Barbery, Muriel
Summary: Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARBarbieri, Heather Doran
Summary: Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the members of a lace-making society, through whom she finds healing by listening to their stories of loss and suffering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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Summary: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humor and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl. The book then moves to 1969 where Frances, Christopher's Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Swan 2009
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Summary: Maggie Reid is living a lie, hiding from public scrutiny for a mistake she made years ago. But when standing by a friend could result in uncovering her past, Maggie has a tough choice to make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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Summary: ""A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors," (The Boston Globe), Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Summary: Her daughter grown up, her husband always working late, Emily Arkin spends evenings alone with memories of her infant son, kidnaped and never found. When the police chief brings a widowed detective looking for a garage, Emily rents hers. They fall in love and learn the husband has had another woman for eight years. Next, the detective digs under a neighbor's tree to find the body of the infant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Book Co. 2004
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Summary: "How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news ... Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It's what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Wren, who is learning special effects makeup, is thrilled to be makeup artist for her new school's production of Wicked, but her parents' divorce is seriously affecting her mother.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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Summary: "Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road just long enough to rob her of her beloved daughter and ultimately of her new marriage, family, friends, and privacy. Now she lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid. She's thankful for her new friends--though she can't risk telling them too much-- and takes satisfaction in working as a makeup artist. Covering up scars is a skill she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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Summary: When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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Summary: Molly has always lived in her sister's shadow and her feelings for her sister have run the gamut. But when her sister, a world-class runner, suffers a heart attack and does not regain consciousness, Molly must make the tough decisions in a role that will destroy some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2000
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Summary: Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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Summary: Struggling to rebuild her relationship with her troubled teenager, Luna McGraw finds herself drawn to contractor Thomas Coyote, but her growing relationship with him is complicated by his needy ex-wife and her own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAMBostwick, Marie
Summary: Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Presents the tragic story of Lilly Bere, who flees Ireland for the United States under threat of death from the IRA and survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy, and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating its patients to determine whether they can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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Summary: Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body, at least, most of the time, and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023