Bernstein, Sarah
Summary: "A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings--more than she cares to remember --from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. Soon after she arrives, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Canada 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction BernsteinOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2019Conklin, Tara
Summary: When she is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, renowned poet Fiona Skinner recounts the summer her family spent in a middle-class Connecticut town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conklin 2019Conley, Susan
Summary: When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling for Lukas, the tall, Danish MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as painter, mother, and wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conley 2018Thayne, RaeAnne
Summary: Dani Capelli has never truly belonged anywhere. And from her earliest days as a foster child in Queens, she would have been lost if it weren't for her love of animals. Until high school, when she fell hard for the wrong boy, and found herself pregnant and married by graduation. Two daughters later, Dani realized her mistake and filed for divorce, and enrolled in vet school. When the retiring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Thayne 2018Kingsolver, Barbara
Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsolver 2018Kinsella, Sophie
Summary: "After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2018
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Summary: Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moyes 2018Baart, Nicole
Summary: "When Quinn Cruz receives a cryptic text message from her older sister, Nora, she doesn't think much of it. They haven't seen each other in nearly a year, and their relationship consists mostly of infrequent phone calls and the occasional e-mail. But when a haunted-looking Nora shows up just hours later, a chain reaction is set into motion that will change both of their lives forever. It's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baart 2017Kellerman, Faye
Summary: "He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear... Three years ago, sixteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing from the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her--until, on the first anniversary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kellerman 2017Carr, Robyn
Summary: In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in New York City and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. Only one friend stands by her, a friend she's known since high school, who encourages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Carr 2016Brown, Eleanor
Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016Brown, Helen
Summary: "The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016Giffin, Emily
Summary: "Meredith thought she'd done it all right - married the perfect man, had the perfect daughter - but as she grows increasingly restless, she can't help but wonder if she got the love part wrong. Josie has been happily single for years, but she wants a child of her own so much she's one bad Match.com date away from heading straight for the baby carriage all on her own. The sisters, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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Summary: "Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia "Rabbit" Hayes, life is coming to and end. Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colorful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she's okay with that. Because she has plans for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McPartlin 2015Bowen, Brenda
Summary: "On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their children's preschool bulletin board: "Hopewell Cottage, Little Lost Island, Maine. Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island. Springwater, blueberries, sea glass. August." Neither can afford it, but they are smitten--Lottie could use a break from her overbearing husband and Rose from her relentless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books, Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bowen 2015Crummey, Michael
Summary: The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crumley 2015Sanderson, Jane
Summary: Two remarkably different worlds--one of wealth and privilege, the other of poverty and desperation--are about to collide in one shattering moment in this mesmerizing tale of high drama, forbidden love, and families fighting to hold on to what they have. Upstairs: Lord Netherwood, a coal baron, earns his considerable wealth from the three mines he owns. Supplying a bustling industrial empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sanderson 2014Archer, Jeffrey
Summary: When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to take his place, but Don Pedro Martinez plans to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, so he can destroy the Barrington family firm once and for all. The talented Jessica Clifton, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter, wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art and falls in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Archer 2014Baker, Jo.
Summary: A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baker 2013Hayes, Suzanne
Summary: Two women forge a friendship during World War II through their letters to each other, allowing them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front and giving them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hayes 2013Packer, Ann
Summary: Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Packer 2011Macomber, Debbie.
Summary: This three-in-one paperback collection is the complete set of Macomber's popular Navy stories
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2005