Homes, A. M.
Summary: A novel on a middle-class suburb that produces a school shooting. The protagonists are bored parents, comfortably off and looking for kicks. They find them in violence, drugs, adultery, and in one case burning their house and parking the children with neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rob Weisbach Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLBrashares, Ann
Summary: Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything--reading the same books, running down the same sandy footpaths to the beach, eating peaches from the same market, laughing around the same sun-soaked dining table. Even sleeping in the same bed, on the very same worn cotton sheets. But they've never met. Sasha's dad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRARobinson, Marilynne.
Summary: Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment and their father's traditionalist values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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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: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CARGrainger, Jean
Summary: Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families.Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerMcKinnon, Hannah Roberts
Summary: "At age ninety-two, Tish Darling is the matriarch and protector of what's left of the Darling family fortune, including the decades-old beach house, Riptide. Located on the crook of Cape Cod, it's a place she once loved but has not returned to in decades, since a tragic family accident one perfect summer day. Her daughter-in-law Cora has her own complicated feelings surrounding Tish's return,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCKNovak, Brenda
Summary: When Serenity Alston discovers she has two half sisters through 23andMe, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. Meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOVFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship -- and flirt with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRABeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAChamberlin, Holly
Summary: In a picturesque shore town in Maine, the members of a family in flux explore their ties to a beautiful beach house--and to each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADavis-Goff, Annabel.
Summary: During World War I, a ten-year-old girl sent to live with her autocratic grandmother in the country gradually discovers that her family's privilege is purchased at great cost to many other people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVGrange, Amanda.
Summary: In this charming and thoughtful retelling of Mansfield Park, Amanda Grange brings one of Jane Austen's most remarkable novels to life once again ... At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend. But when the fashionable Crawford siblings - Henry and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAHostin, Sunny
Summary: In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them. The exclusive beach community of Oak Bluffs is a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: When Veronica Levy bought her home on the Outer Cape, she imagined generations of her family gathering there each summer for many years to come, but things didn't work out that way. Forty years later, Ronnie's husband is gone. Her son, Sam, is in California, and rarely makes the trip back home. Her daughter, Sarah, packs her kids' summers full of enriching, educational, resume-building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIWillett, Marcia.
Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAGutcheon, Beth Richardson.
Summary: Determined to keep their inheritance from dividing them, close siblings Eleanor, Monica, and Jimmy Moss struggle with differences of opinion about how to share and maintain their late parents' summer house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GutHadley, Tessa
Summary: Assembling at their country house one final time before it is sold, four siblings and their children share past memories, hidden passions, and devastating secrets that threaten to overwhelm them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HADMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONCarr, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard. Cara generates income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, a young artist, has a quiet space in which to work. It isn't long, however, before both women's idyllic summers are altered irrevocably....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONMorton, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do, but when her husband announces that he's leaving her for another woman, Sophie realizes she has no idea what's next. Impulsively renting a guest cottage on Nantucket from her friend Susie Swenson, Sophie rounds up her kids, Jonah and Lacey, and leaves Boston for a quiet family vacation, minus one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THAMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: Caretta Rutledge returns to repair the family beach house on the Isle of Palms as she tries to rebuild her life and her family relationships.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010