Lien, 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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Summary: "After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan--an art historian by training--has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her--and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he's fathered twins with another woman....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: After twenty-three years of building careers and raising kids together, Jason and Nicole Elswick are ready for a break from their daily lives. Jason has spent years planning his dream sabbatical—ditching work for a nine-month-long motorcycle trip through South America. Problem is, that’s Jason’s dream, not Nicole’s. After years working retail and parenting in Portland, Nicole craves the sun of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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Summary: "Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport, Connecticut. But their mother's death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father, Bill Sweeney, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOLLien, Tracey
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIEIson, Tara.
Summary: Sarah, a California native, retreats to Rockaway Beach during the summer of 2001 with the hope of rekindling her passion for painting, and she finds inspiration in Marty, an elderly musician, who provokes unexpected feelings in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2013
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Summary: Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney's wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub's gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships. Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LINMoriarty, Liane
Summary: The Delaney family love one another dearly - it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other. If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are Stan and Joy so miserable? The four Delaney...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Macmillan Australia 2021
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Summary: Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moriarty 2014Moriarty, Liane
Summary: Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there's anything they can count on, it's each other. Clementine and Erika are each other's oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORElton, Charles.
Summary: When "The Hayseed Chronicles", an obscure series of children's books, become world famous, the author reaps no rewards. He was run down by a concrete truck in SoHo. So the unforeseen "benefits" fall to his widow and children. But others want their share... A riveting tale, spanning several decades, of the unexpected effects of sudden fame and fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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Summary: One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830-32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Eliot 2011Moriarty, Liane
Summary: "The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2016
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Summary: "The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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Summary: Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. By the author of What Alice Forgot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moriarty 2013Moriarty, Liane.
Summary: Connie Thrum of Scribbly Gum Island is the chief decision-maker of a rather unconventional family and her word is law, especially when it comes to the important things in life. It's been over seventy years since Connie and her sister visited their neighbours and found the kettle boiling and a baby waking for her feed, but no sign of her parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006
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Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1993
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Summary: "Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life--her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: When a lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can begin--with the bride-to-be dead in Nantucket Harbor, hours before the ceremony--everyone in the wedding party is a suspect. Chief of Police Ed Kapenash learns that every wedding is a minefield, and no couple is perfect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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Summary: When a lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can begin--with the bride-to-be dead in Nantucket Harbor, hours before the ceremony--everyone in the wedding party is a suspect. Chief of Police Ed Kapenash learns that every wedding is a minefield, and no couple is perfect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018