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Summary: East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPSBurdick, Serena
Summary: Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But then one morning she is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy, and the only way to free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURPoeppel, Amy
Summary: In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep. Lauren and her family--lucky bastards--have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive '70s wallpaper. Adding to the home's bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POEWoodfolk, Ashley
Summary: In New York City, follows the breakup of teenaged best friends Cleo and Layla, told in alternating timelines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Woodfolk 2020Burdick, Serena
Summary: In New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. When the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the "House of Mercy." Effie gets herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURScott, Joanna
Summary: Working for the New York Port Authority in the late 1950s under the tutelage of a legendary publicist, Maggie Gleason befriends her boss's newest protégé, who goes missing amid rumors about a devastating secret from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOGould, Emily.
Summary: Two best friends living in New York in their early 30s find that their relationship changes when one unexpectedly becomes pregnant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUWoodfolk, Ashley
Summary: "Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Lux Lawson is on a spree. Ever since her dad left, she's been kicked out of every school that would take her, and this is her last chance: Harlem's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOKrupitsky, Naomi
Summary: "A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KRUWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York -- she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success -- and their life changes for ever. Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIMacMillan, Lindsay
Summary: Single Wall Street banker Rae, searching for Mr. Right before her thirtieth birthday, meets Dustin, a fellow poetic soul trapped in a business suit like her, and as their relationship progresses, his struggles with depression test her resolve as she tries to let love breathe on its own timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACPaul, Gill
Summary: New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAUWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: A woman who supported her musician lover as he worked his way to rock-star status suddenly finds herself dumped for a Brazilian supermodel, causing her to seek solace in a sisterhood of women who have been jilted by successful men--and are out for revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIAndreades, Daphne Palasi
Summary: "This remarkable, deeply moving story brings you deep into the hearts and souls of a tight-knit group of friends--girls growing up in Queens, the polyglot borough of New York, where the streets sprawl for miles and echo with voices from all over the world, and the scent of bubbling oil, chopped garlic, and grilled meats waft through open windows as night comes to the neighborhood. Here Nadira,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDKandic Torres, Christine
Summary: "Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other. They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors. At the beginning of high school, Brisma falls deeply in love with Brian, the local baseball legend. Always the wallflower to the vibrant and alluring Kelly, Brisma is secretly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORBurgess, Gemma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burgess 2013Duffy, Erin.
Summary: Alex Garrett, a recent college graduate who began her Wall Street career in 2006, dreams of fast-talking days on the trading floor while living a life tied to a government bond desk and performing other peculiar tasks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUFHendricks, Greer
Summary: "Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to have it all together, and they invite her with the promise:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENRosen, Renée
Summary: "It's 1965 in New York City and Helen Gurley Brown, the new editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about everything off-limits. Alice Weiss is a single girl from a small midwestern town who unexpectedly lands a job at Cosmo, a job nothing could have prepared her for. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scene to sabotage her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSVolk, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOLWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: Best friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana make a pact for success. But when each girl hits it big time surprisingly fast, their friendships are tried by rivalries over men, money, and power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: Because every wife deserves a happy ending. Three best friends decide they're finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They're ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process. Lauren, mother of twins, wakes up one morning to her Wife Alarm Bells sounding. She sleuths on her husband's phone and stumbles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MACAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: "In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBJohnson, Julia Claiborne
Summary: It's 1938 and women seeking a quick split from their husbands head to Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become "residents." Many of these soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need. Twenty-four-year-old Ward is earning an honest living as a ranch hand at the Flying Leap, and he thinks he's got the ranch's clients all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021