam to her former glory and plans to open a top-notch inn. Could the troubled past finally be laid to rest? When a skeleton is found buried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALLAllen, Sarah Addison.
Summary: "Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it's the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had her first almost-kiss at Lost Lake, and met a boy named Wes at Lost Lake. It was a place for dreaming. But Kate doesn't believe in dreams anymore, and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLAllen, Sarah Addison
Summary: The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a postcard, half a life ago. Now it's about to slip into Eby's past. Her husband George is long passed away and most of her demanding extended family are gone. All that's left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014