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Porter family 4Duffy, Erin
Summary: Claire thought she had everything a woman was supposed to want: a loving husband, a newborn son, a beautiful home in the suburbs. Then she walked in on her husband canoodling with their Realtor in their newly renovated kitchen, and in an instant, her perfect life came crashing down. With her marriage headed for divorce, Claire knows it's time to stop feeling sorry for herself. But how can she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUFPullen, M. J. (Manda J.)
Summary: "At 33, Suzanne Hamilton has no regrets. A successful event planner with a swanky condo in a hot Atlanta neighborhood, she's got a close group of friends and a list of men a mile long who would happily bend over backwards to win her heart. Plus, she's just landed the event that will take her career to the next level. Then a freak accident changes everything. Humiliated with her career in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULGiffin, Emily.
Summary: Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIFCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GIFFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRADanielewski, Mark Z.
Summary: Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANWade, Becky
Summary: When NFL star Gray Fowler is assigned a bodyguard out of concern over death threats, he is indignant to find that his protector is a woman half his size, but he soon discovers that former marine Dru Porter is very capable as danger surrounds them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WADMedie, Peace A.
Summary: A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she comes to live in Accra, Ghana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDDibbell, Carola
Summary: "Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental Ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIBYehoshua, Abraham B.
Summary: "Rachele Luzzato is twelve years old when she learns her father is gravely ill. While her family plans for her upcoming Bat-Mitzvah, Rachele finds herself cast as the Madonna in her school's Christmas play. Caught between spiritual poles, struggling to cope with her father's mortality, Rachele feels as if the threads of her everyday life are unravelling. A diverse circle of adults are there to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YEHMiranda, Megan
Summary: A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who escaped the river were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide, the rest of them make a pact to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIRSeo, Mi-ae
Summary: Criminal psychologist Seonkyeong receives an unexpected call one day. Yi Byeongdo, a serial killer whose gruesome murders shook the world, wants to be interviewed. Yi Byeongdo, who has refused to speak to anyone until now, asks specifically for her. Seonkyeong agrees out of curiosity. That same day Hayeong, her husband's eleven-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, shows up at their door...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEOPyper, Andrew
Summary: Forensic psychiatrist Lily Dominick finds her career and her sanity threatened when she encounters a client who claims to be two hundred years old and the inspiration behind three of the nineteenth century's gothic literary classics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYPYoung-Stone, Michele
Summary: " On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. At fifteen years old, confused and unmoored, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUCameron, Julie
Summary: "A successful artist with a doting husband, Isabel Dryland knows she should be grateful for her happy life. It's a complete reversal from the one she led before, when normalcy seemed out of reach, after a violent assault she cannot remember left her shattered and scarred. Even though the memory was lost, the nagging feeling that she was damaged goods and the lingering effects of her injuries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMHiggins, Kristan.
Summary: Letting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected--especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend. Sensing this isn't exactly helping her achieve closure, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll start her own business and bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life--and maybe even find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGSteel, Danielle
Summary: Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: In the lead-up to WWII, Sophie Alexander, the daughter of a Berlin surgeon, assumes control of the household when her mother dies, while also volunteering at the hospital. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power has Sophia concerned, so she becomes increasingly involved in the resistance, assisting nuns to transport Jewish children to safety, finding herself under surveillance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: They were introduced to their culture but never identified with it, never believed in its power. During an elk hunt, a disturbing event occurs. Ten years later, tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in violent, vengeful ways. Now they are in a desperate struggle for their lives-- and the lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020
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Summary: Abandoning her life of popularity and high achievement to follow a magnetic stranger, a teenage girl embarks on an initially intoxicating journey of enlightenment that illuminates the cult-like qualities of suburbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISBuchanan, Edna.
Summary: When the perfectly intact corpse of a beautiful woman washes up on Miami Beach, police are able to identify her as Kaithlin Jordan, the only problem is that she was supposedly murdered ten years earlier by her husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCSager, Riley
Summary: At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAGWillingham, Stacy
Summary: "A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWaldon, Lacie
Summary: Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. That's what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown--and part of what keeps her from leaving. Content taking care of her father, a car mechanic who singlehandedly raised her after her mom skipped out, Jess is resigned to a safe, unremarkable existence...until Jasper Wilhelm, the town's eccentric benefactor, dies suddenly and leaves behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023