Niven, Jennifer
Summary: Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky work becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Ohlin, Alix
Summary: "A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHLConfino, Sara Goodman
Summary: When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it's Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Summary: This is the tenderhearted story of a spirited young woman who tries to conquer her past amongst the glitz and glamour of 1960s Las Vegas-- and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. When Lily Decker steps off the bus and onto the Las Vegas Strip, she is ready for a new life. Though her life is full of success, parties, newfound gal pals, and more money and luxuries than she ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUNealon, Louise
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEAClark, Georgia
Summary: "From the author of the critically acclaimed "lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations" (Harper's Bazaar) The Regulars; comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable bucket list adventure. Twenty-five-old Lacey Whitman is blindsided when she's diagnosed with the BCRA1 gene mutation:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASteel, Danielle.
Summary: A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious Los Angeles. Her parents are disappointed by their daughter's looks. Later in life, the one thing Victoria knows is that she has to get as far away from home as possible and, after college in Chicago (which her parents disapprove of), she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERCelona, Marjorie.
Summary: A foster child who has been shuffled through the system after being abandoned at the YMCA as a baby wonders about her birth family and the reasons she was given up, questions that lead to the tragic story of her flawed and desperate mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2013