Grames, Juliet
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 GRAGrange, 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 GRAGraver, Elizabeth
Summary: Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRADePree, Traci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEPGrazer, Gigi Levangie
Summary: "A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEVMazur, Grace Dane
Summary: The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAZPeterson, Tracie.
Summary: "1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down in this conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Montana saga. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within Jesus Christ is the only hope that lasts"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION PetersonWhitson, Stephanie Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIGrazer, Gigi Levangie
Summary: "Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn't cover divorce, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC LEVSimsion, Graeme C
Summary: Despite his happiness, Adam Sharp wonders how different his life might have been if he hadn't let Angelina Brown, a strong-willed actress, walk away more than twenty years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIGraff, Andrew J.
Summary: As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, could be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASimsion, Graeme C
Summary: "On the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp likes his life. He's happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, he looks after his mother, and he does the occasional consulting job in IT. But he can never quite shake off his nostalgia for what might have been: his blazing affair more than twenty years ago with an intelligent and strong-willed actress...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMGinder, Grant
Summary: "This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in"--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers. An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ginder 2019Grant, Sofia
Summary: "In the 1940s and 50s, women who needed a fast divorce went to Nevada to live on a ranch with other women in the same boat. Francie Meeker and Vi Carothers were sold a bill of goods: find a man, marry him in a white wedding gown, and live happily ever after. These best friends never expected to be on the train to Reno, those 'lies in white dresses' shattered, their marriages over. On board the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P GRALien, Tracey
Summary: A young Vietnamese-Australian woman returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's murder and becomes determined to discover what happened in this exploration of the bonds of friendship, family, and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chevalier 2001Graves, Tracey Garvis.
Summary: With her marriage troubled after her husband loses his job, Claire's friendship with a local police officer starts turning heads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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Summary: "Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn't hate it more. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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Summary: When Katie Garrett gets the unexpected news that she's received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn't have come at a better time. She flees Boston - and her increasingly estranged husband - and travels to rural Texas. There, she's greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly, flamboyant, eternally optimistic, Scarlett couldn't be more different from sensible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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Summary: A fractured family from the Chicago suburbs reluctantly gathers in London to attend the eldest daughter's wedding to an upper-crust Englishman, an affair that exposes secrets, triggers riotous culture clashes, and tests the bonds of both families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what happened--a dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and community. Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: Cheri Matzner, a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, tries to come to terms with her adoptive and biological families as she struggles to become pregnant herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2016