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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2012

Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHI

Hertmans, Stefan

Summary: "In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

Napolitano, Ann

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him, so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAP

Gregory, Philippa

Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

Kingsolver, Barbara.

Summary: The story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred, whether family or friends,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Kin

Tóibín, Colm

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Flagg, Fannie.

Summary: "Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flagg 2013

El Rashidi, Yasmine

Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELR

Smiley, Jane.

Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the much-anticipated final volume of her magnificent, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the beloved Langdon family into our present times and beyond. A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy. When Golden Age, its last installment, opens in 1987, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smiley 2015

Flournoy, Angela.

Summary: "A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flournoy 2015

Saramago, Jose

Summary: Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, the novel charts the lives of the Mau Tempos as national and international events rumble on in the background-the coming of the republic in Portugual, the two World Wars, and an attempt on the dictator Salazar’s life. Yet nothing really impinges on the grim reality of the farm laborers’ lives until the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAR

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: "Working at his father's market stall in Victorian England, James Lionel Falconer determines to become a merchant prince. Hardworking and trustworthy, he catches the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious London shipping company. When threats against his reputation--and his life--emerge, James must prove that he truly is the master of his fate"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRA

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION Alc

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