Marcelo, Tif
Summary: "Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny's death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her free-spirited mother moves in with her. But when she makes a medical decision that disparages the hospital, she is forced to go on a short sabbatical. Never one to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARWilliams, Tia
Summary: "Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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Summary: Jenna Jones is broke and desperate for a second chance. When she's dumped by her longtime fiancé and fired from Darling magazine, she begs for a job at StyleZine.com from her old arch nemesis, Darcy Vale. But Jenny soon realizes she's in over her head. She's working with digital-savvy millennials half her age, has never even "Twittered," and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Girls Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILO'Brien, Tim
Summary: Even as he plots revenge on his wife for abandoning him for another man Thomas Chippering, a professor of linguistics cannot free himself of his obsession with women. He makes a pass at a student who blackmails him into giving her good marks. A look at a womanizer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRAsim, Jabari
Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIIzzo, Kim
Summary: After her family's home is sold, a Jane Austen devotee decides to find out if she can, indeed, marry for money when she is forced to choose between Mr. Rich and Mr. Right. Set in Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IZZRobbins, Tom.
Summary: A sort of love story revealing the purpose of the moon, the difference between criminals and outlaws, and the problem with redheads. Also paints a humorous portrait of contemporary society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWHarrison, Jim
Summary: When his wife divorces him and robs him of his farmland, sixty-year-old Cliff road trips across America, intent on eliminating blandness by renaming the fifty states and their state birds.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMcAllister, Tom
Summary: "For Hunter Cady, meeting Kait was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. Otherwise unmotivated, he spent roughly half his twenty-nine years accomplishing very little, which makes him about fifteen in terms of real-life experience. But he's the luckiest man on earth when it comes to his wife. Beautiful and confident, Kait is somehow charmed by Hunter's awkwardness and droll humor. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCAHam, Rosalie.
Summary: "A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture-- After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans onlyto check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHarrison, Jim
Summary: Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HarrisonSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. After his fiancée's untimely death, he moves to Kansas to serve as a youth minister. But he can't set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian Lori Fowler's strained relationship with her father and her struggles with overeating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: "Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "At the age of twenty-four, postmistress Grace Cristler has all but given up hope of finding a husband among the narrowing group of eligible men in her town of Fairland, Kansas. But when her uncle decides to retire from the pulpit, Grace is responsible for corresponding with the new preacher set to take his place. She can't deny the affection growing in her heart for Reverend Rufus Dillea man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: When tragedy strikes on the prairie, throwing Tarsie and Joss into an unexpected arrangement, can they trust God with their dreams for the future?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Langdon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: "Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas. With her old home, family, and first love firmly behind her, Suzanne moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and raised a daughter, Alexa, on her own. Now, nearly twenty years later, an unexpected letter arrives from Kansas. Her brother asks her to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: With classes paused for the planting season, Alexandertol's schoolteacher Augusta Dyck is glad for some meaningful work to occupy her time. She even knows exactly who their town's benevolence society should help quiet, reserved widower Konrad Rempel and his young twin sons. Konrad Rempel, however, is adamant that he doesn't want help. His boys are mischievous but good-hearted. And though Konrad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: A novel of sordid living and violent death in Long Island society of the 1920's. The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, agent and friends and associates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner 1994
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Summary: If it's too good to be true, then it most likely is, especially in these three adrenaline-filled stories that make one explosive book!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2021