Danticat, Edwidge
Summary: From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart-- a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat-- some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DANLombardo, Claire
Summary: When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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Summary: A multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges, and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built. When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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Summary: As a member of a long line of time-traveling ancestors, sixteen-year-old Hope must travel back to 1895 New York City to stop a plan to steal a dangerous device from inventor Nikola Tesla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYWebber, Heather S.
Summary: "The Lights of Sugarberry Cove is a charming, delightful story of family, healing, love, and small town Southern charm by USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber. Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBGoolrick, Robert
Summary: Forced into a marriage of convenience to save her family's estate, Diana Cooke, coming of age just after World War I, sacrifices everything, including love, to become the wife of a man she cannot abide, until fate intervenes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOOFlanagan, Richard
Summary: "From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit--an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying--if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLADrake, Julia
Summary: Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DRAGoodman, Carol
Summary: "Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she's the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she's long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOOQuick, Matthew
Summary: When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere, while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIPowner, Katie
Summary: "Widower Mitch Jensen is at a loss with how to handle his mother's odd, forgetful behaviors, as well as his daughter's sudden return home and unexpected life choices. Little does he know Grandma June has long been keeping a secret about her past-but if she doesn't tell the truth about it someone she loves will suffer, and the lives of three generations will never be the same"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWParekh, Nishita
Summary: "From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during a hurricane. Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSpeakman, Shawn
Summary: "Forever shamed for family actions a century earlier, Antiquity Grey is a young woman living in a far-future city of Erth. It is a life of danger and hardship, dragons and advanced technology. But when she discovers an outlawed and operational mech buried in the sands of her planet, she realizes its secrets hold the power to reverse her family's dishonor while challenging the Imperium's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grim Oak Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPERobinson, Eden
Summary: "The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy. From the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller-prize shortlisted Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift. Jared, now 18, wakes up in a hospital bed, feeling like hell. Some of the people he loves--the ones who are deaf to magic--assume he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety and went on a bender to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Canada 2021