Khakpour, Porochista
Summary: "From the critically-acclaimed novelist and essayist, the hilarious, heartwarming story of the Milanis-an Iranian American family who live in wealth and whose recent foray into the spotlight will force them to divulge long-kept family secrets and bring them closer than ever before When Ali and Homa Milani first immigrated from Iran to the United States, they struggled to make ends meet. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Summary: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily—the real love of Tom’s life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out—is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCFrank, Victoria Benton
Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAHarmel, Kristin
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBrodesser-Akner, Taffy
Summary: "In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BROPacker, Ann
Summary: "Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PACChen, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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Rickstad, Eric
Summary: Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, he makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICBenson, Jendella
Summary: "Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence. Her brother, Victor, is in jail and won't speak to her because she didn't come home for his trial. Her older sister, Faith, once a busy career woman, appears to have lost her independence and ambition, and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCarr, Robyn
Summary: Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface. Facing challenge after challenge, she must look for support from an unexpected source.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "The four Potter children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, as adults, their financial lives--as well as their personal lives--are in complete disarray. The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore home on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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Summary: "Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones’s legacy. But Oliva’s legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt’s death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCarr, Robyn
Summary: Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface. Facing challenge after challenge, she must look for support from an unexpected source.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARMichaels, Fern
Summary: Sometimes, two very different pieces of furniture just pair perfectly together. Brother and sister Cullen and Luna Bodman work much the same way. While practical-minded Cullen Bodman focuses on their family's antiques restoration business, his sister Luna's next-door Namaste Café brings in new clientele. As a thank you to his sister, Cullen retrieves Luna's childhood dresser from storage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWFrankel, Laurie
Summary: "This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRATran, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Summary: What does the future hold for those born in the years of the Dragon, Tiger, and Goat? In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRAFrankel, Laurie
Summary: When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017