Schine, Cathleen
Summary: "The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is inactuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Twin sisters go head-to-head over the attentions of a rugged cowboy living next door to their aunt's sprawling Texas ranch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2003
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Summary: Dr. Jessica Riley and her telepathic sister Melissa are forced into an uneasy alliance with international underworld information dealer Michael Travis in an effort to guard the young daughter of the U.S. president who is being treated by Jessica for catatonic trauma following a bungled kidnapping attempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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Summary: Photojournalist Bess Grady teams up with a CIA agent to catch germ-warfare terrorists who wiped out a Mexican village in a rehearsal for an attack on the U.S. Bess was vacationing in the village and only escaped because she is immune to anthrax, the bacteria used. By the author of The Ugly Duckling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohansen, Erika
Summary: "Light and dark-this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favorite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister's shadow. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge. For Drosselmeyer has brought the Nutcracker, an enchanted present that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHUmansky, Kaye.
Summary: Capable and hardworking ten-year-old Clover Twig takes a job as housekeeper for a messy witch, Demelza, but while Demelza is away Clover and an accident-prone neighbor boy must defend the weird cottage from the witch's evil sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2009