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Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COX

Morton, Kate

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Miranda, Megan

12 holds on 11 copies

Summary: "When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MIR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIR

Lamb, Cathy

Summary: "Set against the natural beauty of the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest, the novel tells a story of one woman's life-changing discovery about her past... As a child, Evie Lindsay was unnerved by her premonitions. As an adult, they have become a simple fact of life - sometimes disruptive but also inescapable, much like her quirky, lovable family. Evie's mother, Poppy, and her aunts,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAM

Harper, Rachel M.

Summary: Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Patterson, Sue

Summary: Laurie surprises her mother, "Dr. Liz", with a mother-daughter vacation in Paris, France--one that brings to light a lifetime of secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Rose, Jeneva

5 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Three siblings revisit old family VHS tapes but are horrified when one of the tapes reveals their father covered in blood, a dead body, and a pact between their parents to get rid of it.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Morton, Kate

Summary: "The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 0000

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Morton, Kate

Summary: "The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MOR

Umrigar, Thrity N.

Summary: The bestselling author of The Space Between Us and Reese's Book Club pick Honor delivers a powerful story about family secrets, a mother's power, and the importance of forgiveness. Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl--and to see his elderly mother for the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC UMR

Gonzalez, Xochitl

Summary: It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo are bold faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Chen, Wendy

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Campbell, Bonnie Jo

Summary: On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. Rose Thorn, her youngest daughter, has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy "Donkey" Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CAM

Campbell, Bonnie Jo

1 hold on 35 copies

Summary: Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAM

Harmel, Kristin

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAR

Dev, Sonali

Summary: From the bestselling author of The Vibrant Years comes an emotional story of three women navigating ugly truths and safe lies with only love to guide them on a journey of motherhood, friendship, and life. Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, Vandy's public veneer can barely conceal her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEV

Hepworth, Sally

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "Sally Hepworth, the newest breakout star of domestic suspense delivers her next twisty novel about family secrets and lies in The Younger Wife. Stephen Aston is getting married again. The only problem is, he's still married to his first wife, even though she is in a care facility for dementia. But he'll take care of that easily, by divorcing her--even if his adult daughters protest. Tully and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

Campbell, Bonnie Jo

Summary: On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. Rose Thorn, her youngest daughter, has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy "Donkey" Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC CAM

Campbell, Bonnie Jo

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Jalaluddin, Uzma

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAL

Obreht, Téa

Summary: After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC OBR

Audrain, Ashley

Summary: "The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUD

Mirren, Lilly

Summary: "After her grandmother's death, Reeda Summer decides to try to solve a family mystery and run from her troubled marriage; following the clues in her grandmother's journals to Italy. Under the Italian sky, Reeda discovers that the joy she was searching for was hidden inside her all along. And instead of running from her problems, she embraces the healing she needs to face them."--Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019

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Kleypas, Lisa.

Summary: Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is traumatized into muteness and desperately seeking a maternal figure. Enter Maggie Collins, a toy shop owner who lost her own husband to cancer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLE

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