Brinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Books 1976
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Summary: From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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Summary: In this stunning debut novel, a young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters' estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century Italy. For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAJacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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Summary: "A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEAbu-Jaber, Diana.
Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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Summary: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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Summary: After her husband leaves her for another woman, Ruby McMillan, dealing with an unpaid mortgage and her failing bakery, decides, for once in her life, to live life without following a recipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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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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Summary: Two women forge a friendship during World War II through their letters to each other, allowing them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front and giving them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hayes 2013Harrison, Jamie
Summary: "While recovering from a traumatic head injury, Polly Schuster struggles to find her way through one chaotic week in July when her entire extended family descends upon the bucolic town of Livingston, Montana for their annual gathering. As she contents with a series of unexpected events and the haunting echoes of her past inconveniently resurfacing as a result of her injury, Polly soon learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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Summary: "For readers of Maggie Shipstead and Maria Semple, a tender and funny debut that tells the story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta -- from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests...One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: When Sag Harbor's most famous resident, artist Henry Wyatt, dies suddenly, Emma Mapson finds herself in a battle against Henry's former business partner, Bea Winstead, when they discover that Henry has left his waterfront home to Emma's teenage daughter, Penny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FordHarrison, Jamie
Summary: A recent head injury has scattered Polly's perception of her hometown as being a land charmed by natural beauty and a close network of family, surfacing events from thirty years ago and half a country away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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Summary: Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: on the cusp of thirty she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and her father's hard-won admiration. But with one careless mistake at work, Marin suddenly finds herself unemployed and alone. Before she can summon the courage to tell her parents, a young woman appears, claiming to be Marin's half-sister....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Distance makes no difference to love ... Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran's emigrants have settled. But when the club decides to read a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYBrenner, Jamie
Summary: When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried to leave behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020