Berg, Elizabeth
Summary: "Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur's class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses, Arthur's older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys father, a veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Summary: "An unforgettable novel about the power of friendship and kindness by the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward. In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HYDEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATEverhart, Donna
Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVEMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A portrait of a California family spanning several decades that examines the way a troubled marriage sets the course of family life and encourages adult children to grapple with the past even as they attempt to create successful families--and lives--of their own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PACGreen, George Dawes
Summary: "Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's the story at the heart of George Dawes Green's chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah. It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "She knows what's best for everyone but herself ... With a past like hers, Jessica Clayton feels safer in a life spent on the road. She's made a career out of helping others downsize - because she's learned the hard way that the less "stuff," the better, a policy she applies equally to her relationships. But a new client is taking Jess back to Cape Sanctuary, a town she once called home ... and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayne 2021McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual. Mma Ramotswe reconnects with an old friend who has been having problems with her daughter. Though Precious feels compelled to lend a hand, she discovers that getting involved in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCDugoni, Robert
Summary: "Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DUGMallery, Susan
Summary: "Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow -- nose down, work hard, follow the rules. Her sister Sloane went the other way. Now Sloane is back, and she wants a relationship with her daughter. She says she's changed, but Finley's heart has been burned once too often for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "Mayfair Cummings is a beautiful, gifted teenager. But her intelligence makes her the outcast at both home and school. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships she is forming, or a scandal that is brewing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors' judgment of her as insufficient--as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ANDKinsella, Sophie
Summary: Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) has returned from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and work in a gift shop. Life is good, especially now that Becky takes time every day for mindfulness ... which actually means listening to a meditation tape while shopping online. When Becky's parents ask her to host Christmas this year, what could possibly go wrong - besides menu and gift...
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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 KINHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. Kevin is about to tie the knot with Isabelle, and there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon as the family juggle health scares and love triangles. But if there's one holiday that brings the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: LP FIC HILGray, Shelley Shepard.
Summary: Elsie Keim suffers from keratoconus and is slowly going blind but she doesn't want to let her disease hold her back from a fulfilling life. That is why when a new neighbor, Landon Troyer, shows some interest in her, she doesn't want anything to scare him away, even if it means keeping her condition a secret. But when Landon finds out the truth about Elsie's illness, he is floored. His job is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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Summary: Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her once tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Her father walked out on them when she was thirteen, so she and her two brothers and sister had bonded even more closely with their mother. Grace is doing her best to live her life apart from them all when her estranged father has a stroke. Her siblings are adamant that she come home, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2010