Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRAMcKinnon, Hannah Roberts
Summary: Wrenn Bailey has lived all her life on Cape Cod with her mother Lindy, older sister Shannon, and younger sister Piper. Growing up, life was dictated by the seasons with sleepy gray winters where only the locals stayed on, followed by the sharp influx and colorful bustle of summer tourists who swept up the elbow of the Cape and infiltrated their small paradise. But it wasn't just the tourists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria 2018
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Summary: Nora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em to her regulars, and she takes great pleasure in knowing exactly what's "the usual." But her life is soon shaken when she discovers she and her free-spirited, younger sister Kit stand to inherit the home and land of the town's beloved cake lady, Peggy Johnson. Kit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILRojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: A novel set against the violence of 1990s Columbia follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship as the families of both struggle to maintain stability amidst Bogot©Ł's rapidly escalating violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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Summary: When they were growing up, Dana, Harper, and Tawny thought of themselves as "sometimes sisters." They connected only during the summer month they'd all spend at their grandmother's rustic lakeside resort in north Texas. But secrets started building, and ten years have passed since they've all been together--in fact, they've rarely spoken, and it broke their grandmother's heart. Now she's gone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2018
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Summary: ". . . a sweeping historical debut for fans of Lilac Girls, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Kristin Hannah that brings to life the heartbreaking history of Korea through the deeply moving and redemptive story of two sisters separated by World War II" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRALee, Mira T.
Summary: "A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters."--Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You. A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two sisters--Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEEBaart, 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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Summary: " When two estranged sisters reunite for their parents' 50th anniversary, a family tragedy brings unexpected lessons of hope and healing amid the flowers of their mother's perennial garden. Eva--known to all as Lovey--grew up in Oxford, MS, surrounded by literary history and her mother's stunning perennial gardens. But a garden shed fire and the burns suffered by one of her best friends seemed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANCarr, Robyn
Summary: For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to gather at the family house on Lake Waseka. The lake was a magical place, a haven where they were happy and carefree. All of their problems drifted away as the days passed in sun-dappled contentment. Until the summer that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARPatterson, Molly
Summary: A mid-twentieth-century widow struggles to manage her farm and raise her children while reflecting on the intertwined experiences of her farm wife mother, her missionary aunt, and a Chinese student whose lives were shaped by the Boxer Rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATKutsukake, Lynne.
Summary: An emotionally gripping portrait of post-war Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KUTLewis, Beverly
Summary: "In a 1980s Amish community, three sisters face a time of transition in their family, and each searches for a way to define her own future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWMichaels, Fern
Summary: With the holidays approaching Sisterhood member Maggie Spitzer wants to bring joy to a teacher from her past, while Toots and the Godmothers investigate a mystery surrounding a designer at an exclusive Charleston firm. When Sisters and Godmothers unite, the result is a warm and wonderful holiday with a special touch of magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MICMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: "The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACHannah, Kristin
Summary: "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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Summary: In book two of the Touch of Grace series, Elsie Yoder can't forgive her sister for leaving the Amish community. Can she work through her bitterness and humble herself enough to give and receive the grace she needs?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Realms 2013
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIDWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALJensen, Nancy
Summary: Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENO'Connor, Jane.
Summary: Nancy sets up a fabulous fashion boutique to earn money to buy herself a beautiful fuschia fan, and the items she was selling come in handy when her sister's birthday party goes awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JE FIC OCOScottoline, Lisa.
Summary: Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin and sets herself on a course to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is inactuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHHannah, Kristin.
Summary: The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010